Autonomous district

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Autonomous district is a type of administrative country subdivision.

It can be found in Russia, see Autonomous districts of Russia.

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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Federal subjects
Republics Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia-Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia
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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

Paris


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A bailiwick is the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff. The term was also applied to a territory in which the sheriff's functions were exercised by a privately appointed bailiff under a Crown grant.
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A bakhsh is an administrative subdivision in Iran, translated as county, but in many ways similar to a township in the United States or a district of England.

In Iran each ostan or province consists of several shahrestan
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Baladiyah (Arabic: بلدية) is an Arabic country subdivision term that can be translated as municipality.
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Banner is a type of administrative division.

Ottoman Empire

  • Sanjak (Turkish) and Liwa/Liva (Arabic)

China

  • Banner (Inner Mongolia)
  • Eight Banners


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autonomous]] within the People's Republic of China (PRC). These areas are recognized in the PRC's constitution and are given a number of rights not accorded to other administrative divisions.
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Philippines

This article is part of the series:
Politics of the Philippines



Government
Political history Constitution

Executive
President (list)
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Vice President
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Bairro (lit. quarter, Brazilian pron. IPA: [ˈbaixu]) is a Portuguese word and refers to a community or region within a city or municipality. Bairros exist in the majority of large cities in the world.
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Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood. The word has come into use in English mostly through the large Hispanic populations on both coasts of the United States.
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Austria is divided into 84 political districts (Politische Bezirke), and 15 Statutarstädte which form their own districts.

Function

The Austrian Bezirk is roughly equivalent to the Landkreis in Germany.
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A Regierungsbezirk is a government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). Regierungsbezirke are themselves further divided into districts (Kreise), either Landkreise
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A block is a country subdivision in some South Asian countries.

In Bhutan it is called gewog.

See also

  • Blocks of India


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A borough is an administrative division used in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
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County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.
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A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England, covering urban areas within metropolitan counties.

Metropolitan boroughs of London (1900-1965)


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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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Contemporary
Amt Arrondissement Bailiwick Bakhsh Baladiyah Banner Autonomous banner Barangay Bairro Barrio
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A canton is a territorial subdivision of a country, e.g., region or state. The word is derived from the Latin canto "section of a country." Cantons are generally relatively small in terms of area and population when compared to areas such as counties, departments or
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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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The census geographic units of Canada are the country subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada[1] to conduct the country's five-yearly census.
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The census geographic units of Canada are the country subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada[1] to conduct the country's five-yearly census.
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The census geographic units of Canada are the country subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada[1] to conduct the country's five-yearly census.
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