The District Collector is a Central Indian Government appointee who is in charge of the governance of a district in a state. District Collectors are officers of the Indian Administrative Service and are the most powerful government officials of the district. They are entrusted the task of handling law and order, revenue collection, taxation, permission for development of buildings and structures and handling of natural and man-made emergencies. According to its constitution, India is a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. ... This is a list of districts of India. ... The Indian Administrative Service, also called the Steel frame of India, was born out of the need for having a strong administrative network which can be relied upon by the executive arm of the Government for implementing its decisions effectively. ...
In Alberta, the district (known as municipal districts) acts like a county or a city but not like the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia, all districts and counties are part of census subdivisions of their respective census divisions.
Districts tend to be less urbanised, tend to cover more than one population centre and a larger amount of rural area, and tend to have a smaller population than cities.
A district ("amphoe") is a subdivision of a Province ("changwat") in Thailand.
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