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division of município: comuna: Spanish-speaking countries: commune comună Romania: rural commune comune Italy: municipality comunidad Spain: community comunidade intermunicipal Portugal: intermunicipal community comunidade urbana Portugal: urban community concelho Cape Verde: municipality; synonym of município Portugal: corregimiento Panama
In English, the word is also used as the conventional translation for equivalent terms in other languages (e.g., the область , used in Russia alongside a broader term регион). The following countries use the term "region" (or its cognate) as the name of a type of subnational administrative unit:
The specific problem is: Division numbers change frequently. Many numbers given below lack citations, so it is unclear which year they refer to, and difficult to verify that they are not double-counting or missing some divisions. Numbers may be out of sync with linked articles, which sometimes also lack citations for verification.
The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it; The fourth (if present) links to the related article(s) or adds a clarification note.
The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these places. Note: Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final 's' or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms.
Diairesis, Plato's method of definition by division; Division (business), of a business entity is a distinct part of that business but the primary business is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the division; Division (political geography), a name for a subsidiary state or prefecture of a country
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a lathe: Kent was divided into five lathes, from the Old English laeth, meaning district. a riding: was a division of land in Yorkshire and in Lindsey, which was the northern part of modern day Lincolnshire. The riding was a third part of the shire.