Created 2012-05-28 19:15:00
Updated 2012-05-29 00:49:29
Palau is a country on the continent Oceania, her capital is Koror. Here is the hierarchy of the Palau administrative divisions: Palau is subdivided into états, that are at their turn subdivided into divisions, that are at their turn subdivided into districts, that are at their turn subdivided into villes, bourgades et 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.