District council may refer to: *A branch of

local government in the United Kingdom Local government in the United Kingdom has origins which pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system. For an overview, see Administrative geography of the United Kingdom. For d ...

: **Supervising one of the

districts of England The districts of England (officially, local authority districts, abbreviated LADs) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there ...

: ***A

metropolitan borough A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of districts of England, local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan distr ...

***A

non-metropolitan district Non-metropolitan districts, or colloquially "shire districts", are a type of Districts of England, local government district in England. As created, they are sub-divisions of non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties (colloquially ''s ...

***A

unitary authority A unitary authority is a type of local government, local authority in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Unitary authorities are responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are ...

**Supervising one of the

Principal Areas of Wales The principal areas of Wales, comprising the counties and county boroughs of Wales, are a Subdivisions of Wales, form of subdivision in Wales. There are currently 22 principal areas in Wales, and they were established in 1996. They are a singl ...

**Supervising one of the

Subdivisions of Scotland For Local government in Scotland, local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas" (), which are all governed by unitary authority, single-tier authorities designated as "councils". They have the opti ...

**Supervising one of the

Districts of Northern Ireland Local government in Northern Ireland is divided among 11 single-tier districts known as 'Local Government Districts' (abbreviated LGDs) and formerly known as district council areas (DCAs). Councils in Northern Ireland do not carry out the same ...

*A branch of

local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...

in the Australian state of South Australia *One of the

District Councils of Bangladesh A district council or ''zila parishad'', or ''zilla parishad'' is a local government body at the district level in Bangladesh. The Bengali word ''parishad'' means council and ''zila parishad'' translates to ''district council''. History The 1988 ...

*One of the District Councils of Hong Kong ** District Council (First), a former functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong **

District Council (Second) The District Council (Second) functional constituency () was a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong which was created in the 2012 constitutional reform package. It was the largest functional constitu ...

, a former functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong *One of the

District Councils of India The Zila Panchayat or District Development Council or Zilla Parishad or District Panchayat or is the third tier of the Panchayati Raj system and functions at the district levels in all states. A Zila Parishad is an elected body representing the ...

*One of the

Districts of New Zealand Territorial authorities ( Māori: ''mana ā-rohe'') are a tier of local government in New Zealand, alongside regional councils. There are 67 territorial authorities: 13 city councils, 53 district councils and the Chatham Islands Council. Di ...

*One of the

*One of the District People's Congresses of the municipalities or prefectural-level cities of the People's Republic of China *

Council of the District of Columbia The Council of the District of Columbia (or simply D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the district is not part of any U.S. state and is overseen ...

, local government of District of Columbia *A

labour council A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, region, or provincial o ...

at a district level

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