The UK a bit odd. It's divided into four countries or nations (I'm not sure of the technically correct word) of England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. The next level down is the county of which there are quite a lot (30? 40?) Some are quite small, some quite big. They get changed periodically when the government wants to distract us all from something else.
France has, I think, Departements (which has an accute accent on the first e, but I can't do that on my keyboard)
Finland has provinces (six of them) - Laanit (there should be dots over those a's)
Switzerland has Cantons (which mercifully don't have any accents on them at all) twenty-odd of them.
I'm just rambling now.