ABSTRACT
There is no State whose sovereignty extends over only one geographical region. The State is an artificial contrivance by which several, or perhaps many, geographical regions, some natural, some man-made, are welded into one working unit. Nevertheless, if only for the purposes of administration, even the most highly centralized States are split into numerous sub-divisions. An examination of the political map shows that France is divided into departments, Britain into counties, Spain into provinces, Poland into powiats, and that all countries have some such system. It is essential that a State should be divided in this way, but the political divisions adopted may or may not coincide with geographical regions.
