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
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