A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
I dipartimenti della Francia sono la suddivisione territoriale di secondo livello del Paese, dopo le regioni, e sono pari a 101, di cui 96 metropolitani e 5 d'oltremare.