---
id: "fr_department"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["FR"]
langs: ["fr"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/fr_department"
---

# French department (département) (`fr_department`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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: `admin_area_2`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: France (FR)
- Languages: French (fr)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `fr_department_code`

## Examples

- `Ain` — department 01
- `Corse-du-Sud` — department 2A
- `La Réunion` — overseas department 974

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.DEPARTMENT_NAME_FR`

## Supported by tools

- `csvdetective`
- `fta`
- `tableau`
- `talend`

## Translations

- fr: Département
- ru: Департамент Франции

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6465>
- doc: <https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/2560452>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/fr_department.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/FR/geo/fr_department.yaml>