Regions of France Regions of France France is divided into 18 administrative regions (, ), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions. The 13 metropolitan regions (including 12 mainland regions and Corsica) are each further subdivided into 2 to 13 departments, while the overseas regions consist of only one department each and hence are also referred to as "overseas departments". The current legal concept of "region" was adopted in 1982, and in 2016 what had been 27 regions was reduced to 18. The term "région" was officially created by the Law of Decentralisation (2 March 1982), which also gave regions their legal
Administrative divisions of Somalia Administrative divisions of Somalia Somalia is officially divided into eighteen (18) administrative regions ("gobollada", singular "gobol"), which in turn are subdivided into ninety (90) districts (plural "degmooyin"; singular "degmo"). On a "de facto" basis, northern Somalia is now divided up among the autonomous regions of Puntland (which considers itself an autonomous state) and Somaliland (a self-declared but unrecognized sovereign state). In central Somalia, Galmudug is another regional entity that emerged south of Puntland. For these civil war divisions, see "States and regions of Somalia". In 1931, Italian Somaliland consisted of seven commissariats. Following the 1935–36 Second Italo-Abyssinian War, Italian Somaliland