Flashcards: Types of country subdivisions

An aimag (Mongolian: Аймаг, [æːmɑ̆ɡ̊]), originally a Mongolian word meaning "tribe", is an administrative subdivision in Mongolia and in Inner Mongolia (China).

The comune (IPA: [koˈmuːne]; plural: comuni, IPA: [koˈmuːni]) is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes, in certain modern nations.

A German district is an administrative subdivision known as Landkreis ("rural district"), except in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein where it is known simply as Kreis.

A województwo ([vɔjɛˈvut͡stfɔ]; plural: województwa) is the highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland, corresponding to a "province" in many other countries.

A federated state (which may be referred to as a state, a province, a canton, a Land, etc.) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation.

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

Županija (singular; plural županije) is a South Slavic administrative subdivision in: * Bosnia and Herzegovina: cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Croatia: counties of Croatia It was also used for historical subdivisions of medieval Serbia.

In politics and history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.

The han (藩 han) or domain is the Japanese historical term for the estate of a warrior after the 12th century or of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912).

A territory is a term for types of administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a state.

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

An electoral district (also known as a constituency, legislative district, riding, ward, division, electoral area or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body.

Subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province.

Eyalets (Ottoman Turkish: ایالت‎ Turkish pronunciation: [ejaːˈlet]), (English: State) also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were a primary administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.

A kraj (plural: kraje) is the highest-level administrative unit in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

A modern geographic barony, in Scotland, Ireland and outlying parts of England, constitutes an administrative division of a country, usually of lower rank and importance than a county.

A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census.

Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.

A Reichsgau (plural Reichsgaue) was an administrative subdivision created in a number of areas annexed to Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1945.

Volost (Russian: во́лость; IPA: [ˈvoləsʲtʲ]) was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.

Gau (Dutch: gouw, Frisian: gea or goa) is a Germanic term for a region within a country, often a former or actual province.

A governorate, or a guberniya (Russian: губе́рния; IPA: [ɡʊˈbʲɛrnʲɪjə]; also romanized gubernia, guberniia, gubernya), was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR.

A hundred was an administrative division that was geographically part of a larger region; it was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Norway.

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort.

A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county.

A governorate is an administrative division of a country.

A business improvement district (BID) is a defined area within which businesses are required to pay an additional tax (or levy) in order to fund projects within the district's boundaries.

A prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.

A župa (or zhupa, županija) is a historical type of administrative division in Central Europe and the Balkans, that originated in medieval Slavic culture, often translated into "county" or "district".

A krai or kray (Russian: край, plural края́, kraya) was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and in the Russian SFSR, and it is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia.

The German term Bezirk (plural Bezirke, derived from Latin: circulus, "circle") translated as "district" can refer to the following types of administrative divisions: * Stadtbezirk, a subdivision of a city in the sense of a borough (e.g. in Berlin, Hamburg or Vienna), often again subdivided into several quarters and neighbourhoods.

Okrug (Bulgarian: окръг, okrǎg; Russian: о́круг; Serbian: округ, IPA: [ôkruːɡ]; Ukrainian: окру́га, okruha; Belarusian: Акруга, Akruha; Polish: okręg; Abkhaz: оқрҿс; Tatar: Cyrillic округ, Latin oqruğ; Meadow Mari: йырвел, jyrvel) is an administrative division of some Slavic states.

A Samtgemeinde (German pronunciation: ['zamtgəmaɪndə]; see remark) is an administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany.

A manor in English law is an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.