Versailles was the capital until 1879; Brazzaville was the capital until 1942; London was the capital until 1942; Tours was the capital until 1940; Bordeaux was the capital until 1940; Vichy was the capital until 1944; Algiers was the capital until 1944; Bayeux was the capital until 1944.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain; Source: Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (https://geoservices.ign.fr/adminexpress), last updated Thu Jan 19 07:31:04 2023. Licence Ouverte 2.0. Boundaries via geoBoundaries gbOpen (https://www.geoboundaries.org).
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Lyon | 8.2 M · 12 departments |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | Dijon | 2.8 M · 8 departments |
| Bretagne | Rennes | 4.8 M · 4 departments |
| Centre-Val de Loire | Orléans | 2.6 M · 6 departments · seat ≠ largest |
| Corse | Ajaccio | 356 k · 2 departments |
| Grand Est | Strasbourg | 5.6 M · 10 departments |
| Hauts-de-France | Lille | 6.0 M · 5 departments |
| Île-de-France | Paris | 12.3 M · 8 departments |
| Normandie | Rouen | 3.5 M · 5 departments · seat ≠ largest |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Bordeaux | 6.1 M · 12 departments |
| Occitanie | Toulouse | 5.6 M · 13 departments |
| Pays de la Loire | Nantes | 3.9 M · 5 departments |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Marseille | 5.2 M · 6 departments |
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