Regions of France either appellation "overseas department" or "overseas region", although the second is still virtually unused by French media. The following have overseas region status: General: 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
Administrative regions of the Federal District (Brazil) local nature. This action is exerted through the intermediary of each regional administration. Broadly speaking, the administrative region would be the set of urban, suburban and rural areas belonging to the control of an urban center (seat of the administrative region). The physical-administrative boundaries are subdivided into urban and rural areas in discriminated then, according to the macrozoning of the Federal District, established by Article 11 of the Supplementary Law No. 17, dated 28/01/97 regarding the Director Plan of Territorial Ordering of DF - PDOT. URBAN ZONE: of Dynamism, of Consolidation, of Controlled Use. RURAL ZONE: of Dynamism, of Diversified