Ward (country subdivision)

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Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to the area. It is common in the US for city wards to simply be numbered, however.

A ward in Nepal is a political division. 9 Wards make up a Village Development Committee (VDC); VDCs make districts; Districts makes Zones; and Zones (regions) make up the country.

In northern England, a ward was a sub-entity of a county, equivalent to a hundred

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Types of country subdivision
Contemporary
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Historical
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Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Ireland
Éire
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Northwest of continental Europe with Great Britain to the east.

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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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ward is an electoral district within a municipality used in local politics. An example is The ward of Middleton St George in Northern England.
  • The Hoddle Grid area of Melbourne in the nineteenth century was divided into four wards: Bourke, Gipps, La Trobe and Lonsdale.
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    • 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 municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.
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    Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state or province. The term is used to contrast with offices that stand naked nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or (where appropriate) federal government.
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    Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne. Named after its designer, Robert Hoddle, the Grid was laid out in 1837, and later extended. It covers the area from Flinders St to Queen Victoria Market, and from Spencer St to Spring St.
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    Melbourne
    Victoria

    Location of Melbourne in Australia

    Population:
    • Density: 3,744,373 (2006 estimate) (2nd)
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    This article contains Japanese text.
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    A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city, town or suburb.

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    street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about.
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    A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. It is used by some Christian churches, usually liturgical churches, and also by the civil government in a number of countries (see civil parish).

    Etymology

    The term "Parish" derives from Anglo-Fr.
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    landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area.

    In modern usage, it includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument, building, or other structure.
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    Motto
    जननी जन्मभूमिष्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी   (Sanskrit)
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    Motto
    Dieu et mon droit   (French)
    "God and my right"
    Anthem
    No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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    A hundred is a geographic division used in England, Denmark, South Australia and some parts of the USA, Germany, Sweden (and today's Finland) and Norway, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative units.
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    ku (区), conventionally translated as ward (but closer to "borough" in normal English use), is a district in a large Japanese city. Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance, as well as Tokyo (where the "23 special wards" have a
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    A ward in the United Kingdom is an electoral district represented by one or more councillors. It is the primary unit of UK administrative and electoral geography (except in the Isles of Scilly).
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    In the United States, wards are political divisions which usually have leaders elected by the party committee members within their boundaries. Ward leaders are often major forces within the political and civic life of their neighborhoods, influencing zoning, the provision of
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    Country subdivision refers to the division of a country's territory for the sake of its administration, description or other such purpose. The resulting units of division are known generically as "country subdivisions".
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    Administrative division (also known as "Subnational entities") is a generic term for an administrative region within a country or Political division — on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state — typically with a local government
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    A political division is a geographic region accepted to be in the jurisdiction of a particular government entity. On the large scale, a political division is typically a country, while administrative divisions including states, counties, cities, and others can also be defined.
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    The term Census division or Census Division is officially used for the Census divisions of Canada and the Census divisions of the United States.


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    An electoral division may be a:
    • Constituency
    • Ward (electoral division)

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    "Amt" is a name for subnational administrative units used in some northern European countries. It is generally larger than a municipality, and the term is thus roughly equivalent to "county".
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    An arrondissement is an administrative division in some French or Dutch-speaking countries:

    France

    Municipal arrondissement

    Main article: Municipal arrondissement in France

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