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A village (村, mura, sometimes son) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken, or other equivalents), city (市, shi), and town (町, chō, sometimes machi). Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.
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 List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
The autonomous areas differ from federal units and independent states in the sense that they, in relation to the majority of other sub-national territories in the same country, enjoy a special status including some legislative powers, within the state (for a detailed list of federated units, see federated state). [2]
This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area ... South Africa: 372,889 km 2: 1,292,786 ... Japan: 83,423 km² 5,281,297 1st 63/km²
Pages in category "Administrative divisions in Africa" The following 177 pages are in this category, out of 177 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Japan is a unitary state, containing forty-seven administrative divisions, with the Emperor as its head of state. [1] His role is ceremonial and he has no powers related to the Government. [2] Instead, it is the Cabinet, comprising the Prime Minister and the Ministers of State, that directs and controls the government and the civil service.
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The following list sorts first-level administrative divisions of countries according to their number of inhabitants. Only administrative units of the highest order are listed. Regions formed for statistical purposes without administrative autonomy, such as the Kantō region in Japan or the eight federal districts of Russia