prefectures in English

noun
1
a district under the government of a prefect.
These might look ordinary trees, but they are in fact a very special present from the governor of the Nara prefecture in Japan.

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1. There are 101 prefectures in France, one for each department.

2. Batha Prefecture was one of the 14 prefectures of Chad

3. Tang nominally established seven command posts and six prefectures over the region.

4. The main roads that connected the different prefectures to the capital, Kigali, were asphalt.

5. “Meat of 6 Cows Fed Radioactive Straw Reaches 9 Prefectures.” —THE MAINICHI DAILY NEWS, JAPAN.

6. In 1949, there existed 20 archdioceses, 39 apostolic prefectures, 3080 foreign missionaries, and 2557 Chinese priests.

7. In 1871, the Emperor announced that domains were entirely abolished, as Japan was organized into 72 prefectures.

8. The han were replaced with prefectures in 1871, and authority continued to flow to the national government.

9. The subdivision of Chad in regions came about in 2003 as part of the decentralisation process, when the government abolished the previous 14 prefectures.

10. They haven't revived the economy, and many are so blatantly political that some prefectures have started to refuse them.

11. 1966: 'Notes on the pre-colonial history and ethnography of the Bamenda Grassfields (prefectures of Bamenda, Wum and Nkambe)', Cyclostyled.

12. The Church’s governance structures include dioceses and archdioceses, territorial prelatures and territorial Abbacies, vicariates and prefectures apostolic, patriarchal exarchates, archiepiscopal exarchates, and one personal prelature

13. It seems to have given little thought to merging those villages, towns or even some of the 47 prefectures to rationalise public services.

14. In January 2008, several Japanese people in the Hyōgo and Chiba prefectures fell ill after consuming Chinese-produced jiaozi (dumplings) tainted with the insecticide methamidophos.

15. The Ajet 2020 Mask Sew-A-Thon was a community mask creation and donation project to support Japanese communities in prefectures across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic

16. Billion Road takes you on a journey to a number of real-life prefectures and cities throughout Japan, and your goal is to be the richest player in the game

17. Repeated floods occurred in the Watarase River basin, and 1,600 hectares of farmland and towns and villages in Tochigi and Gunma prefectures were damaged by the floodwater, which contained excessive inorganic copper compounds from the Ashio mine.

18. Kyushu Himawari Project, a group that studies problems related to wide area incineration made a call to action [ja] to send letters, faxes and emails asking Governor Murai of Miyagi Prefecture to stop transporting debris to other prefectures.

19. Le second projet de decret-loi abroge et remplace la loi N 120-12 relative a l'annulation des majorations, amendes, penalites et frais de recouvrement Afferents aux taxes, droits, contributions et redevances dus aux communes, prefectures et provinces, et regions, y compris la taxe urbaine et la taxe professionnelle non recouvrees avant la date