Administrative regions as of 1 January 2021

Regions existing on 1 January 2021 Source: ADMIN EXPRESS COG 2021 edition - IGN - Original data uploaded to: https://geoservices.ign.fr/ 17 June 2021; 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 includes 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 regional prefect. In order to better meet some of their needs which are common to other local authorities and which often go beyond the framework and capacities of a regional entity, regions may join one or more inter-local authority institutions to each of which they will delegate one or more competences in order to pool the resources necessary to achieve their objectives. The list of administrative regions is under the responsibility of INSEE. The Sandre administrative regions referential is based on the current version of the Official Geographic Code of INSEE: codes and labels valid regions.本数据集涵盖2021年1月1日存续的区域（Regions）。 数据来源：ADMIN EXPRESS COG 2021版——法国国家地理研究院（IGN, Institut Géographique National）；原始数据于2021年6月17日上传至：https://geoservices.ign.fr/ 此处所称的“区域（Region）”涵盖多重不同范畴：行政辖区、军事区划、卫生分区、文化片区等。 本数据集所定义的区域，为包含若干省级行政区的区域性行政建制，该建制由1982年3月2日颁布的分权法案确立为地方自治团体。 该类行政实体亦涵盖拥有特殊地位的区域，例如法兰西岛大区（Île-de-France）、科西嘉大区以及法国海外领地大区。 与省级行政区类似，区域兼具混合型治理属性：其设有民选区域议会与议会主席，同时配备大区行政长官。 为更好满足部分与其他地方公共机构共通、且往往超出单个区域实体履职框架与能力的发展需求，区域可加入一个或多个跨地方公共机构，并向此类机构委托一项或多项职权，以整合实现目标所需的各类资源。 法国全国统计及经济研究所（INSEE, Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques）负责编制法国行政区域名录。 桑德尔（Sandre）行政区域参考库基于法国全国统计及经济研究所官方地理编码的现行版本构建，收录有效区域代码与标识。