Editing District (section)

====British Columbia====
In the province of [[British Columbia]], there are several kinds of administrative districts by that name.  The usual usage is a reference to ''[[district municipality|district municipalities]]'', which are a class of municipality in the same hierarchy as city, town, or village.  Most are styled, e.g., "[[Mission, British Columbia|District of Mission]]" or [[Wells, British Columbia|"District of Wells"]], though some are styled, e.g., [[Delta, British Columbia|"Corporation of Delta"]] or "[[Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)|Township of Langley]]".

Within the area of municipal powers, ''[[Regional districts of British Columbia|regional districts]]'' –  which are somewhat analogous to counties in other jurisdictions, a number of municipalities, and unincorporated areas – are always referred to as "regional districts" to distinguish them from district municipalities and other kinds of district.

Other kinds of districts in British Columbia are:

* Electoral districts (some early ridings, as electoral districts are commonly known, included "district" in their title, e.g. [[New Westminster District]])
* Forest districts, which are a set of administrative regions of the [[British Columbia Ministry of Forests]]
* Land districts, which are the underlying cadastral survey system for the province and are the primary locational reference used in government databases and references. The primary use of "district" in combinations such as the Lillooet District or New Westminster District was a reference to the land district, though sometimes to mining divisions.
* [[List of school districts of British Columbia|School districts]], also often referred to simply as "districts", when in context.
* Other types of regional subdivision, according to the ministry or agency, are generally styled "region" or "area".  These include as Ministry of Environment regions, [[Health regions of Canada#British Columbia|health regions]], and regional management planning areas such as the [[Muskwa-Kechika Management Planning Area]].