Focus on France, a country located in the west of the European continent between the English Channel to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Divided into regions, départements and inter-municipalities or conurbations, France officially had a population of 68,373,433, or more than sixty-eight million, on 1 January 2024, covering a total area of around 550,000 km2 square kilometres for metropolitan France, 640,000 km2 with theoverseas départements and regions, 670,000 km2 for the whole of France and 1,104,000 km2 with the Adélie Land in Antarctica.
Regions of France
List of French regions since1 January 2016 with their prefectures :
French departments
List of French departments in mainland and overseas France
Metropole
French overseas departments and territories
French municipalities and local authorities
And to complete the picture, here are the maps and the list of towns, villages, communities of communes, conurbations and metropolises in France.
In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Map and list of communes in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region by département :
- Towns and villages in the Ain (01)
- Towns and villages in the Allier (03)
- Towns and villages in the Ardèche (07)
- Towns and villages in Cantal (15)
- Towns and villages in the Drôme (26)
- Towns and villages in Isère (38)
- Towns and villages in the Loire (42)
- Towns and villages in the Haute-Loire (43)
- Towns and villages in Puy-de-Dôme (63)
- Towns and villages in the Rhône (69)
- Towns and villages in Savoie
- Towns and villages in Haute-Savoie
In Occitania
Map and list of communes in the Occitanie region by department :
- Towns and villages in the Ariège
- Towns and villages in Aude (11)
- Towns and villages in Aveyron (12)
- Towns and villages in the Gard (30)
- Towns and villages in Haute-Garonne
- Towns and villages in the Gers
- Towns and villages in Hérault (34)
- Towns and villages in the Lot
- Towns and villages in Lozère (48)
- Towns and villages in Hautes-Pyrénées
- Towns and villages in Pyrénées-Orientales
- Towns and villages in the Tarn
- Towns and villages in Tarn-et-Garonne
Maps of France
France and its territorial division in maps by region, department and territory.
- The new regions of France on the map:
- Map of French departments
- Interactive map of the regions and departments of mainland France, including Corsica:
Maps of Overseas France
And if you want to travel with maps far from mainland France, here are the maps of the French overseas territories:
In France
- Other maps of France and regions
- Articles and pages about towns and villages in France
- France’s 22 metropolises
- Towns and villages on the banks of the Rhône river