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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 ...
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The French Republic is divided into 18 regions: 12 in mainland France and 6 elsewhere (1 in Europe: Corsica; 2 in the Caribbean (the Lesser Antilles): Guadeloupe and Martinique; 1 in South America: French Guiana; and 2 in the Indian Ocean near East Africa: Mayotte and Réunion). They are traditionally divided between the metropolitan regions ...
Pierre Martin (French Navy officer) Mathuedoï I, Count of Poher; County of Melgueil; Nicolas Mesnager; Charles-Daniel de Meuron; Nicolas François, Count Mollien; Counts of Montaigu; Charles Forbes René de Montalembert; Jean de Montfort-Castres; François Gédéon Bailly de Monthion; Guy de Montlaur
Upload file; Search. Search. Appearance. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of counties in various countries, sorted by ...
List of communes 975 Saint Pierre and Miquelon: Miquelon-Langlade Saint-Pierre: 987 French Polynesia (Polynésie française) Administrative divisions of French Polynesia: 988 New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) Administrative divisions of New Caledonia
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 ...
The cantons of France (French pronunciation: ⓘ) are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's departments and arrondissements.. Apart from their role as organizational units in relation to certain aspects of the administration of public services and justice, the chief purpose of the cantons today is to serve as constituencies for the election of members of the representative ...