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France Map Quiz: The Regions of Metropolitan France

Tap or click the region the question names, from the Channel coast to Corsica.

France Map Quiz: The Regions of Metropolitan France

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Write the name of each numbered region.Answer key

  1. Corsica
  2. Brittany
  3. Normandy
  4. Hauts-de-France
  5. Île-de-France
  6. Grand Est
  7. Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  8. Occitanie
  9. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  10. Pays de la Loire
  11. Centre-Val de Loire
  12. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  13. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each region is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a region is answered.

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  1. Corsica Capital: Ajaccio. It is the smallest region here, with the fewest people.
  2. Brittany Capital: Rennes. Its French name is Bretagne. The 2016 reform left its borders unchanged.
  3. Normandy Capital: Rouen. Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy merged into it in 2016.
  4. Hauts-de-France Capital: Lille. Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy merged into it in 2016.
  5. Île-de-France Capital: Paris, also the capital of France. No region has more people.
  6. Grand Est Capital: Strasbourg. Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine merged into it in 2016.
  7. Nouvelle-Aquitaine Capital: Bordeaux. It is the largest region on this map. Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes merged into it in 2016.
  8. Occitanie Capital: Toulouse. Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées merged into it in 2016.
  9. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Capital: Marseille. The 2016 reform changed neither its name nor its borders.
  10. Pays de la Loire Capital: Nantes. Its borders stayed the same in the 2016 reform.
  11. Centre-Val de Loire Capital: Orléans. Until 2015 its name was simply Centre.
  12. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Capital: Lyon. Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes merged into it in 2016. Only Île-de-France has more people.
  13. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Capital: Dijon. Burgundy and Franche-Comté merged into it in 2016.

How this list was compiled: The 13 regions of metropolitan France and the chief town (chef-lieu) of each follow the Code officiel géographique of INSEE, the French statistics office, regions and communes files of 1 January 2024, https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/7766585/v_region_2024.csv and https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/7766585/v_commune_2024.csv, read on 2026-10-01: Lyon, Dijon, Rennes, Orléans, Ajaccio, Strasbourg, Lille, Paris, Rouen, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes and Marseille. The same names, the capitals, the areas and the English names that count as typed answers were read the same day at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_France and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:FR. Which former regions merged on 1 January 2016, and that Centre-Val de Loire was Centre before: INSEE, La nouvelle nomenclature des codes régions (13 October 2015), https://web.archive.org/web/20160122212413/http://www.insee.fr/fr/methodes/default.asp?page=nomenclatures/cog/codes_regions_2016.htm, and the table of former regions in the Wikipedia article. People per region (Île-de-France the most, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes second, Corsica the fewest of the 13): INSEE, Populations légales des régions en vigueur au 1er janvier 2022, https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/6013844?sommaire=6011075, and the Wikipedia table. Largest and smallest shape: the area shares (Natural Earth) and the areas in the Wikipedia table agree. Positions come from Natural Earth, with two label points moved inside their own shapes so that the names fit; coasts and neighbors named in the hints were read off the drawing itself. The five overseas regions (Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte) are not on the drawing and are not asked. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 46.5°N 2.5°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This France map quiz asks for the 13 regions of metropolitan France, the borders in use since 2016. Corsica is the island at the bottom right; the five overseas regions lie far from Europe and are not drawn.

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Thirteen shapes, seven of them mergers

Seven regions were made in 2016 by joining older ones: Grand Est took in Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine took in Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. Six regions, Brittany and Corsica among them, kept the borders they had. One tap a question: a miss lights the region you were asked for.

Capitals, Study and typed answers

Show me the labels first writes the names on the map, with a ring where Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is too long for its shape; tap a region there to read its capital, such as Lyon or Toulouse, and one checked fact. The list under the map has the same lines. Typed answers count in French or English, so Bretagne is as good as Brittany and Corse as good as Corsica.

  • Start with the edges: Brittany is the western peninsula, Hauts-de-France the northern tip and Corsica the island.
  • Île-de-France, the region around Paris, is the smallest shape on the mainland and touches five others.
  • Five regions have a coast on the Channel or the Atlantic: Hauts-de-France, Normandy, Brittany, Pays de la Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Questions and answers

Is there a France states quiz?

France has regions, not states, so a French states quiz is really a French regions map quiz like this one. There are 18 regions: the 13 of metropolitan France asked here and five overseas.

How many regions does France have on the map?

Thirteen in metropolitan France: twelve on the mainland and Corsica. A reform cut the number from 22 to 13 on January 1, 2016. Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte are regions too, but lie overseas.

Which region of France is the largest?

Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in the southwest, is the largest region on this map, and its capital is Bordeaux. Corsica is the smallest. Île-de-France is the smallest on the mainland and has the most people.

What is the capital of each French region?

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Lyon), Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Dijon), Brittany (Rennes), Centre-Val de Loire (Orléans), Corsica (Ajaccio), Grand Est (Strasbourg), Hauts-de-France (Lille), Île-de-France (Paris), Normandy (Rouen), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Bordeaux), Occitanie (Toulouse), Pays de la Loire (Nantes) and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Marseille).

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