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In addition to these subdivisions, there are also cities and towns, which take over some of the responsibilities of the districts and communes on the area covered by the municipality. These all have an elected board and an elected mayor.
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In addition to the population numbers, the municipalities need to have enough tax revenues for the administration to be able to execute the offices of administrations.
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For areas which do not reach the mandatory conditions, they exist another lower level of local administration. These usually cover a complete subdistrict (
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Officially, Cambodia is divided into 5 administrative tiers, with different types of administrative unit on each tier:
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krong (town): More than 10,000 citizens - or a provincial capital
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of the capital has already spread into these areas.
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Administrative divisions
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