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id="toc-Largest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Israel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Israel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Israel</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Israel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Netherlands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Netherlands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Netherlands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Netherlands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_Zealand" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_Zealand"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>New Zealand</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_Zealand-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Norway" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norway"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>Norway</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Norway-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Insular_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Insular_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11.1</span> <span>Insular areas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Insular_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-U.S._Census_Bureau" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#U.S._Census_Bureau"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11.2</span> <span>U.S. Census Bureau</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-U.S._Census_Bureau-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-U.S._mail_delivery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#U.S._mail_delivery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11.3</span> <span>U.S. mail delivery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-U.S._mail_delivery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Populated_place" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Populated_place"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11.4</span> <span>Populated place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Populated_place-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_nations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_nations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.12</span> <span>Other nations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_nations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Countries_without_unincorporated_areas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Countries_without_unincorporated_areas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Countries without unincorporated areas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Countries_without_unincorporated_areas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%82%D8%A9_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="منطقة فردية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="منطقة فردية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C9%99sis_edilm%C9%99mi%C5%9F_%C9%99razi" title="Təsis edilməmiş ərazi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Təsis edilməmiş ərazi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmoafreies_Gebiet" title="Gmoafreies Gebiet – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Gmoafreies Gebiet" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80rea_no_incorporada" title="Àrea no incorporada – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Àrea no incorporada" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neza%C5%99azen%C3%A9_%C3%BAzem%C3%AD" title="Nezařazené území – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nezařazené území" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunefrit_omr%C3%A5de" title="Kommunefrit område – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kommunefrit område" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindefreies_Gebiet" title="Gemeindefreies Gebiet – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gemeindefreies Gebiet" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkorporeerimata_ala" title="Inkorporeerimata ala – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Inkorporeerimata ala" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rea_no_incorporada" title="Área no incorporada – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Área no incorporada" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%AB%D8%A8%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%87" title="محدوده ثبت‌نشده – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="محدوده ثبت‌نشده" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secteur_non_constitu%C3%A9_en_municipalit%C3%A9" title="Secteur non constitué en municipalité – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Secteur non constitué en municipalité" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeentefrij_gebiet" title="Gemeentefrij gebiet – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Gemeentefrij gebiet" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ard_neu-chorpagh" title="Ard neu-chorpagh – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Ard neu-chorpagh" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%84%EB%B2%95%EC%9D%B8%EC%A7%80%EA%B5%AC" title="비법인지구 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="비법인지구" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuklju%C4%8Deno_podru%C4%8Dje" title="Neuključeno područje – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Neuključeno područje" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_lepas" title="Wilayah lepas – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wilayah lepas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_non_incorporata" title="Area non incorporata – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Area non incorporata" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%97_%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99" title="שטח גלילי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שטח גלילי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neinkorpor%C4%93ta_teritorija" title="Neinkorporēta teritorija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Neinkorporēta teritorija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemengefr%C3%A4it_Gebitt" title="Gemengefräit Gebitt – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Gemengefräit Gebitt" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%98%D0%B5" title="Нездружено подрачје – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Нездружено подрачје" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B5%BA%E0%B4%87%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%82" title="അൺഇൻകോർപ്പറേറ്റഡ് പ്രദേശം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അൺഇൻകോർപ്പറേറ്റഡ് പ്രദേശം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%82%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B4_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%87" title="منطقه مش مندمجه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="منطقه مش مندمجه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeentevrij_gebied" title="Gemeentevrij gebied – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Gemeentevrij gebied" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%9E%E6%B3%95%E4%BA%BA%E5%9C%B0%E5%9F%9F" title="非法人地域 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="非法人地域" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunefritt_omr%C3%A5de" title="Kommunefritt område – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kommunefritt område" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obszar_niemunicypalny" title="Obszar niemunicypalny – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Obszar niemunicypalny" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rea_n%C3%A3o_incorporada" title="Área não incorporada – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Área não incorporada" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunitate_ne%C3%AEncorporat%C4%83" title="Comunitate neîncorporată – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Comunitate neîncorporată" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%8E%D1%87%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Невключённая территория – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Невключённая территория" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Unincorporated area" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%86%DB%95%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DB%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88" title="ناوچەی تۆمارنەکراو – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ناوچەی تۆمارنەکراو" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" 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the United States and Canada. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="By_country">By country</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: By country"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Argentina">Argentina</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Argentina"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Argentina, the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Chubut_Province" title="Chubut Province">Chubut</a>, <a href="/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba_Province_(Argentina)" class="mw-redirect" title="Córdoba Province (Argentina)">Córdoba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Entre_R%C3%ADos_Province" title="Entre Ríos Province">Entre Ríos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Formosa_Province" title="Formosa Province">Formosa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neuqu%C3%A9n_Province" title="Neuquén Province">Neuquén</a>, <a href="/wiki/R%C3%ADo_Negro_Province" title="Río Negro Province">Río Negro</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Luis_Province" title="San Luis Province">San Luis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Province,_Argentina" title="Santa Cruz Province, Argentina">Santa Cruz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santiago_del_Estero_Province" title="Santiago del Estero Province">Santiago del Estero</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tierra_del_Fuego_Province,_Argentina" title="Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina">Tierra del Fuego</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tucum%C3%A1n_Province" title="Tucumán Province">Tucumán</a> have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia">state and territorial</a> governments. A local government area (LGA) often contains several towns and even entire metropolitan areas. Thus, aside from very sparsely populated areas and a few other unique cases, almost all of Australia is part of an LGA. Unincorporated areas are often in remote locations, cover vast areas, or have very small populations. </p><p>Postal addresses in unincorporated areas, as in other parts of Australia, normally use the <a href="/wiki/Suburbs_and_localities_(Australia)" title="Suburbs and localities (Australia)">suburb or locality</a> names gazetted by the relevant state or territorial government. Thus, any ambiguity regarding addresses rarely exists in unincorporated areas. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Unorganized_area" title="Unorganized area">Unorganized area</a></div> <p>In Canada, depending on the province, an <b>unincorporated settlement</b> is one that does not have a municipal council that governs solely over the settlement. It is usually, but not always, part of a larger municipal government. These range from small <a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">hamlets</a> to large urbanized areas similar in size to a town or city. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>, unincorporated communities can be classified as Hamlet, Locality or townsite. A Hamlet is an unincorporated community that can be designated by the council of Municipal District or Specialized Municipality within their boundaries, or by the Minister of Municipal Affairs within the boundaries of an Improvement District.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For example, were they incorporated, the <a href="/wiki/Urban_service_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban service area">urban service areas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fort_McMurray" title="Fort McMurray">Fort McMurray</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Regional_Municipality_of_Wood_Buffalo" title="Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo">Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Park" title="Sherwood Park">Sherwood Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Strathcona_County" title="Strathcona County">Strathcona County</a> would be the <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Alberta#List_of_cities" title="List of cities in Alberta">fifth- and sixth-largest cities</a> in Alberta. </p><p>Unincorporated settlements with a population between 100 and 1,000 residents may have the status of <a href="/wiki/Designated_place" title="Designated place">designated place</a> in Canadian census data.<sup id="cite_ref-statcan_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statcan-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In some provinces, large tracts of undeveloped wilderness or rural country are <a href="/wiki/Unorganized_area_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unorganized area (Canada)">unorganized</a> areas that fall directly under the provincial jurisdiction. Some unincorporated settlements in such unorganized areas may have some types of municipal services provided to them by a quasigovernmental agency such as a <a href="/wiki/Local_services_board_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Local services board (Ontario)">local services board</a> in Ontario. In New Brunswick, where a significant population lives in a <a href="/wiki/Local_service_district_(New_Brunswick)" title="Local service district (New Brunswick)">local service district</a>, taxation and services may come directly from the province. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Czech_Republic">Czech Republic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Czech Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG/150px-T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG/225px-T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG/300px-T%C3%9CP_Boletice.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1245" data-file-height="2110" /></a><figcaption>Sign prohibiting entry to the <a href="/wiki/Boletice_Military_Training_Area" title="Boletice Military Training Area">Boletice Military Training Area</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The entire area of the Czech Republic is divided into <a href="/wiki/Obec" title="Obec">municipalities</a>; the only exceptions are four <a href="/wiki/Military_training_area#Czech_Republic" title="Military training area">military training areas</a>. These are parts of the <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_the_Czech_Republic" title="Regions of the Czech Republic">regions</a> and do not form self-governing municipalities, but are rather governed by military offices (<i>újezdní úřad</i>), which are subordinate to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Czech_Republic)" title="Ministry of Defence (Czech Republic)">Ministry of Defence</a>. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Military area </th> <th>Region </th> <th>Civilian population<br />(2022) </th> <th>Administrative centre<br />(outside the military areas) </th> <th>Area (km<sup>2</sup>)<br /><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Libavá </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Olomouc_Region" title="Olomouc Region">Olomouc</a> </td> <td align="center">0 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%9Bsto_Libav%C3%A1" title="Město Libavá">Město Libavá</a> </td> <td align="center">235.48 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Hradiště </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Karlovy_Vary_Region" title="Karlovy Vary Region">Karlovy Vary</a> </td> <td align="center">0 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Karlovy_Vary" title="Karlovy Vary">Karlovy Vary</a> </td> <td align="center">280.73 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Boletice_Military_Training_Area" title="Boletice Military Training Area">Boletice</a> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/South_Bohemian_Region" title="South Bohemian Region">South Bohemian</a> </td> <td align="center">0 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A1jov" title="Kájov">Kájov</a> </td> <td align="center">165.44 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="center">Březina </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/South_Moravian_Region" title="South Moravian Region">South Moravian</a> </td> <td align="center">0 </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Vy%C5%A1kov" title="Vyškov">Vyškov</a> </td> <td align="center">149.62 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Note: The Brdy Military Area was abandoned by the <a href="/wiki/Czech_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Czech Army">Army</a> in 2015 and converted into a <a href="/wiki/Landscape_park_(protected_area)" title="Landscape park (protected area)">protected landscape area</a>, with its area being incorporated either into existing municipalities or into newly established municipalities based on the existing settlements. The other four military training areas were reduced in size in 2015 too. The decisions on whether the settlements joined existing municipalities or formed new ones were made by plebiscites.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Denmark">Denmark</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Denmark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ertholmene" title="Ertholmene">Ertholmene</a>, is a small group of islands that forms the easternmost part of Denmark. This small <a href="/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">archipelago</a> lies 20 kilometers northeast of <a href="/wiki/Bornholm" title="Bornholm">Bornholm</a> and is the only part of metropolitan Denmark which is not part of a municipality. The islands have been under military jurisdiction since 1685 when Denmark turned <a href="/wiki/Christians%C3%B8" class="mw-redirect" title="Christiansø">Christiansø</a> into a naval base to in response to Sweden creating <a href="/wiki/Karlskrona" title="Karlskrona">Karlskrona</a> naval base a few years earlier. In 1926, the entire area was declared protected cultural heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Population of less than 100. <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Denmark" title="Statistics Denmark">Statistics Denmark</a> groups it with Bornholm in <b>Landsdel Bornholm</b>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since Germany has no administrative level comparable to the townships of other countries, the vast majority of the country, close to 99%, is organized in <a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Germany)">municipalities</a> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Gemeinde</i>, plural <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Gemeinden</i></span></i>), often consisting of multiple settlements that are not considered to be unincorporated. Because these settlements lack a council of their own, usually an <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Ortsvorsteher</i></span></i> or <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Ortsvorsteherin</i></span></i> (village chairman / chairwoman) is appointed by the municipal council, except in the very smallest villages. </p><p>In 2000, the number of unincorporated areas in Germany, called <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">gemeindefreie Gebiete</i></span> (municipality-free areas) or singular <i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">gemeindefreies Gebiet</i></span></i>, was 295 with a total area of 4,890 km<sup>2</sup> (1,890 sq mi) and around 1.4% of its territory. However, these are mostly unpopulated areas such as forests, lakes and their surroundings, military training areas, and the like. </p><p>As of 31 December 2007<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Germany had 248 uninhabited unincorporated areas (of which 214 are located in <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>), not belonging to any municipality, consisting mostly of forested areas, lakes, and larger rivers. Also, three inhabited unincorporated areas exist, all of which served as <a href="/wiki/Military_training_area" title="Military training area">military training areas</a>: <a href="/wiki/Osterheide" title="Osterheide">Osterheide</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lohheide" title="Lohheide">Lohheide</a> in Lower Saxony, and <a href="/wiki/Gutsbezirk_M%C3%BCnsingen" title="Gutsbezirk Münsingen">Gutsbezirk Münsingen</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a>. They have fewer than 2,000 inhabitants in total. Gutsbezirk Münsingen has become uninhabited after losing its inhabited parts to adjacent municipalities on 1 January 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Largest">Largest <span class="anchor" id="Largest_unincorporated_areas_in_Germany"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Largest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following shows the largest unincorporated areas in Germany (including all inhabited areas, but excluding lakes) with an area of more than 50 km<sup>2</sup> (19 sq mi): </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr class="hintergrundfarbe5"> <th><a href="/wiki/Official_Municipality_Key#Regional_key" class="mw-redirect" title="Official Municipality Key">Regional<br />number</a></th> <th>Name</th> <th>District</th> <th>State</th> <th>Area<br />(km<sup>2</sup>)</th> <th>Population<br />(31 Dec. 2010) </th></tr> <tr> <td>031530000504</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harz_(Landkreis_Goslar)" title="Harz (Landkreis Goslar)">Harz (Landkreis Goslar)</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Goslar" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Goslar">Goslar</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">371.76</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>031560000501</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harz_(Landkreis_G%C3%B6ttingen)" title="Harz (Landkreis Göttingen)">Harz (Landkreis Göttingen)</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_G%C3%B6ttingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Göttingen">Göttingen</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">267.35</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>066330000200</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gutsbezirk_Reinhardswald" title="Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald">Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Kassel" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Kassel">Kassel</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hessen" class="mw-redirect" title="Hessen">Hessen</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">182.58</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>033580000501</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Osterheide" title="Osterheide">Osterheide</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Heidekreis" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Heidekreis">Heidekreis</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">177.99</td> <td style="text-align:right;">762 </td></tr> <tr> <td>031550000501</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Solling_(unincorporated_area)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Solling (unincorporated area) (page does not exist)">Solling</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Northeim" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Northeim">Northeim</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">177.49</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>033510000501</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lohheide" title="Lohheide">Lohheide</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Celle" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Celle">Celle</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">91.32</td> <td style="text-align:right;">716 </td></tr> <tr> <td>064350000200</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gutsbezirk_Spessart" title="Gutsbezirk Spessart">Gutsbezirk Spessart</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Main-Kinzig-Kreis" title="Main-Kinzig-Kreis">Main-Kinzig-Kreis</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hessen" class="mw-redirect" title="Hessen">Hessen</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">89.30</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>091800000451</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ettaler_Forst&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ettaler Forst (page does not exist)">Ettaler Forst</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Garmisch-Partenkirchen" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen">Garmisch-Partenkirchen</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">83.46</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>084150000971</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gutsbezirk_M%C3%BCnsingen" title="Gutsbezirk Münsingen">Gutsbezirk Münsingen</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Reutlingen" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Reutlingen">Reutlingen</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">64.68</td> <td style="text-align:right;">160<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>010535303105</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sachsenwald" title="Sachsenwald">Sachsenwald</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kreis_Herzogtum_Lauenburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg">Herzogtum Lauenburg</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">58.49</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>094720000468</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Veldensteiner_Forst" class="mw-redirect" title="Veldensteiner Forst">Veldensteiner Forst</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Landkreis_Bayreuth" class="mw-redirect" title="Landkreis Bayreuth">Bayreuth</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">55.60</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>033540000502</td> <td><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6hrde_(unincorporated_area)" title="Göhrde (unincorporated area)">Göhrde</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCchow-Dannenberg" title="Lüchow-Dannenberg">Lüchow-Dannenberg</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">51.81</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>033540000501</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gartow_(unincorporated_area)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gartow (unincorporated area) (page does not exist)">Gartow</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCchow-Dannenberg" title="Lüchow-Dannenberg">Lüchow-Dannenberg</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lower_Saxony" title="Lower Saxony">Lower Saxony</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">50.92</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr> <tr> <td>066360000200</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutsbezirk_Kaufunger_Wald&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gutsbezirk Kaufunger Wald (page does not exist)">Gutsbezirk Kaufunger Wald</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Werra-Mei%C3%9Fner-Kreis" title="Werra-Meißner-Kreis">Werra-Meißner-Kreis</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hessen" class="mw-redirect" title="Hessen">Hessen</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">50.32</td> <td style="text-align:right;">– </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">No inhabitants since 1 January 2011 as a result of reduction in area.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p>In Bavaria, there are other contiguous unincorporated areas covering an area of more than 50 km<sup>2</sup> (19 sq mi) which are however composed of several adjacent unincorporated areas, each one of which is under 50 km<sup>2</sup> in area. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Israel, almost all land is subdivided into 393 municipalities which are further classified, normally by population, as <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Israel" title="List of cities in Israel">city</a>, <a href="/wiki/Local_council_(Israel)" title="Local council (Israel)">local council</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Regional_council_(Israel)" title="Regional council (Israel)">regional council</a>. All three types of municipality provide services including zoning and planning. </p><p>However, a few unincorporated areas exist, whether because of omissions and ambiguities left in official maps dating from the <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">British Mandate for Palestine</a>, or due to deliberate policy of ensuring facilities of national importance, such as <a href="/wiki/Ben_Gurion_Airport" title="Ben Gurion Airport">Ben Gurion Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mikveh_Israel" title="Mikveh Israel">Mikveh Israel</a> boarding school, or the <a href="/wiki/BAZAN_Group" title="BAZAN Group">BAZAN Group</a> oil refineries, would not have their operation affected by local considerations. </p><p>The largest unincorporated area in Israel is the so-called "Reservation area", a triangular region whose vertexes are <a href="/wiki/Beersheba" title="Beersheba">Beersheba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dimona" title="Dimona">Dimona</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arad,_Israel" title="Arad, Israel">Arad</a>, in which all Negev Bedouins were concentrated in the 1950s. As no municipal services are provided within unincorporated areas, this effectively makes all Bedouin settlements in the area <a href="/wiki/Unrecognized_Bedouin_villages_in_Israel" title="Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel">unrecognized</a>, with the sole exception of those that were included from 2003 within the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Basma_Regional_Council" title="Abu Basma Regional Council">Abu Basma Regional Council</a>. On 5 November 2012 that council was split into two new councils, <a href="/wiki/Neve_Midbar_Regional_Council" title="Neve Midbar Regional Council">Neve Midbar Regional Council</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al-Kasom_Regional_Council" title="Al-Kasom Regional Council">al-Kasom Regional Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Netherlands">Netherlands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Netherlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Netherlands has had regular periods with unincorporated land when newly reclaimed land <a href="/wiki/Polder" title="Polder">polders</a> fall dry. Unincorporated land is since medieval times administered by an appointed officer with the name <i><a href="/wiki/Landdrost" title="Landdrost">Landdrost</a></i> or <i>Drossaart</i>. Also, <a href="/wiki/Elten" title="Elten">Elten</a> and <a href="/wiki/Selfkant#Tüddern" title="Selfkant">Tudderen</a>, both annexed from Germany after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, were governed by a <i>Landdrost </i>until they were ceded back to Germany in 1963. </p><p>The most recent period with unincorporated land started in 1967, when the dyke around <a href="/wiki/Flevoland" title="Flevoland">Southern Flevoland</a> was closed, but several years are required before the polder is genuinely accessible for cultivation, and construction of roads and homes can start, as in the first years, the soil is equivalent to <a href="/wiki/Quicksand" title="Quicksand">quicksand</a>. During the initial period of inhabitation, a special, government-appointed officer was installed, the <i>landdrost</i>. During the administrative office of a<i> Landdrost</i>, no municipal council forms. </p><p>In 1975, the first homes in what is now the city of <a href="/wiki/Almere" title="Almere">Almere</a> were built, and from 1976 to 1984, the area was governed by the <i>Landdrost</i> as the executive of the <i>Openbaar Lichaam Zuidelijke IJsselmeerpolders</i> (Southern IJsselmeerpolders Public Body). In 1984, the <i>Landdrost</i> became the first mayor of the new city Almere. Since that date, the Netherlands does not have any unincorporated land areas. </p><p>The <i>Openbaar Lichaam</i> remained, however, only governing the water body of the <a href="/wiki/Markermeer" title="Markermeer">Markermeer</a>. After the municipal division of the Wadden Sea (1985), the territorial waters in the North Sea (1991) and the IJsselmeer (1994), all water bodies are now also part of a municipality<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and no unincorporated areas exist in the Netherlands anymore. The <i>Openbaar Lichaam Zuidelijke IJsselmeerpolders</i> was dissolved in 1996. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Zealand">New Zealand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_outlying_islands" title="New Zealand outlying islands">New Zealand outlying islands</a> are offshore island groups that are part of New Zealand. The <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Islands" title="Chatham Islands">Chatham Islands</a> is the only island group among these that are populated and it has its own <a href="/wiki/Territorial_authorities_of_New_Zealand" title="Territorial authorities of New Zealand">territorial authority</a>. Most of the other island groups are not part of any administrative <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_New_Zealand" title="Regions of New Zealand">region</a> or <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_New_Zealand" title="Districts of New Zealand">district</a>, but are instead each designated as an <i>Area Outside Territorial Authority</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Norway">Norway</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Norway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Norway, the outlying islands of <a href="/wiki/Bouvet_Island" title="Bouvet Island">Bouvet Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Mayen" title="Jan Mayen">Jan Mayen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Svalbard" title="Svalbard">Svalbard</a> are outside of all of the country's <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Norway" title="Counties of Norway">counties</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_of_Norway" title="List of municipalities of Norway">municipalities</a>. They are ruled directly by national authorities without any local democracy. An exception is the <a href="/wiki/Longyearbyen_Community_Council" title="Longyearbyen Community Council">Longyearbyen Community Council</a> in Svalbard, which since 2004 in reality acts partly like a Norwegian municipality. Svalbard has a <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Svalbard" title="Governor of Svalbard">governor</a> appointed by the government of Norway, ruling the area. Jan Mayen has no population, only radio and weather stations with staff, whose manager has the responsibility for the activities. Bouvet Island has only occasional visitors.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg/220px-Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg/330px-Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg/440px-Nutbush_unincorporated.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1005" data-file-height="482" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nutbush,_Tennessee" title="Nutbush, Tennessee">Nutbush</a>, an unincorporated area in <a href="/wiki/Haywood_County,_Tennessee" title="Haywood County, Tennessee">Haywood County, Tennessee</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">local government in the United States</a>, an unincorporated area generally refers to the part of a <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">county</a> that is outside any municipality. An <b>unincorporated community</b> is one general term for a geographic area having a common social identity without municipal organization or official political designation (i.e., incorporation as a city or town). The two main types of unincorporated communities are: </p> <ul><li>a neighborhood or other community existing within one or across multiple existing incorporated areas (i.e., cities or towns). In this sense, a community is part of a municipal government but not <i>separately</i> incorporated from it. For example, <a href="/wiki/Hyannis,_Massachusetts" title="Hyannis, Massachusetts">Hyannis, Massachusetts</a>, is an unincorporated village within the town of <a href="/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts" title="Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Intervale,_New_Hampshire" title="Intervale, New Hampshire">Intervale, New Hampshire</a>, is an unincorporated community on the border of the towns of <a href="/wiki/Bartlett,_New_Hampshire" title="Bartlett, New Hampshire">Bartlett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Conway,_New_Hampshire" title="Conway, New Hampshire">Conway</a>.</li> <li>a neighborhood or other community existing outside an incorporated municipal government. In this sense, the community is outside any municipal government and is entirely unincorporated. Examples include <a href="/wiki/Hovland,_Minnesota" title="Hovland, Minnesota">Hovland, Minnesota</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nutbush,_Tennessee" title="Nutbush, Tennessee">Nutbush, Tennessee</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Yucca,_Arizona" title="Yucca, Arizona">Yucca, Arizona</a>; all are small rural settlements of low population.</li></ul> <p>Most states have granted some form of <a href="/wiki/Home_rule_in_the_United_States" title="Home rule in the United States">home rule</a>, so that <a href="/wiki/County_commission" title="County commission">county commissions</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Supervisors" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Supervisors">boards</a> or councils) have the same powers in these areas as <a href="/wiki/City_council" class="mw-redirect" title="City council">city councils</a> or <a href="/wiki/Town_council" title="Town council">town councils</a> have in their respective incorporated areas.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some states instead put these powers in the hands of townships, which are <a href="/wiki/Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">minor civil divisions</a> of each county and are called "towns" in some states. </p><p> Differences in state laws regarding the incorporation of communities leads to a great variation in the distribution and nature of unincorporated areas. Unincorporated regions are essentially nonexistent in eight of the <a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">northeastern states</a>. All of the land in <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, and nearly all of the land in <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Pennsylvania" title="Local government in Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vermont_municipality" title="Vermont municipality">Vermont</a>, is part of an incorporated area of some type. In these areas, types (and official names) of local government entities can vary. In <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> (which includes five of those eight states, plus the less fully incorporated state of <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>), local municipalities are known as <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">towns</a> or cities, and most towns are administered by a form of direct democracy, such as the <a href="/wiki/Open_town_meeting" class="mw-redirect" title="Open town meeting">open town meeting</a> or <a href="/wiki/Representative_town_meeting" title="Representative town meeting">representative town meeting</a>. Larger towns in New England may be incorporated as cities, with some form of mayor-council government. In New Jersey, multiple types exist, as well, such as <a href="/wiki/City_(New_Jersey)" title="City (New Jersey)">city</a>, <a href="/wiki/Township_(New_Jersey)" title="Township (New Jersey)">township</a>, <a href="/wiki/Town_(New_Jersey)" title="Town (New Jersey)">town</a>, <a href="/wiki/Borough_(New_Jersey)" title="Borough (New Jersey)">borough</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Village_(New_Jersey)" title="Village (New Jersey)">village</a>, but these differences are in the structure of the legislative branches, not in the powers or functions of the entities themselves.</p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stand_up_scene_(8712578924).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Stand_up_scene_%288712578924%29.jpg/220px-Stand_up_scene_%288712578924%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Stand_up_scene_%288712578924%29.jpg/330px-Stand_up_scene_%288712578924%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Stand_up_scene_%288712578924%29.jpg/440px-Stand_up_scene_%288712578924%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="1836" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rosslyn,_Arlington,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia">Rosslyn</a>, one of many high-rise neighborhoods in <a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington County, Virginia</a>. The county has no cities within its borders, and five times the population density of the state's most populous city, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Beach" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia Beach">Virginia Beach</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>On the opposite end of the spectrum is the <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> "strong county" model.<sup id="cite_ref-naco_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naco-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Virginia and other states with this model, such as <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, set strict requirements on incorporation or grant counties broad powers that in other states are carried out by cities, creating a disincentive to incorporate, and thus have large urbanized areas which have no municipal government below the county level. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_(United_States)" title="Mid-Atlantic (United States)">mid-Atlantic</a> states such as New York and Pennsylvania, a hybrid model<sup id="cite_ref-naco_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naco-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that tries to balance the two approaches is prevalent,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with differing allocations of power between municipalities and counties existing. </p><p>Throughout the U.S., some large cities have <a href="/wiki/Municipal_annexation" title="Municipal annexation">annexed</a> all surrounding unincorporated areas within their counties, creating what are known as <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city%E2%80%93county" class="mw-redirect" title="Consolidated city–county">consolidated city–county</a> forms of government (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville, Florida</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>). In these cases, unincorporated areas continue to exist in other counties of their respective metropolitan areas. Conversely, a <a href="/wiki/County_island" title="County island">county island</a> is surrounded on most or all sides by municipalities. In areas of sparse population, the majority of the land in any given state may be unincorporated. </p><p>Some states, including <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, grant <a href="/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction" title="Extraterritorial jurisdiction">extraterritorial jurisdiction</a> to cities and towns (but rarely villages) so that they may control <a href="/wiki/Zoning" title="Zoning">zoning</a> for a limited distance into adjacent unincorporated areas, often as a precursor (and sometimes as a legal requirement) to later annexation of those areas. This is especially useful in rural counties that have no zoning at all, or only <a href="/wiki/Spot_zoning" title="Spot zoning">spot zoning</a> for unincorporated communities. </p><p>In California, all counties except the <a href="/wiki/City_and_County_of_San_Francisco" class="mw-redirect" title="City and County of San Francisco">City and County of San Francisco</a> have unincorporated areas. Even in highly populated counties, the unincorporated portions may contain a large number of inhabitants. In <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California" title="Los Angeles County, California">Los Angeles County</a>, the county government estimates the population of its unincorporated areas to exceed one million people.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite having 88 incorporated cities and towns, including the state's most populous, 65% of the land in Los Angeles County is unincorporated, this mostly consisting of <a href="/wiki/Angeles_National_Forest" title="Angeles National Forest">Angeles National Forest</a> and sparsely populated regions to its north.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In California, the state constitution recognizes only one kind of municipality, the city.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The California Government Code allows cities to call themselves towns, if they wish, although the designation is purely cosmetic.<sup id="cite_ref-CA_Gov_Code_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CA_Gov_Code-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Insular_areas">Insular areas</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Insular areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the context of the <a href="/wiki/Insular_area" title="Insular area">insular areas</a> of the United States, the word "unincorporated" refers to <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">territories</a> in which the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a> has determined that only selected parts of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution of the United States</a> apply and which have not been formally incorporated into the United States by Congress. Currently, the five major unincorporated U.S. insular areas are <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-usdoi_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usdoi-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unincorporated insular areas can be <a href="/wiki/Cession" title="Cession">ceded</a> to another nation or be granted independence.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The U.S. has one incorporated insular area, <a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a>. Incorporation is regarded as <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_Union" title="Perpetual Union">perpetual</a> by the U.S. federal government; once incorporated, the territory <a href="/wiki/U.S._territorial_sovereignty" title="U.S. territorial sovereignty">cannot be disincorporated</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-usdoi_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usdoi-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">United States Minor Outlying Islands</a> without a permanent civilian population are "unorganized" in the sense that they do not have a local government, and they are administered by the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Insular_Affairs" title="Office of Insular Affairs">Office of Insular Affairs</a> directly. The populated American Samoa is "unorganized" in the sense that Congress has not passed an <a href="/wiki/Organic_act" title="Organic act">organic act</a>, but it does have a constitution and locally elected territorial legislature and executive. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="U.S._Census_Bureau">U.S. Census Bureau</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: U.S. Census Bureau"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An unincorporated community may be part of a <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated place</a> (CDP). A CDP is an area defined by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a> for statistical purposes only. It is a populated area that generally includes one officially designated but currently unincorporated community for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions, and occasionally other smaller unincorporated communities as well. Otherwise, it has no legal status.<sup id="cite_ref-USCB_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Census Bureau designates some unincorporated areas as "unorganized territories", as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau where portions of <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">counties</a> are not included in any legally established <a href="/wiki/Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">minor civil division</a> (MCD) or independent incorporated place.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> These occur in 10 MCD states: <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a>. The census recognizes such separate pieces of territory as one or more separate county subdivisions for statistical purposes. It assigns each unorganized territory a descriptive name, followed by the designation "unorganized territory". Unorganized territories were first used for statistical purposes in conjunction with the 1960 census.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census,_2000" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census, 2000">2000 census</a> there were 305 of these territories within the United States. Their total land area was 85,392 square miles (221,165 km<sup>2</sup>) and they had a total population of 247,331. South Dakota had the most unorganized territories, 102, as well as the largest amount of land under that status: 39,785 square miles (103,042 km<sup>2</sup>), or 52.4% of the state's land area. North Dakota followed with 86 territories, 20,358 square miles (52,728 km<sup>2</sup>), or 29.5% of its land area. Maine was next with 36 territories, 14,052 square miles (36,396 km<sup>2</sup>), or 45.5% of its land area. Minnesota had 71 territories, 10,552 square miles (27,330 km<sup>2</sup>), or 13% of its land area. Several other states had small amounts of unorganized territory. The unorganized territory with the largest population was <a href="/wiki/Marine_Corps_Base_Camp_Lejeune" title="Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune">Camp Lejeune, North Carolina</a>, a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> base with a census population of 34,452 inhabitants. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010 census</a>, unorganized territory areas were identified in nine U.S. states: Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, and South Dakota.<sup id="cite_ref-Census2011definition_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Census2011definition-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="U.S._mail_delivery">U.S. mail delivery</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: U.S. mail delivery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many unincorporated communities are also recognized as acceptable place names for use in mailing addresses by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">United States Postal Service</a> (USPS) (indeed, some have their own post offices), and the Census Bureau uses the names of some widely recognized unincorporated communities for its CDPs for which it tabulates census data. In some instances, unincorporated areas have a mailing address indicating the name of an incorporated city,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> as well as those where residents of one incorporated city have mailing addresses indicating another incorporated city. Mailing addresses do not necessarily change whether an area becomes a part of an incorporated place, changes to another incorporated place, or disincorporates. For example, places in <a href="/wiki/Kingwood,_Houston" title="Kingwood, Houston">Kingwood, Texas</a>, previously unincorporated, retained "Kingwood, TX" mailing addresses after the 1996 annexation of Kingwood into the city of <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>. The Houston city government stated on its website, "The U.S. Postal Service establishes ZIP codes and mailing addresses to maximize the efficiency of their system, not to recognize jurisdictional boundaries."<sup id="cite_ref-KingwoodannexQ's_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KingwoodannexQ's-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The USPS is very conservative about recognizing new place names for use in mailing addresses and typically only does so when a place incorporates.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The original place name associated with a <a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Code</a> is still maintained as the default place name, even though the name of the newly incorporated place is more accurate. As an example, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Springs,_Georgia" title="Sandy Springs, Georgia">Sandy Springs</a> is one of the most populated places in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> but is served by a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a> post office. Only after the city was incorporated in 2005 was "Sandy Springs" approved for use in mailing addresses, though "Atlanta" remains the default name. Accordingly, "Atlanta" is the only accepted place name for mailing addresses in the nearby unincorporated town of <a href="/wiki/Vinings,_Georgia" title="Vinings, Georgia">Vinings</a>, also served by a branch of the Atlanta post office, even though Vinings is in <a href="/wiki/Cobb_County,_Georgia" title="Cobb County, Georgia">Cobb County</a> and Atlanta is in <a href="/wiki/Fulton_County,_Georgia" title="Fulton County, Georgia">Fulton</a> and <a href="/wiki/DeKalb_County,_Georgia" title="DeKalb County, Georgia">DeKalb</a> counties. In contrast, neighboring <a href="/wiki/Mableton,_Georgia" title="Mableton, Georgia">Mableton</a> has not been incorporated in nearly a century, but has its own post office and thus "Mableton" is the only acceptable place name for mailing addresses in the town. The areas of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dulah,_California&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dulah, California (page does not exist)">Dulah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faria,_California" title="Faria, California">Faria</a>, California, which are unincorporated areas in <a href="/wiki/Ventura_County,_California" title="Ventura County, California">Ventura County</a> between <a href="/wiki/Ventura,_California" title="Ventura, California">Ventura</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carpinteria,_California" title="Carpinteria, California">Carpinteria</a>, have the ZIP Code of 93001, which is assigned to the post office at 675 E. Santa Clara St. in Ventura;<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thus, all mail to those two areas is addressed to Ventura. </p><p>If an unincorporated area becomes incorporated, it may be split among ZIP Codes, and its new name may be recognized as acceptable for use with some or all of them in mailing addresses, as has been the case in <a href="/wiki/Johns_Creek,_Georgia" title="Johns Creek, Georgia">Johns Creek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Milton,_Georgia" title="Milton, Georgia">Milton, Georgia</a>. If an incorporated area disincorporates, though, this has no effect on whether a place name is "acceptable" in a mailing address or not, as is the case with <a href="/wiki/Lithia_Springs,_Georgia" title="Lithia Springs, Georgia">Lithia Springs, Georgia</a>. ZIP Code boundaries often ignore political boundaries, so the appearance of a place name in a mailing address alone does not indicate whether the place is incorporated or unincorporated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Populated_place">Populated place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Populated place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unincorporated areas with permanent populations in the United States are defined by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a> as "populated places", a "place or area with clustered or scattered buildings, and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village)." No legal boundaries exist, although a corresponding "civil" record may occur, the boundaries of which may or may not match the perceived populated place.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_nations">Other nations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Other nations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some nations have some exceptional unincorporated areas: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Lok_Ma_Chau_Loop" title="Lok Ma Chau Loop">Lok Ma Chau Loop</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> is the only part of China not incorporated into any <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_China" title="Administrative divisions of China">third-level administrative division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Danish_Realm" title="Danish Realm">Kingdom of Denmark</a> has three unincorporated areas: <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark proper</a>, the former naval fortress <a href="/wiki/Ertholmene" title="Ertholmene">Ertholmene</a> east of <a href="/wiki/Bornholm" title="Bornholm">Bornholm</a> with less than 100 inhabitants is still governed directly by the Ministry of Defence.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a>, all land is incorporated except for the <a href="/wiki/Northeast_Greenland_National_Park" title="Northeast Greenland National Park">Northeast Greenland National Park</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base" title="Pituffik Space Base">Pituffik Space Base</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>In France, all land is incorporated except for <a href="/wiki/Clipperton_Island" title="Clipperton Island">Clipperton Island</a>, a small overseas island possession held as an overseas state private property under the direct authority of the French government, administered by France's <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_the_Overseas_(France)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of the Overseas (France)">Overseas Minister</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>In India, there are several <a href="/wiki/Union_territory" title="Union territory">union territories</a> (central government administered regions). Unlike the <a href="/wiki/States_and_union_territories_of_India" title="States and union territories of India">states of India</a>, which have their own governments, union territories are federal territories governed, in part or in whole, by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. Many of these were created at the time of India's independence or after being acquired from non-British colonial powers or <a href="/wiki/Princely_state" title="Princely state">princely states</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azad_Kashmir" title="Azad Kashmir">Azad Kashmir</a> has no official status in Pakistani law, but is nonetheless <i>de facto</i> governed by Pakistan.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Slovakia is divided into <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipalities</a>. There are two types of municipalities: towns (<span title="Slovak-language text"><i lang="sk">mesto</i></span>, pl. <i><span title="Slovak-language text"><i lang="sk">mestá</i></span></i>) and villages (<i><span title="Slovak-language text"><i lang="sk">obec</i></span></i>, pl. <i><span title="Slovak-language text"><i lang="sk">obce</i></span></i>), with minor differences between them. Additionally, there are several <a href="/wiki/Proving_ground" title="Proving ground">military areas</a> which are not part of any municipality. Each military area is a municipality of its own right. However, the military areas hold no elections and have no mayors or other elected representatives. Instead, they are administered directly by the Slovak Ministry of Defence.</li> <li>In Spain, the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Spain" title="Constitution of Spain">Spanish Constitution of 1978</a> says that the land is divided into <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">autonomous communities</a>, <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Spain" title="Provinces of Spain">provinces</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Spain" title="Municipalities of Spain">municipalities</a>. Each of these have certain powers determined by law. Autonomous Communities and municipalities are enabled to appeal to the <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_Spain" title="Constitutional Court of Spain">Constitutional Court</a> any public decision that violates their autonomy by other entities (State or Autonomous Community power).<br />Nevertheless, some regions, like <a href="/wiki/Navarre" title="Navarre">Navarre</a>, have some unincorporated areas. The largest of these, the <a href="/wiki/Bardenas_Reales" title="Bardenas Reales">Bardenas Reales</a>, has a surface of 418 km<sup>2</sup> (161 sq mi) and is governed by a board of representatives of 20 bordering municipalities, a valley in the Pyrenees, and a monastery, all of which have rights to use the area. The <a href="/wiki/Plazas_de_soberan%C3%ADa" title="Plazas de soberanía">plazas de soberanía</a> also functions as <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> unincorporated areas<sup id="cite_ref-elcano_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elcano-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> under the administration of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Spain)" title="Ministry of Defence (Spain)">Spanish Ministry of Defence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Switzerland also has a few exceptions: 22 lakes and a forest, as described by the Swiss federal statistical office (See: <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindefreies_Gebiet#Schweiz" class="extiw" title="de:Gemeindefreies Gebiet">Gemeindefreie Gebiete</a> <span class="languageicon">(in German)</span>).</li> <li>In Ukraine, all land is divided into <a href="/wiki/Hromada" title="Hromada">hromadas</a> except for the <a href="/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="Chernobyl Exclusion Zone">Chernobyl Exclusion Zone</a>. The latter contains parts of <a href="/wiki/Kyiv_Oblast" title="Kyiv Oblast">Kyiv Oblast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zhytomyr_Oblast" title="Zhytomyr Oblast">Zhytomyr Oblast</a> and is directly administered by a designated government agency.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Countries_without_unincorporated_areas">Countries without unincorporated areas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Countries without unincorporated areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many countries, especially those with many centuries of history with multiple tiers of local government, do not use the concept of an unincorporated area. </p> <ul><li>The whole of the territories of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Finland, Metropolitan France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Montenegro, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, and Sweden are divided into municipalities.</li> <li>In Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, all land must belong to a municipality. Even large uninhabited areas, such as forests or grasslands, are, by law, part of the nearest "city". This is because in Latin America, a "municipality" in some senses is the equivalent of what in the United States and Canada is called a "county".</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>, every piece of land belongs to a county-level (third level) administrative division (equivalent to a <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>), either a <a href="/wiki/District_(China)" class="mw-redirect" title="District (China)">district (区 qū)</a> in an urban area, or a <a href="/wiki/County-level_city" title="County-level city">county-level city (县级市 xiànjíshì)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" title="Counties of China">county (县 xiàn)</a> or <a href="/wiki/Banners_of_Inner_Mongolia" title="Banners of Inner Mongolia">banner (旗 qí)</a>. There is also a township-level (fourth level) administrative division, which may be a <a href="/wiki/Subdistricts_of_China" title="Subdistricts of China">subdistrict (街道 jiēdào)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Towns_of_China" title="Towns of China">town (镇 zhèn)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Townships_of_China" title="Townships of China">township (乡 xiāng)</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Sum_(administrative_division)" title="Sum (administrative division)">sumu (苏木 sūmù)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In Croatia, every piece of land belongs either to a city (<span title="Croatian-language text"><i lang="hr">grad</i></span>) or to a municipality (<span title="Croatian-language text"><i lang="hr">općina</i></span>).</li> <li>In Estonia, the entire territory is divided into 79 <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Estonia" title="Municipalities of Estonia">municipalities</a>, of which 14 are municipal towns and 65 are parishes. The entire territory of the country is divided into settlements of four types: towns, boroughs, small boroughs and villages.</li> <li>In France, the territory is subdivided into 36,685 <i><a href="/wiki/Communes_of_France" title="Communes of France">communes</a></i> (municipalities).<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An elected council and a mayor form the governing body of a municipality. This applies to mainland France and to <a href="/wiki/DROM" class="mw-redirect" title="DROM">overseas departments and regions</a>, however, some territories like <a href="/wiki/Clipperton_Island" title="Clipperton Island">Clipperton Island</a> are not incorporated. Six <a href="/wiki/List_of_French_villages_destroyed_in_World_War_I" title="List of French villages destroyed in World War I">communes depopulated during World War I</a> were maintained incorporated for memorial reasons, although they have no population.</li> <li>In Indonesia, every piece of land belongs to a <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_Indonesia" title="City status in Indonesia">municipality (<i>kota</i>)</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Regency_(Indonesia)" title="Regency (Indonesia)">regency</a> (<span title="Indonesian-language text"><i lang="id">kabupaten</i></span>).</li> <li>In Japan, every piece of land belongs to a <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Japan" title="Municipalities of Japan">municipality</a>, of which there are four types: <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Japan" title="Cities of Japan">cities (市 <i>shi</i>)</a>; <a href="/wiki/Special_wards_of_Tokyo" title="Special wards of Tokyo">the special wards (特別区 <i>tokubetsu-ku</i>) of Tokyo</a>; <a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Japan" title="List of towns in Japan">towns (町 <i>chō</i> or <i>machi</i>)</a>; <a href="/wiki/List_of_villages_in_Japan" title="List of villages in Japan">villages (村 <i>mura</i> or <i>son</i>)</a>. The four southernmost islands of <a href="/wiki/Hachij%C5%8D_Subprefecture" title="Hachijō Subprefecture">Hachijō Subprefecture</a> are currently not part of any municipality as the town of <a href="/wiki/Hachij%C5%8D,_Tokyo" title="Hachijō, Tokyo">Hachijō</a> and village of <a href="/wiki/Aogashima,_Tokyo" title="Aogashima, Tokyo">Aogashima</a> both claim administrative rights.</li> <li>In Peru, the whole territory is divided into districts ("distritos"), which form provinces ("provincias"), which form regions ("regiones"). Some districts, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_rainforest" title="Amazon rainforest">Amazon</a>, are vast portions of territory, but they are governed from a district capital (which can be anywhere from a city to a small village).</li> <li>In the Philippines, all land belongs to either a <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_the_Philippines" title="Cities of the Philippines">city</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_the_Philippines" title="Municipalities of the Philippines">municipality</a>, which are further subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Barangay" title="Barangay">barangays</a>.</li> <li>In Portugal, the constitution defines territorial divisions as parishes, municipalities, and administrative regions.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has no official definition of city limits, so a city may include several parishes, or a parish may cover several villages or townships, but a municipality is usually administered from the city or town that bears its name.</li> <li>In South Africa, the constitution gives every place in the country democratically elected third-tier government.</li> <li>In South Korea, every piece of land belongs to a <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_South_Korea" title="Administrative divisions of South Korea">municipality</a>, either a <a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_in_South_Korea" title="List of districts in South Korea">district (구 gu)</a> in a <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_South_Korea" title="List of cities in South Korea">city (시 shi)</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Eup_(administrative_division)" title="Eup (administrative division)">town (읍 eub)</a> or <a href="/wiki/Myeon_(administrative_division)" title="Myeon (administrative division)">township (면 myeon)</a> in a <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_South_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="List of counties in South Korea">county (군 gun)</a>.</li> <li>In Sweden, all territory is divided into municipalities. Sweden has <a href="/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound" title="Post-glacial rebound">post-glacial rebound</a>, so the land area is increasing, but municipal boundaries extend into the sea, so new land is not unincorporated.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Free_area_of_the_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Free area of the Republic of China">free area of the Republic of China</a> (Taiwan Island, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and some minor islands), every piece of land belongs to either a <a href="/wiki/Township_(Taiwan)" title="Township (Taiwan)">township</a> or a <a href="/wiki/County-administered_city" title="County-administered city">county-administered city</a> in <a href="/wiki/County_(Taiwan)" class="mw-redirect" title="County (Taiwan)">county</a>, or <a href="/wiki/District_(Taiwan)" title="District (Taiwan)">district</a> in <a href="/wiki/Provincial_city_(Taiwan)" title="Provincial city (Taiwan)">provincial city</a>. There are, in total, 368 townships, county-administered cities and districts in Taiwan. See also: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Taiwan" title="Administrative divisions of Taiwan">administrative divisions of Taiwan</a>.</li> <li>In the United Kingdom: <ul><li>In England, all land is within a <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_England" title="Counties of England">county</a> or <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">local government district</a>, both of which exercise power over their jurisdictions.</li> <li>In Northern Ireland, all land is within one of 11 districts.</li> <li>In Scotland, all land is within one of 32 <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authorities</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> designated as councils.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In Wales, all land is within one of 22 <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">single-tier</a> principal areas.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unincorporated_area&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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