Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including the chef-lieu, " chief place ", from which the canton takes its name.

The arrondissement contains other cantons that extend generally up the two rivers into central Corsica.

Located in the arrondissement of La Rochelle, Île de Ré includes two cantons: Saint-Martin-de-Ré eastwards and Ars-en-Ré westwards.

There is a single arrondissement ( Belfort ), which is sub-divided into 15 cantons and thence into 101 communes.

Département: Territoire de Belfort ( 1 arrondissement ; 15 cantons ; 101 communes )

It is divided into two cantons of the arrondissement ( district ) of Oloron-Sainte-Marie ( Mauleon-Licharre and Tardets-Sorholus ), and a part of the canton of Saint Palais ( arrondissement of Bayonne ).

The arrondissement has 7 cantons, 125 communes and 112, 020 residents.

The following is a list of the 44 cantons of the Bas-Rhin department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The arrondissement consists of eight cantons.

The following is the list of the 42 cantons of the Yonne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 77 cantons ( districts ) of the Pas-de-Calais department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The Canton of Douvrin is one of the 14 cantons of the arrondissement of Béthune, in the Pas-de-Calais department, in northern France.

The cantons of the arrondissement of Béthune are:

The following is a list of the 33 cantons of the Aube department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The cantons of the arrondissement of Lens are:

The following is a list of the 43 cantons of the Seine-et-Marne department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 54 cantons of the Rhône department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The cantons of the arrondissement of Lyon are:

The following is a list of the 49 cantons of the Hérault department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Argentan is a commune and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France.

The following is a list of the 41 cantons of the Loiret department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 49 cantons of the Calvados department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

The following is a list of the 31 cantons of the Haut-Rhin department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

# Arrondissement of Sens, ( subprefecture: Sens ) with 10 cantons and 108 communes.

In Switzerland, Italian is one of the four official languages ; it is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as mother tongue, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German-and French-speaking cantons.

Initiatives ( that are of constitutional level ) have to be accepted by a double majority of both the popular votes and a majority of the cantons, while counter-proposals may be of legislative level and hence require only simple majority.

Four territorial regions link the Land Forces with the cantons by coordinating territorial tasks inside of their sector and are immediately responsible for the security of their regions, depending only on the decisions of the Federal Council.

* October 11 – Battle of Kappel: The forces of Zürich are defeated by the Catholic cantons.

Departments are further subdivided into 342 arrondissements, themselves divided into cantons ; the latter two have no autonomy and are used for the organisation of public services or elections.

Since the 2008 cantonal elections, all eleven cantons are held by Socialists or their allies.

All other cities and municipalities are under the jurisdiction of the Entity ( in Republika Srpska ) or under the jurisdiction of cantons ( Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

Although the name suggests that they are located in the Bernese Oberland region of the canton of Bern, portions of the Bernese Alps are in the adjacent cantons of Valais, Lucerne, Obwalden, Fribourg and Vaud.

It is in the central and eastern portions of the range only that crystalline rocks make their appearance ; the western part is composed almost exclusively of sedimentary deposits, and the secondary ridges extending through Berne and the adjoining cantons are formed of jurassic, cretaceous, or eocene strata.

Arrondissements are further divided into cantons and communes.

These regions are subdivided into 96 départements, which are further divided into 329 arrondissements, which are further divided into 3, 879 cantons, which are further divided into 36, 568 communes ( as of 1 / 1 / 2004 ).

The falls are located on the Upper Rhine between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall and Laufen-Uhwiesen, near the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich.

The departments are divided into arrondissements, themselves divided into cantons.

Cantons have relatively few competences, the most important of which being the local organisation of elections ( cantons are electoral subdivisions ).

The department consists of 31 cantons and 515 communes ( villages or towns ) of which 242 are rural.

Double majorities are, first, the approval by a majority of those voting, and, second, a majority of cantons in which a majority of those voting approve the ballot measure.

The districts are further subdivided into cantons:

While recalls are not provided for at the federal level in Switzerland, six cantons allow them:

In some cantons private companies are unable to avoid payment of the church tax.