Agencies are a type of
administrative division
Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...
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Agencies of British India
An agency of British India was an internally autonomous or semi-autonomous subdivision of India whose external affairs were governed by an agent designated by the Viceroy of India.Great Britain India Office. '' The Imperial Gazetteer of India' ...
, which grouped the autonomous
princely states
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Agencies of Pakistan, the main subdivisions of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
Types of administrative division
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