Created 2012-05-27 20:09:00
Updated 2012-05-27 21:34:16
Gambia, The is a country on the continent Africa, her capital is Banjul. Here is the hierarchy of the Gambia, The administrative divisions: Gambia, The is subdivided into divisions, that are at their turn subdivided into districts, that are at their turn subdivided into cities, villages.
How French name their localities: department, city, town, district ? You find also their zipcode. The cities, towns in France are all called communes with a Mayer as administtrative chief, independently of its population and town size. Sometime, a town with only 3 souls has a mayer.
This is very different from the Chinese calling. There one has Chief of Village, Chief of Town, Chief of City.
In France, the zipcode is generally composed of 5 digits, of which the first two are the code of the departement that it belongs to.