Ward (subnational entity)

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In Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, a ward is an electoral area of a borough, city, council, county, district, parish, shire or town (Local Government Area). An example is New Orleans' 9th Ward.
In Japan, a ward (ku or 区 in Japanese) is a section of one of the larger cities. See Wards of Japan.

In northern England, a ward was a sub-entity of a county, equivalent to a hundred

Country subdivisions Administrative divisions - Political divisions - Census divisions - Electoral divisions
	Bailiwick \| Banner \| Block \| Borough \| Burgh \| Canton \| Circle \| Circuit \| City \| Commune \| Community \| Constituency \| County \| Council \| Croft \| Department \| District \| Division \| Duchy \| Governorate \| Hamlet \| Hundred \| Municipality \| Neighbourhood \| Parish \| Periphery \| Prefecture \| Province \| Region \| Republic \| Shire \| State \| Subdistrict \| Subprefecture \| Territory \| Town \| Township \| Village \| Voivodship \| Ward
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
	See also: List of terms for sub-national entities, List of subnational entities, Matrix of subnational entities

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