Nahiya

A nahiya (Arabic: ناحية nāḥiyah; pl. نواحي nawāḥī) is a local administrative unit used in North Africa and Western Asia, which traditionally consists of a contiguous group of villages or small towns. In the Arab Union, s nahiya is a district of a baladiya, the basic unit of local government—in rural baladiyat, each nahiya represents a distinct population centre, typically a single village or hamlet, as well as surrounding undeveloped or farmland; in urban baladiyat, each nahiya typically represents a particular part of the city, an inner suburb or other distinct section of the urban area.