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 remnants 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mayotte (redirect from Mayotte (French department))
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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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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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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Manche (redirect from Manche (French department))
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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Below is a list of the busiest airports in France, including its overseas departments and territories. Source: [1] Source: Wayback Machine Source: Wayback...
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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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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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The French telephone numbering plan is used in Metropolitan France, French overseas departments and some overseas collectivities. Since 1996, Metropolitan...
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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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ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial departments, and 422 agencies and other public bodies, for a total of 465 departments. Ministerial departments are...
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The following lists give the communes of France within each department: Overseas departments (département d'outre-mer or DOM): Overseas collectivities...
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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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by a subprefect. As of 2023, the 101 French departments are divided into 333 arrondissements (including 13 overseas). The capital of an arrondissement is...
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