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 Somalia Administrative divisions of Somalia Somalia is officially divided into eighteen (18) administrative regions ("gobollada", singular "gobol"), which in turn are subdivided into ninety (90) districts (plural "degmooyin"; singular "degmo"). On a "de facto" basis, northern Somalia is now divided up among the autonomous regions of Puntland (which considers itself an autonomous state) and Somaliland (a self-declared but unrecognized sovereign state). In central Somalia, Galmudug is another regional entity that emerged south of Puntland. For these civil war divisions, see "States and regions of Somalia". In 1931, Italian Somaliland consisted of seven commissariats. Following the 1935–36 Second Italo-Abyssinian War, Italian Somaliland