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 divisions of India exactly. So far there has been no movement to give the regions official administrative status. If this was to be done, it would presumably require that the boundaries of the regions be slightly modified so that they correspond exactly with their constituent districts. Some of the Indian states are subdivided into divisions which have official administrative governmental status and each division is headed by senior IAS officer called Divisional Commissioner, each further comprising several districts: States and territories (or divisions) are further subdivided into districts ("zilla"), of which there are 722 (as of 2018). Each District is headed by an