Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations (hierarchy name)
4. organizations (groups)

Narrower term/s

• judicial administrative bodies[+]
  • courts (judicial bodies) [+]
    • district courts
    • courts of chancery
    • papal tribunals
    • vierschaars
• political administrative bodies[+]
  • districts [NP] [+]
    • [districts by function] [+]
      • administrative districts [+]
      • land use districts [+]
    • [districts by location or context] [+]
      • urban areas [+]
      • demilitarized zones
      • rural areas
      • annexes (districts)
      • arctic areas
      • neutral zones (administrative districts)
      • borderlands [+]
      • locales (settlements)
      • borders (boundaries)
      • general regions
      • underwater areas
      • ancient regions
      • conflict zones
    • [districts by condition] [+]
      • development areas
      • growth centers
  • [political administrative bodies by degree of independence] [+]
    • divisions (political administrative bodies) [+]
      • satrapies [NP]
      • religious divisions [+]
      • political divisions [+]
      • former administrative divisions
      • federated states
      • time zones [NP]
    • sovereign states [+]
      • nations [+]
      • empires (sovereign states)
      • city-states [+]
      • suzerains (states)
      • countries (sovereign states)
      • polities
      • de jure sovereign states
    • dependencies [+]
      • condominiums (dependencies)
      • mandates
      • possessions (dependencies) [+]
      • protectorates
      • trust territories
      • tributaries (dependencies)
      • dependent political entities
      • overseas provinces
      • external territories
      • unincorporated territories
      • overseas territories
      • overseas departments
      • special territories
      • client states
      • protected states
      • vassal states
      • dominions
      • disputed territories
      • dependent states
    • freely associated states
    • semi-independent political entities
    • independent political entities
    • occupied territories
    • independent sovereign nations
    • independent nations
    • groups of political entities [+]
      • former groups of political entitites
  • [political administrative bodies by governing person] [+]
    • democracies
    • dictatorships
    • monarchies
    • theocracies
    • archduchies
    • duchies
    • electorates (German administrative bodies)
    • intendancies
    • khanates (administrative bodies)
    • kingdoms (political administrative bodies)
    • landgraviates
    • margraviates
    • prefectures
    • palatinates
    • principalities
    • satrapies
    • emirates
    • sheikhdoms
    • sultanates (administrative bodies)
    • voivodeships
    • presidencies (administrative bodies)
    • commanderies
    • countships
    • suzerainties
    • baronies
    • viceroyalties
    • caliphates
    • fiefs
    • chiefdoms
    • aristocracies
    • papacies
    • burgraviates
    • parliamentary democracies
    • despotates
    • miltary regimes
    • grand duchies
    • earldoms
    • lordships
    • parliamentary monarchies
    • constitutional monarchies
    • overlordships
    • oligarchies
    • ecclesiastical principalities
    • tsardoms
    • tribal entities [+]
      • tribal areas [NP]
      • tribal nations [NP]
  • political entities
  • [political administrative bodies by general designation] [+]
    • inhabited places [NP] [+]
      • [settlements by form] [+]
      • [settlements by function] [+]
      • [settlements by location] [+]
      • [settlements by condition] [+]
      • [settlements by planning concept] [+]
      • [settlements by occupants] [+]
      • [settlements by ownership] [+]
      • [settlements by economic base] [+]
    • primary political entities [+]
      • former primary political entities
    • first level subdivisions (political entities)
    • second level subdivisions (political entities)
    • third level subdivisions (political entities)
    • fourth level subdivisions (political entities)
    • parts of inhabited places
    • administrative designations (political administrative bodies)
    • fifth level subdivisions
• former administrative bodies

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for offices, departments, or other branches or representatives that have authority to oversee, direct, manage, and administer on behalf of an institution or other group. Use "governing bodies" specifically for organizations who exercise executive power.