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
Geographical regions of Turkey Geographical regions of Turkey The geographical regions of Turkey comprise seven regions () which were originally defined at the country's First Geography Congress in 1941. These seven regions are subdivided into twenty one sections (), which are further split into numerous areas () as defined by microclimate and bounded by local geographic formations. "Regions" as defined in this context are merely for geographic, demographic, and economic purposes, and do not refer to an administrative division. The Aegean Region has: The Black Sea Region has: The Central Anatolia Region has: The Eastern Anatolia Region has: The Marmara Region has: The Mediterranean