For administrative purposes, France is divided into regions. There are 22 regions in mainland France and 4 more overseas. Regions have their own budget with limited responsibility (culture, maintaining senior high schools buildings, etc...) but they don't have a say about laws and regulations which have to be the same everywhere on the national territory.
France is divided into 22 regions (plus four more oversea regions). Most of these regions are themselves divided into smaller administrative areas, the 'départements'
France is divided into regions, but these regions are modelled after the provinces of the old regime, before the French revolution.
regions
There are 22 administrative regions in mainland France, and four more overseas. Each region is divided into smaller administrative areas called "départements" (96 départements in mainland France and 5 overseas; the overseas départements are the same as the overseas regions except Mayotte which was given département status in 2011 only)
Paris is divided into twenty regions known as arrondissements municipaux.
There are no such things as states in france. There are subdivisions called regions. Paris is located in the Île-de-France region. Regions are divided in departements and Paris is so large it is its own departement. The main differenc between states and regions is that regions have less autonomy.
France is divided in 22 regions and 95 departements. There are also "the communautés d'outre-mer" (overseas departements and territories).
France is administratively divided into 101 departments, which are further grouped into 13 regions on the mainland and 5 overseas regions. Each department is subdivided into arrondissements, which can be thought of as districts. In total, there are approximately 330 arrondissements across France.
As of 2016, France is divided into 18 administrative regions. These regions include Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France, Normandy, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
I think it's 8, but that's including islands and Crete.
France isn't a federal country and has no subsidiary state. There are only administrative subdivisions, the larger ones called regions (22 regions in mainland France and 4 overseas), themselves divided into départements (95 départements in mailand France and 5 overseas).
There are six main land regions of France. There is the ile de France There is the Massif Central There is the Pyrenees There is Rhone river valley There is the Alps and the Cote d'Azur