List of French metropolitan, overseas and COM departments and their prefectures

List of French metropolitan and overseas departments and overseas authorities with the names of the prefectures. The information is as follows: — code: “01”, “2A”, “92”, “988” means the entity code; — type: ‘Dom’, ‘COM’, ‘OCT’ means the type of entity; — name: ‘Allier’, ‘New Caledonia’ means the name of the entity; — capital: ‘Nouméa’, ‘Rodez’ means the prefecture or head of the entity; — region: ‘Great East’, ‘British’ or ‘empty’ means the region of attachment of the entity; — debutValidite: date of start of validity of the line information; — finValidite: end date of validity of line information. The information is updated as soon as there is a change affecting the data contained in the CSV file.