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    • Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. See more

    Overview

    The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, … See more

    Terminology

    A commune is the smallest and oldest administrative division in France. "Commune" in English has a historical association with socialist and collectivist political movements and philosophies. This associatio… See more

    History of the French communes

    French communes were created at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789–1790.
    Before the revolution, France's lowest level of administrative division was the parish (paroisse), … See more

    Classification

    INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques) gives numerical indexing codes to various entities in France, notably the communes (which do not coincide with postcodes). The complete code has ei… See more

    Administration

    Each commune has a municipal council (conseil municipal) composed of municipal councilors (conseillers municipaux). The municipal council is the legislative and deliberative organ of the commune. The municipal c… See more

    Miscellaneous facts

    • Paris is the most populous commune of France with 2,187,526 residents as of 2017.
    • Six of the French villages destroyed in the First World War have never been rebuilt. All are found in the département of Meuse and were destr… See more

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    The commune (French pronunciation: [kɔmȳ] ⓘ) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy, or municipios in Spain. The UK equivalent are civil parishes.

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    A commune is the lowest administrative division in France. It represents all parts of a town or a village under the same name, for example Paris, Bordeaux or Rennes.

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    En France, la commune est, sur le plan institutionnel, à la fois une collectivité territoriale, à savoir une autorité administrative décentralisée bénéficiant de la personnalité morale, et disposant d'affaires propres, distinctes des affaires de …

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    What is a commune in France?
    A commune is the lowest administrative division in France. It represents all parts of a town or a village under the same name, for example Paris, Bordeaux or Rennes.

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    How many communes are there in France?
    As of January 2019, there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000.

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    What is the UK equivalent of a commune?
    The UK equivalent are civil parishes. Communes are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France.

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    What is the largest commune in France?
    In metropolitan France the largest commune is the commune of Arles (50,513 inhabitants) near Marseille, the territory of which encompasses most of the Camargue (the delta of the Rhône): 8.7 times the area of the city of Paris (excluding the outlying parks of Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes) at 759 square kilometres (293 sq mi).

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    What is a commune based on?
    Communes typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All communes have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are communes ("lieu dit" or "bourg"), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers.

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    What is the Paris Commune?
    The Paris Commune was a recurring theme during China's Cultural Revolution. When students put up the first big character poster following the 16 May Notification, Mao Zedong described it as the "declaration of China's twentieth-century Paris Commune."

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    The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris on 18 March 1871 and controlled parts of the city until 28 May 1871.

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