French Administrative Map - Political Wall Map of France

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Subdivisions of the Kingdom of France Map of the provinces of France in their final form in 1789, shortly before they were abolished the following year. The cool semi-arid climate ( BSk) concerns the western part of the Bouches-du-Rhône area and the Roussillon plain of the Pyrénées-Orientales with hot summers and cool winters with insufficient average annual rainfall in some years. See also: fr:Circonscriptions catholiques françaises en 1748 Dioceses in the Kingdom of France in 1789. Under Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu promoted the centralisation of the state and reinforced royal power by disarming domestic power holders in the 1620s. He systematically destroyed castles of defiant lords and denounced the use of private violence (duelling, carrying weapons and maintaining private armies). By the end of the 1620s, Richelieu established "the royal monopoly of force" as the doctrine. [55] The Revolution led to the establishment of the First French Republic and eventually saw the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Largest urban areas of France : The 5 largest urban areas of France are (population of urban areas in 2006) : After World War II, France played a pivotal role in the establishment of the European Union and became a founding member. France is divided into 101 departments. They are divided into 343 districts ("arrondissements"), 4 058 townships("cantons") and 36 699 towns ("communes"). The name of the Franks is related to the English word frank ("free"): the latter stems from the Old French franc ("free, noble, sincere"), ultimately from Medieval Latin francus ("free, exempt from service; freeman, Frank"), a generalisation of the tribal name that emerged as a Late Latin borrowing of the reconstructed Frankish endonym * Frank. [21] [22] It has been suggested that the meaning "free" was adopted because, after the conquest of Gaul, only Franks were free of taxation, [23] or more generally because they had the status of freemen in contrast to servants or slaves. [22] It also boasts of scores of Romanesque churches and castles, and circus amphitheaters-shaped glacial valleys called cirques.

Since 1994 France and the UK are connected by the Channel Tunnel, a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone in Kent, in the UK with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France. The alpine tundra climate ( ET) is found in all the mountainous regions of France, generally above 2,000 or 2,300-2,400 metres a.s.l depending on the mountain ranges. Summers are chilly, stormy and windy and winters are extremely cold, long and snowy. Metropolitan Regions of France: Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, Brittany (Bretagne), Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica (Corse), Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France, Normandy (Normandie), Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, and Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA). During the revolution these provinces were abolished and the French territory was divided into 83 departments. This map, published by Simeon Netchev for the World History Encyclopedia, depicts the expansion and heyday of the First French Empire in 1812, with Napoleon Bonaparte at its head.

In general, Overseas France refers to the 13 territories outside the European continent that remain under French sovereignty. These five territories maintain the same administrative status as the French mainland, which distinguishes them from more autonomous collectives such as French Polynesia or New Caledonia. Furthermore, these dependencies span across several oceans and regions, accounting for an area of approximately 120,396 km 2 (about 46,485 mi 2).Here you will find the map of population density of France, the map of cities of France and finally the detailed classification of the 5 main french areas: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Toulouse Proposals to give regions limited legislative autonomy have met with considerable resistance; others propose transferring certain powers from the departments to their respective regions, leaving the former with limited authority.