Wang Zhiping was appointed as Vice-Director of Culture Departement of Sichuan. (2010.05.25).

任命王志平为四川省文化厅副厅长。(2010.05.25)。

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Currently the departement (administrative region), stretching from mountainside to shining Mediterranean is officially titled the Pyrenees Orientales.

BBC: Magazine

In the Haute-Pyrenees departement of France, there is anger that the area has been excluded from France's officially-designated disaster area, reducing the aid available to farmers.

BBC: Dutch raise summer heatwave toll

Part of the Turkish Ottoman empire from the 16th century, Algeria was conquered by the French in 1830 and was given the status of a "departement".

BBC: Algeria profile