French geographical repository, municipalities, urban units, urban areas, departments, academies, regions
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Dataset information
Country of origin
Updated
2020.11.23 14:00
Created
2017.01.05
Available languages
French
Keywords
france-regroupee, region, departements, academie, unite-urbaine, departement, france-entiere, commune, zone-demploi, recherche, gouvernement, logement, communes, unites-urbaines, administration, referentiel, enseignement, commune-rurale, aire-urbaine, batiments, amenagement-du-territoire, equipements, citoyennete, academies, education, geographie, finances-publiques, scanr, nouvelle-region, france-detaillee, urbanisme, geo, regions-2016, aires-urbaines, formation, communes-rurales, nouvelles-regions, nomenclature, region-2016, regions
Datasource
Quality scoring
205
Dataset description
This dataset provides the different levels of geographical aggregates associated with the French municipalities (situation as of 1 January 2020).
The suffixed fields _CODE correspond to the official geographical identifiers without a prefix. Values of suffixed fields
_ID contains a prefix to indicate the associated geographical level:
A: regions
A: academies
D: departments
C: municipalities
FD: France detailed
EN: France grouped
FE: France as a whole
ZE: area of employment
UU: urban Units (2020)
CR: rural municipalities
TO: urban areas
UUCR: urban Units and Rural Municipalities (2020)
AUC: urban and municipal areas
For more information, see [dataset description](https://data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/api/datasets/1.0/fr-esr-referentiel-geographique/attachments/descriptif_docx/).
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