Tunisia 突尼斯 => Country

Tunisia is a country on the continent Africa, her capital is Tunis. Here is the hierarchy of the Tunisia administrative divisions: Tunisia is subdivided into governorates, that are at their turn subdivided into delegations, that are at their turn subdivided into municipalities, that are at their turn subdivided into towns and 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.

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