Agencies are a type of
administrative division
Administrative divisions (also administrative units, administrative regions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divi ...
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Agencies of British India, which grouped the autonomous
princely states.
[https://archive.today/20140717212144/http://princelystates.com/CurrentIssue/fa-04-01d.shtml]
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Agencies of Pakistan, the main subdivisions of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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Types of administrative division
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