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    the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, with an additional five constituting overseas departments, which are also classified...
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  • departments and regions of France (French: départements et régions d'outre-mer, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃ e ʁeʒjɔ̃ d‿utʁəmɛʁ]; DROM) are departments of the...
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    French Republic has terrestrial borders with 10 sovereign states, 8 bordering Metropolitan France and 2 bordering the Overseas Departments of France,...
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    until the French lost their grip on Spain in 1814. Those departments were: Bouches-de-l'Èbre, Montserrat, Sègre, and Ter. The names of departments formed...
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    Var 84 Vaucluse Overseas departments (the following are both departments and regions) 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 French Guiana 974 Réunion 976 Mayotte...
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    Overseas France (French: France d'outre-mer, also France ultramarine) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial...
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    lit. 'Northern Department') is a département in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical...
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    Between 1999 and 2006 all French departments have grown in population with the exception of the following seven departments: Allier and Cantal in Auvergne...
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    assemblies elected by universal suffrage in 98 of the country's 101 departments. Prior to the 2015 French departmental elections they were known as general councils...
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    2018, 79% of firefighters in France are part-time volunteers. Prefectures are usually located near the geographic centre of their departments; they were...
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  • French departments of Spain were territorial subdivisions of the territory conquered in Catalonia in 1812 by the First French Empire at the outset of...
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    overseas departments (DOMs), enjoying the same status as metropolitan departments and are thereby included in the European Union. The 101 departments are subdivided...
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    Bay of Biscay Ligurian Sea Mediterranean Sea Departments of France French departments are roughly analogous to British counties. Cities of France Capital...
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    consist of only one department each and hence also have the status of overseas departments. Most administrative regions also have the status of regional...
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    island of Petite-Terre. The territory is also known as Maore, the native name of its main island. Mayotte is one of the overseas departments of France as...
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    Lagwiyann or Gwiyann, [la.ɡwi.jãn]) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies...
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    three departments bordering Paris, forming a geographical crown around it. These departments, until 1968 part of the disbanded Seine department, are Hauts-de-Seine...
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  • of municipalities Departments of France, administrative divisions three levels below the national government Departments of Honduras Departments of Peru...
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    which metropolitan France - that part of France that is located in Europe, excluding its various overseas territories - came to consist of the territory it...
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  • is about the gross regional product (GRP) per capita of French regions and overseas departments in nominal values. Values are shown in EUR€. For easy...
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    overseas departments were fully part of France.[citation needed] As a result, since the end of the 1990s INSEE has included the four overseas departments in...
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    service in France is organised into local fire services which mostly cover the Departments of France, with a few exceptions. There are two types of fire service:...
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    organized based on the departments of France. Each department has a hospital-based SAMU organisation which is named with the department's unique two-digit number...
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    original 83 Departments of France, established during the French Revolution on 26 February 1790. It was created from part of the province of Normandy. The...
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    common'. As of January 2021, there were 35,083 communes in France, of which 34,836 were in metropolitan France, 129 in the overseas departments, and 83 in...
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    metropolitan France, in addition to 300,000 Indians in the French overseas departments and regions of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. A...
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  • splitting of départements) mean that the list is no longer in strictly alphabetical order. The system extends to French overseas departments and territories...
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    The French telephone numbering plan is used in Metropolitan France, French overseas departments and some overseas collectivities. Since 1996, Metropolitan...
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    Réunion (redirect from Reunion (France))
    Réunion, officially Department of La Réunion, is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands...
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    A department (French: département, Spanish: departamento) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level...
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