Administrative regions as of 1 January 2024

Regions existing on 1 January 2024 Source: ADMIN EXPRESS COG 2024 edition - IGN - Original data downloaded from: https://geoservices.ign.fr/adminexpress on 3 May 2024; The word region covers several different realities: the administrative, military, health, cultural region... In the present case, the concept of region is the regional administrative district which brings together several departments, and which was defined as a territorial collectivity by the decentralization law of 2 March 1982. This entity also covers regions with special status such as the Ile-de-France region, Corsica or 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 other local and regional authorities and which often go beyond the framework and capacities of a regional entity, the regions may join one or more inter-regional institutions to each of which they will delegate one or more competences with the aim of pooling the resources necessary 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 INSEE Official Geographic Code: codes and denominations valid regions.