tribal areas
Indigenous community lands
Tribal areas are regions where indigenous or tribal peoples maintain traditional governance, land rights, or cultural autonomy.
The term often appears in official contexts: Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, tribal areas of India.
In casual use, it can describe any territory associated with a particular tribe or ethnic group: The highway passes through tribal areas.
- elder councilGoverning body of seniors
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
- PakistanSouth Asian nation
- kinshipState of being related
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
treaty rights · communal ownership · ancestral lands · ethnicity · Peshawar · oral tradition · border region · blood feud · federal recognition · sovereignty · autonomous zone · hinterland · remote villages · enclave · buffer zone · no-go zone · clan · frontier
- PakistanIslamabad, Karachi, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan
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- South AsiaIndia, Indian states, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Hindustan
- BangladeshBangladesh, Dhaka, Chittagong, Bangla, Sundarbans
- subdivisionscounty, province, state, region, district
- lawless placesno-go zone, lawless zone, failed state, rogue state, narco state
tribal areasfederal jurisdiction
Legal domain of central government
federal territories · federal territory · state lands · federal lands · national territory
tribal areasmetropolitan areas
Cities plus surrounding communities
urban centers · cities · urban sprawl · downtown · suburbs