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 France Administrative divisions of France The administrative divisions of France are concerned with the institutional and territorial organization of French territory. These territories are located in many parts of the world. There are many administrative divisions, which may have political (local government), electoral (districts), or administrative (decentralized services of the state) objectives. All the inhabited territories are represented in the National Assembly, Senate and Economic and Social Council and their citizens have French citizenship. The French republic is divided into 18 regions: 12 in mainland France and 6 elsewhere (1 in Europe (Corsica), 2 in the Caribbean (The lesser Antilles) (Guadeloupe