Administrative regions on 1 January 2018

Regions existing on 1 January 2018 Source: Admin EXPRESS COG edition 2018 — IGN — Original data downloaded from: http://professionnels.ign.fr/adminexpress November 29, 2018; The word region covers several different realities: the administrative, military, health, cultural... In the present case, the concept of a region is the regional administrative district comprising several departments, and which was defined as a territorial collectivity by the Decentralisation Act of 2 March 1982. This entity also covers regions with special status such as the Ile-de-France region, Corsica or the Overseas Regions. Like the department, the region can be considered hybrid since it has at its head a president and an elected assembly, as well as a prefect of region. In order to better meet some of their needs which are common to d' other local and regional authorities and which often go beyond the framework and capacities of a regional entity, regions may join one or more inter-regional institutions to each of which they will delegate one or more powers in order to pool the necessary means to achieve their objectives. The list of administrative regions is the responsibility of INSEE. The Sandre Administrative Regions repository is based on the current version of the Official Geographical Code of l'INSEE: codes and labels valid regions. __Origin__ Content integration based on COG 2018 of l'INSEE. __Partner organisations__ ASH __Links annexes__ * [download Administrative Regions 2018 — CSV Format](http://services.sandre.eaufrance.fr/telechargement/geo/COM/Region/2018/Region2018.csv) [See this page on geo.data.gouv.fr](https://geo.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/c5bb549ce1e0e96561c9546d0d08fbc71e211d86)