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mesoregion (division of estado) mintaqah (mintaqat) Arab countries: province, region microrregião Brazil: microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios) მხარე Georgia: region muban Thailand: village muhafazah (muhafazat) Arab countries: governorate mukim: Malay-speaking countries
Administrative divisions [1] (also administrative units, [2] [3] [4] administrative regions, [5] #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or 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 ...
List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
This is also the case in Brazil, which groups its primary administrative divisions (estados; "states") into grandes regiões (greater regions) for statistical purposes, while Russia uses экономические районы (economic regions) in a similar way, as does Romania and Venezuela.
They have inspired similar divisions in many countries, some of them former French colonies. The 1822 territorial division of Spain (reverted due to the 1823 French intervention ending the trienio liberal ) and the 1833 territorial division of Spain , which forms the basis of the present day Provinces of Spain with minor modifications, are also ...
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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Largest second level administrative division of Saudi Arabia. Sermersooq: 531,900: Second largest second level administrative division of Greenland. Yemen: 527,968: Country in Middle East. Includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen).