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Mobile (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe) [14] Mobile County [14] Moulton (after a settler) [15] Mon Louis (named for the nearby Mon Louis Island. The island was named by Nicholas Baudin, Sieur de Miragouin, in honor of his French native city Montlouis-sur-Loire) Ozark [15] Perdue Hill [15] Piedmont [15] Semmes (for Raphael Semmes ...
Alexandre (given name) Alexis (given name) Alfred (name) Allain. Alphonse (given name) Alvin (given name) Amable. Amédée. Anatole (given name)
This category has the following 89 subcategories, out of 89 total. Metropolitan areas of France (2 C, 8 P) Port cities and towns in France (2 C) Planned communities in France (2 C, 4 P) Prefectures in France (72 C, 102 P) Subprefectures in France (36 C, 236 P)
The names used for some major European cities differ in different European and sometimes non-European languages. In some countries where there are two or more languages spoken, such as Belgium or Switzerland , dual forms may be used within the city itself, for example on signage.
Below are listed the known different names for cities that are geographically or historically and culturally in Europe, as well as some smaller towns that are important because of their location or history. Cities are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English. The English version is followed by variants in other ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-Étienne (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿etjɛn] ⓘ; Franco-Provencal: Sant-Etiève) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, 60 km (37 mi) southwest ...
Categories: Populated places in France by region. Cities in France. Cities and towns by first-level administrative country subdivision.
In 2014, the French parliament passed a law reducing the number of metropolitan regions from 22 to 13 effective 1 January 2016. [ 5 ] The law gave interim names for most of the new regions by combining the names of the former regions, e.g. the region composed of Aquitaine , Poitou-Charentes and Limousin was temporarily called Aquitaine-Limousin ...