Nahiyah

Nahiyah

Nāḥiyah (Arabic: ناحية‎ [ˈnæːħijæ]; pl. Nawāḥī نواحي [næˈwæːħiː]) is a name for a third-level administrative unit in Syria and Iraq, and for lower levels in Lebanon, Jordan, and the former Ottoman Empire. In Tajikistan it is on the 2nd level.

A Nahiyah contains a number of villages and sometimes smaller towns. It constitutes a division of a qadaa or mintaqah (district). Nahiya can be translated as subdistrict.

Arab speaking
Turkic speaking
v · d · eArabic terms for country subdivisions
First-level subdivisions

Muhafazah (governorate, province, محافظة) · Wilayah (province, ولاية) · Mintaqah (region, منطقة) · Mudiriya (directorate, مديرية) · Imarah (emirate, إمارة) · Shabiyah (district, شعبية) · Baladiyah (district, بلدية)
Second and third-level subdivisions

Mintaqah (district, منطقة) · Qadaa (district, قضاء) · Nahiyah (subdistrict, ناحية) · Markaz (district, مركز) · Mutamadiyah (delegation, معتمدية) · Daerah (department, دائرة) · Liwa (district, sanjak لواء )
City and township-level subdivisions

Baladiyah (municipality, بلدية) · Ḥai (neighborhood, quarter حي) · Mahallah (محلة) · Mu'tamar shaʿbi asāsi (مؤتمر شعبي أساسي) · Sheyakha (neighborhood subdivision, شياخة)



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