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In addition to France's Overseas Territories which, unlike the UK's, are counted as being fully part of national territory, there are surprisingly some regions of mainland France even poorer/less developed than the poorest/least developed parts of the UK: Northeast England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In italics are the pre-2016 regions, in standard are the current ones.
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(1) Ile de France 0.952 (same as Hong Kong and similar to South East England)
(2) Rhone-Alpes/Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 0.919 (same as Israel and in between Scotland and East of England)
(3) Midi Pyrenees/Occitanie 0.914 (similar to Austria and same as East Midlands)
(4) Aquitaine/Nouvelle-Aquitaine 0.904 (similar to Spain and North East England)
France (average) 0.903 (similar to Spain)
(5) Provences-Alpes-Cote d'Azur/Alsace/Grand Est 0.902 (similar to Spain)
(7) Pays de La Loire 0.899 (similar to Cyprus and Wales)
(8) Brittany 0.898 (similar to Cyprus and same as Wales)
(9) Languedoc-Roussillon/Occitanie 0.890 (same as Estonia and poorer than Northern Ireland, the poorest part of the UK)
(10) Auvergne/Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes/Poitou-Charentes/Nouvelle-Aquitaine 0.886 (similar to Greece)
(12) Upper Normandy/Normandy/Nord-Pas-de-Calais/Hauts-de-France 0.884 (similar to Greece)
(14) Burgundy/Bourgogne-Franche-Comte 0.883 (similar to Greece)
(15) Central-Val de Loire 0.882 (similar to Greece)
(16) Franche-Comte/Bourgogne-Franche-Comte 0.879 (similar to Poland)
(17) Lorraine/Grand Est 0.878 (similar to Poland)
(18) Limousin/Nouvelle Aquitaine/Lower Normandy/Normandy 0.877 (similar to Poland)
(20) Champagne-Ardenne/Grand Est 0.875 (same as Bahrain, Lithuania and Saudi Arabia)
(21) Picardy/Hauts-de-France 0.867 (similar to Portugal)
(22) Corsica 0.863 (same as Latvia)
(23) Guadeloupe 0.853 (same as San Marino)
(24) Martinique 0.848 (same as Slovakia)
(25) Reunion 0.843 (similar to Argentina)
(26) French Guiana 0.793 (similar to Bulgaria and Grenada)
(27) Mayotte 0.781 (between Sri Lanka and Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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