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The following is a list of cantons of France, within each department ... Cantons of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department: 5 ... Cantons of the Isère department: 39
France is divided into 577 constituencies (circonscriptions) for the election of deputies to the lower legislative House, the National Assembly (539 in Metropolitan France, 27 in the overseas departments and territories, and 11 for French residents overseas). Deputies are elected in a two round system to a term fixed to a maximum of five years.
The division of France into departments was a project particularly identified with the French revolutionary leader the Abbé Sieyès, [6] [7] ... 39 26 February 1790
Jura (/ ˈ (d) ʒ ʊər ə / JOOR-ə, ZHOOR-ə, French: ⓘ) [needs Arpitan IPA] is a department in the eastern French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The department takes its name from the Jura Mountains. Its prefecture is Lons-le-Saunier; subprefectures are Dole and Saint-Claude. In 2019, Jura had a population of 259,199. [3] Its INSEE ...
39 129 17: Rochefort: Rochefort: 189,875 1,535 124 78 17: ... Overseas departments of France. Mayotte has no arrondissements. # Department List of arrondissements 971
When calling France from abroad, the leading zero should be omitted: for example, to call a number in Southwest France, one would dial +33 5 xx xx xx xx. French people usually state phone numbers as a sequence of five double-digit numbers, e.g., 0x xx xx xx xx (and not, for example, 0 xxx-xxx-xxx or 0xxx-xx-xxxx or 0xx-xxx-xxxx).
The figures include: population without double counting for 1999;; municipal population (legal population in 2008, with effect from 1 January 2011) [1] published in decree No. 2010-1723 of 30 December 2010 as amended by Decree No. 2011-343 of 28 March 2011 which corresponds to data compiled as at 1 January 2008.
Each overseas region or department may transform into a single territorial collectivity, with the merger of the regional and departmental assemblies, which voters in Martinique and French Guiana approved in two referendums in 2010. In Réunion, the creation of a second department for the southern part of the island has been debated for some ...