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<p>A <b>territorial collectivity</b> (, previously collectivité locale), or <b>territorial authority</b>, in many francophone countries, is an administrative division governed by <a href="page.php?w=public_law">public law</a> that exercises within its territory certain powers devolved to it by the State as part of a <a href="page.php?w=decentralization">decentralization</a> process. In <a href="page.php?w=France">France</a>, it also refers to a chartered <a href="page.php?w=administrative_division_of_France">administrative division of France</a> with</p><p>
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