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  2. Subdivision (land) - Wikipedia

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    A subdivision plat approved by a local planning commission, once recorded in a registry of deeds, is generally deemed to have created the parcels of land identified on the plat itself. The problem of testamentary division of property was identified by the SCPEA in the footnote to the definition of subdivision, but not fully clarified by it.

  3. List of administrative divisions by country - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    A subdivision survey is conducted to divide the original tract into smaller lots and a plat map is created. Usually this subdivision survey employs a metes and bounds system to delineate individual lots within the main tract. Each lot on the plat map is assigned an identifier, usually a number or letter.

  5. Subdivision - Wikipedia

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    Subdivision (rank), a taxonomic rank; Subdivision (botany), or subphylum, a taxonomic rank; Subdivision (graph theory), adding new vertices to some edges of a graph, whereby replacing the edges by paths; Subdivision surface, in computer graphics

  6. Administrative division - Wikipedia

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    Administrative divisions [1] (also administrative units, [2] [3] [4] administrative regions, [5] #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided. Such a unit usually has an administrative authority with ...

  7. Plat - Wikipedia

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    A plat of subdivision or plan of subdivision appears when a landowner or municipality divides land into smaller parcels. If a landowner owns an acre of land, for instance, and wants to divide it into three pieces, a surveyor would have to take precise measurements of the land and submit the survey to the governing body, which would then have to ...

  8. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    subdivision of a distrito: daerah: Malay-speaking countries: district provinsi Indonesia: province Daerah Istimewa: Special District, all are first level (provincial level) Daerah Khusus Ibukota: Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only. dào (Mandarin) People's Republic of China: circuit deelgemeente Belgium: submunicipality ...

  9. County (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The term "county" is used in 48 states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called parishes and boroughs, respectively. [3] Counties and other local governments exist as a matter of U.S. state law , so the specific governmental powers of counties may vary widely between the states, with many providing some level ...