Answer : From 1st January 2016
Mainland France is now divided into 13 administrative areas, the authorities agreed on a reorganisation of the u . S . A ..
Answer : Until the 31 December 2015
Metropolitan France is split into 22 administrative regions, which in turn are divided into departments. Each region has its very own person, traditions, delicacies or even French dialects.
The 13 areas of Metropolitan France (from January 2016)
Name Capital Information
Grand Est Strasbourg Fusion of Alsace-Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux Fusion of 3 regions Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes
Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Lyon Fusion of the Auvergne and the Rhône-Alpes
Bretagne Rennes Unchanged, Brittany
Bourgogne Franche-Comté Dijon Fusion of Burgundy and the Franche-Comte
Centre Val de Loire Orléans Only the call has been changed
Corse Ajaccio Corsica
Occitaine Toulouse Fusion of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées
Normandie Rouen Normandy, fusion of Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie
Hauts-de-France Lille Fusion of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Picardie
Île-de-France Paris Unchanged
Pays de los angeles Loire Nantes Unchanged
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Nice Unchanged
Use the interactive map of the thirteen French regions to discover extra records about the country.
Old 22 local names
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The alphabetical listing with a link to an facts web page about every place.
Click on the area's call for more facts, every link opens a web page displaying maps, pix and records for the area.
The 22 regions (till 31December 2015)
English French spelling
Alsace Alsace
Aquitaine Aquitaine
Auvergne Auvergne
Brittany Bretagne
Burgundy Bourgogne
Center Centre
Champagne-Ardenne Champagne-Ardenne
Corsica Corse
Franche-comte Franche-Comté
Languedoc-Roussillon Languedoc-Roussillon
Limousin Limousin
Lorraine Lorraine
Lower-Normandy Basse-Normandie
Midi-Pyrenees Midi-Pyrénées
North-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Paris-Isle-of-France Île-de-France
Pays-de-los angeles-Loire Pays-de-l. A.-Loire
Picardy Picardie
Poitou-Charentes Poitou-Charentes
Provence-Alpes-Azur Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Rhone-Alps Rhône-Alpes
Upper-Normandy Haute-Normandie
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