FRENCH REGION

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Meaning:

A geographical subdivision of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("French region" is a kind of...):

Instance hyponyms:

Provence (a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur)

Rhone-Alpes (a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers)

Poitou; Poitou-Charentes (a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay)

Picardie; Picardy (a region of northern France on the English Channel)

Pays de la Loire (an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay)

Nord-Pas-de-Calais (a region in northeastern France)

Midi-Pyrenees (a region in southwestern France)

Mayenne (a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region)

Martinique (an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France)

Lorraine; Lothringen (an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits)

Limousin (a region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains)

Languedoc-Roussillon (a region in south central France; named after the medieval dialect of French that was spoken there)

Ile-de-France (a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it)

Gascogne; Gascony (a region of southwestern France)

Franche-Comte (a former province of eastern France)

Corse; Corsica (a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte)

Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne (a region of northeastern France)

Centre (a low-lying region in central France)

Breiz; Bretagne; Brittany (a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay)

Bourgogne; Burgundy (a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines)

Auvergne (a region in central France)

Artois (a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders))

Aquitaine; Aquitania (a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees)

Anjou (a former province of western France in the Loire valley)

Alsace; Alsatia; Elsass (a region of northeastern France famous for its wines)

Cote d'Azur; French Riviera (the French part of the Riviera)

Holonyms ("French region" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)