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 Mongolia Administrative divisions of Mongolia The country of Mongolia is divided into 21 provinces (, "aimag") and the capital (нийслэл, "niislel") Ulaanbaatar. Secondary subdivisions outside Ulaanbaatar are called "sum" (сум, often transcribed as "soum"). In 2006, Mongolia had 331 sums. Sums are further subdivided into bags (баг). While sums always have a permanent settlement as administrative center, many bags don't. Ulaanbaatar is divided into nine düüregs (дүүрэг, usually translated as "district"), which are further subdivided into khoroos (хороо, most often translated as "subdistrict", "microdistrict" or simply "district"). Officially, Mongolia is divided into 3 administrative tiers, with different types of administrative unit