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
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