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Between 1982 and 2015, there were 22 regions in Metropolitan France. Before 2011, there were four overseas regions ( French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique , and Réunion ); in 2011 Mayotte became the fifth.
Map of the provinces of France in 1789. They were abolished the following year. Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative units, until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789.
14 provinces + 50 districts 1 dependency: Rotuma: 7 districts: Finland: Regional 18 regions (maakuntaa) 70+ subregions (seutukuntaa) 293 municipalities (kuntaa) [ap] 1 autonomous region (itsehallinnollinen maakunta): Åland: 16 municipalities (kommuner (kuntaa)) France: Regional 18 regions (régions) [aq] 101 departments (départements) 332 ...
Provinces of royal France superimposed by modern administrative boundaries and the names of the actual regions Regions and departments of France from 1982 to 2015. Historically, France was divided into a complex mosaic of more or less independent entities.
Because Canada is the second-largest country in the world by area, but has only 10 provinces, most Canadian provinces are very large—six of its ten provinces are larger than any country in Europe except Russia, and its largest province Quebec—1,542,056 km 2 (595,391 sq mi)—is almost two and a half times as large as France—640,679 km 2 ...
Name Capital Type Country Inhabitants Area km 2 People per km 2 Year Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow: State India 228,959,599 240,928 950 2023 [1]: Punjab: Lahore: Province Pakistan 127,688,922
Up until 2016, the first level NUTS regions of France consisted of Ile de France, Bassin Parisien, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Est, Ouest, Sud-Ouest, Centre-Est, Méditerranée and the Départements d'outre-mer. [1] The Départements d'outre-mer consisted of all the overseas departments of France, while the remaining eight statistical regions were made up of the 22 regions of France.
Modern France is the result of centuries of nation building and the acquisition and incorporation of a number of historical provinces into the French domain. The names of these provinces are still used to designate natural, historical and cultural regions, and many of them appear in modern région or département names.