Editing Regions of France (section)

===Reform and mergers of regions===
In 2014, the French parliament passed a law reducing the number of metropolitan regions from 22 to 13 effective 1 January 2016.<ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2014/12/17/la-carte-a-13-regions-definitivement-adoptee_4542278_823448.html La carte à 13 régions définitivement adoptée], [[Le Monde]], 17 December 2014, accessed 2 January 2015</ref>

The law gave interim names for most of the new regions by combining the names of the former regions, e.g. the region composed of [[Aquitaine]], [[Poitou-Charentes]] and [[Limousin]] was temporarily called ''Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes''.  However, the combined region of Upper and Lower Normandy was simply called "Normandy" (''Normandie'').  Permanent names were proposed by the new regional councils by 1 July 2016 and new names confirmed by the {{lang|fr|[[Conseil d'État (France)|Conseil d'État]]}} by 30 September 2016.<ref>[http://www.sudouest.fr/2014/12/04/quel-nom-pour-la-nouvelle-region-vous-avez-choisi-1755244-6058.php Quel nom pour la nouvelle région ? Vous avez choisi...], [[Sud-Ouest (newspaper)|Sud-Ouest]], 4 December 2014, accessed 2 January 2015</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.midilibre.fr/2016/06/10/nouveau-nom-de-la-region-dernier-jour-de-vote-ce-vendredi,1346798.php|title=Nouveau nom de la région : dernier jour de vote, Occitanie en tête|website=midilibre.fr}}</ref> The legislation defining the new regions also allowed the Centre region to officially change its name to "[[Centre-Val de Loire]]" with effect from January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|title=''Journal officiel'' of 17 January 2015|url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jopdf/common/jo_pdf.jsp?numJO=0&dateJO=20150117&numTexte=1&pageDebut=00777&pageFin=00783|website=Légifrance|date=2015-01-17|access-date=2015-03-10}}</ref>
Two regions, [[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]] and [[Bourgogne-Franche-Comté]], opted to retain their interim names.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.placegrenet.fr/2016/05/31/auvergne-rhone-alpes-fini-consultation-laurent-wauquiez-a-tranche/91121|title=Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes : fini la consultation, Laurent Wauquiez a tranché - Place Gre'net|date=31 May 2016|website=placegrenet.fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bourgognefranchecomte.fr/La-region-s-appellera-Bourgogne-Franche-Comte,|title=Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté|website=www.bourgognefranchecomte.fr}}</ref>

<gallery widths="150px" align="center" caption="Overview of merger proposals for the metropolitan territory">
File:France proposal regions (2009) map.svg | [[Édouard Balladur]]'s proposal
File:France proposal regions (2014) map.svg | [[Manuel Valls]]'s proposal A
File:France proposal regions (2014) map2.svg| [[Manuel Valls]]'s proposal B
File:France proposal regions (2014) map3.svg| President [[François Hollande]]'s proposal
File:France assembly vote.svg|Regions as instituted by the [[National Assembly (France)|National Assembly]] in 2014
</gallery>

Given below is a table of former regions and which new region they became part of.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | Former region !! colspan=2| New region
|-
! Interim name !! Final name
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background: #008B8B" | || [[Auvergne]] || rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | [[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]]
|-
| [[Rhône-Alpes]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background: #00CED1; width:15px;"| || [[Burgundy]] || rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | [[Bourgogne-Franche-Comté]]
|-
| [[Franche-Comté]]
|-
| style="background: #ff7f50; width:15px;"| || colspan=3| [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]]
|-
| style="background: #FFD700"| || colspan=3| [[Centre-Val de Loire]]
|-
| style="background: #a9a9a9"| || colspan=3| [[Corsica]]
|-
|  || colspan=3| [[French Guiana]]
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background: #86aae0"| || [[Alsace]] || rowspan="3"| Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine || rowspan="3"| [[Grand Est]]
|-
| [[Champagne-Ardenne]]
|-
| [[Lorraine]]
|-
|  || colspan=3| [[Guadeloupe]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background: #db7093"| || [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]] || rowspan="2"| Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie || rowspan="2"| [[Hauts-de-France]]
|-
| [[Picardy]]
|-
| style="background: #ba55d3; width:15px;"| || colspan=3| [[Île-de-France]]
|-
|  || colspan=3| [[Martinique]]
|-
|  || colspan=3| [[Mayotte]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background: #b22222"| || [[Lower Normandy]] || rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | [[Normandy (administrative region)|Normandy]]
|-
| [[Upper Normandy]]
|-
| rowspan="3" style="background: #DEB887"| || [[Aquitaine]] || rowspan="3"| Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes || rowspan="3"| [[Nouvelle-Aquitaine]]
|-
| [[Limousin]]
|-
| [[Poitou-Charentes]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="background: #228b22"| || [[Languedoc-Roussillon]] || rowspan="2"| Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées || rowspan="2"| [[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitanie]]
|-
| [[Midi-Pyrénées]]
|-
| style="background: #d38d5f"| || colspan=3| [[Pays de la Loire]]
|-
| style="background: #32cd32"| || colspan=3| [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]]
|-
|  || colspan=3| [[Réunion]]
|}