Many French people learn the departments in France and their associated numbers at school – I have even been to a Lotto (Bingo) where the caller gave the names of the main town in a department instead of a number, Lyon for 69 (RhoneAlps), Bourge en Bresse for 01 (Ain), Montpellier for 34 (Herault), Narbonne for 11 (Aude) etc, you can see what an exciting life I have.
Department numbers are very useful for knowing where things are from, using maps to find towns etc – we are using them on the Google maps on the new sites.
A reader asked for a list, I made this when we started websites in 1996 so some links I show for information are wrong, but the lists are accurate.
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Tony
I would like a list of department numbers by number so that I may read wine labels and find out more about where the wine is from. Can you direct me to such a list?
Thank you
David
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Hello David
I have some pages which I made some time ago which will give you this information, you can get there from this page…
http://www.nizas.com/departments/
Some of the links may be out of date now and I will try to go back and check on all the links and improve the information, but the list is accurate.
Enjoy the wine
Best wishes
Tony