The French departments are grouped into
metropolitan and overseas
regions.
The numbers before the department are the official code and can be
seen on car registration plates and postcodes.
Map of the Departements of France - France Travel Notes
The capital city of a
département is called the préfecture.
Départements are then divided into arrondissements, with the capital
city of an arrondissement called the sous-préfecture.
Ain (Bourg-en-Bresse) - Belley, Gex
and Nantua.
Aisne (Laon) - Chateau-Thierry,
Saint-Quentin, Soissons and Vervins.
Allier (Moulins) - Montlucon and
Vichy.
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
(Digne-les-Bains) - Barcelonnette, Castellane and Forcalquier.
Hautes-Alpes (Gap) -
Briancon.
Alpes-Maritimes (Nice) -
Grasse.
Ardeche (Privas) - Largentiere
and Tournon.
Ardennes (Charleville-Mezieres)
- Rethel, Sedan and Vouziers.
Ariege (Foix) - Pamiers and
Saint-Girons.
Aube (Troyes) - Bar-sur-Aube and
Nogent-sur-Seine.
Aude (Carcassonne) - Limoux and
Narbonne.
Aveyron (Rodez) - Millau and
Villefranche-de-Rouergue.
Bouches-du-Rhone
(Marseille) - Aix-en-Provence, Arles and Istres.
Calvados (Caen) - Bayeux, Lisieux
and Vire.
Cantal (Aurillac) - Mauriac and
Saint-Flour.
Charente
(Angouleme) - Cognac
and Confolens.
Charente-Maritime (La
Rochelle) - Jonzac, Rochefort, Saintes and Saint-Jean d'Angely.
Cher (Bourges) - Saint-Amand-Montrond
and Vierzon.
Correze (Tulle) -
Brive-la-Gailarde and Ussel.
Corse-du-Sud
(Ajaccio) - Sartène.
Haute-Corse
(Bastia) - Calvi and Corte.
Côte-d’Or (Dijon) - Beaune
and Montbard.
Côtes-d’Armor
(Saint-Brieuc) - Dinan, Guingamp and Lannion.
Creuse (Guéret) - Aubusson.
Dordogne (Périgueux) - Bergerac,
Nontron and Sarlat-la-Caneda.
Doubs (Besancon) - Montbeliard and
Pontarlier.
Drome (Valence) - Die and Nyons.
Eure (Evreux) - Les Andelys and
Bernay.
Eure-et-Loir (Chartres) -
Chateaudun, Dreux and Nogent-le-Rotrou.
Finistere (Quimper) - Brest,
Chateaulin and Morlaix.
Gard (Nimes) - Ales and Le Vigan.
Haute-Garonne (Toulouse) -
Murat and Saint-Gaudens.
Gers (Auch) - Condom and Mirande.
Gironde (Bordeaux) - Blaye,
Langon, Lesparre-Medoc and Libourne.
Herault (Montpellier) - Lodeve
and Beziers.
Ille-et-Vilaine (Rennes) -
Fougeres, Redon and Saint-Malo.
Indre (Chateauroux) - Le Blanc, La
Chatre and Issoudun.
Indre-et-Loire (Tours) -
Chinon and Loches.
Isere (Grenoble) - La Tour-du-Pin
and Vienne.
Jura (Lons-le-Saunier) - Dole and
Saint-Claude.
Landes (Mont-de-Marsan) - Dax.
Loir-et-Cher (Blois) -
Romorantin-Lanthenay and Vendeme.
Loire (Saint-Etienne) - Montbrison
and Roanne.
Haute-Loire (Le Puy) - Brioude
and Yssingeaux.
Loire-Atlantique (Nantes)
- Ancenis, Chateaubriand and Saint-Nazaire.
Loiret (Orleans) - Montargis and
Pithiviers.
Lot (Cahors) - Figeac and Gourdon.
Lot-et-Garonne (Agen) -
Marmande, Nérac and Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
Lozère (Mende) - Florac.
Maine-et-Loire (Angers) -
Cholet, Saumur and Segré.
Manche (Saint-Lo) - Avranches,
Cherbourg and Coutances.
Marne (Chalons-en-Champagne) -
Epernay, Reims, Sainte-Menehould and Vitry-le-Francois.
Haute-Marne (Chaumont) -
Langres and Saint-Dizier.
Mayenne (Laval) - Chateau-Gontier
and Mayenne.
Meurthe-et-Moselle
(Nancy) - Briey, Lunéville and Toul.
Meuse (Bar-le-Duc) - Commercy and
Verdun.
Morbihan (Vannes) - Lorient and
Pontivy.
Moselle (Metz) - Boulay-Moselle,
Chateau-Salins, Forbach, Sarrebourg, Sarreguemines and Thionville.
Nièvre (Nevers) - Chateau-Chinon,
Clamecy and Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire.
Nord (Lille) - Avesnes-sur-Helpe,
Cambrai, Douai, Dunkirk and Valenciennes.
Oise (Beauvais) - Clermont,
Compiègne and Senlis.
Orne (Alencon) - Argentan and
Mortagne-au-Perche.
Pas-de-Calais (Arras) -
Bethune, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais, Lens, Montreuil and Saint-Omer.
Puy-de-Dome
(Clermont-Ferrand) - Ambert, Issoire, Riom and Thiers.
Pyrenees-Atlantiques
(Pau) - Bayonne and Oloron-Sainte-Marie.
Hautes-Pyrénées (Tarbes)
- Argeles-Gazost and Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
Pyrénées-Orientales
(Perpignan) - Céret and Prades.
Bas-Rhin (Strasbourg) - Haguenau,
Molsheim, Saverne, Selestat and Wissembourg.
Haut-Rhin (Colmar) - Altkirch,
Guebwiller, Mulhouse, Ribeauvillé and Thann.
Rhone (Lyon) -
Villefranche-sur-Saone.
Haute-Saone (Vesoul) - Lure.
Saone-et-Loire (Macon) -
Autun, Chalon-sur-Saone, Charolles and Louhans.
Sarthe (Le Mans) - La Fleche and
Mamers.
Savoie (Chambery) - Albertville
and Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.
Haute-Savoie (Annecy) -
Bonneville, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois and Thonon-les-Bains.
Ville-de-Paris (Paris)
Seine-Maritime (Rouen) -
Dieppe and Le Havre.
Seine-et-Marne (Melun) -
Fontainebleau, Meaux, Provins and Torcy.
Yvelines (Versailles) -
Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet and Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Deux-Sevres (Niort) -
Bressuire and Parthenay.
Somme (Amiens) - Abbeville,
Montdidier and Peronne.
Tarn (Albi) - Castres.
Tarn-et-Garonne
(Montauban) - Castelsarrasin.
Var (Toulon) - Brignoles and
Draguignan.
Vaucluse (Avignon) - Apt and
Carpentras.
Vendée (La Roche-sur-Yon) -
Fontenay-le-Comte and Les Sables-d'Olonne.
Vienne (Poitiers) - Chatellerault
and Montmorillon.
Haute-Vienne (Limoges) -
Bellac and Rochechouart.
Vosges (Epinal) - Neufchateau and
Saint-Die.
Yonne (Auxerre) - Avallon and Sens.
Territoire de Belfort
(Belfort).
Essonne (Evry) - Etampes and
Palaiseau.
Hauts-de-Seine (Nanterre) -
Antony and Boulogne-Billancourt.
Seine-Saint-Denis
(Bobigny) - Le Raincy.
Val-de-Marne (Creteil) -
L'Hay-les-Roses and Nogent-sur-Marne.
Val-d’Oise (Pontoise) -
Argenteuil and Montmorency.
Often abbreviated to DOM-TOM (départements d'outre-mer,
territoires d'outre-mer), the French Overseas Departments
and Territories are the French-administered territories outside of Europe.
971 Guadeloupe
(Basse-Terre)
972 Martinique
(Fort-de-France)
973 Guyane
(Cayenne)
974 La Reunion
(Saint-Denis)
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