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The United Kingdom is an example of a unitary state. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have a degree of autonomous devolved power, but such power is delegated by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which may enact laws unilaterally altering or abolishing devolution.
A state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government.
11 proposed states for the proposed Federal Republic of the Philippines. The Philippines is a unitary state with some powers devolved to Local Government Units (LGUs) under the terms of the Local Government Code. There is also one autonomous region, Bangsamoro.
United States; India; Unitary state: A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government.
Unitary 58 provinces 553 districts (daïras) 1,541 communes (baladiyahs) Andorra: Unitary 7 parishes (parròquies) Angola: Unitary 18 provinces (províncias) 163 municipalities (municípios) 618 communes (comunas) villages (aldeias) Antigua and Barbuda: Unitary 6 parishes 2 dependencies: 60 major divisions: 116 communities [1] 353 localities [2 ...
A unitary state may closely resemble a federation in structure and, while a central government may possess the theoretical right to revoke the autonomy of a self-governing region, it may be politically difficult for it to do so in practice. The self-governing regions of some unitary states also often enjoy greater autonomy than those of some ...
A central government is the government that is a controlling power over a unitary state.Another distinct but sovereign political entity is a federal government, which may have distinct powers at various levels of government, authorized or delegated to it by the federation and mutually agreed upon by each of the federated states.
A unitary parliamentary republic is a unitary state with a republican form of government in which the political power is vested in and entrusted to the parliament with confidence [clarification needed] by its electorate. [further explanation needed]