cantonize

From canton +‎ -ize.

cantonize (third-person singular simple present cantonizes, present participle cantonizing, simple past and past participle cantonized)

1. (transitive) To divide into cantons or small districts.

• cantonization

• “cantonize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.