Fance+Culture

=Regions of France=


 * ~ Flag[|[2]] [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||~ Region [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||~ French name [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||~ Regional Name(s) [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||~ Capital [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||~ [|INSEE] No.[|[1]] [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||~ Notes [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France#"]] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Alsace.svg/50px-Flag_of_Alsace.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Flag of Alsace.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Alsace.svg"]] || [|Alsace] || [|Alsace] || [|Alsatian]: //Elsàss// || [|Strasbourg] || 42 ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Aquitaine_flag.svg/50px-Aquitaine_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Aquitaine flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aquitaine_flag.svg"]] || [|Aquitaine] || [|Aquitaine] || [|Occitan]: //Aquitània//; [|Basque]: //Akitania// || [|Bordeaux] || 72 ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Auvergne_flag.svg/50px-Auvergne_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Auvergne flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auvergne_flag.svg"]] || [|Auvergne] || [|Auvergne] || [|Occitan]: //Auvèrnhe / Auvèrnha// || [|Clermont-Ferrand] || 83 || Takes its name from the [|province of Auvergne] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bourgogne_flag.svg/50px-Bourgogne_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Bourgogne flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bourgogne_flag.svg"]] || [|Burgundy] || //[|Bourgogne]// || [|Burgundian]: //Bregogne// ou //Borgoégne//; [|Arpitan]: //Borgogne// || [|Dijon] || 26 || Takes its name from the [|Duchy of Burgundy] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Gwenn_ha_du.svg/50px-Gwenn_ha_du.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Gwenn ha du.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gwenn_ha_du.svg"]] || [|Brittany] || //[|Bretagne]// || [|Breton]: //Breizh//; [|Gallo]: //Bertaèyn// || [|Rennes] || 53 || Does not include [|Loire Atlantique], which is traditionally part of Brittany ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Centre_flag.svg/50px-Centre_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Centre flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Centre_flag.svg"]] || [|Centre] || [|Centre] || — || [|Orléans] || 24 || Takes its name from its position in France ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Champagne-Ardenne_flag.svg/50px-Champagne-Ardenne_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Champagne-Ardenne flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Champagne-Ardenne_flag.svg"]] || [|Champagne-Ardenne] || //[|Champagne-Ardenne]// || — || [|Châlons-en-Champagne] || 21 ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Flag_of_Corsica.svg/50px-Flag_of_Corsica.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Flag of Corsica.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Corsica.svg"]] || [|Corsica] || //[|Corse]// || [|Corsican]: //Corsica// || [|Ajaccio] || 94 || Technically not a region but a //Territorial Collectivity// ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Franche-Comt%C3%A9.svg/50px-Franche-Comt%C3%A9.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Franche-Comté.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Franche-Comt%C3%A9.svg"]] || [|Franche-Comté] || //[|Franche-Comté]// || [|Franc-Comtois]: //Fràntche-Comté//; [|Arpitan]: //Franche-Comtât// || [|Besançon] || 43 || Takes its name from the [|Free County of Burgundy] (//Franche Comté// in French) ||
 * || [|French Guiana] || [|Guyane] || — || [|Cayenne] || 03 || Overseas region ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Flag_of_Guadeloupe_%28local%29.svg/50px-Flag_of_Guadeloupe_%28local%29.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Flag of Guadeloupe (local).svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Guadeloupe_(local).svg"]] || [|Guadeloupe] || [|Guadeloupe] || [|Antillean Creole]: //Gwadloup//; [|Tamil]: //குவாதலூப்பே// || [|Basse-Terre] || 01 || Overseas region ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/%C3%8Ele-de-France_flag.svg/50px-%C3%8Ele-de-France_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Île-de-France flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%8Ele-de-France_flag.svg"]] || [|Île-de-France] || [|Ile-de-France] || — || [|Paris] || 11 || Takes its name from the [|province of Ile-de-France], but also includes parts of [|Champagne] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Languedoc_Roussillon_flag.svg/50px-Languedoc_Roussillon_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Languedoc Roussillon flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Languedoc_Roussillon_flag.svg"]] || [|Languedoc-Roussillon] || [|Languedoc-Roussillon] || [|Occitan]: //Lengadòc-Rosselhon//; [|Catalan]: //Llenguadoc-Rosselló// || [|Montpellier] || 91 || Takes its name from the provinces of [|Languedoc] and [|Roussillon] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Limousin_flag.svg/50px-Limousin_flag.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Limousin flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Limousin_flag.svg"]] || [|Limousin] || [|Limousin] || [|Occitan]: //Lemosin// || [|Limoges] || 74 || Takes its name from the [|province of Limousin], but also includes parts of [|Marche], [|Berry], [|Auvergne], [|Poitou], and [|Angoumois] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Lorraine.svg/50px-Lorraine.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Lorraine.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lorraine.svg"]] || [|Lorraine] || [|Lorraine] || [|German]: //Lothringen// || [|Metz] || 41 || Takes its name from the [|province of Lorraine], but also includes the [|Barrois] and the [|Three Bishoprics] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Normandy-flag.gif width="50" height="33" caption="Normandy-flag.gif" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Normandy-flag.gif"]] || [|Lower Normandy] || //[|Basse-Normandie]// || [|Norman]: //Basse-Normaundie// || [|Caen] || 25 ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Flag_of_Martinique.svg/50px-Flag_of_Martinique.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Flag of Martinique.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Martinique.svg"]] || [|Martinique] || [|Martinique] || — || [|Fort-de-France] || 02 || Overseas region ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Flag_of_Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es.svg/50px-Flag_of_Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es.svg.png width="50" height="33" caption="Flag of Midi-Pyrénées.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es.svg"]] || [|Midi-Pyrénées] || //[|Midi-Pyrénées]// || [|Occitan]: //Miègjorn-Pirenèus// or //Mieidia-Pirenèus// || [|Toulouse] || 73 || Artificial region, with no historical links, created as a region for [|Toulouse] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Nord-Pas-de-Calais_flag.svg/50px-Nord-Pas-de-Calais_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Nord-Pas-de-Calais flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nord-Pas-de-Calais_flag.svg"]] || [|Nord-Pas-de-Calais] || [|Nord-Pas-de-Calais] || [|Dutch]: //Noord-Nauw van Kales''// || [|Lille] || 31 || Takes its name from the departments of [|Nord] and [|Pas de Calais] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Pays-de-la-Loire_flag.svg/50px-Pays-de-la-Loire_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Pays-de-la-Loire flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pays-de-la-Loire_flag.svg"]] || [|Pays de la Loire] || [|Pays de la Loire] || — || [|Nantes] || 52 || Artificial region, with no historical links, created as a region for [|Nantes] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Picardie_flag.svg/50px-Picardie_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Picardie flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picardie_flag.svg"]] || [|Picardy] || //[|Picardie]// || — || [|Amiens] || 22 ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Poitou-Charentes_flag.svg/50px-Poitou-Charentes_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Poitou-Charentes flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Poitou-Charentes_flag.svg"]] || [|Poitou-Charentes] || [|Poitou-Charentes] || — || [|Poitiers] || 54 ||  ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te-d%27Azur_flag.svg/50px-Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te-d%27Azur_flag.svg.png width="50" height="34" caption="Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Provence-Alpes-C%C3%B4te-d%27Azur_flag.svg"]] || [|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur] || [|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur] || [|Provençal] [|Occitan]: //Provença-Aups-Còsta d'Azur// (Classical norm) or //Prouvènço-Aup-Costo d'Azur// (Mistralian norm) || [|Marseille] || 93 ||  ||
 * || [|Reunion] || [|Réunion] || [|Tamil]: //இறியூனியன்// || [|Saint-Denis] || 04 || Overseas region ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes_flag.svg/50px-Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Rhône-Alpes flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes_flag.svg"]] || [|Rhône-Alpes] || //[|Rhône-Alpes]// || [|Arpitan]: //Rôno-Arpes//; [|Occitan]: //Ròse Aups// || [|Lyon] || 82 || Artificial region, with no historical links, created as a region for [|Lyon] ||
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Haute-Normandie_flag.svg/50px-Haute-Normandie_flag.svg.png width="50" height="30" caption="Haute-Normandie flag.svg" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haute-Normandie_flag.svg"]] || [|Upper Normandy] || //[|Haute-Normandie]// || [|Norman]: //Ĥâote-Normaundie// || [|Rouen] || 23 ||