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Administrative division
Summary
Administrative divisions (also Administrative units, Administrative regions, Subnational entities, or a Constituent states (as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent Sovereign state is divided. Such a unit usually has an administrative authority with the power to take administrative or policy decisions for its area.
Usually, Sovereign states have several levels of administrative division. The common names for the principal (largest) Administrative divisions are: States (i.e. "Subnational states", rather than Sovereign states), Provinces, Lands, Oblasts, Governorates, Cantons, Prefectures, Counties, Regions, Departments, and Emirates. These, in turn, are often subdivided into smaller administrative units known by names such as Circuits, Counties, Comarcas, Raions, Județe, or Districts, which are further subdivided into Municipalities, Communes or communities constituting the smallest units of su
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