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Travel Notes: France

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France tourist information with details about travel to and around the country. Where to stay and what to see is made easier with insider tips and hand-selected France links, by dedicated editors and visitors to TravelNotes.org - The Online Guide to Travel.

Countries neighbouring France are: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain.

The United Kingdom is also connected by regular ferries across the North Sea and a train tunnel under it.

France by Region

Some regions reused the names of the traditional provinces, but their geographical borders may differ from those of the provinces.

Regions of France Map - © 1800-France.com

Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse, Franche-Comté, Haute-Normandie, Île-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrénées, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes.

France by Department

The numbers before the département are the official code and can be seen on car registration plates and postcodes.

Map of the Départements of France - © 1800-France.com

The capital city of a département is called the préfecture.

01-Ain; 02-Aisne; 03-Allier; 04-Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; 05-Hautes-Alpes; 06-Alpes-Maritimes; 07-Ardèche; 08-Ardennes; 09-Ariège; 10-Aube; 11-Aude; 12-Aveyron; 13-Bouches-du-Rhône; 14-Calvados; 15-Cantal; 16-Charente; 17-Charente-Maritime; 18-Cher; 19-Corrèze; 2A-Corse-du-Sud; 2B-Haute-Corse; 21-Côte-d’Or; 22-Côtes-d’Armor; 23-Creuse; 24-Dordogne; 25-Doubs; 26-Drôme; 27-Eure; 28-Eure-et-Loir; 29-Finistère; 30-Gard; 31-Haute-Garonne; 32-Gers; 33-Gironde; 34-Hérault; 35-Ille-et-Vilaine; 36-Indre; 37-Indre-et-Loire; 38-Isère; 39-Jura; 40-Landes; 41-Loir-et-Cher; 42-Loire; 43-Haute-Loire; 44-Loire-Atlantique; 45-Loiret; 46-Lot; 47-Lot-et-Garonne; 48-Lozère; 49-Maine-et-Loire; 50-Manche; 51-Marne; 52-Haute-Marne; 53-Mayenne; 54-Meurthe-et-Moselle; 55-Meuse; 56-Morbihan; 57-Moselle; 58-Nièvre; 59-Nord; 60-Oise; 61-Orne; 62-Pas-de-Calais; 63-Puy-de-Dôme; 64-Pyrénées-Atlantiques; 65-Hautes-Pyrénées; 66-Pyrénées-Orientales; 67-Bas-Rhin; 68-Haut-Rhin; 69-Rhône; 70-Haute-Saône; 71-Saône-et-Loire; 72-Sarthe; 73-Savoie; 74-Haute-Savoie; 75-Ville-de-Paris; 76-Seine-Maritime; 77-Seine-et-Marne; 78-Yvelines; 79-Deux-Sèvres; 80-Somme; 81-Tarn; 82-Tarn-et-Garonne; 83-Var; 84-Vaucluse; 85-Vendée; 86-Vienne; 87-Haute-Vienne; 88-Vosges; 89-Yonne; 90-Territoire de Belfort; 91-Essonne; 92-Hauts-de-Seine; 93-Seine-Saint-Denis; 94-Val-de-Marne; 95-Val-d’Oise.

Local Area Maps of France

The yellow Michelin maps are the best maps to have to discover a particular area of France.

It's better to have two or three of these, if you're travelling extensively in France, than to rely on a more general map of France.

Weather in France

View a graphical weather forecast for the week ahead in places around France.

Agen Weather, Albi Weather, Amiens Weather, Angers Weather, Aurillac Weather, Avignon Weather, Bastia Weather, Biarritz Weather, Bordeaux Weather, Boulogne Weather, Brest Weather, Caen Weather, Calais Weather, Cannes Weather, Carcassonne Weather, Chamonix Weather, Clermont-Ferrand Weather, Colmar Weather, Dijon Weather, Foix Weather, Grenoble Weather, Le Havre Weather, Le Mans Weather, Le Touquet Weather, Lille Weather, Limoges Weather, Lyon Weather, Marseille Weather, Metz Weather, Millau Weather, Montpellier Weather, Nancy Weather, Nantes Weather, Nice Weather, Paris Weather, Pau Weather, Perpignan Weather, Reims Weather, Rennes Weather, Strasbourg Weather, Toulon Weather, Toulouse Weather, Tours Weather.