France arrondissements, which are, in turn, subdivided into 2,054 cantons. These cantons are then divided into 36,658 communes, which are municipalities with an elected municipal council. Three communes—Paris, Lyon and Marseille—are subdivided into 45 municipal arrondissements. The regions, departments and communes are all known as territorial collectivities, meaning they possess local assemblies as well as an executive. Arrondissements and cantons are merely administrative divisions. However, this was not always the case. Until 1940, the arrondissements were territorial collectivities with an elected assembly, but these were suspended by the Vichy regime and definitely abolished by the Fourth Republic in 1946. In addition
Administrative regions of the Federal District (Brazil) Administrative regions of the Federal District (Brazil) The Federal District of Brazil is divided into 31 administrative regions () The division of the Federal District into administrative regions was made official through the 1964 federal law no. 4.545. Prior to this law, the regions were not officially defined, but their seats already existed and were often called satellite cities, with the exception of Brasília. The administrative regions are territorial subdivisions of the Federal District, for which physical limits, established by public power, define the jurisdiction of government action for purposes of administrative decentralization and coordination of public services of a