territory (country subdivision)

Types of administrative and/or political territories include:Many types of legally administered territories, each of which is a non-sovereign geographic area that has come under the authority of another government with varying degrees of local governmental control. This can include federated states which share authority with a central government such as the Länder of Germany or the Counties of a state within one of the States of the United States (those states being another example themselves that were sovereign and ceded rights to a central federated government), or alternatively, a administrative district established by a central nation-state as with the Bundesländer of Austria (which are now a federation), or the subnational entities constituting a unitary state such as France.
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