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A city (市, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan with a population of at least 50,000 of which at least 60% of households must be established in a central urban area, and at least 60% of households must be employed in commerce, industry or other urban occupations.
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 List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
1945 seat of the Chūgoku governorate-general in Hiroshima City, previously and today a building used by Hiroshima University. In the later stages of World War II, in preparation for an Allied invation of the home islands, regions served as administrative units between the Home Ministry and the governments of prefectures from 1943.
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]
The Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) is a spatial database of the administrative units for all the countries in the world. It is a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations .
When the ancient ritsuryō districts were reactivated as administrative units in 1878, Tokyo was subdivided into 15 [urban] districts (-ku) and initially six [rural] districts (-gun; nine after the Tama transfer from Kanagawa in 1893, eight after the merger of East Tama and South Toshima into Toyotama in 1896).
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
Administrative divisions of Serbia; Subdivisions of Sierra Leone; Administrative divisions of Singapore; Subdivisions of Slovenia; Administrative divisions of Somalia; Administrative divisions of Somaliland; Administrative divisions of South Africa; Political divisions of Spain; Subdivisions of Sudan; Administrative divisions of Sweden ...