Cities/Towns of France/World

Tristan da Cunha Island is a country on the continent Oceania, her capital is Edingburgh. Here is the hierarchy of the Tristan da Cunha Island administrative divisions: Tristan da Cunha Island is subdivided into division 1, that are at their turn subdivided into division 2, that are at their turn subdivided into division 3, that are at their turn subdivided into division 4, that are at their turn subdivided into division 5.

How French name their localities: department, city, town, district ? You find also their zipcode. The cities, towns in France are all called communes with a Mayer as administtrative chief, independently of its population and town size. Sometime, a town with only 3 souls has a mayer.

This is very different from the Chinese calling. There one has Chief of Village, Chief of Town, Chief of City.

In France, the zipcode is generally composed of 5 digits, of which the first two are the code of the departement that it belongs to.

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