Datatypes

French department (département)

ID fr_department

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Name of a department of France, the administrative level between the region and the commune, for example Ain or Corse-du-Sud. France has 101 departments, five of them overseas. The INSEE code of a department is the pattern fr_department_code.

Parent datatype
Second-level administrative division admin_area_2
Categories
Geographic identifiers, Government related
Countries
France
Languages
French
FTA
STATE_PROVINCE.DEPARTMENT_NAME_FR
Quality
75/100 · missing: regexp, negative example
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
csv-detective, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Tableau, Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Examples

ValueDescription
Aindepartment 01
Corse-du-Suddepartment 2A
La Réunionoverseas department 974

Patterns

Specific representations of this datatype.

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
fr_department_code French department code (INSEE) pattern draft geo, government FR Code of a French department in the INSEE Official Geographic Code (COG). Departments in metropolitan France use two characters from 01...

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
FrenchDépartement
RussianДепартамент Франции

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