300px|right this is a list of airports in france, grouped by department and sorted by commune. france, officially the french republic, is a unitary semi-presidential republic in western europe with several overseas territories and islands. the area known as metropolitan france extends from the mediterranean sea to the english channel and the north sea, and from the rhine to the atlantic ocean. france is divided into 27 administrative regions, of which 22 are in metropolitan france (21 on the continent, plus the territorial collectivity of corsica) and five are overseas. the regions subdivided into 101 numbered departments which are, in turn, subdivided into 342 arrondissements (districts), 4,032 cantons, and 36,781 communes (municipalities). __toc__  == airports in metropolitan france == locations shown in bold are as per the airport's aip page. most airports give two locations: the first is the city served, second is the city where the airport is located. icao location identifiers are linked to each airport's aeronautical information publication (aip), which are available online in portable document format (pdf) from the french service d'information aÃ©ronautique (sia). airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled service on commercial airlines. links shown after airport name are intended to be moved as each airport's wikipedia article is created: web indicates a link to the airport's website, uaf indicates a link to airport's page at l'union des aÃ©roports franÃ§ais. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%" |- valign=baseline ! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | city served / location ! style="text-align:left;" | icao ! style="text-align:left;" | iata ! style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;" | airport name ! style="text-align:left;" | usage |- style="background:#ccc; font-size:105%;" |  01: ain |  |  |  |  |- valign=top | ambÃ©rieu |  | | ambÃ©rieu-en-bugey air base (ba 278) | public/mil. |- valign=top | bellegarde / vouvray |  | xbf | bellegarde - vouvray aerodrome | public |- valign=top | belley / peyrieu |  | | [[belley - peyr
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