Transport, roads & infrastructure

Key figures to remember

• 13 metropolitan regions

  + 5 overseas regions. Boundaries redrawn in 2016 (from 22 to 13 in mainland France) — the most recent tier of the layered system.

  Source: DGCL

• ~1,600 public upper-secondary

  schools (general, technological, vocational, agricultural). Regions build and equip; the State pays the teachers.

  Source: DEPP RERS 2024

• ~360,000 travellers/day

  on regional trains (TER): regions are the organising authority for regional rail, by contract with SNCF Voyageurs.

  Source: SNCF / ART 2024