Arrondissement

Arrondissement is also the name of the subdivisions of the French départements (but the word is barely used in this meaning). The capital city of an arrondissement is the sous-préfecture.

Belgium

The federalized country Belgium geographically consists of 3 regions, of which only Flanders ( = the Flemish region) and Wallonia (= the Walloon region) are subdivided into 5 provinces each; the Brussels Capital Region is neither a province nor is it part of one.

The remainder of this chapter was unambiguously translated on 2006-05-22 from the Dutch language Wikipedia (last changed 2006-05-05):

In Belgium there are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.

The 43 administrative arrondissements are an administrative level between the municipalities and the provinces. Per region an overview of its municipalities (gemeenten/communes) and the district or administrative arrondissement these belong to can be found in the Municipalities of Belgium page; for these administrative arrondissements also more technical references are available.
Belgium has 27 judicial arrondissements.
Until a short while ago the electoral circles for the parliaments were electoral arrondissements; at present these circles are the provinces, except for the arrondissements Brussels-Capital (geographically coinciding with the Brussels Capital Region) and Halle-Vilvoorde (one of the two districts in the province Flemish Brabant in the Flemish region), which together still form the electoral circle Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (in Dutch kieskring Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde, in French cercle or circonscription électoral Bruxelles-Hal-Vilvorde).
*For the elections of the Walloon Parliament, 13 arrondissements (or grouped arrondissements) are still being used as electoral circles:
**Arlon - Marche-en-Famenne - Bastogne
**Mons
**Charleroi
**Dinant - Philippeville
**Tournai - Ath - Mouscron
**Huy - Waremme
**Liège
**Namur
**Neufchâteau - Virton
**Nivelles
**Thuin
**Verviers
**Soignies

Netherlands

In the Netherlands an arrondissement is a judicial jurisdiction, comprising a number of communes.

Canada

Quebec

In Quebec, the cities of Montréal, Québec City, Saguenay, Longueuil and Sherbrooke and the municipality of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge are divided into arrondissements (called boroughs in English).

See List of Montreal boroughs and List of Quebec City boroughs

Haiti

Each of Haiti's 10 departments is sub-divided into arrondissements.

French language country subdivision terms
arrondissement \| département \| préfecture \| sous-préfecture

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