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Subdivisions of Catalonia
Catalonia, referring to the autonomous community in Spain, is territorially divided into numerous types and levels of subdivisions with varying administrative, organisational and cultural functions.
The official first-level regional distribution in Catalonia, configured through the Statute of Autonomy of 2006, is the vegueria (Catalan pronunciation: [bəɣəˈɾi.ə]), owing its name to the feudal jurisdiction of the former Principality of Catalonia.
Regulated by the Vegueries Law, approved on 27 July 2010 in Parliament, they aim to form vegueria councils and become a full administrative division, although the law has been ruled unconstitutional by the Spanish Constitutional Court, as it replaces functions performed by Spanish provinces . Thus, in practice, despite being official, vegueries are not allowed to carry the administrative powers of the provinces and currently remain only usable for similar territorial deployments to those carried out by the areas, e.g. government services, weather reports, commercial distribution, media coverage, curfew during the COVID-19 pandemic, television frequencies, etc.
There are eight vegueries since 2017. The Aran Valley is not part of any vegueria, as it has been an autonomous region since 2015. There are a number of proposals to create a ninth vegueria around the Alt Ter region.
Predating the vegueries and for statistical purposes, Catalonia is also divided in "functional territorial areas" (Catalan: àmbits funcionals territorials; Aranese Occitan: encastres foncionaus territoriaus). These were stablished in 1995 by the Catalan General Territorial Plan. They are largely the same as the vegueries, with mostly identical names, with the main exception being that the Aran Valley is included within Alt Pirineu in the Alt Pirineu i Aran area.
Catalonia's counties (Catalan: comarques, Catalan pronunciation: [kuˈmarkə]) form the second-level division and are a subdivision of the vegueries.
There are 42 administrative counties since 2023. Aran was a county until 2015, when it formally became an autonomous region, but it is still often included in county lists and maps as one. Each comarca has a representative county council (Catalan: consell comarcal), except for Barcelonès, which abolished it in 2019, and Lluçanès, which, having only been established in 2023, will not have one until the 2027 local elections.
Counties often include cultural subdivisions known as sub-counties (Catalan: subcomarques), with no administrative value. Some of these were proposed as new administrative counties in the 2001 Roca report:
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Subdivisions of Catalonia
Catalonia, referring to the autonomous community in Spain, is territorially divided into numerous types and levels of subdivisions with varying administrative, organisational and cultural functions.
The official first-level regional distribution in Catalonia, configured through the Statute of Autonomy of 2006, is the vegueria (Catalan pronunciation: [bəɣəˈɾi.ə]), owing its name to the feudal jurisdiction of the former Principality of Catalonia.
Regulated by the Vegueries Law, approved on 27 July 2010 in Parliament, they aim to form vegueria councils and become a full administrative division, although the law has been ruled unconstitutional by the Spanish Constitutional Court, as it replaces functions performed by Spanish provinces . Thus, in practice, despite being official, vegueries are not allowed to carry the administrative powers of the provinces and currently remain only usable for similar territorial deployments to those carried out by the areas, e.g. government services, weather reports, commercial distribution, media coverage, curfew during the COVID-19 pandemic, television frequencies, etc.
There are eight vegueries since 2017. The Aran Valley is not part of any vegueria, as it has been an autonomous region since 2015. There are a number of proposals to create a ninth vegueria around the Alt Ter region.
Predating the vegueries and for statistical purposes, Catalonia is also divided in "functional territorial areas" (Catalan: àmbits funcionals territorials; Aranese Occitan: encastres foncionaus territoriaus). These were stablished in 1995 by the Catalan General Territorial Plan. They are largely the same as the vegueries, with mostly identical names, with the main exception being that the Aran Valley is included within Alt Pirineu in the Alt Pirineu i Aran area.
Catalonia's counties (Catalan: comarques, Catalan pronunciation: [kuˈmarkə]) form the second-level division and are a subdivision of the vegueries.
There are 42 administrative counties since 2023. Aran was a county until 2015, when it formally became an autonomous region, but it is still often included in county lists and maps as one. Each comarca has a representative county council (Catalan: consell comarcal), except for Barcelonès, which abolished it in 2019, and Lluçanès, which, having only been established in 2023, will not have one until the 2027 local elections.
Counties often include cultural subdivisions known as sub-counties (Catalan: subcomarques), with no administrative value. Some of these were proposed as new administrative counties in the 2001 Roca report:
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