Regions of France Regions of France France is divided into 18 administrative regions (, ), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions. The 13 metropolitan regions (including 12 mainland regions and Corsica) are each further subdivided into 2 to 13 departments, while the overseas regions consist of only one department each and hence are also referred to as "overseas departments". The current legal concept of "region" was adopted in 1982, and in 2016 what had been 27 regions was reduced to 18. The term "région" was officially created by the Law of Decentralisation (2 March 1982), which also gave regions their legal
Subdivided flat for public estates, they turn to live in subdivided flats, where rental prices are much cheaper than that of private housing options available. The second factor leading to the phenomenon comes from the widening wealth gap between the rich and poor. The Gini Coefficient of Hong Kong increased to 0.537, which manifests the serious economic inequality problem. In the subdivided units study report 2009 produced by the Society of Communication Organization, the median monthly personal income of the residents in subdivided units was $3200, which was below the median monthly personal income of the whole population in Hong Kong at