Monday, March 14, 2011

Playing it straight

Canada's administrative divisions are pretty straightforward: 10 provinces, 3 territories, all with a capital and one more for the country.

And that is a bit unusual.

America has got Washington DC as a separate entity from the other states. Then they got little oddities like Puerto Rico.

The United Kingdom is made of four countries, which is peculiar enough.

Germany has their city-states like Berlin and Hamburg.

China has certain cities (like Shenzhen and Shanghai) designated as "special economic zones", Hong Kong and hot potatoes like Tibet. I'm not even going to touch Taiwan.

Japan has designated cities (like Sendai and Osaka[1]), and Tokyo itself is a prefecture. Former Tokyo city is subdivided into wards that would all be considered cities unto themselves anywhere else.

I don't know much about France, I expected to turn up something funny about their arrondissements but got nothing. You can amuse yourself by repeating the name though. Arrondissements. Arrondissements. Arrondissements.

1. Lol, Osaka.

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