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What are the Regions of France?

France has 18 regions: 13 in mainland Europe, including Corsica, and five overseas. Each has an elected council responsible for economic development, transport and secondary schools.

  • Regions were first set up in the 1950s for economic planning.
  • They became local governments with elected councils after the decentralization laws of 1982.
  • In 2016 the 22 mainland regions were merged into 13 larger ones.
  • This quiz uses the temporary names given to the merged regions at the time.
  • Several were later renamed, such as Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie.

Current quiz contains 18 regions: Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Bretagne, Centre, Corse, Guadeloupe, Guyane française, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, Martinique, Mayotte, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, Normandy, Pays de la Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Réunion, Île-de-France.