1) Administrative district 2) Administrative division 3) County subdivision 4) Customary unit of measurement 5) Facebook game 6) IOS game 7) Municipality 8) Scottish society 9) Territorial division 10) Town 11) Township in New Jersey 12) Township in Taiwan
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1) Municipality
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The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. While township may be associated with an urban area, there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban. ==Australia== In Australia, the designation of `township` .....
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[Canada] The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town. However in some systems no town needs to be involved. The specific use of the term to describe political subdivisions has varied by country, usually to describe a local rural or semi-rural government within the country itself. In eastern Canada a townshi...
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[England] In England, a township (Latin: villa) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church. A township may or may not be coterminous with a chapelry, manor, or any other minor area of local administration. The township is to be distinguished from the following: `Townshi...
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[New Jersey] A township, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. As a political entity, a township is a full-fledged municipality, on par with any town, city, borough, or village, collecting property taxes and providing services such as maintaining roads, ga...
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[Pennsylvania] A township in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a federated state of the United States of America, is one of four types of municipalities in the state, along with counties, cities, and boroughs. ...
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[Scotland] In Scotland a crofting township is a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a substantial tract of unimproved upland grazing. Each township comprises a formal legal unit. Like older Scottish land measurements, such as the davoch, quarterland ...
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[South Africa] {Apartheid} In South Africa, the term township and location usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban living areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (black Africans, Coloureds and Indians). Townships were usually built on the periphery of towns and cities. The t...
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[Taiwan] Townships are the third-level administrative subdivisions of counties of Taiwan, along with county-controlled cities. After World War II, the townships were established from the following conversions on the Japanese administrative divisions: Recently there are totally 194 townships in Taiwan, including 153 rural townships and 41 ur...
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[United States] A township in the United States is a small geographic area. Townships range in size from 6 to 54 square miles (15.6 km² to 140.4 km²), with 36 square miles (93 km²) being the norm. The term is used in three ways. ==Survey townships== Survey townships are generally referred to by a number based on the Public Land Survey Sy...
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area of local administration based on a discrete settlement or collection of homesteads, usually coterminous with, or a constituent of, the parish, q.v.; see also
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• (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. • (n.) The district or territory of a town. • (n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
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(from the article `Cape Town`) South Africa`s Group Areas Act of 1966 consolidated earlier acts aimed at enforcing the policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, and it ... ...of the urban space, while other sectors and peripheral localities were set aside for nonwhites; many of these latter areas were initially devoted ... [2 ...
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unit of government found primarily in the northeast and north central United States; it is a subdivision of a county and is usually 36 square miles ... [2 related articles]
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In South Africa, an urban settlement designated for non-white residents by the
apartheid government 1948-94. Townships such as Soweto (South Western Township), Johannesburg, a pre-existing...
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1. The district or territory of a town. ... In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to ...
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area of local administration based on a discrete settlement or collection of homesteads, usually coterminous with, or a constituent of, the parish, q.v.; see also
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Town'ship noun 1. The district or territory of a town. » In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as rep...
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n] - an administrative division of a county
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noun an administrative division of a county; `the town is responsible for snow removal`
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In South Africa, an urban settlement designated for non-white residents by the apartheid government 1948–94. Townships such as Soweto (South Western Township), Johannesburg, a pre-existing shanty town, were created on the edges of major towns and cities. Their purpose was to control and preserve a local black workforce while ensuring s...
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( xiang ) The basic government administrative unit below the county level in rural areas. Townships existed before people's communes were organized in 1958 and were reconstituted when production brigades and communes were disbanded during the period 1982-85. Each township has a people's congress and an elected chairman. In the mi...
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