administrative territorial entity of Bangladesh
Let an agent explain the administrative structure of Bangladesh, relay the hierarchy and counts from official sources, describe the roles of each level, and route to entries for specific divisions, districts and local bodies.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand The structure.
Hierarchy
Hierarchy.
Hierarchy
Hierarchy.
- How is Bangladesh divided into divisions, districts, upazilas, unions and wards? definition
- Is the question about the structure or a specific unit? boundary
Urban
Urban units.
Urban
Urban.
- How do city corporations, pourashavas and their wards fit into the system? definition
- Which entry fits the specific unit? action
Govern Governance.
Roles
Roles.
Roles
Roles.
- What do commissioners, deputy commissioners and elected chairs and mayors do? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Law
Legal basis.
Law
Law.
- What laws establish and govern each tier? provenance
- Which entry fits local government in Bangladesh? action
Data Data and codes.
Codes
Geocodes.
Codes
Codes.
- How are units coded and counted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Lists
Lists of units.
Lists
Lists.
- What are the eight divisions and 64 districts? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific division or district? action
Context History and reform.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the structure develop from British and Pakistani administration to the present? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of Bangladesh? action
Reform
Reform debates.
Reform
Reform.
- What reforms and debates surround decentralisation, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.PLC
- Other names and narrower kinds
- ward of Bangladesh, city corporation of Bangladesh, union council of Bangladesh
What it is Filled
Any of the units into which Bangladesh is divided for administration, in a hierarchy of eight divisions, 64 districts and about 495 upazilas or subdistricts, below which rural areas are organised into union councils and wards, and urban areas into city corporations, municipalities called pourashavas and their wards; local government bodies are elected, and divisions and districts are headed by appointed commissioners and deputy commissioners.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the administrative structure of Bangladesh, relay the hierarchy and counts from official sources, describe the roles of each level, and route to entries for specific divisions, districts and local bodies.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Four-tier hierarchy
- Elected local bodies
- Appointed field administration
- Urban and rural tracks
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present an administrative boundary or unit name as current without checking the official gazette.
- Use outdated unit lists in ways that misallocate services or statistics.
- Assert a boundary in a disputed or newly reorganised area without the official notification.
- Attribute demographic or religious characteristics to residents of a unit without data.
Only with a human decision
- Using boundary data for electoral, land or relief allocation purposes.
May
- Report the names, levels and codes of Bangladeshi administrative units from official gazettes and the statistics bureau.
- Resolve a place to its division, district and upazila, stating the source and date.
Moral aspects Filled
- Administrative units decide where schools, clinics and relief go, so stale data leaves people out.
- Boundary changes affect representation and local identity.
Who is affected
- Residents of the units
- Local government officials
- People receiving public services
Owners Filled
Steward
The government of Bangladesh; the statistics bureau and local government division keep the records.
Master systems
- Official gazette notifications
- National statistics bureau geographic codes
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q3268571 - registry parent class
related
- administrative territorial entity of a single country - in registry terms
- Bangladesh - the country
- local government in Bangladesh - elected bodies
- district of Bangladesh - as the second tier
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.administrative-territorial-entity-of-bangladesh
- Wikidata: Q2271985 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2271985)
Direct properties required Filled
- divisions: 8 count
- districts: 64 count
- upazilas: about 495 count
- union councils: about 4550 count
Recognition required Filled
- Divisions, districts, upazilas, unions, wards, city corporations and municipalities of Bangladesh
- Rural union councils and wards; urban city corporations and pourashavas
- Administrative units of India and Pakistan are separate systems
- Not a visible object; boundaries on maps.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the hierarchy
- relay counts and roles
- describe local government
- route to specific units
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Stale counts after reorganisations
- Confusing tiers
- Mixing elected and appointed roles
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Constitution of Bangladesh provisions on local government
- Local Government Acts for union parishads, upazilas, pourashavas and city corporations
- Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics geocodes
Context of use required Filled
- Administering the territory of Bangladesh.
- divisions
- districts or zilas
- upazilas
- union councils or union parishads
- wards of unions, municipalities and city corporations
- city corporations
- pourashavas or municipalities
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q2271985: administrative territorial entity of Bangladesh - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Administrative geography of Bangladesh - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each tier be a separate entry?
- How should official geocodes be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming tiers; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q2271985/spec.json