Division (country subdivision)

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A division is a type of country subdivision. This term is used in some Asian countries for country subdivisions. Currently they exist as

• divisions of Bangladesh
• divisions of Malaysia
• divisions of Myanmar
• divisions of India.
• The divisions of Pakistan were dissolved.

Some of the hundred in England were subdivided into divisions.

In the People's Republic of China,also there exits a similar subdivision, it is translated as Prefecture(行政督察区/xíngzhèng dūchá qǘ、专区/zhuānqǘ、地区/diqǘ) in English, and was given different chinese names in the history, the subdivision is a level of division between the province(first-level political entity of China,as the States in India or provinces in Pakistan) and county(theoretically the second-level political entity,as the districts of a state in India or ones of a province in Pakistan) levels.because of a division of Bangladesh is the first-level political entity in the country,so it is translated as sheng(省，pinyin:shěng) in Chinese, it is similar a province,the first-level political entity of China.