districts of Japan

| | |} The was most recently used as an administrative unit in Japan between 1878 and 1921 and is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, ranking at the level below prefecture and above city, town or village. Currently, cities belong directly to prefectures and are independent from districts, unlike cities in the United States, which usually belong to a county (excluding Virginia, which also has independent cities). Towns and villages do belong to districts, but the districts possess little to no administrative authority, much like the counties of Connecticut. They are used primarily in the Japanese addressing system and to identify the relevant geographical area and collection of nearby towns and villages.
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