Editing Neighbourhood (section)

==Neighbourhoods around the world==

===Asia===
[[File:Segunbagicha (1).jpg|thumb|217x217px|[[Segunbagicha]], a neighbourhhood in [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh]]

====China====
In [[mainland China]], the term is generally used for the urban [[administrative division]] found immediately below the district level, although an intermediate, subdistrict level exists in some cities. They are also called streets (administrative terminology may vary from city to city). Neighbourhoods encompass 2,000 to 10,000 families. Within neighbourhoods, families are grouped into smaller residential [[residential unit|units]] or [[residential quarter|quarters]] of 100 to 600 families and supervised by a [[residents' committee]]; these are subdivided into residents' small groups of fifteen to forty families. In most urban areas of China, '''neighbourhood''', '''[[residential community|community]]''', '''residential community''', '''residential unit''', '''residential quarter''' have the same meaning: {{lang|zh-hans|社区}} or {{lang|zh-hans|小区}} or {{lang|zh-hans|居民区}} or {{lang|zh-hans|居住区}}, and is the direct sublevel of a [[Subdistricts of the People's Republic of China|subdistrict]] ({{lang|zh-hans|街道办事处}}), which is the direct sublevel of a [[Districts of the People's Republic of China|district]] ({{lang|zh-hans|区}}), which is the direct sublevel of a [[Cities of the People's Republic of China|city]] ({{lang|zh|市}}). (See [[Administrative divisions of China|Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China]])

===Europe===
[[File:Typical cypriot Neighbourhood in Aglandjia Nicosia Republic of Cyprus.jpg|thumb|Typical Cypriot neighbourhood in [[Aglandjia]], Nicosia, Cyprus]]
[[File:Vuores.jpg|thumb|[[Vuores]], a neighbourhood in the city of [[Tampere]], Finland]]

====United Kingdom====
The term has no general official or statistical purpose in the United Kingdom, but is often used by local [[borough]]s for self-chosen sub-divisions of their area for the delivery of various services and functions, as for example in [[Kingston-upon-Thames]]<ref>[http://www.kingston.gov.uk/information/nhoodhome.htm What is the Neighbourhood system? The Leader of the Council Explains:...] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523033748/http://www.kingston.gov.uk/information/nhoodhome.htm |date=May 23, 2009 }}</ref> or is used as an informal term to refer to a small area within a town or city. The label is commonly used to refer to organisations which relate to such a very local structure, such as neighbourhood policing<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhoodpolicing.co.uk/|title=NHP|website=www.neighbourhoodpolicing.co.uk}}</ref> or [[Neighbourhood Watch (UK)|Neighbourhood watch]] schemes. In addition, government statistics for local areas are often referred to as neighbourhood statistics, although the data themselves are broken down usually into [[district]]s and [[Ward (politics)|wards]] for local purposes. In many parts of the UK wards are roughly equivalent to neighbourhoods or a combination of them.

===North America===
In the [[United States]] and [[Canada]], neighbourhoods are often given official or semi-official status through [[neighbourhood association]]s, [[neighbourhood watch]]es or block watches. These may regulate such matters as [[lawn]] care and [[fence]] height, and they may provide such services as [[block party|block parties]], neighbourhood [[parks]] and community [[security]]. In some other places the equivalent organization is the [[Parish (administrative division)|parish]], though a parish may have several neighbourhoods within it depending on the area.

In localities where neighbourhoods do not have an official status, questions can arise as to where one neighbourhood begins and another ends. Many cities use ''districts'' and ''wards'' as official divisions of the city, rather than traditional neighbourhood boundaries. [[ZIP Code]] boundaries and post office names also sometimes reflect neighbourhood identities.