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 South Korea Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities ("gwangyeoksi" ), 1 special city ("teukbyeolsi" ), 1 special autonomous city ("teukbyeol-jachisi" ), and 9 provinces ("do" ), including one special autonomous province ("teukbyeol jachido" ). These are further subdivided into a variety of smaller entities, including cities ("si" ), counties ("gun" ), districts ("gu" ), towns ("eup" ), townships ("myeon" ), neighborhoods ("dong" ) and villages ("ri" ). "Official Revised Romanization of Korean spellings are used" The top tier of administrative divisions are the provincial-level divisions, of which there are several