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Map of France has been provided for your use as a handy reference for locating the major cities of France you're wanting to visit--Paris, Marseille, Nice, Dunkerque, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Orléans--and the countries with whom she shares her borders--take the Chunnel to the United Kingdom or the rail to Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy or Switzerland.  Not only will it help you plan your next visit, but may also be a useful tool as you read France History.  Map provided by Lonely Planet, a great travel resource.

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France: Departments
Regions and Préfectures

Regions: Préfectures (Capital) and Departments 

Departments with official codes

Traditional Provinces

  • Alsace: Strasbourg
    Bas-Rhin
    Haut-Rhin

  • Aquitaine: Bordeaux
    Dordogne
    Gironde
    Landes
    Lot-et-Garonne
    Pyrénées-Atlantiques

  • Auvergne: Clermont-Ferrand
    Allier
    Cantal
    Haute-Loire
    Puy-de-Dôme

  • Basse-Normandie (Lower-Normandy): Caen
    Calvados
    Manche
    Orne

  • Bourgogne (Burgundy): Dijon
    Côte-d'Or
    Nièvre
    Saône-et-Loire
    Yonne

  • Bretagne (Brittany): Rennes
    Côtes-d'Armor
    Finistère
    Ille-et-Vilaine
    Morbihan

  • Centre: Orléans 
    Cher
    Eure-et-Loir
    Indre
    Indre-et-Loire
    Loiret
    Loir-et-Cher

  • Champagne-Ardenne: Châlons-en-Champagne
    Ardennes
    Aube
    Marne
    Haute-Marne

  • Corse (Corsica): Ajaccio
    Haute-Corse
    Corse-du-Sud 

  • Franche-Comté: Besançon
    Doubs
    Jura
    Haute-Saône
    Territoire de Belfort 

  • Haute-Normandie (Upper-Normandy): Rouen
    Eure
    Seine-Maritime

  • Île-de-France: Paris
    Essonne
    Hauts-de-Seine
    Paris
    Seine-et-Marne
    Seine-Saint-Denis
    Val-de-Marne
    Val-d'Oise
    Yvelines

  • Languedoc-Roussillon: Montpellier
    Aude
    Gard
    Hérault
    Lozère
    Pyrénées-Orientales

  • Limousin: Limoges
    Corrèze
    Creuse
    Haute-Vienne

  • Lorraine: Metz
    Meurthe-et-Moselle
    Meuse
    Moselle
    Vosges

  • Midi-Ariège 
    Aveyron
    Haut-Garonne 
    Gers
    Lot
    Hautes-Pyrénées
    Tarn
    Tarn-et-Garonne

  • Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Lille
    Nord
    Pas-de-Calais

  • Pays de la Loire: Nantes
    Loire-Atlantique
    Maine-et-Loire
    Mayenne
    Sarthe
    Vendée

  • Picardie: Amiens
    Aisne
    Oise
    Somme

  • Poitou-Charentes: Poitiers
    Charente 
    Charente-Maritime
    Deux-Sèvres
    Vienne 

  • Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Marseille
    Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
    Hautes-Alpes
    Alpes-Maritimes
    Bouches-du-Rhône
    Var
    Vaucluse

  • Rhône-Alpes: Lyon
    Ain
    Ardèche
    Drôme
    Isère
    Loire
    Rhône
    Savoie
    Haute-Savoie

  • Overseas regions
    Guadeloupe and dependencies
    Martinique
    French Guiana
    Réunion and dependencies

 

01 Ain
02 Aisne
03 Allier
04 Alpes-de-Haute-
Provence
05 Hautes-Alpes
06 Alpes-Maritimes
07 Ardèche
08 Ardennes
09 Ariège
10 Aube
11 Aude
12 Aveyron
13 Bouches-du-Rhône
14 Calvados
15 Cantal
16 Charente
17 Charente-
Maritime
18 Cher
19 Corrèze
2A Corse-du-Sud
2B Haute-Corse
21 Côte-d'Or
22 Côtes-d'Armor
23 Creuse
24 Dordogne
25 Doubs
26 Drôme
27 Eure
28 Eure-et-Loir
29 Finistère
30 Gard
31 Haut-Garonne
32 Gers
33 Gironde
34 Hérault
35 Ille-et-Vilaine
36 Indre
37 Indre-et-Loire

38 Isère
39 Jura
40 Landes
41 Loir-et-Cher
42 Loire
43 Haute-Loire
44 Loire-Atlantique
45 Loiret
46 Lot
47 Lot-et-Garonne
48 Lozère
49 Maine-et-Loire
50 Manche
51 Marne
52 Haute-Marne
53 Mayenne
54 Meurthe-et-
Moselle
55 Meuse
56 Morbihan
57 Moselle
58 Nièvre
59 Nord
60 Oise

61 Orne
62 Pas-de-Calais
63 Puy-de-Dôme 
64 Pyrénées-  Atlantiques 
65 Hautes-Pyrénées
66 Pyrénées-
Orientales
67 Bas-Rhin
68 Haut-Rhin
69 Rhône
70 Haute-Saône
71 Saône-et-Loire
72 Sarthe
73 Savoie
74 Haute-Savoie
75 Paris
76 Seine-Maritime
77 Seine-et-Marne
78 Yvelines
79 Deux-Sèvres 
80 Somme
81 Tarn
82 Tarn-et-Garonne

83 Var
84 Vaucluse
85 Vendée
86 Vienne
87 Haute-Vienne
88 Vosges
89 Yonne
90 Territoire de Belfort
91 Essonne
92 Hauts-de-Seine
93 Seine-Saint-Denis
94 Val-de-Marne
95 Val-d'Oise

Overseas departments
971 Guadeloupe and dependencies
972 Martinique
973 French Guiana
974 Réunion and dependencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provinces were divisions of the kingdom of France abolished after the 1789 Revolution and replaced with departments. Although some names are the same, the borders are not usually the same.

Alsace
Angoumois
Anjou
Artois
Aunis
Auvergne
Béarn
--Basse-Navarre
Berry
Bourbonnais
Bourgogne 
Bretagne

Champagne
Comtat Venaissin*
Comté de Foix
Comté de Nice*
Corse
Dauphiné
Flandre
Franche-Comté
Guyenne and Gascogne
Île-de-France
Languedoc
Limousin
Lorraine
Lyonnais
Maine
Marche
Nivernais
Normandie
Orléanais
Picardie
Poitou
Provence
Roussillon
Saintonge
Savoie*
Touraine


*Added after the Revolution







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