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)

• Hainaut via concept surface "former county"
• Zangezur uezd
• Trust Territory of New Guinea under Australian administration via concept surface "former territory"
• historic county of Glamorgan via concept surface "former administrative county"
  surface form: Glamorgan
• Seabreeze via concept surface "former city"
• Trust Territory of Togoland under French administration via concept surface "former territory"
• Westmorland, England via concept surface "former administrative county"
• Trust Territory of Togoland under British administration via concept surface "former territory"
• British West Africa via concept surface "former colonial administrative grouping"
• County of Nice via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Czech lands via concept surface "historical territory"
• Kwantung Leased Territory via concept surface "former territory"
• Windham, Connecticut Colony via concept surface "former municipality"
• City of Fordson, Michigan via concept surface "former city"
• Pernå via concept surface "former municipality"
• Telemark via concept surface "former county"
• Gia Định Province via concept surface "former province"
• Kiev Governorate via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Uusikirkko via concept surface "former municipality"
• Province of Posen via concept surface "former administrative division"
• Hundred of Bucklow via concept surface "historic administrative division"
• Hundred of Macclesfield via concept surface "historic administrative division"
• Hundred of Wirral via concept surface "historic administrative division"
• Bishopric of Mechelen
• Satrapy of Egypt
• Hirzel via concept surface "former municipality"
• Appomattox Court House, Virginia via concept surface "former county seat"
• Falmouth, Maine (then part of Massachusetts Bay Colony) via concept surface "former municipality"
• Hundred of Nantwich via concept surface "historic administrative division"