Portal:France/Administrative divisions

France is currently divided into 26 "régions"; 22 of these form metropolitan France, which includes the continental nation and the island of Corsica, and 4 are overseas. Régions are further subdivided into 100 "départements", including the 4 départements d'outre-mer ("Overseas Departments") or "DOMs".

Alsace Aquitaine Auvergne Lower Normandy Burgundy Brittany Centre Champagne-Ardenne Corsica (special status) Franche-Comté Upper Normandy

Île-de-France Languedoc-Roussillon Limousin Lorraine Midi-Pyrénées Nord-Pas-de-Calais Pays de la Loire Picardy Poitou-Charentes Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur also called PACA Rhône-Alpes

Régions which are also départements d'outre-mer : Guadeloupe (until 2007 this included Saint Barthélemy and the French part of Saint Martin) Martinique French Guiana Réunion

France also administers several overseas collectivites and territories:

• 5 overseas collectivities ("collectivités d'outre-mer") Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte, Saint Barthélemy and the French part of Saint Martin.
• 1 sui generis collectivity ("collectivité sui generis"): New Caledonia.
• 1 overseas "country" ("pays d'outre-mer") French Polynesia.
• 1 overseas territory ("territoire d'outre-mer") the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (composed of Île Amsterdam and Île Saint-Paul, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen, Adélie Land).
• 4 small coral islands and an atoll in the Indian Ocean with no permanent population and known as "Îles Éparses" ("Scattered Islands"), Bassas da India, Europa, Juan de Nova, Glorioso, and Tromelin.
• 1 uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, Clipperton.