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Created 2012-02-28 16:50:00
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The area in shapefiles (ESRI shapefile .shp) is expressed in degrees longitude multiplied by degrees latitude, leading to the squared degree° (°)2. It does not give a precise area of a territory, but as an idea, 1°° on Earth is not far from 10 000 km2 or 100*100 km2.
This measure does not take into account the geographical projection. In the extremist case, the area of 1°° on the two poles of our Earth does not represent more than 0km2.
And all our Earth has an area of only 360*180, ie 64 800°°. One French department has an area of greatness of 1°°, this is equivalent to that of a region city like Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in China.
France is a country on the continent Europe, her capital is Paris. Here is the hierarchy of the France administrative divisions: France is subdivided into regions, that are at their turn subdivided into departments, that are at their turn subdivided into cantons, that are at their turn subdivided into communes, cities, that are at their turn subdivided into villages, called-places.
