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A department (French: département, Spanish: departamento) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa. An additional 10 countries use departments as second-level divisions, eight in Africa, and one each in the Americas and Europe. Today, departments may exist either with or without a representative assembly and executive head depending upon the countries' constitutional and administrative structure.