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2 Administrative Areas 1 Area with Special Administrative Status: 183 counties: 540 Payams: 2,500 Bomas: Spain: Regional 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) 50 provinces (provincias) 477 comarcas: 8,129 municipalities (municipios) 2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast 3 places of sovereignty (plazas ...
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The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 prefectures (県, ken) proper, two urban prefectures (府, fu, Osaka and Kyōto), one "circuit" (道, dō, Hokkaidō), and one "metropolis" (都, to, Tokyo Metropolis). Although different in name, they are functionally the same.
Under a set of 1888–1890 laws on local government [2] until the 1920s, each prefecture (then only 3 -fu and 42 -ken; Hokkaidō and Okinawa-ken were subject to different laws until the 20th century) was subdivided into cities (市, shi) and districts (郡, gun) and each district into towns (町, chō/machi) and villages (村, son/mura).
In Morocco, a wilaya is an administrative division created in 1981 that "brings together many provinces or prefectures or both at the same time, and is intended to endow big urban units such as Casablanca with an administrative organization capable of meeting the needs that emerge from these expanding cities and their growing populations."
All provincial-level divisions of China are divided into prefectural-level divisions (second-level): prefectural-level cities, prefectures, autonomous prefectures and leagues. There are 339 official prefecture level divisions in China as of January 2019: 333 under the control of the People's Republic of China , and 6 in the claimed Taiwan ...
FarmVille 2 is Zynga's hit sequel that combines farming, community-building, and helping Facebook friends into one addictive package. There is a ton to know about FarmVille 2. So whether you're a ...
Reference [2] [3] 1983-01-18: all Province-controlled city (P-City) → Prefecture-level city (PL-City) Civil Affairs Announcement all Prefecture-controlled city (PC-City) → County-level city (CL-City) 1983-10-07: parts of Lhasa (PL-City) Nyingchi Prefecture: established: ↳ Mêdog County: ↳ Mêdog County: transferred ↳ Mainling County ...