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Country subdivision refers to the division of a country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
's territory for the sake of its administration
Local government

Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government....
, description or other such purpose. The resulting units of division are known generically as "country subdivisions". Unlike geographical
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 or geomorphological
Geomorphology

Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do: to understand landform history and dynamics, and predict future changes through a combination of field observation, physical experiment, and numerical mathematical model....
 areas such as basin
Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
s, desert
Désert

?D?sert? is ?milie Simon's debut single, released in October 2002. The song was a huge success both critically and commercially in her homeland....
s, valley
Valley

In geology, a valley is a Depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge....
s and the like, country subdivisions are abstract creations intended to make it easier to run the country. There are several types of country subdivisions, including: administrative divisions, electoral division
Electoral division

An electoral division may be a:* Constituency* Ward ...
s, census division
Census division

Census division is an official term in Canada and the United States of America. The census divisions of Canada are second-level Census geographic units of Canada, below Provinces and territories of Canada, and above "census subdivisions" and "dissemination areas"....
s, development region
Regional development

Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature....
s, time zone
Time zone

A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time ....
s, etc.

Administrative divisions
The most common type of country subdivision are administrative division
Administrative division

|align="right"| |}Administrative divisions are divisions of a political division. In other words, they are designated portions of a country....
s, viz.






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Country subdivision refers to the division of a country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
's territory for the sake of its administration
Local government

Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government....
, description or other such purpose. The resulting units of division are known generically as "country subdivisions". Unlike geographical
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
 or geomorphological
Geomorphology

Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do: to understand landform history and dynamics, and predict future changes through a combination of field observation, physical experiment, and numerical mathematical model....
 areas such as basin
Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
s, desert
Désert

?D?sert? is ?milie Simon's debut single, released in October 2002. The song was a huge success both critically and commercially in her homeland....
s, valley
Valley

In geology, a valley is a Depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge....
s and the like, country subdivisions are abstract creations intended to make it easier to run the country. There are several types of country subdivisions, including: administrative divisions, electoral division
Electoral division

An electoral division may be a:* Constituency* Ward ...
s, census division
Census division

Census division is an official term in Canada and the United States of America. The census divisions of Canada are second-level Census geographic units of Canada, below Provinces and territories of Canada, and above "census subdivisions" and "dissemination areas"....
s, development region
Regional development

Regional development is the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed. Regional development may be domestic or international in nature....
s, time zone
Time zone

A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time ....
s, etc.

Administrative divisions


The most common type of country subdivision are administrative division
Administrative division

|align="right"| |}Administrative divisions are divisions of a political division. In other words, they are designated portions of a country....
s, viz. divisions such as province
Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
s, district
District

Districts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipality, or subdivisions of municipalities....
s and municipalities
Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
. A few countries have administrative divisions that are themselves called "divisions" or "subdivisions".

Electoral and census divisions


The second most common types of country subdivision are electoral and
Electoral division

An electoral division may be a:* Constituency* Ward ...
 census division
Census division

Census division is an official term in Canada and the United States of America. The census divisions of Canada are second-level Census geographic units of Canada, below Provinces and territories of Canada, and above "census subdivisions" and "dissemination areas"....
s such as constituencies
Constituency

A constituency is any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty. Constituency can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves....
, wards, census geographic units, census metropolitan areas, and census subdivision. Some countries, however, use these terms (or their native equivalents) to identify types of administrative division; for example, Namibia
Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean coast. It shares borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south....
's constituencies
Constituencies of Namibia

Each of the 13 Regions of Namibia in Namibia are further subdivided into constituencies. The number and size of each constituency varies with the size and population of each region....
 or those countries listed in the article Ward (administrative division). In North America, "Census division" and "census subdivision" are themselves types of census divisions.

Other subdivision types


Other types of country subdivision include statistical divisions, judicial districts, police precinct
Police precinct

Police precinct is a form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force.Police forces using this format include:* New York Police Department...
s, planning or
Regional planning

Regional planning is a branch of land use planning and deals with the efficient placement of land use activities, infrastructure and settlement growth across a significantly larger area of land than an individual city or town....
 development regions, school district
School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public elementary school and high school schools. They exist mostly in the United States, where they operate nearly all government-funded schools....
s, special-purpose district
Special-purpose district

There are two types of special-purpose districts in the United States: school districts and special districts. This is a type of district differing from general-purpose districts like municipality, county, etc., in that they only serve one or a few special purposes and do not provide a broad array of services....
s, time zone
Time zone

A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time ....
s, transport regions, and water districts.

ISO 3166-2

According to the ISO
International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO , is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations....
's website, ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standardization published by the International Organization for Standardization , and defines codes for the names of the principal country subdivisions of all country coded in ISO 3166-1....
 (Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 2: Country subdivision code) uses the term "country subdivision" to denote "principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states)" .

See also

  • Administrative division
    Administrative division

    |align="right"| |}Administrative divisions are divisions of a political division. In other words, they are designated portions of a country....
  • Matrix of country subdivisions
  • Political division
    Political division

    A political division is a term of art of geography defining the concept of a geographic region accepted to be in the jurisdiction of a particular government entity....
     (another name for "country")
  • Politics of country subdivisions
    Politics of country subdivisions

    This list summarises the country subdivisions which have a separate article on their politics. Countries where significant powers delegated to federal units or to devolved governments and where the political system is multi-party democracy are more likely to have articles on the politics of their subdivisions....
  • Supranationalism
    Supranationalism

    Supranationalism is a method of decision-making in multi-national political communities, wherein power is transferred to an authority broader than governments of member states....
  • Trade bloc
    Trade bloc

    A trade bloc is a type of intergovernmental agreement, often part of a regional intergovernmental organization, where regional barriers to trade are reduced or eliminated among the participating states....