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Originally Posted by New Brisavoine
It's homogeneous at NUTS-2 level, yes, but French NUTS-2 are large regions the size of entire European countries like Switzerland, Austria, or Denmark.
The real diversity is at NUTS-3 level, the departments, where you can see big difference between large urban metro areas and smaller rural areas.
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The urban/rural discrepancy exists everywhere, which is why a comparison at the NUTS-2 level makes more sense IMO. That being said, France also appears to be more homogeneous than the other large EU countries at the NUTS-3 level.