> 150.000? I was rather thinking of around a million! Only France already has 36.000 county-level territs, imagine how many Russia will have!
Russia has a much lower population density, so it probably won't have many more (if more at all). I can't find any more information about this, except that there are 83 highest-level subdivisions, called federal objects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia Each one one them might be subdivided differently, since Russia is a federation - maybe some Russian here could shed some light on it?