Datatypes

French region (région)

ID fr_region

DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft

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Name of an administrative region of France, the level above the department, for example Île-de-France or Bretagne. France has 18 regions, five of them overseas. The INSEE code of a region is the pattern fr_region_code.

Parent datatype
First-level administrative division admin_area_1
Categories
Geographic identifiers, Government related
Countries
France
Languages
French
FTA
STATE_PROVINCE.REGION_NAME_FR
Schema.org
addressRegion
Quality
75/100 · missing: regexp, negative example
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
csv-detective, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Talend (Qlik Talend Data Preparation, Data Catalog and Data Inventory)

Examples

ValueDescription
Île-de-Franceregion 11
Bretagneregion 53
Guadeloupeoverseas region 01

Patterns

Specific representations of this datatype.

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
fr_region_code French region code (INSEE) pattern draft geo, government FR Two-digit code of a French region in the INSEE Official Geographic Code (COG). The 18 current codes are 01 to 04 and 06 for the overseas...

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
FrenchRégion
RussianРегион Франции

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