Districts (Malay:Daerah;Jajahan inKelantan) are a type of subdivision below thestate level inMalaysia. An administrative district is administered by a lands and district office (Malay:pejabat daerah dan tanah) which is headed by district officer (Malay:pegawai daerah).
InPeninsular Malaysia, a district is a subdivision of astate. Amukim (commune, sub-district orparish) is a subdivision of a district. TheNational Land Code assigns land matters, including the delineation of districts, to the purview ofstate governments.[1] These states operate aTorrens system, with districts administered by the respective state's land and district office, and coordinated by the land and mines office.[2]
The state ofPerlis is not divided into districts due to its size, but straight to the mukim level. The threeFederal Territories are also not divided into districts; howeverKuala Lumpur is divided into several mukim for land administration purposes.Putrajaya is divided intoprecincts.
InEast Malaysia, a district is a subdivision of adivision (bahagian) of a state.[3] For example,Tuaran is a district within theWest Coast Division ofSabah. A district is usually named after the main town or its administrativecapital; for example, the town ofSandakan is the capital of the Sandakan District, as well as the capital ofSandakan Division.
Some larger districts are further divided into autonomous sub-districts (daerah kecil; literally "small district") before the mukim level. This is prevalent inSarawak andSabah, but also seen in Peninsular Malaysia in recent years, e.g.Lojing autonomous sub-district inKelantan. Sub-districts inSarawak andSabah, however, are not divided into mukim.
Administrative district boundaries also provide the basis of boundaries for theparliamentary constituencies in theMalaysian Parliament.[10] However this is not always the case; in heavily populated areas e.g. theKlang Valley andKinta Valley there is serious overlap between district, local government and parliamentary boundaries.
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