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
Administrative divisions of Morocco Administrative divisions of Morocco In Morocco, the 75 second-level administrative subdivisions are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces. They are subdivisions of the 12 regions of Morocco. Each prefecture or province is subdivided into arrondissements (only in prefectures of some metropolitan areas), municipalities ("communes", sing. "commune") or urban municipalities ("communes urbaines", sing. "commune urbaine") in other urban areas, and districts ("cercles", sing. "cercle") in rural areas. The districts are subdivided into rural municipalities ("communes rurales", sing. "commune rural"). One prefecture (Casablanca) is also subdivided into "préfectures d'arrondissements" (sing. "préfecture d'arrondissements"), similar to districts ("cercles") except they are grouping a few arrondissements