city districts

Municipal administrative divisions

City districts are administrative or geographic subdivisions within a city, each typically having distinct boundaries and sometimes its own governance or character.

Districts may be defined officially for purposes like voting, policing, or zoning, or informally by neighborhood identity: the arts district, the financial district, a historic district.

Some cities number their districts; others name them.

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