prefecture

There are 101 prefectures in France, one for each department.

Each city does many of the things normally done by prefectures.

Damage was reported in 44 of the island nation's 47 prefectures.

The local police in Japan are divided among prefectures too.

The prefectures were in origin 11, later on raising to 14.

The third mountain is located on the border of all three prefectures.

He then sent his forces to raid the nearby prefectures.

Many prefectures and urban areas have been slow to adopt the system.

The plan called for each region to have greater autonomy than existing prefectures.

The reasons are based on the history of prefectures.

The remainder are scattered throughout the other prefectures, with between 30 and 500 in each one.

When the hot line was expanded to 28 of Japan's 47 prefectures, it received more than 300 calls the first day.

Acid levels high enough to affect plant growth were found in 41 prefectures.

The former provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures between 1879 and 1876.

The other 7 regions are further subdivided into 33 prefectures.

The police of prefectures across Japan unite to find the murderer.

There are also 2 economic prefectures and one autonomous commune.

However, the practice of ordering prefectures based on their geographic region is traditional.

Often mistaken is that the company has or had a plan to connect their lines of the two prefectures.

Note: Many of the former prefectures share the same code and name with the current regions.

Some 3,200 people were evacuated in 16 prefectures after extremely heavy rain.

People from other prefectures were invited to live there.

As a result, some provinces were later subdivided into several prefectures.

Logged thirty prefectures, planned to visit only two or three.

The regions are divided into 30 prefectures and 1 commune.