{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.administrative-region","code":"thing-q3455524","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3455524/","name":"administrative region","alternateNames":["Landscape","federated region","nationality for sports","healthcare region","citizenship used to meet the foreign players rule","Naturalization in handball"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"An administrative region is a type of subnational division that a country uses as a level of government or administration, sitting in the hierarchy of political territorial entities; the registry aliases name uses of regions including for healthcare, sport and other administrative purposes. The term is general, covering many countries systems, so the specific country and level should be identified. 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