Created 2012-04-08 22:59:00
Updated 2012-04-08 23:57:47
Bahamas, The is a country on the continent South America, her capital is Nassau. Here is the hierarchy of the Bahamas, The administrative divisions: Bahamas, The is subdivided into districts, that are at their turn subdivided into municipalities, that are at their turn subdivided into cities, towns and villages.
How French name their localities: department, city, town, district ? You find also their zipcode. The cities, towns in France are all called communes with a Mayer as administtrative chief, independently of its population and town size. Sometime, a town with only 3 souls has a mayer.
This is very different from the Chinese calling. There one has Chief of Village, Chief of Town, Chief of City.
In France, the zipcode is generally composed of 5 digits, of which the first two are the code of the departement that it belongs to.
