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A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Curonia, the Ukrainian state of the Cossack Hetmanate and in Cumberland County in the British Colony ...
Country Number of country subdivisions Russia: 43 United States: 40 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
A dependent territory is commonly distinguished from a country subdivision by being considered not to be a constituent part of a sovereign state. An administrative subdivision, instead, is understood to be a division of a state proper. A dependent territory, conversely, often maintains a great degree of autonomy from its controlling state.
The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions . Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh ...
The term was used in 19th-century Canada to refer to subdivisions of counties. In Canadian politics, riding is a colloquial term for a constituency or electoral district. Officially, electoral district is generally used, although government documents sometimes use the colloquial term. In colloquial Canadian French, a riding is known as comté ...
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish, the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division: Qld: Prior to the digitisation and renumbering of the cadastre of Queensland parishes were ...
Sector is a name for an administrative division in some countries. It is used for: Sectors of Bucharest. Sectors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sectors of Guinea-Bissau. Sectors of Islamabad. Sectors of Rwanda. List of barrios and sectors of Caguas, Puerto Rico.
