Microregion

Designation for territorial entities

Microregion is a designation for territorial entities.

Austria

Brazil

Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer

A microregion is a geographic region of a size between that of a community and that of a district.[1]

See also

  • Macroregion
  • Mesoregion
  • Microdistrict, Soviet and Central European urban housing schemes

References

  1. ^ p. 18, "What's in a Region? Southeast European Regions Between Globalization, EU-Integration and Marginalization", Klaus Roth, pp. 17 ff. in Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, part I, Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer, eds., Ethnologia Balkanica 11 (2007), LIT Verlag, Münster, ISBN 3-8258-1387-8.
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Designations for types of administrative division
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Area
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  • Unorganized area
Borough
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  • Imperial capital
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Country
Department
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Division
Indian reserve/reservation
Municipality
Prefecture
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Region
State
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Township
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Non-English terms or loanwords
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Used by ten or more countries or having derived terms. Historical derivations in italics.
See also
Census division
Electoral district
List of administrative divisions by country
Slavic administrative divisions


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