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
Dong (administrative division) major thoroughfares in Seoul, Suwon, and other cities are also subdivided into "ga". Basically "ga" stands for a historical reason: in Korea under Japanese rule, some districts living Japanese are subdivided as "machi" (, ) and "chome" (, ) and after Independence of Korea, these "machi" (partially) and "chome" are renamed as "ga". Dong (administrative division) A dong or neighborhood is a submunicipal level administrative unit of a city and of those cities which are not divided into wards throughout Korea. The unit is often translated as neighborhood and has been used in both administrative divisions of North Korea and