Administrative regions on 1 January 2022

Regions existing on 1 January 2022 Source: Admin EXPRESS COG edition 2022 — IGN — Original data downloaded from: https://geoservices.ign.fr/ 28 October 2022; 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 regional prefect. 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, 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 resources necessary to achieve their objectives. The list of administrative regions is under the responsibility of INSEE. The administrative regions of Sandre are based on the current version of INSEE’s Official Geographical Code: codes and labels valid regions.