How is france divided

Arrondisements are then subdivided into 4, cantons that serve as constituencies during the elections for the general council of each department. Cantons are actually made up of 36, communes, which is the lowest administrative division of France.

Most of these communes, 36, of them, belong to France Metropolitan while the remaining belong to overseas regions. There is no exact definition of a French commune. Paris, a city with more than 2 million inhabitants, is considered a commune. A mayor and its municipal council run a commune. Despite the disparity in the sizes of French communes, the powers of those who govern them remain the same. Having said that, there are three communes — Paris, Marseille and Lyon — which are further subdivided into 45 municipal arrondisements , each with its own arrondisement mayor and council.

The administrative divisions in French overseas regions are the same as in France Metropolitan. These cantons are made up of communes.

View the interactive map on our sister site FranceToday. Of the new 13 regions in the new map of France, only seven experienced changes to the previously existing distribution.

It will make for interesting conversation, to say the least, as the regions that blend into one will have a considerable overlap of administrative functions.

Strasbourg: Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine new regional capital designated by decree on January 16, The list of new regional capital will be firmed up in July As mentioned, each region in France is further divided into departments. More in alsace , aquitaine , auvergne , businesses , calais , legal , maps.

Only the devil knows why this wound has started to fester precisely now. The election in France is above all about the redistribution of wealth, eldiario.

Many of Le Pen's voters are neither xenophobic nor racist but people who are convinced they're paying the price for a crisis they didn't cause. Many of Macron's voters are neither centrists nor reformists. They are people who believe that a decent balance can still be found between globalisation, accumulation and redistribution of wealth.

Because this is what we are talking about when we talk of politics nowadays: about how to create wealth, whether to distribute it and how it should be distributed. It goes: 'Vote for the neoliberal fascists to stop the real fascists from coming to power'.

Then, once the voters notice that 'Socialists' like Hollande are also neoliberal, they turn to the far right. In reality they don't seek out the far right themselves but are led towards it. Neoliberal politics leads them there.