return {

  lang = "fr",

-- Metropolitan regions

  "ARA" = {name="Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes"},

  "BFC" = {name="Bourgogne-Franche-Comté"},

  "BRE" = {name="Brittany",isoname="Bretagne"},

  "CVL" = {name="Centre-Val de Loire"},

  "GES" = {name="Grand Est",isoname="Grand-Est"},

  "HDF" = {name="Hauts-de-France"},

  "IDF" = {name="Île-de-France"},

  "NAQ" = {name="Nouvelle-Aquitaine"},

  "NOR" = {name="Normandy",isoname="Normandie"},

  "OCC" = {name="Occitanie"},

  "PAC" = {name="Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur",isoname="Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur"},

  "PDL" = {name="Pays de la Loire",isoname="Pays-de-la-Loire"},

-- Metropolitan collectivity with special status

  "20R" = {name="Corsica",isoname="Corse"},

  "69M" = {name="Métropole de Lyon"},

  "75C" = {name="Paris"},

-- European collectivity

  "6AE" = {name="Alsace"},

-- Metropolitan departments

  "01" = {name="Ain"},

  "02" = {name="Aisne"},

  "03" = {name="Allier"},

  "04" = {name="Alpes-de-Haute-Provence"},

  "05" = {name="Hautes-Alpes"},

  "06" = {name="Alpes-Maritimes"},

  "07" = {name="Ardèche"},

  "08" = {name="Ardennes"},

  "09" = {name="Ariège"},

  "10" = {name="Aube"},

  "11" = {name="Aude"},

  "12" = {name="Aveyron"},

  "13" = {name="Bouches-du-Rhône"},

  "14" = {name="Calvados"},

  "15" = {name="Cantal"},

  "16" = {name="Charente"},

  "17" = {name="Charente-Maritime"},

  "18" = {name="Cher"},

  "19" = {name="Corrèze"},

  "21" = {name="Côte-d'Or"},

  "22" = {name="Côtes-d'Armor"},

  "23" = {name="Creuse"},

  "24" = {name="Dordogne"},

  "25" = {name="Doubs"},

  "26" = {name="Drôme"},

  "27" = {name="Eure"},

  "28" = {name="Eure-et-Loir"},

  "29" = {name="Finistère"},

  "2A" = {name="Corse-du-Sud"},

  "2B" = {name="Haute-Corse"},

  "30" = {name="Gard"},

  "31" = {name="Haute-Garonne"},

  "32" = {name="Gers"},

  "33" = {name="Gironde"},

  "34" = {name="Hérault"},

  "35" = {name="Ille-et-Vilaine"},

  "36" = {name="Indre"},

  "37" = {name="Indre-et-Loire"},

  "38" = {name="Isère"},

  "39" = {name="Jura"},

  "40" = {name="Landes"},

  "41" = {name="Loir-et-Cher"},

  "42" = {name="Loire"},

  "43" = {name="Haute-Loire"},

  "44" = {name="Loire-Atlantique"},

  "45" = {name="Loiret"},

  "46" = {name="Lot"},

  "47" = {name="Lot-et-Garonne"},

  "48" = {name="Lozère"},

  "49" = {name="Maine-et-Loire"},

  "50" = {name="Manche"},

  "51" = {name="Marne"},

  "52" = {name="Haute-Marne"},

  "53" = {name="Mayenne"},

  "54" = {name="Meurthe-et-Moselle"},

  "55" = {name="Meuse"},

  "56" = {name="Morbihan"},

  "57" = {name="Moselle"},

  "58" = {name="Nièvre"},

  "59" = {name="Nord"},

  "60" = {name="Oise"},

  "61" = {name="Orne"},

  "62" = {name="Pas-de-Calais"},

  "63" = {name="Puy-de-Dôme"},

  "64" = {name="Pyrénées-Atlantiques"},

  "65" = {name="Hautes-Pyrénées"},

  "66" = {name="Pyrénées-Orientales"},

  "67" = {name="Bas-Rhin"},

  "68" = {name="Haut-Rhin"},

  "69" = {name="Rhône"},

  "70" = {name="Haute-Saône"},

  "71" = {name="Saône-et-Loire"},

  "72" = {name="Sarthe"},

  "73" = {name="Savoie"},

  "74" = {name="Haute-Savoie"},

  "76" = {name="Seine-Maritime"},

  "77" = {name="Seine-et-Marne"},

  "78" = {name="Yvelines"},

  "79" = {name="Deux-Sèvres"},

  "80" = {name="Somme"},

  "81" = {name="Tarn"},

  "82" = {name="Tarn-et-Garonne"},

  "83" = {name="Var"},

  "84" = {name="Vaucluse"},

  "85" = {name="Vendée"},

  "86" = {name="Vienne"},

  "87" = {name="Haute-Vienne"},

  "88" = {name="Vosges"},

  "89" = {name="Yonne"},

  "90" = {name="Territoire de Belfort"},

  "91" = {name="Essonne"},

  "92" = {name="Hauts-de-Seine"},

  "93" = {name="Seine-Saint-Denis"},

  "94" = {name="Val-de-Marne"},

  "95" = {name="Val-d'Oise"},

-- Overseas departments

  "971" = {name="Guadeloupe"},

  "972" = {name="Martinique"},

  "973" = {name="French Guiana",isoname="Guyane (française)"},

  "974" = {name="Réunion",isoname="La Réunion"},

  "976" = {name="Mayotte"},

-- Overseas collectivity

  "BL" = {name="Saint Barthélemy",isoname="Saint-Barthélemy"},

  "MF" = {name="Saint Martin",isoname="Saint-Martin"},

  "PF" = {name="French Polynesia",isoname="Polynésie française"},

  "PM" = {name="Saint Pierre and Miquelon",isoname="Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon"},

  "WF" = {name="Wallis and Futuna",isoname="Wallis-et-Futuna"},

-- Overseas collectivity with special status

  "NC" = {name="New Caledonia",isoname="Nouvelle-Calédonie"},

-- Overseas territory

  "TF" = {name="French Southern Territories",isoname="Terres australes françaises",altnames={"French Southern and Antarctic Lands"}},

-- Dependencies

  "CP" = {name="Clipperton Island",isoname="Clipperton"}

}