Ward (country subdivision)
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- In Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, a ward is an electoral district within a municipality used in local politics. An example is the ward of Middleton St George in Northern England.
- The Hoddle Grid area of Melbourne in the nineteenth century was divided into four wards: Bourke, Gipps, La Trobe and Lonsdale.
- In certain cities of India, like Mumbai, a ward is an administrative unit of the city region.
- In Japan, a ward (ku or 区 in Japanese) is a section of one of the larger cities.
Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to the area. It is common in the U.S. for city wards to simply be numbered, however.
A ward in Nepal is a political division. Nine wards make up a Village Development Committee (VDC); VDCs make districts; districts makes zones; and zones (regions) make up the country.
In northern England, a ward was a sub-entity of a county, equivalent to a hundred.
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