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In the United States, the creation of a subdivision was often the first step toward the creation of a new incorporated township or city.Contemporary notions of subdivisions rely on the Lot and Block survey system, which became widely used in the 19th century as a means of addressing the expansion of cities into surrounding farmland.
List of terms for country subdivisions; List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions; List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
In New York, Wisconsin and New England, county subdivisions are called towns. The U.S. Census divides counties in states not having such subdivisions into other minor civil divisions, sometimes using electoral districts. The terms "township" and "town" are closely related (in many historical documents the terms are used interchangeably).
ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Number of country subdivisions Russia: 85 United States: 55 China: 26 Brazil: 20 Argentina: 19 Kazakhstan: 17 India: 16 Congo-Kinshasa: 15 Mexico and Mongolia: 12 Algeria and Canada: 11 Saudi Arabia: 10 Indonesia, Iran and Libya: 9 Mali and South Africa: 8 Angola, Australia, Somalia, Sudan and Zambia: 7 Chad and Mozambique: 6
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1]
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. [3]
The territory of the United States may be divided into three classes of non-overlapping top-level political divisions: the 50 States, the federal district, District of Columbia, and a variety of insular areas.