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Department (administrative division)

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governments, apparently to emphasize that each territory was simply an administrative sub-division of the united sovereign nation. (The term "department", in other contexts, means an administrative sub-division of a larger organization.) This attempt to de-emphasize local political identity contrasts
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The division of France into departments was a project particularly identified with the French revolutionary leader the
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or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in
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Administrative Subdivisions of Countries: A Comprehensive World Reference, 1900 through 1998
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Map showing countries in the world that have departments as administrative divisions.
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Used by ten or more countries or having derived terms. Historical derivations in
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strongly with countries divided into "states" (implying local sovereignty).
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As a territorial entity, "department" was first used by the
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Today, departments may exist either with or without a
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Administrative or political division in some countries
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Index

Department (subnational entity)
Department (disambiguation)

French
Spanish
departamento
administrative
the Americas
Africa
Europe
French Revolutionary
Abbé Sieyès
d'Argenson
representative assembly
executive
countries
constitutional
Argentina
Argentina
Benin
Benin
Bolivia
Bolivia
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Cameroon
Chad
Chad
Colombia

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