France Regional Map
A France Regional map is useful to refer to when planning your trip, and helps give an overview of the country as a whole.
We’ve provided a France Regional map below, together with a list of all the départements (districts) and main cities.
France Regional Map
The country is made up of 22 regions. Within these regions there are ‘départements’ (approximately 95 of them!). An easy way to think of it is France having states/provinces, and counties within those.
To make things even more confusing (
), before there were départements there were provinces (until 1790) and many areas are still referred to by their former province names (such as Quercy and Périgord). The départements themselves are also split up into arrondissements, cantons and communes.
List of Regions of France
To supplement the France regional map above, here is a complete list of all the regions of France (we’ve included both french and english names if we thought this would help), with their départements; main cities are in brackets ().
- Alsace: Bas Rhin, Haut Rhin, (Colmar, Strasbourg)
- Acquitaine: Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot et Garonne, Pyrénées Atlantiques (Agen, Bordeaux, Mont de Marsan, Pau, Périgueux)
- Auvergne: Allier, Cantal, Haute Loire, Puy de Dôme (Aurillac, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Puy, Vichy)
- Bretagne/Brittany): Côtes d’Armor, Finistère, Ille et Vilaine, Morbihan, (Brest, Rennes, Saint Brieuc, Vannes)
- Bourgogne/Burgundy: Côte d’Or, Nivère, Saône et Loire, Yonne (Auxerre, Dijon, Macon, Nevers)
- Centre: Cher, Eure et Loir, Indre, Indre et Loire, Loiret, Loire et Cher (Blois, Bourges, Chartres, Châteauroux, Orléans, Tours)
- Champagne-Ardenne: Ardennes, Aube, Haute Marne, Marne (Charleville-Mézières, Chaumont, Reims, Troyes)
- Corse/Corsica: Haute Corse, Corse du Sud (Ajaccio)
- Franche-Comté/France-Comté: Doubs, Jura, Saône, Territoire de Belfort (Belfort, Besançon,Lons le Saunier, Vesoul)
- Languedoc-Roussillon: Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère, Pyrénées Orientales (Carcassonne, Mende, Montpellier, Nîmes, Perpignan)
- Limousin: Corrèze, Creuse, Haute Vienne, (Brive, Guéret, Limoges)
- Lorraine: Meurthe et Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Vosges (Bar le Duc, Epinal, Metz, Nancy)
- Midi-Pyrénées: Ariège, Aveyron, Gers, Haute Garonne, Hautes Pyrénées, Lot, Tarn et Garonne, Tarn (Albi, Auch, Cahors, Foix, Montauban, Rodez, Tarbes, Toulouse)
- Nord-pas-de-Calais/North-Calais: Nord, Pas de Calais (Dunkerque, Lille)
- Normandie (Basse)/Lower Normandy: Calvados, Manche, Orne (Alençon, Caen, Saint-Lô)
- Normandy (Haute)/Upper Normandy: Eure, Seine Maritime (Evreux, Rouen)
- Paris Île de France: Essone, Hauts de Seine, Seine et Marne, Seine Saint Denis, Val de Marne, Val d’Oise, Yvelines (Bobigny, Créteil, Evry, Melun, Nanterre, Paris, Pontoise, Versailles)
- Pays de la Loire: Loire Atlantique, Maine et Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe, Vendée (Angers, La Roche sur Yon Laval, Le Mans, Nantes)
- Picardie/Picardy: Aisne, Oise, Somme (Beauvais, Amiens, Laon)
- Poitou-Charentes: Charente, Charente Maritime, Deux Sèvres, Vienne (Angoulême, La Rochelle, Niort, Poitiers)
- Provence-Alpes-Côte D’Azur: Alpes de Haute Provence, Alpes Maritimes, Bouches du Rhône, Hautes Alpes, Var, Vaucluse (Avignon, Digne, Gap, Marseille, Nice, Toulon)
- Rhône-Alpes: Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Haute Savoie, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie (Annecy, Bourg en Bresse, Chamb´ry, Grenoble, Lyon, Privas, Saint Etienne, Valence)