administrative territorial entity
territorial entity for administration purposes, with or without its own local government
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Summary
administrative territorial entity ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,053 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: human-geographic territorial entity[2], organization[3], geopolitical region[4], geographic location[5]
- Part of: hierarchy of administrative territorial entities[6]
- Commons category: Country subdivisions[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Territorial entities[8], Category:Country subdivisions[9]
- OpenStreetMap tag: boundary=administrative[10]
- Partially coincident with: village[11]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox administrative territorial entity[12], Template:Infobox administrative subdivision 2[13]
- Has characteristic: administrative territorial entity type[14]
- Main Wikidata property: P131[15], P150[16]
- Equivalent class: https://schema.org/AdministrativeArea[17], http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#AdministrativeUnit[18], http://gov.genealogy.net/ontology.owl#GovObject[19]
- Different from: statistical territorial entity[20], political territorial entity[21]
- Properties for this type: P1365[22], P571[23], P576[24], P131[25], P17[26], P1366[27], P442[28], P836[29], P1383[30], P1997[31], P2123[32], P2220[33], P2238[34], P1198[35]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Cities[37], WikiProject Countries[38], WikiProject Politics[39]
- Related category: Category:Types of administrative division[40]
Why It Matters
administrative territorial entity has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 111 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]