Editing Belarus (section)

===Local government===
[[Local government]] in Belarus is administered by administrative-territorial units ({{langx|be|адміністрацыйна-тэрытарыяльныя адзінкі}}; {{langx|ru|административно-территориальные единицы}}), and occurs on two levels: basic and primary. At the basic level are 118 raions councils and 10 cities of oblast subordination councils, which are supervised by the governments of the oblasts.<ref name="COE">{{cite web |title=Strengthening Institutional Frameworks for Local Governance Programme |url=https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=0900001680687cd6 |website=rm.coe.int |publisher=Council of Europe |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref> At the primary level are 14 cities of raion subordination councils, 8 [[List of urban-type settlements in Belarus|urban-type settlements]] councils, and 1,151 village councils.<ref name="President">{{cite web |title=State Structure |url=https://president.gov.by/en/president/detjam/gosudarstvennoe-ustrojstvo |website=president.gov.by |publisher=Press Service President of the Republic of Belarus |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=СВЕДЕНИЯ о составе избранных депутатов местных Советов депутатов двадцать восьмого созыва |url=https://rec.gov.by/uploads/folderForLinks/elections-ms28-elect-59-60.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://rec.gov.by/uploads/folderForLinks/elections-ms28-elect-59-60.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |website=rec.gov.by |publisher=Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus |access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref> The councils are elected by their residents, and have executive committees appointed by their executive committee chairs. The chairs of executive committees for raions and city of oblast subordinations are appointed by the regional executive committees at the level above; the chairs of executive committees for towns of raion subordination, settlements, and villages are appointed by their councils, but upon the recommendation of the raion executive committees.<ref name="COE"/> In either case, the councils have the power to approve or reject a nominee for executive committee chair.

[[Human settlement|Settlements]] without their own local council and executive committee are called territorial units ({{langx|be|тэрытарыяльныя адзінкі}}; {{langx|ru|территориальные единицы}}). These territorial units may also be classified as a city of regional or raion subordination, urban-type settlement, or rural settlement, but whose government is administered by the council of another primary or basic unit.<ref name="Administrative">{{cite web |title=Об административно-территориальном устройстве Республики Беларусь |url=http://world_of_law.pravo.by/text.asp?RN=H19800154 |website=world_of_law.pravo.by |publisher=National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus |access-date=21 February 2022}}</ref> In October 1995, a [[decree|presidential decree]] abolished the local governments of cities of raion subordination and urban-type settlements which served as the [[administrative centre|administrative center]] of raions, demoting them from administrative-territorial units to territorial units.<ref name="Decree95">{{cite web |title=№ 434 от 20.10.1995. Об объединении административных единиц Республики Беларусь, имеющих общий административный центр |url=https://belzakon.net/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%91/1995/6531 |website=belzakon.net |publisher=Belzakon |access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>

As for 2019, the administrative-territorial and territorial units include 115 cities, 85 urban-type settlements, and 23,075 rural settlements.<ref name="Census">{{cite web |title=Number and territorial distribution of the population |url=https://census.belstat.gov.by/sections/1 |website=census.belstat.gov.by |publisher=National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus |access-date=21 February 2022 |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629085107/https://census.belstat.gov.by/sections/1 }}</ref>