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Properties used by the WikiProject Country Subdivision
English: The following properties are used for items covered by the WikiProject Country Subdivision

Usage guidelines[edit]

List of properties[edit]

Statement Active Property Use Notes
Classification (see administrative territorial entity for more details on classes)
Instance instance of (P31) All specific subdivisions should be classified as instances of the most specific class available, as well as have their type listed. Typically this will be an item named as class of country
example: Badakhshan (Q165376) > instance of (P31) > province of Afghanistan (Q158683)
Subclass subclass of (P279) All classes of subdivisions should be classified as subclasses of the most specific class available.
example: province of Afghanistan (Q158683) > subclass of (P279) > Subdivisions of Afghanistan (Q156772)) and province (Q34876)
General information
Country country (P17) Use for all levels of subdivisions
example: Badakhshan (Q165376) > country (P17) > Afghanistan (Q889)
Subdivisions contains the administrative territorial entity (P150) List all subdivisions that the entity is directly divided into, but not subdivisions thereof.
Borders shares border with (P47) List all similar-level divisions that it shares a border with. This is a guideline, though some judgement can be applied when a border is co-linear with a higher level division. General only land borders and clear over-water borders are included. Use appropriate qualifiers for border articles.
example: Washington (Q1223) > shares border with (P47) > Oregon (Q824), Idaho (Q1221), British Columbia (Q1974)
more related properties can be found at: Wikidata:List_of_properties/Geographical_feature#Administrative_territorial_entity