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 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