130 Departments of The First French Empire

This is a list of the 130 departments (French: départements), the conventional name for the administrative subdivisions of the First French Empire at the height of its territorial extent, circa 1811.

Note that the Illyrian Provinces were also part of France, but were not organised into departments, and so are not included in this list. Similarly, four additional French departments were also created in Catalonia (the part of Spain annexed in 1812); their juridical status remained incomplete until Spain was lost by the First French Empire in 1814. Those departments were: Bouches-de-l'Èbre, Montserrat, Sègre and Ter.

Ain Cher Haut-Rhin Maine-et-Loire Roer
Aisne Corrèze Haute-Garonne Manche Rome
Allier Corse Haute-Loire Marengo Sambre-et-Meuse
Alpes-Maritimes Côte-d'Or Haute-Marne Marne Saône-et-Loire
Apennins Côtes-du-Nord Haute-Saône Mayenne Sarre
Ardèche Creuse Haute-Vienne Méditerranée Sarthe
Ardennes Deux-Nèthes Hautes-Alpes Meurthe Seine
Ariège Deux-Sèvres Hautes-Pyrénées Meuse Seine-et-Marne
Arno Doire Hérault Meuse-Inférieure Seine-et-Oise
Aube Dordogne Ille-et-Vilaine Mont-Blanc Seine-Inférieure
Aude Doubs Indre Mont-Tonnerre Sésia
Aveyron Drôme Indre-et-Loire Montenotte Simplon
Bas-Rhin Dyle Isère Morbihan Somme
Basses-Alpes Ems-Occidental Jemmape(s) Moselle Stura
Basses-Pyrénées Ems-Oriental Jura Nièvre Tarn
Bouches-de-l'Elbe Ems-Supérieur Landes Nord Tarn-et-Garonne
Bouches-de-l'Escaut Escaut Léman Oise Taro
Bouches-de-l'Yssel Eure Lippe Ombrone Trasimène
Bouches-de-la-Meuse Eure-et-Loir Loir-et-Cher Orne Var
Bouches-du-Rhin Finistère Loire Ourte Vaucluse
Bouches-du-Rhône Forêts Loire-Inférieure Pas-de-Calais Vendée
Bouches-du-Weser Frise Loiret Pô Vienne
Calvados Gard Lot Puy-de-Dôme Vosges
Cantal Gênes Lot-et-Garonne Pyrénées-Orientales Yonne
Charente Gers Lozère Rhin-et-Moselle Yssel-Supérieur
Charente-Inférieure Gironde Lys Rhône Zuyderzée

The names of departments formed from territories annexed to France after 1791 have been colour-coded as follows:

Former territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia, annexed in 1792 (Duchy of Savoy) and 1793 (County of Nice)
Former territory of the Austrian Netherlands and other territories (Liège, Stavelot-Malmedy and Thorn), annexed in 1795
Former territory of the Holy Roman Empire on the left bank of the Rhine, annexed on various dates between 1795 and 1801
Former territory of the Cisrhenian Republic, annexed in 1802
Former territory of the Subalpine Republic (annexed in 1802) and the Ligurian Republic (annexed in 1805)
Former territory of the Kingdom of Etruria (annexed in 1807) and the Duchy of Parma (annexed in 1808)
Former territory of the Papal States, annexed in 1809
Former territory of various German states, annexed in 1810
Former territory of the Kingdom of Holland, annexed in 1810
Former territory of the Rhodanic Republic, annexed in 1810

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