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Metropolitan (i.e. European) France As of January 1, 2004, metropolitan France is divided into: 22 ) 156 Communities of Agglomeration ( (/ these 13 ) 6 Communities of Agglomeration (. Cantons are the same as communes in Mayotte. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is divided into 2 communes. No ) which exactly match the three traditional...
Administrative divisions of France | | Regional level | | France is divided into 26 are further subdivided into do not have legislative autonomy, nor can they issue regulations. They do levy taxes (or, rather, the national government gives them a portion of the taxes it levies) and have sizeable, though not considerable budgets. Their main legal attribution is to...
Régions | | (incl. Overseas régions) | | Departmental level | | The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. They are subdivided into 342 arrondissements. Départements are also found in Côte dIvoire. Administrative role Each...
Départements | | (incl. Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements doutre-mer ( in 1985. As integral parts of the French Republic, they are represented in the National...
Overseas départements) | | Arrondissement level | | The 100 French is the are further divided into cantons and communes. The cities of Paris, Lyon and Marseille are also divided into arrondissements, not to be confused with the arrondissements dealt with in this article. See also Administrative divisions of France List of arrondissements of France Arrondissement Categories: Lists...
Arrondissements | | Cantonal level | | The canton is an administrative division of France. They are subdivisions of arrondissements and départements of France, grouping several municipalities (communes) They number 4,054, including 175 overseas (figure including the 19 newly created cantons of Mayotte). See also Canton (subnational entity) List of cantons of France Categories: France...
Cantons | | Intercommunal level | | Communautés urbaines | | A communauté dagglomération is an administrative division in France, larger than a commune, but smaller than a for regional planning purposes. (The metropolitan area of a large city is instead organized into a communauté urbaine). Communautés dagglomération include Community of...
Communautés d'agglomération | | Communautés de communes | | Syndicats d'agglomération nouvelle | | Communal level | | The commune is an administrative division of France. The rights and obligations of communes are governed by the ). The seat of the council is the (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion) are divided into 114 communes. : Mayotte, strictly speaking a departmental collectivity, is divided into 17 communes Saint-Pierre and...
Communes | | Municipal arrondissements | | Others | | Collectivités d'outre-mer | | Collectivité sui generis | | Pays d'outre-mer | | A Territoire doutre-mer (TOM, French for Overseas territory) is an administrative divisions of France. The term is currently only applied to the French Southern Territories. The status of TOM differs from that of DOM, but because of some common peculiarities, DOMs, TOMs and other oversea possessions under other...
Territoire d'outre-mer | | The Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (in French ) is a 28 km² tropical island in the Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique, at 22°20S, 40°22E. It has 22.2 kilometers of coastline, but no ports or harbors...
Scattered Islands | | Clipperton Island (locally known as , and possibly , . An interesting feature was observed in that the vegetation is arranged in parallel rows of species; dense rows of taller species alternate with lower, more open vegetation. This was assumed to be a result of the phosphate mining method of digging trenches. Map...
Clipperton Island | A communauté urbaine (Urban Communauty in English) is the higher degree of intercommunal cooperation in France.
It has been created by the law of december 31 1966 in a few cities (ie Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg). The goal was, after teh failing of the merging of communbes, to erase the gap between existing metropolitan government and geographic reality of these agglomerations.
Unlike in the communautés d'agglomération and communautés de communes, a commune can not leave freely a communauté urbaine.
There were in 2004 14 communautés urbaines, with 6 millions inhabitants.
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