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The Pays de France ( French pronunciation: [pe.i də fʁɑ̃s], literally Land of France ), also called the Parisis ( [paʁizi]) or Plaine de France ( [plɛn də fʁɑ̃s] ), is a natural region located in the Île-de-France administrative region to the north of Paris, France. It is essentially a silt plain devoted to cereal crops, of which the ...
Pays de la Loire: 1,011,020: 17: ... The association of France with fashion and style (French: la mode) ... Le Figaro was founded in 1826 and it is still considered a ...
Le Mans ( / ləˈmɒ̃ /, French: [lə mɑ̃] ⓘ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the Pays de la Loire region .
Pays de la Loire (French pronunciation: [pe.i d(ə) la lwaʁ]; lit. ' Lands of the Loire ') is one of the eighteen regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital and most populated city, Nantes, one of a handful of French "balancing metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre).
Between 1982 and 2015, there were 22 regions in Metropolitan France. Before 2011, there were four overseas regions ( French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion ); in 2011 Mayotte became the fifth. Former historical province of Provence and County of Nice annexed by France in 1860.
The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country ( Basque: Iparralde, lit. 'the Northern Region'; French: Pays basque; Spanish: País Vasco francés ), is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 1 January 2017, it constitutes the Basque Municipal Community (Basque: Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa ...
Vendée ( French pronunciation: [vɑ̃de] ⓘ; Breton: Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442. [3] Its prefecture is La Roche-sur-Yon .
In France, a pays (French: ⓘ) is an area whose inhabitants share common geographical, economic, cultural, or social interests, who have a right to enter into communal planning contracts under a law known as the Loi Pasqua or LOADT (Loi d'Orientation pour l'Aménagement et le Développement du Territoire; English: Directive law concerning territorial planning and development), which took ...