Today, administrative divisions are organized into nested hierarchies that vary by country:
: After the Meiji Restoration, Japan ended its feudal domain system in favor of prefectures . While this disrupted traditional domain-based arts, it spurred the growth of modern transportation networks and centralized archives. Modern Hierarchies administrative division
: Peter the Great reformed Russia's unmanageable "governorates" in the early 1700s, subdividing them into provinces and districts specifically for fiscal purposes, ensuring every homestead could be accounted for. administrative division
Early empires discovered that ruling a massive land from a single capital was a "logistical nightmare". administrative division