Cities/Towns of France/World

Bangladesh is a country on the continent Asia, her capital is Dhaka. Here is the hierarchy of the Bangladesh administrative divisions: Bangladesh is subdivided into divisions বিভাগ Bibhag, that are at their turn subdivided into great districts, that are at their turn subdivided into districts জেলা zil, that are at their turn subdivided into counties উপজেলা oopojela, that are at their turn subdivided into cities, towns and villages.

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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