French lawmakers voted Wednesday to draw up a new map of the country's regions, reducing them from 22 to 13, in a move aimed at trimming costs and improving efficiency. July 10, 2022.

Six regions - Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica, Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'azur, known as PACA and Pays de la Loire – did not undergo any changes to their boundaries. They will ...

In order to nourish decision-making, here’s a thumb-nail review of France’s 13 regions. The order is entirely subjective – our ordering based on nothing but personal preference.

France's Dordogne region is loved by Brits, but has largely remained under the radar of American travelers. Ridley Scott has a thing for Monpazier. After first filming "The Duelists," starring ...

In third place is the northern Hauts-de-France region, where the people of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie labour under the stereotype of being hopeless drunks, but where in fact only 11.5 percent ...

France has issued a "red alert" for four southern regions amid a spell of excessively hot weather, with temperatures expected to peak at 41 degrees Celsius in the Rhone valley.

This has exasperated the people of Acy - one of the villages - who point out that until the 1920s and 30s, when France's wine map was formally delineated, they themselves were reputed wine-growers.

The French farming ministry on Wednesday announced it would step up precautionary measures as a spike in new bird flu cases was detected in farms located in the country's Western Brittany and Pays ...