Frankreich

• Französische Republik
• parlamentarisch-präsidiale Republik
• Eigenbezeichnung: République Française

• French Republic (France)
• parliamentary-presidial republic
• self-designation: République Française

• heutige Flaggen
• historische Flaggen
• Bedeutung/Ursprung der Flagge
• Staatssiegel
• Bedeutung/Ursprung des Staatssiegels
• Die Kokarde
• Landkarte der historischen
  Regionen in Frankreich
• Erläuterungen zu den Regionen
• Zahlen und Fakten
• Geschichte
• Außenbesitzungen (Kolonien)

• today's Flags
• historical Flags
• Meaning/Origin of the Flag
• Seal of the State
• Meaning/Origin of the Seal of the State
• The cockade
• Map of the historic
  Regions in France
• Explanations about the Regions
• Numbers and Facts
• History
• Possessions (Colonies)

Shortly after the French Revolution the provinces were dissolved and France became divided into many départements, which should have approximately the same size and the same status. The départements were named after rivers or mountains, to use never and in no circumstances the name of an old province.

However, there was no success in cutting the connections of the people of France to their respective regions, so that administrative regions were re-created in 1960, to have a better control in regional administrative processes. In this way became départements, which were placed in a historical province, administratively grouped to an oftenly historically named region.

The resulted structures coincide only approximately with the boundaries of the old provinces. In the strictly centralist France any regionality is avoided, so that even the official flags of these regions mostly look like flags of companies, unloving, unhistorical, technocratic and modernistic, and these flags should not be a subject of any lexical considerations here.

Only in a few of that regions, exist official flags which remember the historical models. But, even the existence of these today's regions is douptful, because in 2014 was passed a territorial reform valid from the year 2016, that reduces the number of the existing regions by merging to nearly the half. However, there exist unofficial flags in nearly all of these regions, which should remember the old provinces and the old heraldry.

• Fläche:
  643 801 km²

• Area:
  248 572 square miles

• Einwohner:
  66 318 000 (2015)
  davon
  90% Franzosen
  6% Algerier und Marokkaner
  2% Deutsche (Elsäßer, Lothringer)
  1% Bretonen
  0,5% Korsen
  0,2% Basken

• Inhabitants:
  66 318 000 (2015)
  thereof
  90% Frenchmen
  6% Algerians and Moroccans
  2% Germans (Alsacians, Lorrainians)
  1% Bretons
  0,5% Corses
  0,2% Basques

• Religionen:
  51% Katholiken,
  9% Moslems,
  3% Protestanten,
  1% Juden,
  31% Nicht-Religiöse

• Religions:
  51% Roman Catholic,
  9% Muslim,
  3% Protestant,
  1% Jewish,
  31% Non-Religious

• Bevölkerungsdichte:
  103 Ew./km²

• Density of Population:
  267 inh./sq.mi.

• Hauptstadt:
  Paris
  2 200 000 Ew.

• Capital:
  Paris
  2 200 000 inh.

• Amtssprache:
  Französisch

• official Language:
  French

• sonstige Sprachen:
  regionale Sprachen: z.B. Okzitanisch, Deutsch usw.

• other Languages:
  regional languages: e.g. Occitan, German a.s.o.

• Währung:
  1 Euro (€) = 100 Cent

• Currency:
  1 Euro (€) = 100 Cent

• Zeitzone:
  MEZ

• Time Zone:
  GMT + 1 h