France will no longer be divided in 22 regions. As of 2016 France will be divided into 13 reasons.
After debate, anxiety and many changes of the amount of new regions the French Assemblée Nationale accepted on December 17 2014 to create 13 regions to simplify administration and reduce costs.
The ‘old’ 22 regions are noted below. They are followed by the new 13 regions.
Alsace
Aquitaine
Auvergne
Bourgogne (Burgundy)
Bretagne (Brittany)
Centre
Champagne-Ardenne
Corse Corsica
Franche-Comté
Ile-de-France
Languedoc-Roussillon
Limousin
Lorraine
Midi-Pyrénées
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Basse-Normandie (Lower Normandy)
Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy)
Pays de la Loire
Picardie (Picardy)
Poitou-Charentes
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Rhône-Alpes
Source Wikipedia France for complete map and details of regions.
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The new 13 regions come from the joining together of certain regions.
The regions that change are:
Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine join to become one region.
Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes become one region.
Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes join to be one region.
Bourgogne and Franche Comté join together.
Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées join together.
Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie join together.
Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie become one.
The remaining 6 regions stay the same:
Bretagne
Corse
Centre
Île-de-France
Pays de la Loire
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
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