Local administrative unit

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Generally, a local administrative unit (LAU) is an area of governmental administration below a province, region, state or other major national subdivision. Not all countries will use this term, but it can be descriptively applied anywhere.

Specifically, in the European Union (EU), LAUs are basic components of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions. Two levels of Local Administrative Units (LAU) have been defined. The upper LAU level (LAU level 1, formerly NUTS level 4) is defined only for the following countries: Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and the United Kingdom. The second LAU level (formerly NUTS level 5) consists of 95,152 municipalities or equivalent units in the 15 EU Member States (2003 situation).

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[Eurostat: Local Administrative Units]

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Administrative:	county
Autonomous:	banner \| city \| community \| county \| district \| prefecture \| province \| region \| republic \| ward
Capital:	district \| region \| territory
Census:	division \| subdivision
Civil:	parish \| township
County:	borough
Federal:	capital \| dependencies \| capital district \| capital territory
Local:	administrative unit \| council \| Government Area
Metropolitan:	borough \| county \| district
National:	capital district \| capital territory \| territory
Imperial:	circle \| free city \| province
(Native) Indian:	reserve \| reservation
Regional:	municipality \| county municipality\|municipal district
Rural:	council \| district \| municipality \| sanitary district
Residential:	community
Special:	region \| administrative region \| capital district
Urban:	area (US: Urbanized Area) \| district \| sanitary district
[[http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]]	See also: List of terms for sub-national entities, List of subnational entities, Matrix of subnational entities

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Local administrative unit

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