Administrative departments on 1 January 2022

Existing departments as of 1 January 2022 Sources: Admin EXPRESS COG edition 2022 — IGN — Original data downloaded from: https://geoservices.ign.fr 28 October 2022; The Sandre Administrative Departments repository is based on the 2022 version of INSEE’s Official Geographical Code: codes and wordings of the departments, as well as the codes of the regions to which they are attached. Creation of the Revolution (Law of 22 December 1789), the department became an autonomous local authority, with a deliberative organ and an executive elected, by the law of 10 August 1871. It was managed by a general council elected for six years by universal suffrage, which in turn elected a president, executive of the department which prepares and executes the deliberations of the general council, manages the budget and directs the staff. The department has broad competences: social action, construction and maintenance of colleges, rural consolidation, organisation of school transport,... There are 101 departments (including 5 overseas departments). A department belongs to one region and only one. Each overseas region consists of only one department. In order to better meet some of their needs which are common to other local and regional authorities and which often go beyond the framework and capacities of a departmental entity, departments may join one or more inter-territorial institutions to each of which they will delegate one or more powers in order to pool the necessary means to achieve their objectives.