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Country subdivision can be any type of subdividing the territory of a country. ... A political division is a geographic region accepted to be in the jurisdiction of a particular government entity. ... Outline map of Canadas Census Divisions in 2001 Note: This page refers only to subdivisions in Canada. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... An Amt is a name for subnational administrative units used in some northern European countries. ... An arrondissement is an administrative division in some French- or Dutch-speaking countries: // Main article: Municipal arrondissement in France Main article: Arrondissements of Paris The city of Paris, in France is divided into 20 arrondissements. ... A bailiwick is the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff. ... Banner is a type of administrative division. ... A banner (Mongolian: khoshuu, Chinese: 旗, pinyin: qí) is an administrative division of Inner Mongolia. ... A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ... Bairro (lit. ... Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district. ... Austria is divided into 84 political districts (Bezirke). ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... A block is a country subdivision in some South Asian countries. ... Look up Borough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ... A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. ... This article is about a city that serves as a center of government and politics. ... ... A canton is a territorial subdivision of a country, e. ... Outline map of Canadas Census Divisions in 2001 Note: This page refers only to subdivisions in Canada. ... The census geographic units of Canada are the country subdivisions defined and used by Canadas federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada[1] to conduct the countrys five-yearly census. ... A census metropolitan area, or CMA is a Canadian census subdivision comprising a large urban area (known as the urban core) and adjacent areas (known as urban and rural fringes) that have a high degree of social and economic integration with the urban core. ... Census subdivision is a Canadian political region organized by Statistics Canada and determined by the provinces. ... Circle is an administrative country subdivision. ... // In law, a circuit is an appellate judicial district commonly seen in the court systems of many nations. ... Look up city, City in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An autonomous (subnational) entity is a subnational entity that has a certain amount of autonomy. ... An independent city is a city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity. ... Co-regency refers to the situation where a monarchial position (such as King, Queen, Emperor or Empress), normally held by only a single person, is held by two. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This is a list of the comarques (singular comarca) of Catalonia. ... For the U.S., see Commonwealth (United States). ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... A community as country subdivision can be found in Belgium. ... Spains fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades aut nomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades aut nomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). ... A residential community is a community, usually a small town or city, that is composed mostly of residents, as opposed to commercial businesses and/or industrial facilities, all three of which are considered to be the three main types of occupants of the typical community. ... In international law, a condominium is a territory in which two sovereign powers have equal rights. ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ... An administrative county is an administrative area in the British Isles. ... In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of 县 (xi  n). ... The six metropolitan counties shown within England The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level subnational entity in current use in England. ... Council may refer to a Local government area in Australian English Categories: | ... The Shetland Crofthouse Museum, with peat stacked out front. ... A department is geographically defined area of a centralized state which functions as an administrative unit, usually at provincial level, with or without a representative assembly. ... A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State. ... Federal dependencies as kind of subnational entity can be found in Venezuela. ... Local government areas called districts are used, or have been used, in several countries. ... An autonomous region or autonomous district is a subnational region with special powers of self-rule. ... A capital territory or capital district is normally a specially designated administrative division where a countrys seat of government is located. ... City district can be found as official designation for a country subdivision in Pakistan See also City Districts of Pakistan Category: ... Federal districts are subdivisions of a federal system of government. ... A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties. ... Municipal Districts are Census subdivision used in Canada for the administration of rural areas including farmlands and unincorporated places such as hamlets. ... A division is a type of country subdivision. ... A duchy is a territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess. ... A freguesia (pron. ... A governorate is a country subdivision. ... A hamlet is (usually — see below) a small settlement, too small or unimportant to be considered a village. ... An insular area is United States territory that is neither a part of one of the fifty states nor a part of the District of Columbia, the nations federal district. ... A judeÅ£ is an administrative division in Romania and was also used for some time in Moldova. ... Generally, a local administrative unit (LAU) is an area of governmental administration below a province, region, state or other major national subdivision. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Subcategories There are 5 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages). ... A regional municipality (or region) is a type of Canadian municipal government which works much like a county; the method of government depends on how it is defined. ... The term regional county municipality (French municipalité régionale de comté) is used in the Canadian province of Quebec to designate county-like political and geographic units, or census divisions. ... A rural municipality is a form of municipality in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. ... A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city, town or suburb. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: о́бласт) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... Okrug is a term to denote administrative subdivision in some Slavic states. ... Parish Hall of St. ... A civil parish (usually just parish) in England is a subnational entity forming the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... Periphery is an administrative division in Greece. ... The term prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) indicates the office, seat, territorial circonscription of a Prefect. ... Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... A principality is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a Monarch with the title of prince or princess (a synonym is princedom) or (in the widest sense) a Monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince. ... This article is about states protected and/or dominated by a foreign power. ... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... An autonomous (subnational) entity is a subnational entity that has a certain amount of autonomy. ... A regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) is a political subdivision of a province in Indonesia. ... Look up Region in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An autonomous region or autonomous district is a subnational region with special powers of self-rule. ... Capital Region is a common term for the region or district surrounding a state, provincial or national capital city. ... Special administrative region may be: Peoples Republic of China Special administrative regions, present-day administrative divisions (as of 2006) set up by the Peoples Republic of China to administer Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999) Republic of China Special administrative regions, also translated as special administrative... Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A republic is a form of government maintained by a state or country whose sovereignty is based on popular consent and whose governance is based on popular representation and control. ... A significant number of autonomous republics can be found within the successor states of the Soviet Union, but the majority are located within Russia. ... Ranchería, is a form of administrative division used by Amerindian tribes to organize their social structure. ... BIA map of reservations in the United States Tribal sovereignty: Map of the United States, with non-reservation land highlighted. ... In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band. ... A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain and Australia. ... Most countries with a federal constitution are made up of a number of entities called states. ... The Subdistrict is one of the smallest Political_divisions_of_China. ... Subprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. ... Suzerainty refers to a situation in which a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity which allows the tributary some limited domestic autonomy but controls its foreign affairs. ... Types of administrative and/or political territories include: A legally administered territory, which is a non-sovereign geographic area that has come under the authority of another government. ... Autonomous territorial unit or territorial autonomous unit (moldovan Unitate teritorială autonomă) is a country subdivision term applied to Gagauzia, Moldova. ... A capital territory or capital district is normally a specially designated administrative division where a countrys seat of government is located. ... National Territory is the translation of the Territorio nacional a term used for territories in Argentina. ... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... A townland is a small geographical unit of land used in Ireland and Scotland, and believed to be of Gaelic or Goidelic origin. ... The term township is used to denote a lower level territorial subdivision. ... A civil township is a widely-used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county. ... Crowded Shibuya, Tokyo shopping district An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ... A Vingtaine (literally group of twenty in French) is a political subdivision of Jersey. ... A Voivodship (also voivodeship, Romanian: Voievodat, Polish: Województwo, Serbian: Vojvodstvo or Vojvodina) was a feudal state in medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod (voivode). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into ward (politics). ...

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Agency · Barony · Burgh · Cantref · Commote · Free Imperial City · Hundred · Imperial Circle · Imperial province · Presidency · Residency · Riding  · Rural district  · Sanitary district (rural · urban) · Urban district Agencies of British India Agencies of Pakistan Categories: | ... A barony is a country subdivision, typically at a lower level than a county. ... A sign in Linlithgow, Scotland. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... A “commote” or “commot” was a secular division of land in Medieval Wales. ... In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city (in German: freie Reichsstadt) was a city formally responsible to the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to a territory and were thus governed by one of the many princes (Fürsten) of... A hundred is a geographic division used in England, Scandinavia, and some parts of the USA, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative units. ... A map of the Imperial Circles as at the beginning of the 16th century. ... An imperial province was a Roman province where the Emperor had the sole right to appoint governors. ... Presidency was used as country subdivision in British India. ... British Residency of the Persian Gulf Residencies of British India see: Category:Residencies of British India Category: ... In the British Isles since Anglo-Saxon times, a riding is traditionally a sub-division (especially in three) of a county, in Australia analogous. ... In local government on the British Isles, a rural district was a predominantly rural area used for local government. ... Sanitary Districts were established in England and Wales in 1875 and in Ireland in 1878. ... In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ...

Boldface indicates a type used by ten or more countries; loanwords in italics. A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. ...