Departments of France

Can you name the departments of France with the help of a map?

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First submitted	September 16, 2016
Times taken	53,109
Average score	35.6%
Rating	4.93

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Ain

Allier

Ardèche

Cantal

Drôme

Haute-Loire

Haute-Savoie

Isère

Loire

Puy-de-Dôme

Rhône

Savoie

Hauts-de-France

Aisne

Nord

Oise

Pas-de-Calais

Somme

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Alpes-Maritimes

Bouches-du-Rhône

Hautes-Alpes

Var

Vaucluse

Grand Est

Ardennes

Aube

Bas-Rhin

Haute-Marne

Haut-Rhin

Marne

Meurthe-et-Moselle

Meuse

Moselle

Vosges

Occitanie

Ariège

Aude

Aveyron

Gard

Gers

Haute-Garonne

Hautes-Pyrénées

Hérault

Lot

Lozère

Pyrénées-Orientales

Tarn

Tarn-et-Garonne

Normandie

Calvados

Eure

Manche

Orne

Seine-Maritime

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Charente

Charente-Maritime

Corrèze

Creuse

Deux-Sèvres

Dordogne

Gironde

Haute-Vienne

Landes

Lot-et-Garonne

Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Vienne

Centre-Val de Loire

Cher

Eure-et-Loir

Indre

Indre-et-Loire

Loir-et-Cher

Loiret

Corse

Corse-du-Sud

Haute-Corse

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Côte-d'Or

Doubs

Haute-Saône

Jura

Nièvre

Saône-et-Loire

Territoire de Belfort

Yonne

Bretagne

Côtes-d'Armor

Finistère

Ille-et-Vilaine

Morbihan

Île-de-France

Essonne

Hauts-de-Seine

Paris

Seine-et-Marne

Seine-Saint-Denis

Val-de-Marne

Val-d'Oise

Yvelines

Pays de la Loire

Loire-Atlantique

Maine-et-Loire

Mayenne

Sarthe

Vendée

Overseas Departments

Guadeloupe

Guyane

Martinique

Mayotte

La Réunion

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67 Comments

Level 53

Sep 16, 2016

Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyanne, Mayotte et la Réunion. For the 101 departements of France

Level 72

Sep 17, 2016

I am only looking for the departments of Metropolitan France, which I have now specified in the description.

Level 38

Mar 14, 2017

I made one in french with a map for all the 101 departments, if you're interested : Départements Français (avec carte).

Level 72

Feb 28, 2020

I've finally gone and added them to the English quiz as well.

+20

Level 43

Oct 18, 2016

For the Metropolis of Lyon, the department isn't fixed for the moment and it is in the department Rhône.

Level 33

Mar 11, 2020

I'm happy If I'll learn all departments between Paris and Belgium. Namely the ones in Haute de France and Grand Est

Level 72

Mar 11, 2020

Best of luck! As someone who's never set foot in France I can never remember most of these myself.

Level 78

Sep 25, 2020

This should be featured

Level 72

Sep 25, 2020

Glad you think so! The map is one of my favourites that I've made so far, altough it might be a little hard for most JetPunk users.

Level 61

Nov 23, 2020

Well, I got exactly half of the average score, and I used to live in France. At least I got them all in Lorraine and Alsace, which was my area... otherwise I obviously need to mug up.

I will be nominating this when I get some nomination points back.

Level 72

Nov 23, 2020

Thank you, and I hope you enjoyed your time in France. Alsace and Lorraine must be beautiful country. I get the feeling that this quiz has largely been taken by French nationals, although 1000 takes on this quiz or so ago a French-language version was created and featured.

Level 61

Jan 15, 2023

Well, they have some very pretty towns and cities, although the landscape is fair to middling, I'd say. Metz is a real jewel, especially if you know a bit of its history.

I've finally nominated!

Level 61

Nov 29, 2024

My score gets higher each time I do it... just with different ones each time... there are relatively few I haven't guessed at all. I just don't seem to be able to get many more than half of them at once! This time I even missed one where I lived for a short while... idiot...

Level 61

Dec 21, 2025

This time I got the 63, the exact same score as the time before... just with 11 different ones! I don't know what's going on there

+11

Level 57

Feb 5, 2021

WHAT?! No map of France featured in English on JetPunk?! How is that possible?! I hate when people think I'm a yound crazy kid, but when it's about France... !

Of course nominated! We have to repare this... blasphem! This abomination!

More seriously, the map is excellent! Actually maybe better than on the French version...! Congratulations!

Level 72

Feb 5, 2021

Thank you, I am happy to hear you liked it! I can see why it hasn't been featured yet since the French departments are very obscure outside of France. The map used to be basic--just the departments of Metropolitan France without any external border, overseas territories or regional borders at all. I had wanted to make a new map for a while, and the French version only inspired me to do so. Cheers :)

Level 57

Sep 8, 2025

Victory!

Level 65

Mar 29, 2021

great! may i use the map? i'm thinking of making a '500 largest cities in france' quiz, using this as the base map

Level 72

Mar 29, 2021

Yes! Thanks for asking :)

Level 57

Jun 29, 2021

Hi Jiao! I would like to use this map too, for a French Departments visited by Asterix on a map quiz (with a similar design than the same quiz but for countries, which I have done several months ago).

Actually, habitually, I use the punkfrançais "default map", but for this quiz, this map would be better. Do you allow me to use it? Thank you for your answer!

Level 68

Jul 29, 2021

I'm surprised so many people know all of them. I'm from Belgium and barely got to 60. I know I'm late but I really think it should be featured.

Level 72

Jul 29, 2021

Thank you! I get the feeling that the Departments are more relevant to French people than the Regions are but I'm not certain about that.

Level 49

May 7, 2022

as a French guy, yeah departments "matter" more in terms of appartnenance than regions since the new regions have been formed in 2016, regrouping 27 old ones in 13 new ones

by the way, i think the type-in "seine" working for "seine-saint-denis" isn't the best thing since the departments "seine et marne" and "seine maritime" also exist

great quiz also !

Level 69

Apr 23, 2023

And 'Seine' is also the former name of the departement of Paris, which is another reason I'm not a fan of allowing it for Seine-Saint-Denis.

Level 75

Aug 9, 2021

Great quiz Jiaozira (from a French quizzer)!

Btw, Lyon metropolis and Rhône département are the same unit so you can delete one of these two answers.

Very good quiz again!

Level 74

May 7, 2022

As someone who was born in France and lived there for a number of years, 74 is embarrassingly low.

Level 77

May 11, 2022

Lyon is not a departement.

And Seine should'nt be an answer for seine-st-denis.

Level 67

Aug 2, 2022

Nice quiz but Lyon metropolis should really not be there.

And Seine for Seine-Saint-Denis is not accurate : Seine used to be the department 75 which is now Paris

Level 81

Jan 15, 2023

Never knew Paris was an island.

Level 43

Mar 26, 2023

+1, Seine-Saint-Denis really can't be reduced to "Seine" and Lyon isn't a department at all

Level 69

Apr 23, 2023

I agree with Seine-Saint-Denis, but Lyon is well on its way to break up from the rest of the Rhône departement (though as a French myself I'm surprise we hardly hear about it).

Level 20

May 29, 2023

Lyon is not a department. Thank you.

Good quiz.

Level 20

Jun 8, 2023

Lyon belongs to Rhône. Thank you !

Level 75

Jun 20, 2023

I think you should use "rhône" instead lyon metropolis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh%C3%B4ne_(department)

Level 69

Jul 23, 2023

The Lyon metropolis is quietly on its way to administratively separate itself from the Rhône departement. I'm not sure but there's possibility this separation is arleady in place.

Level 48

Jan 12, 2024

No it's false, don't muddle up collectivities ans administrative departements. Rhône will always stay like that

+10

Level 48

Jan 12, 2024

Well it's a great quiz with a beautiful map but Lyon metropolis shouln't be there, this is a part of the administrative departement of Rhône. The confusion comes from that Lyon metropolis is a departemental collectivity. But theses collictivities can be different of departements. If you wanna respect the collectivities, corsica should be unified and Alsace too because they are departemental collectivities as Lyon metropolis. You are just mixing 2 different things. I Know it's hard to understand i hop you did. By the way I nominate the quiz and I hope it will be featured soon

Level 75

Jun 27, 2024

Same request here: the Rhone and Lyon Metropolis should be only one answer since they are now a specific entity.

Level 20

Feb 17, 2025

Lyon Metropolis is not a department, it's with Rhone

Level 16

Jul 29, 2025

Yes, I really agree

Level 52

Sep 8, 2025

congrats for the feature!

Level 82

Sep 8, 2025

i almost had a heart attack, i thought they featured my quiz!

Level 72

Sep 8, 2025

Thank you!

Level 75

Sep 8, 2025

Please fix the Rhone/Lyon thing: it's just one and only entity for a total of 101 départements.

Level ∞

Sep 8, 2025

Not going to change it since it would require resetting the stats.

Level 75

Sep 8, 2025

Well, IMO it would be worth resetting, in order to make the quiz more consistent with the official standards learned in France.

Level ∞

Sep 8, 2025

I blame France for creating this mess in the first place!

Level 75

Sep 8, 2025

A mess? And these are just our second level subdivisions. Dont look at the communes quizzes! About 36k across the whole territory 😅

Level 48

Sep 8, 2025

Nice to see it featured. Unfortunately there is still the Lyon Metropolis mistake. It shouldn't be there as it is part of the department of Rhône

Level ∞

Sep 8, 2025

That's not actually correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France

"In 2015 the Urban Community of Lyon was split from Rhône to form the Métropole de Lyon, a sui generis entity, with the powers of both an intercommunality and those of a department on its territory, formally classified as a "territorial collectivity with particular status" (French: collectivité territoriale à statut particulier) and as such not belonging to any department"

Level 75

Sep 8, 2025

In terms of constituency, the Lyon metropolis area corresponds to the Rhône department.

In terms of territorial collectivity, this metropolis simply shouldn't appear in the quiz.

Well, the caveat fix that in a way but that's confusing for French people who know that there are only 101 départements, as taught in every schools.

Some official sources to prove we're not only nitpickers :)

https://www.education.gouv.fr/media/14255/download

https://www.boamp.fr/explore/dataset/liste-departements/table/?sort=code_texte

Level 48

Sep 8, 2025

No. because in France we call department two different things. Administrative entities in one way (subdivision of the state) and political entities (local politicians) on the other way. The problem is that this quiz is in the middle of the two concepts. If we count the administrative entity, Lyon metropolis should be in Rhone department. But if we count the political entities, Corsica should be unified then and Alsace too. The problem is that the quiz is mixing two things. The enligh Wikipedia page is false

Level 75

Sep 8, 2025

You're right. The English wiki page is actually not very clear about the two concepts that you and I are trying to explain here(administrative entities/collectivities versus political entities/constituencies). That's a shame...

Level ∞

Sep 8, 2025

Fine. I'll remove it since obviously the nitpicking (accurate or not) is just going to keep happening.

Level 75

Sep 8, 2025

Thank you for taking our requests into consideration.

Level 72

Sep 13, 2025

The map is now updated as well to merge Lyon back into Rhône.

Level 96

Sep 8, 2025

What are these like counties or something? Didn't know these even existed.

Level 71

Sep 8, 2025

Not really: it has local responsibilities like a county, but it’s also a unit of the central state with a prefect appointed by the President. It’s bigger and more politically important than US counties.

Level 57

Sep 8, 2025

It's also important to add that they were the French FLS for decades, since the Revolution and until the late creation of our regions in 1982. So if you have to know one level of division of France, focusing on departments makes a lot of sense.

Level 59

Sep 9, 2025

As Baptiste said, in France, people are way more concerned about their department (french SLS) than their region (french FLS)

Level 67

Oct 22, 2025

More or less the equivalent of UK counties yes. Though they were made during the Revolution (with a few revisions since) instead of being some old inheritage.

Level 59

Sep 11, 2025

Did the update three days ago remove Lyon? Why?

Level 48

Sep 13, 2025

Because Lyon Metropolis isn't a department

Level 71

Oct 20, 2025

I like how you can trace almost the entire length of the Loire.

If the French ended up colonizing more of the USA then a third of all states would now be called 'Something AND the Mississippi'

Level 65

Oct 20, 2025

4:18 yes !

Ok I'm French, that helped a lot I guess...

Level 48

Oct 20, 2025

I know all of them and their approximate place on the map, but not in order of anything so i just started typing them as they came to mind. Not a strategy I'd recommend, very chaotic and made it much harder for myself lol

Level 23

Nov 22, 2025

Finally, the 101 real departments as I know them. Thank you for this change.