Other Territorial Entities
The autonomous communities have the right to establish additional territorial entities in their internal territorial organizations, without eliminating the provinces or the municipalities (even if the latter can have a different name). Catalonia has created two types of additional territorial entities: the comarques and the vegueries, both of which have administrative powers and are recognized in the Statute of Autonomy (organic law) of the community. Other communities have also defined territorial entities (e.g. comarcas or merindades), but these do not have administrative powers and are simply geographic or historical designations.
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