France
There are 22 regions in France
- Alsace
- Aquitaine
- Auvergne
- Bourgogne
- Bretagne
- Centre
- Champagne-Ardenne
- Corse
- Franche-Comté
- Ile-de-France
- Languedoc - Roussillon
- Limousin
- Lorraine
- Midi-Pyrenées
- Nord-pas-de-Calais
- Normandie (Basse)
- Normandie (Haute)
- Pays de la Loire
- Picardie
- Poitou-Charentes
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Rhone Alpes
These 22 regions are divided into 96 departments - each one with a name, roughly in alphabetical order and a number from 1 - 96. AIN is number one and VAL-D-OISE is number 96.
The Chez Dudley competition is held in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and there are 6 departments within Côte d'Azur - Provence, Valcluse, Bouches de Rhône, Alpes de Haute-Provence, Alpes Maritimes and Var, and it is in Var and the village of La Cadiere d'Azur where we find Chez Dudley.