The exact answer is hard to come by – for now. Your question has actually sparked scholars to start talking about compiling an official, authoritative database. There are 195 national governments ...

A PROPOSAL to create new provinces grabbed headlines in mid-April, as former finance minister Miftah Ismail and several others advocated for converting existing administrative divisions to provinces.

THE question whether the provinces, or the federating units as they should be called, are subordinate to the federation has been at the centre of one of the more important public debates going on ...