Districts of Austria
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Austria is divided into 84 political districts (Politische Bezirke), and 15 Statutarstädte which form their own districts.
[edit] Function
The Austrian Bezirk is roughly equivalent to the Landkreis in Germany. The administrative office of a district, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft is headed by the Bezirkshauptmann. It is in charge of the administration of all matters of federal and state administrative law and subject to orders from the higher instances, usually the Landeshauptmann (governor) in matters of federal law and the Landesregierung (state government) in state law. Thus, the district is the basic unit of general administration in Austria.
Officials on the district level are not elected, but appointed by the state government. There are also independent cities in Austria. They are called Statutarstadt in Austrian administrative law. These urban districts do have the same tasks as a normal district.
Vienna, which is both a state and a Statutarstadt, is also subdivided into districts, which are divisions used for local administration by the city government.
For more information on Austrian administration, see States of Austria.
[edit] List of political districts
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