Administrative division

An administrative division is a term for an administrative region within a country that is created for the purposes of managing of land and the affairs of people. The area typically has a local government with a certain degree of autonomy, and is on a level below that of the sovereign state.

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• Country (a national or supra-national entity)
• Empire (a supra-national entity)
• State (a national or supra-national entity)

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Administrative territorial entities.

• ISO 3166-2 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 2

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• United Nations' Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) dataset Archived 2004-10-14 at the Wayback Machine