WARD (COUNTRY SUBDIVISION)

★ 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 The ward of Middleton St George in Northern England.

★ The Hoddle Grid area of Melbourne in the nineteenth century was divided into four wards: Bourke, Gipps, La Trobe and Lonsdale.

★ In certain cities of India, like Mumbai, a ward is an administrative unit of the city region.

★ In Japan, a 'ward' (''ku'' or 区 in Japanese) is a section of one of the larger cities.

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

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★ Wards of Japan

★ Wards of the United Kingdom

★ Wards of the United States