Facebook removes official page for the French town of Bitche.

Facebook has been criticized for removing the official page of the French town of Bitche.

The US embassy had previously been embarrassed by the French town of Bitche, which is located on the northeastern border with Germany.

According to local broadcaster Radio Melodie the page was taken down prompting the municipal communications officer to establish a new one with a different name.

Ms Valerie Degouy said the new page was named after the town's post code, Mairie 57230, as reported by Politico.

Ms Degouy said: "I tried to reach out to Facebook in every possible way, through different forms, but there's nothing [I could] do," she said, adding she had "already had issues when I first created the page".

Another of the commune's towns, Rohrbach-les-Bitches, renamed its page Ville de Rohrbach out of caution.

As Politico reports, this is not the first time that the town's name has caused upset for Americans.

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Back in 1881, the US embassy was located on the Place de Bitche in Paris, named in honour of the town.

The then-ambassador, Levi Parsons Morton, protested about the name because it seemed to be humiliating on the embassy's letterhead, and the square was renamed Place des Etats-Unis by Parisian authorities.

The page had been deleted in error, according to a Facebook spokesperson, and had since been "swiftly restored this morning, when we became aware of the problem."