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75–123 m (246–404 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Fontenay-Trésigny ( French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ tʁeziɲi] ⓘ ) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France .
English: Blank administrative map of France for geo-location purpose, with regions and departements distinguished. Approximate scale : 1:3,000,000 Français : Carte administrative vierge de la France destinée à la géolocalisation, avec régions et départements distingués.
In continental France (metropolitan France, excluding Corsica), the median land area of a department is 5,965 km 2 (2,303 sq mi), which is two-and-a-half times the median land area of the ceremonial counties of England and the preserved counties of Wales and slightly more than three-and-half times the median land area of a county of the United ...
Own work based on: France location map-Regions and departements.svg Shoreline and international boundaries: World Data Base II (public domain) ; Internal boundaries: taken from Contours des départements français (Mercator).svg (re-projected) created by user:Wagner51 with free IGN data.
This has meant that the heads of wealthy regions such as Île-de-France or Rhône-Alpes can be high-profile positions. Proposals to give regions limited legislative autonomy have met with considerable resistance; others propose transferring certain powers from the departments to their respective regions, leaving the former with limited authority.
The A75 is an autoroute in France. Known also as la Méridienne , it is a developmental project with the aim of speeding up and reducing the cost of car travel from Paris southwards, and apart from the Millau Viaduct , it is entirely free for the 335 km (208 mi) between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers .
France uses five-digit numeric postal codes, the first two digits representing the département in which the city is located. The département numbers were assigned alphabetically between 1860 and 1870, but later changes (such as renaming and splitting of départements) mean that the list is no longer in strictly alphabetical order.
Territories of France, excluding Antarctic territories.Citizens from all these territories, including the overseas administrative divisions, are French citizens, vote in national elections (presidential, legislative), and all of the inhabited territories are represented in the Senate.