Discover the 101 French departments. This page lists the departments according to INSEE's Official Geographic Code (COG).
There are 101 departments according to INSEE's Official Geographic Code (COG): 96 metropolitan departments and 5 overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte).
The department is an administrative division of the territory, while the departmental collectivity is the political entity that administers it. Some overseas collectivities exercise departmental powers with a special status.