former administrative territorial entity

A former administrative territorial entity is a geographic area that once functioned as an official unit of government or administration but has since been dissolved, merged, or reorganized and no longer holds that status.

Observed surface forms (42)

• former administrative division ×39
• former municipality ×31
• former city ×10
• former administrative county ×9
• province of British India ×8
• former territory ×7
• former administrative district ×6
• former administrative region ×6
• former county ×6
• former administrative unit ×5

• historical administrative division ×5
• historic administrative division ×4
• colonial administrative division ×3
• former parliamentary borough ×3
• former province ×3
• historical territory ×3
• British Indian administrative unit ×2
• former United States congressional district ×2
• former federal district ×2
• historical province ×2
• Historical administrative division ×1
• administrative district of Nazi Germany ×1
• colonial administrative district ×1
• colonial administrative region ×1
• former British Indian province ×1
• former British colonial administrative unit ×1
• former administrative subdivision ×1
• former autonomous region ×1
• former borough ×1
• former civil parish ×1
• former colonial administrative grouping ×1
• former county seat ×1
• former county-level jurisdiction ×1
• former local government area ×1
• former local government region ×1
• former political division ×1
• former special district ×1
• former subprefecture ×1
• historical administrative unit ×1
• historical geopolitical entity ×1
• late antique province ×1
• territorial administration ×1

Instances (179)

• Elisavetpol Governorate
• Gloucester (former local government area) via concept surface "former local government area"
• Kars Oblast via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata via concept surface "colonial administrative division"
• British Sind via concept surface "province of British India"
• Erivan Governorate via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Middlesex, England via concept surface "former administrative county"
• Mexican Alta California via concept surface "former province"
• Byfleet via concept surface "former civil parish"
• Tiflis Governorate
• Forfarshire via concept surface "former administrative county"
• Hanyang via concept surface "former city"
• Hyderabad State via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Federal District of Mexico (historical) via concept surface "former federal district"
• Etobicoke via concept surface "former municipality"
• Byzantine Egypt via concept surface "late antique province"
• District of Lublin via concept surface "former administrative unit"
• Castle Rising via concept surface "former parliamentary borough"
• Bengal Presidency via concept surface "colonial administrative division"
• Iwo Jima via concept surface "former municipality"
• Gassel via concept surface "former municipality"
• Kathiawar Agency via concept surface "British Indian administrative unit"
• Escharen via concept surface "former municipality"
• General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) via concept surface "administrative district of Nazi Germany"
• Bombay Presidency via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Central Provinces via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Anjou via concept surface "former county"
• Washington County via concept surface "former administrative subdivision"
  surface form: Washington County (District of Columbia)
• East York via concept surface "former borough"
• United State of Kathiawar via concept surface "former administrative division"
• United Provinces of Agra and Oudh via concept surface "province of British India"
• East Berlin via concept surface "former city"
• Antioch via concept surface "former city"
• East Windsor, Connecticut Colony via concept surface "former municipality"
• Scarborough via concept surface "former municipality"
• Rajputana Agency via concept surface "British Indian administrative unit"
• North-Western Provinces via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Austrian Silesia
• Prussian Silesia via concept surface "former administrative region"
• guberniyas (governorates) via concept surface "former administrative division"
  surface form: guberniya
• Kaga Province via concept surface "former administrative division"
• British sector of Berlin via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Southern Tagalog region via concept surface "former administrative region"
• York via concept surface "former municipality"
  surface form: York, Ontario
• Alexandria County via concept surface "former county"
• Tula Governorate via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Kanesville via concept surface "former city"
• Davis County, Iowa Territory via concept surface "former county"
• Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti via concept surface "former administrative region"
• town of Salem (historical jurisdiction) via concept surface "former municipality"