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Administrative Division Type

This dimension names the specific type of administrative division a state actually is, a province, a canton or a constituent state. Wikipedia describes administrative divisions broadly as "geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided," and the exact division type reflects how a given country has chosen to organize itself internally. Browsing by division type groups subnational units that share the same formal structure.

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England (French/Latin Origin) 1
Administrative Division Type
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1. County - Wikipedia
WikipediaCounty, Norman Conquest sentence
Quote, County, Norman Conquest sentence
There were no such counts in medieval England, and when the French-speaking Normans took control of England after 1066 they transplanted the French and medieval Latin terms to describe the pre-existing Anglo Saxon shires.
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