🇫🇷 France 13 administrative divisions
13 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 40,602 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- FR · FRA · 250
- Capital
- Paris
- Continent
- Europe
- Currency
- EUR — euro
- Calling code
- +33
- Internet domain
- .fr
- Divisions
- 13
- Cities and towns
- 40,602
Divisions
The 13 divisions of France
13 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Est | FR-GES | 5,608 | 5,563,378 |
| Occitania | FR-OCC | 5,138 | 6,124,653 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | FR-NAQ | 4,842 | 6,150,451 |
| Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes | FR-ARA | 4,799 | 8,205,557 |
| Hauts-de-France | FR-HDF | 4,243 | 5,992,194 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comte | FR-BFC | 3,893 | 2,802,670 |
| Normandy | FR-NOR | 3,102 | 3,345,842 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | FR-CVL | 1,902 | 2,587,031 |
| Pays de la Loire | FR-PDL | 1,763 | 3,907,156 |
| Brittany | FR-BRE | 1,733 | 3,449,370 |
| Ile-de-France | FR-IDF | 1,679 | 12,463,067 |
| Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | FR-PAC | 1,399 | 5,218,960 |
| Corsica | FR-20R | 416 | 355,486 |
A further 85 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of France
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/FR.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/FR/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.