This polygon shapefile contains the canton boundaries of metropolitan France for 2010. These are the level 4 administrative divisions (ADM4) of France. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. credit Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/pg355qh4270 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.