 Since changes to the boundaries of municipal districts were not reversed, and also due to considerations of expediency, the territorial make-up of the restored "Länder" differed somewhat from the borders prior to 1952.Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt initially retained the rural and urban districts as administrative entities ("Regierungsbezirke").Saxony-Anhalt later abolished them in 2003, while Saxony transformed them into directorates in 2008.