France reorganized its administrative regions in 2016, reducing them from 22 to 13 metropolitan regions on the mainland. This click-on-map geography quiz tests your knowledge of modern France's regional political geography. Can you locate Brittany (Bretagne) in the northwest, or find the Occitanie region stretching across the south from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean? Do you know where the Grand Est region meets Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland? France also has five overseas regions - Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, and Mayotte - Which are full departments and regions of France despite being located thousands of kilometers from the metropolitan territory. Test your knowledge of French regional geography with this map quiz.
Metropolitan France is divided into 13 administrative regions since the 2016 regional reform, which merged many of the previous 22 regions. The 13 metropolitan regions are: Île-de-France (Paris region), Hauts-de-France, Normandie, Bretagne, Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Grand Est, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and Corse (Corsica). France also has 5 overseas regions.
France is the largest country in the European Union by area and has an extraordinary geographic diversity - From the Atlantic coast of Brittany to the Mediterranean shores of Provence, from the Pyrenees mountains bordering Spain to the Alps bordering Italy and Switzerland, and from the flat plains of northern France to the volcanic peaks of Auvergne. Île-de-France, while the smallest metropolitan region, contains about 18% of France's total population in the Paris metropolitan area. Explore more with our European countries map quiz, Spanish regions map quiz, and Italian regions map quiz.
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