Hierarchy classification:

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

Narrower term/s

• districts [NP][+]
  • [districts by function] [+]
    • administrative districts [+]
      • election districts [+]
      • park districts
      • planning districts
      • school districts
      • assessment districts
      • water districts
      • seigneuries
      • religious districts [+]
      • civil districts [+]
      • census districts [+]
      • stannaries
      • hundreds (districts)
    • land use districts [+]
      • civic centers (districts)
      • business districts [+]
      • historic districts [+]
      • industrial districts
      • residential districts [+]
      • zones [+]
      • forest management districts
      • enclaves
  • [districts by location or context] [+]
    • urban areas [+]
      • acropolises
      • quarters (districts) [+]
      • central cities
      • central business districts
      • inner cities
      • old towns [+]
      • metropolitan areas [NP]
      • urban fringes
      • downtowns
      • uptowns
      • city centers [+]
    • demilitarized zones
    • rural areas
    • annexes (districts)
    • arctic areas
    • neutral zones (administrative districts)
    • borderlands [+]
      • marches (districts)
      • frontiers
    • 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 [+]
      • parishes (religious divisions)
      • archdioceses
      • dioceses
      • prince-bishoprics
      • patriarchies
      • ecclesiastical districts
      • deaconries
      • archdeaconries
    • political divisions [+]
      • arrondissements (districts)
      • cantons (administrative bodies)
      • counties [+]
      • departments (political divisions)
      • provinces
      • shires
      • states (political divisions)
      • boroughs
      • territories
      • governorates
      • satrapies [NP]
      • oblasts
      • Länder
      • regions (administrative divisions)
      • almirantazgos
      • bailiwicks
      • unitary authorities
      • local councils (subdivisions)
      • regional councils
      • local districts
      • local regions
      • autonomous districts
      • national districts
      • national divisions
      • rural districts
      • senatorial districts (administrative districts)
      • parishes (civil divisions)
      • urban prefectures
      • senatorial provinces
      • imperial provinces
      • autonomous regions
      • autonomous provinces
      • autonomous republics
      • autonomous sectors
      • autonomous communities
      • national subdivisions
      • special areas (administrative area)
      • union territories
      • federal territories
      • federal capital territories
      • eparchies
      • autonomous areas
      • regional divisions
      • controlled regions
      • national regions
      • unions (political entities)
      • urban subdivisions
      • Bezirke
      • contrade
      • sestieri
      • rioni
      • urban districts
      • urban divisions
      • frazioni
      • Ortsteile
      • quartieri
      • statistical areas
      • plazas (administrative)
      • raions
      • town councils
      • krays
    • former administrative divisions
    • federated states
    • time zones [NP]
  • sovereign states [+]
    • nations [+]
      • republics
      • developing countries
      • island nations
      • tribal nations
      • developed countries
    • empires (sovereign states)
    • city-states [+]
      • altepemeh
    • suzerains (states)
    • countries (sovereign states)
    • polities
    • de jure sovereign states
  • dependencies [+]
    • condominiums (dependencies)
    • mandates
    • possessions (dependencies) [+]
      • colonies
      • former territories/colonies/dependent states
    • 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] [+]
      • hamlets
      • villages [+]
      • towns [+]
      • cities [+]
      • agglomerations [+]
      • metropolitan areas
      • camps (temporary settlements)
      • communities (inhabited places) [+]
      • communes (administrative)
      • demes (inhabited places)
      • linear settlements [+]
      • settlements (sites of small communities)
      • townlands
    • [settlements by function] [+]
      • [settlements by function: administrative] [+]
      • [settlements by function: military] [+]
      • televillages
      • special cities
      • independent cities
      • special municipalities
      • imperial cities
      • administrative centers
      • legislative centers
      • judicial centers
      • regional centers
      • transportation centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • religious centers [+]
      • political centers
      • emporia (trading centers)
      • facility centers
      • census-designated places
    • [settlements by location] [+]
      • suburbs [+]
      • exurbs
      • [settlements by location: topographical] [+]
      • space colonies
      • edge cities
      • rural communities
      • frontier settlements
      • satellite communities [+]
    • [settlements by condition] [+]
      • lost settlements [+]
      • ruined settlements [+]
      • ghost towns
      • unincorporated areas
      • autonomous municipalities
      • autonomous cities
      • ephemeral communities (inhabited places)
      • incorporated areas
      • seasonally inhabited places
      • cultural centers (inhabited places)
      • occupation sites
      • sister cities
      • former inhabited places
      • centers (settlements)
      • floating communities
    • [settlements by planning concept] [+]
      • bastides [NP]
      • model cities
      • future cities
      • ideal cities
      • urban villages
      • villes neuves (historical settlements)
      • planned communities [+]
    • [settlements by occupants] [+]
      • artists' colonies
      • retirement communities [+]
      • squatter settlements
      • quilombos
      • agraharas
      • leper colonies
      • residential centers
      • penal settlements [+]
      • craftsman settlements
      • refugee centers
      • native peoples reservations [+]
      • Amerindian communities [+]
      • pirate havens
      • health colonies
    • [settlements by ownership] [+]
      • collective settlements [+]
    • [settlements by economic base] [+]
      • boomtowns
      • ports (settlements) [+]
      • company towns
      • golf course communities
      • cow towns
      • fishing communities [+]
      • fur stations
      • prison centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • breeding centers (inhabited places)
      • agricultural centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • irrigation centers (inhabited places)
      • livestock centers
      • timber centers
      • viniculture centers
      • corporate headquarters (inhabited places)
      • fish-processing centers (inhabited places)
      • financial centers
      • market centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • trade centers
      • shipping centers
      • shipbuilding centers
      • textile centers
      • tourist centers [+]
      • resort centers
      • sporting centers (inhabited places)
      • spa centers
      • entertainment centers (inhabited places)
      • university centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • college centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • scientific centers (inhabited places)
      • publishing centers
      • industrial centers (inhabited places) [+]
      • quarrying centers
      • petroleum refining centers
      • metallurgical centers
      • communications centers (inhabited places)
      • power production centers (inhabited places)
      • weapons production centers
      • commercial centers (inhabited places)
  • 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

Anotations

Scope note:

Collocates descriptors for organizations consisting of a governing authority together with a population and an area of land which are under its jurisdiction in some or all respects.