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 divisions of South Korea Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities ("gwangyeoksi" ), 1 special city ("teukbyeolsi" ), 1 special autonomous city ("teukbyeol-jachisi" ), and 9 provinces ("do" ), including one special autonomous province ("teukbyeol jachido" ). These are further subdivided into a variety of smaller entities, including cities ("si" ), counties ("gun" ), districts ("gu" ), towns ("eup" ), townships ("myeon" ), neighborhoods ("dong" ) and villages ("ri" ). "Official Revised Romanization of Korean spellings are used" The top tier of administrative divisions are the provincial-level divisions, of which there are several