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Thursday, May 11, 2006
Departments in France
We’ve been a lot to France before we emigrated, but the meaning of the departments and regions and the differences between them remained unclear. At en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France you can read what it’s all about, but I will restrict myself to what you need to know about it as an emigrant or tourist. France exists of 26 regions and 100 departments from which four overseas. The mainland (the actual France) is called ‘France métropolitaine’ and the overseas regions are called D.O.M. (Départements Outre Mer).
The departments are numbered. The regions exist already for many ages, the departments are more of a recent date (1789). This numbering takes place in alphabetic order. For example: 01 is Ain, 02 is Aisne, 03 is Allier, etcetera. You will see the numbers for instance on the number plate (plaque d’immatriculation) and in the first two numbers of the ZIP code.
source: nl.wikipedia.org
Example: we live in the department Aveyron which is part of the region Midi-Pyrénées. The number of the Aveyron is 12 (douze) and one can read it on the number plate and the ZIP code of our city is 12500, voilà. From January first 2009 all the number plates in France will be renumbered. With this the number of the department will terminate, but, rather more than two third of the French is against it. And that’s why one can choose to add the number to the right of the plate.
To the right the number of the department, in the example 80 (from the department Somme) in the region Picardie
The number of the department represents the unique qualities of the department by which many French feel connected. In here we recognize the much-discussed nationalism of the French, or shall I say, the inhabitants of the Aveyron. I have to admit, if during summertime we are again caught up by such a nervous zigzagging Frenchman we actually don’t need to watch the number plate, we look at each other and mumble: “da ain no local “.
| 01 Ain | 50 Manche | |
| 02 Aisne | 51 Marne | |
| 03 Allier | 52 Haute-Marne | |
| 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 53 Mayenne | |
| 05 Hautes-Alpes | 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| 06 Alpes-Maritimes | 55 Meuse | |
| 07 Ardèche | 56 Morbihan | |
| 08 Ardennes | 57 Moselle | |
| 09 Ariège | 58 Nièvre | |
| 10 Aube | 59 Nord | |
| 11 Aude | 60 Oise | |
| 12 Aveyron | 61 Orne | |
| 13 Bouches-du-Rhône | 62 Pas-de-Calais | |
| 14 Calvados | 63 Puy-de-Dôme | |
| 15 Cantal | 64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| 16 Charente | 65 Hautes-Pyrénées | |
| 17 Charente-Maritime | 66 Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| 18 Cher | 67 Bas-Rhin | |
| 19 Corrèze | 68 Haut-Rhin | |
| 2A Corse-du-Sud | 69 Rhône | |
| 2B Haute-Corse | 70 Haute-Saône | |
| 21 Côte-d'Or | 71 Saône-et-Loire | |
| 22 Côtes-d'Armor | 72 Sarthe | |
| 23 Creuse | 73 Savoie | |
| 24 Dordogne | 74 Haute-Savoie | |
| 25 Doubs | 75 Paris | |
| 26 Drôme | 76 Seine-Maritime | |
| 27 Eure | 77 Seine-et-Marne | |
| 28 Eure-et-Loir | 78 Yvelines | |
| 29 Finistère | 79 Deux-Sèvres | |
| 30 Gard | 80 Somme | |
| 31 Haute-Garonne | 81 Tarn | |
| 32 Gers | 82 Tarn-et-Garonne | |
| 33 Gironde | 83 Var | |
| 34 Hérault | 84 Vaucluse | |
| 35 Ille-et-Vilaine | 85 Vendée | |
| 36 Indre | 86 Vienne | |
| 37 Indre-et-Loire | 87 Haute-Vienne | |
| 38 Isère | 88 Vosges | |
| 39 Jura | 89 Yonne | |
| 40 Landes | 90 Territoire-de-Belfort | |
| 41 Loir-et-Cher | 91 Essonne | |
| 42 Loire | 92 Hauts-de-Seine | |
| 43 Haute-Loire | 93 Seine-Saint-Denis | |
| 44 Loire-Atlantique | 94 Val-de-Marne | |
| 45 Loiret | 95 Val-d'Oise | |
| 46 Lot | 971 Guadeloupe | |
| 47 Lot-et-Garonne | 972 Martinique | |
| 48 Lozère | 973 Guyane | |
| 49 Maine-et-Loire | 974 Réunion |
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