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French department code (INSEE)

ID fr_department_code

Pattern of fr_departmentNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Code of a French department in the INSEE Official Geographic Code (COG). Departments in metropolitan France use two characters from 01 to 95, with 2A (Corse-du-Sud) and 2B (Haute-Corse) in place of 20. Overseas departments use three digits, 971 to 974 and 976.

Pattern of
French department (département) fr_department
Categories
Geographic identifiers, Government related
Countries
France
Languages
French
Wikidata
P2586
Quality
100/100
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
csv-detective

Regular expression

^(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[1-9AB]|[3-8]\d|9[0-5]|97[1-46])$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
01Ain
2ACorse-du-Sud
75Paris
974La Réunion
20 invalidreplaced by 2A and 2B
975 invalidSaint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is not a department

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
FrenchCode département

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