Nahiyah

For the administrative unit known as a "nahiye" in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, see Nahiye (Ottoman).

A nāḥiyah (Arabic: نَاحَيِة‎ [ˈnaːħijah], plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي [naˈwaːħiː]), or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division while in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Xinjiang, and the former Ottoman Empire, where it was also called a bucak, it is a third-level or lower division. It can constitute a division of a qadaa, mintaqah or other such district-type of division and is sometimes translated as "subdistrict".

Examples

Arabic-speaking countries

Country	Level above (Arabic)	Level above (English)	Main article
Syria	mintaqah (formerly qadaa)	district
Iraq	Qadaa	district	Subdistricts of Iraq
Lebanon
Jordan	Liwa'	governorate	Nahias of Jordan

Turkic-speaking territories

• Xinjiang, China: a subdivision of a prefectural.
• Ottoman Empire: (see: Nahiye (Ottoman)) subdistrict, commune, parish; a subdivision of a kaza.

Other

• Districts of Tajikistan: a subdivision of a province.