France

CAPITAL REGION

♦ Île-de-France

Paris metropolitan area:
Petite Couronne + Grande Couronne +

♦ Paris

20 Arrondissements

CENTRAL FRANCE

♦ Pays de la Loire

♦ Centre-Val de Loire

♦ Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

♦ Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

♦ Nouvelle Aquitaine

Poitou-Charentes + Limousin + Aquitaine

THE NORTH

♦ Normandie

♦ Bretagne

♦ Hauts-de-France

Nord-Pas-de-Calais + Picardy

♦ Grand-Est

Champagne-Ardenne + Lorraine + Alsace

THE SOUTH

♦ Occitanie

Midi-Pyrénées + Languedoc-Roussillon

♦ Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

MONACO (independent state)

♦ La Corse

♦ Caribbean Islands + South America

Guadeloupe and Martinique (Caribbean islands), Guyane (South America)

♦ African Islands (Indian Ocean)

Mayotte and Réunion (islands)

French dialects remain from pre-Revolutionary times at which point assimilation of French as a common language became important for communication. Today, locals work to preserve their ancestral language heritage, each with unique traditions, food, music, and architecture.

• Blues: français (French, Gallo-Romance langue d’oil dialects)
• Green: breton (Celtic language from Anglo-Saxons)
• Dark yellow: flamand (Dutch dialect)
• Yellow: francique (German dialect)
• Orange: alsacien (German dialect)
• Purple: franco-provençal (Swiss/Italian Romance dialect)
• Reds: occitan (Romance langue d’oc (lenga d’òc) dialects similar to Catalan)
• Brown: Catalan (language of Catalonia in northeast Spain)
• Gray: basque (language isolate of the Basque region)