Aaland Islands 阿兰群岛 => Country

Aaland Islands is a country on the continent Europe, her capital is Mariehamn. Here is the hierarchy of the Aaland Islands administrative divisions: Aaland Islands is subdivided into division 1, that are at their turn subdivided into division 2, that are at their turn subdivided into division 3, that are at their turn subdivided into division 4, that are at their turn subdivided into division 5.

How French name their localities: department, city, town, district ? You find also their zipcode. The cities, towns in France are all called communes with a Mayer as administtrative chief, independently of its population and town size. Sometime, a town with only 3 souls has a mayer.

This is very different from the Chinese calling. There one has Chief of Village, Chief of Town, Chief of City.

In France, the zipcode is generally composed of 5 digits, of which the first two are the code of the departement that it belongs to.

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