self-governing territory
C2839
concept
A self-governing territory is a geographically defined area that exercises autonomous control over its internal affairs under its own local government, while remaining formally subject to a larger sovereign state.
Observed surface forms (20)
- autonomous territory ×5
- de facto state ×5
- autonomous region of Italy ×3
- autonomous administrative territory ×2
- Inuit self-governing region ×1
- autonomous oblast of Russia ×1
- autonomous political entity ×1
- autonomous province ×1
- autonomous regional authority ×1
- autonomous republic ×1
- constituent territory ×1
- de facto autonomous region ×1
- federal territory of Canada ×1
- secessionist state ×1
- self-governing island country ×1
- self-governing region ×1
- semi-autonomous region ×1
- sovereign base area ×1
- special administrative region ×1
- territorial collectivity of France ×1
Instances (34)
- Gilgit-Baltistan via concept surface "autonomous administrative territory"
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir via concept surface "autonomous administrative territory"
- Greenland via concept surface "autonomous territory"
- Corsica via concept surface "territorial collectivity of France"
- Nunavut via concept surface "federal territory of Canada"
- Adjara via concept surface "autonomous republic"
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast via concept surface "autonomous oblast of Russia"
- Friuli Venezia Giulia via concept surface "autonomous region of Italy"
- Aosta Valley via concept surface "autonomous region of Italy"
- Faroe Islands
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus via concept surface "de facto state"
- Puducherry (parts) via concept surface "constituent territory"
- Norfolk Island
- Republic of Yucatán via concept surface "secessionist state"
- German-speaking Belgium via concept surface "autonomous political entity"
- Republic of Artsakh via concept surface "de facto state"
- Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria via concept surface "de facto autonomous region"
- South Ossetia via concept surface "de facto state"
- Cook Islands via concept surface "self-governing island country"
- Niue
- Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol via concept surface "autonomous region of Italy"
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia via concept surface "sovereign base area"
- Oecusse via concept surface "special administrative region"
- Regional Government of Sicily via concept surface "autonomous regional authority"
- Transnistria via concept surface "de facto state"
- Abkhazia via concept surface "de facto state"
- Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca via concept surface "autonomous territory"
- Guna Yala via concept surface "autonomous territory"
- Zanzibar via concept surface "semi-autonomous region"
- Madugandí via concept surface "autonomous territory"
- Nunatsiavut via concept surface "Inuit self-governing region"
- Wargandí via concept surface "autonomous territory"
- Crown dependencies
- Autonomous Province of Vojvodina via concept surface "autonomous province"