Planning Areas of Singapore increasingly adopted these boundaries for their administrative purposes. For example, the Statistics Department of Singapore published its 2000 census data based on planning area boundaries for the first time, compared to using census divisions based on electoral boundaries for previous exercises. The Singapore Police Force's (SPF) neighbourhood police centres have jurisdiction boundaries based on planning area boundaries when they were officially gazetted in 1999, as opposed to electoral divisions under the previous neighbourhood Police Post system. Planning Areas are further subdivided into subzones for statistical purposes. <nowiki>*</nowiki> = Place names attested to be of Malay origin and referred to similarly
Administrative divisions of Latvia Administrative divisions of Latvia Administrative divisions of Latvia (valid since 1 July 2009). According to the "Administrative territorial reform of Latvia", Latvia changed its administrative divisions from two-level municipalities (the districts were the first-level municipalities, while towns (cities), town's countryside territories and parishes were the second-level municipalities) to one-level municipalities - districts were liquidated, while towns/cities (, "plural"), town's countryside territories (, "plural") and parishes (, "plural") were merged into 110 municipalities (, "plural"), with 9 metropolitan areas got the status of republican cities (, "plural"). () with their own city council and administration. Municipalities are subdivided into territorial units