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French name Other local name(s) INSEE No. [3] Capital Derivation or etymology; Alsace: Alsace: Alsatian: Elsàss German: Elsass: 42 Strasbourg: Formerly a coalition of free cities in Holy Roman Empire, attached to Kingdom of France in 1648; annexed by Germany from Franco-Prussian war to the end of World War I and briefly during World War II ...
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.
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.
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Free cities of Menton and Roquebrune , joining France after the separation (under the protectorate of Sardinia) in 1848 from Monaco; Date: 30 November 2019: Source: Own work. File:France location map-Departements 1790.svg by Sémhur; The maps located in this category: Category:SVG maps of historical provinces of France by department
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.
Rank Region Population 2016 Area (km 2) Density; 1 Île-de-France 12,117,132 12,012 1,009 2 Mayotte 256,518 374 685 3 Réunion 852,924 2,504 340 4 Martinique 376,480 1,128
Provinces of New Caledonia (2 C, 4 P) R. Regions of France (16 C, 31 P) U. Urban quarters in France (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Subdivisions of France"