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In Malay (both in Malaysian and Indonesian standards) and Tausug, wilayah or wilāya is a general word meaning "territory", "area" or "region". In Thailand, it is the standard Malay term [1] used to translate a "province"". [2] In Malaysia, the term
Khurd and Kalan (Urdu: خرد اور کلاں, Hindi: ख़ुर्द और कलाँ, Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਖ਼ੁਰਦ ਅਤੇ ਕਲਾਂ, shahmukhi: خرد تے کلاں) are administrative designations used in India and Pakistan to indicate the mainland (Khurd) and extension (Kalan) of a town, village or settlement.
By the end of the reign of Aurangzeb in the early 1700s, the common language around Delhi began to be referred to as Zaban-e-Urdu, [33] a name derived from the Turkic word ordu (army) or orda and is said to have arisen as the "language of the camp", or "Zaban-i-Ordu" means "Language of High camps" [32] or natively "Lashkari Zaban" means ...
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT; Urdu: وفاقی دارالحکومت, romanized: Vafāqī Dār-alhakūmat) is the only federal territory of Pakistan that is centred around Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, located on the northern edge of the Pothohar Plateau, at the foot of the Margalla Hills, in the northwestern area of the Punjab region.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد جموں و کشمیر, romanized: Āzād Jammū̃ o Kaśmīr ⓘ, lit. 'Free Jammu and Kashmir'), [6] abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir (/ ˌ ɑː z æ d k æ ʃ ˈ m ɪər / AH-zad kash-MEER), [7] is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entity [8] and constituting the western portion of the ...
A district (Urdu: ضلع, zillah) is the first tier of local government. In total there are 149 districts in Pakistan, of which several are city districts . A District Government or a City District Government and Zillah Council form the governing body, with the District Coordination Officer serving as the administrative head. [ 8 ]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (/ˌkaɪbər pəkˈtuːŋkwə/; Pashto: خېبر پښتونخوا [ˈxebaɾ paxtunˈxwɑ]; Urdu: خیبر پختونخوا, pronounced [ˈxɛːbəɾ pəxˈtuːnxʷɑː] ⓘ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan.
Capital territory or federal capital territory, usually a specially designated territory where a country's seat of government is located. As such, in the federal model of government, no one state or territory takes pre-eminence because the capital lies within its borders. A capital territory can be one specific form of federal district.