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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Circuit (subnational entity)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Circuit (道 ; Chinese: dào; Japanese: dō) was a historical political division of China, and is still a Japanese one.
Circuits were demoted to the second-level after the Yuan Dynasty established provinces at the very top, and remained there for the next several centuries.
Circuits still existed as high-level, though not top-level, divisions of the Republic of China, such as Qiongya Circuit (now Hainan Province).
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A number of modern commentators have claimed that we are experiencing the decline of the Westphalian state as the principal actor of the international system, pointing to economic, cultural, political, and technological changes in the world, such as globalization and the emergence of regional and supernational groupings such as the European Union.
The term "state" is also used to describe subnational territorial divisions within a federal system, as in the case of the United States of America.
Currently, the entire land surface of the Earth is divided among the territories of the roughly two hundred states now existing, with the special case of Antarctica, a variety of disputed territories, and a number of areas where state power exists in theory, but not in practice (the most significant of these being Somalia).
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/t/a/State.html   (3732 words)

  
 City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most notably Baghdad, which second to some estimates became the first city to exceed a population of one million instead of Rome.
During the European Middle Ages, a town was as much a political entity as a collection of houses.
See also: List of terms for sub-national entities, List of subnational entities, Matrix of subnational entities
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 Circuit - Coupon
Circuit City is a leading national retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers and movies.
The Circuit Court is the trial court of general jurisdiction in Virginia; this means that...
Circuit Sage Circuit Sage Circuit Sage aims to be "a complete source of information to help you design great circuits fast." Visitors can link on a circuit diagram or categories listed on the sidebar to learn more about various aspects of...
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 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Subnational entity is a generic term for an administrative region within a country — on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state — typically with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties, or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy in a varying number of matters.
Confusingly, in countries that are not nation states, this may well mean that some or all "subnational" entities in reality are also national entities.
Subnational entities are conceptually separate from dependent areas so that the former are included in the core or mainland of the respective state.
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 gift County - gift-report.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The counties handle matters as high schools and local roads, and until recently hospitals as well.
This responsibility is now transferred to the state, and there is a debate on the future of the county as an administrative entity.
Some people, and parties, such as the Conservatives, Høyre, call for the abolishment of the counties once and for all, while others merely want to merger some of them into larger regions.
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