🇫🇷 Printable Map of France with Regions

The printable map of France is a labeled political map that names all 13 mainland regions, marks and names their regional capitals, and shows the five overseas regions in their own panels, sized for A4 and printing on US Letter. Download it free as a PDF or a JPEG, or take the labeled maps bundle when you also need the departments and the cities.

Because everything on it is named, it works as a reference rather than an exercise: a wall chart for the classroom, a base for planning a route, or the answer key alongside a quiz. If you want the version students fill in themselves, use the blank map of France, and the France map worksheets pair the two.

For the wider region, use the labeled political map of Europe, which shows where France sits among its neighbours, or browse the other printable country maps.

The image below shows the printable map of France with the 13 mainland regions named and colour-coded, their regional capitals picked out, further cities marked across every region, and the five overseas regions in inset panels. The region names are given in French, as they are on the map itself.

France Labeled Maps Bundle and More

The labeled map with regions is free. The bundle adds the rest of the set:

• Printable map of France with regions
• Labeled France map with regions and regional capitals
• Political map of France with regions, capitals, and major cities
• Labeled map of France with departments

The bundle includes PDF and JPEG versions of all maps.

The departments version is the one most people are after when a region map turns out to be too coarse: France has 101 departments against 18 regions, and school and administrative work is usually done at the department level.

The 13 Regions of France, Their Capitals and Departments

Metropolitan France is divided into 13 regions, each with a regional capital, and each region is made up of a set of departments. Three of the names are usually translated into English: Bretagne is Brittany, Normandie is Normandy, and Corse is Corsica. The other ten keep their French names in English too, which is why the map labels all 13 in French.

Those 13 regions hold 96 departments between them. Add the five overseas regions, each of which is a single department as well as a region, and the totals come to 18 regions and 101 departments. Two shapes catch people out on any map of France. Corsica is drawn off the south-east coast rather than attached to anything, and Île-de-France is small enough around Paris that it disappears unless the map gives it its own colour, which is why the regional capital and the national capital sit on top of each other there.

The Overseas Regions

France does not stop at the mainland, and a map that leaves the overseas regions off is telling only part of the story. Five of them are full regions of France and departments in their own right, shown here in inset panels because they are thousands of kilometres apart:

• Guadeloupe and Martinique, both in the Caribbean
• French Guiana, on the north coast of South America and by far the largest of the five
• Réunion and Mayotte, both in the Indian Ocean

They use the euro, they are part of the European Union, and they are the reason France has a land border with Brazil and Suriname as well as with its European neighbours.

The 101 Departments of France

The department is the level below the region and the one most French administration actually runs on. There are 101: 96 in metropolitan France, including the two Corsican departments, and the five overseas ones. Each has a number, which is where the last two digits of an old French number plate came from, and a prefecture city that serves as its seat.

About France and Its Regions

Metropolitan France covers about 551,700 square kilometres, which makes it the largest country in the European Union, and roughly 643,800 once the overseas regions are counted; the population is around 68 million. The mainland is compact enough that the French call it the Hexagone, and the shape holds up: three sides face water, the English Channel in the north, the Atlantic in the west and the Mediterranean in the south, and three face land. Mont Blanc reaches 4,806 metres on the Italian border and is the highest point in western Europe, the Pyrenees form the wall against Spain, and the Massif Central sits in the middle of the country as a high plateau rather than a range. The Loire is the longest river at about 1,006 kilometres and stays entirely inside France, while the Rhône runs south to the Mediterranean, the Seine north through Paris to the Channel, and the Garonne west to the Atlantic. France borders eight countries in Europe, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Andorra, and two more in South America through French Guiana. Population is concentrated around Paris, along the Mediterranean coast and in the Rhône corridor, which is why Île-de-France is a small region with a large share of the country in it.

Printable Map of France Features

• Free labeled version in high-resolution PDF and JPEG
• Sized for A4 and prints on US Letter without cropping
• All 13 mainland regions named and colour-coded so the borders read at a glance
• Regional capitals picked out separately from the other cities
• Further cities marked across every region, not just the big ones
• The five overseas regions shown in inset panels rather than left off the sheet
• Corsica drawn in place off the south-east coast
• Bundle adds the regional capitals, the major cities and a full departments version
• Suitable for classroom wall charts, reference, trip planning, homework and school projects

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Who It's For

Teachers building classroom wall charts and reference sheets, students checking their own answers, travellers planning a route through the regions, and anyone who needs a clean labeled map of France for a project.

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