Difficult to remember and spell the word "district" definition also has a somewhat unusual. This word may seem simple to those who know English, French or German well. Since "district" is a late Latin word.
Definition of the word
A district is a designation of an administrative-territorial unit, and in each language this definition refers to regions of different sizes.
The only thing all languages agree on is that this term cannot be used to denote a territory with significant dimensions. So, in one country, the district is a small district, and in another it’s already a district
District in different countries
The definition of "district" is constantly applied in the United States of America, France, Great Britain, Austria, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In Russia, this word is not so popular, although it was introduced by the decree of Peter I. True, in recent years it has become increasingly visible in scientific, architectural and other projects, and it has even been used in the political sphere.
In Russia, a district is a territorial unit with an administration that is part of a province. The definition appeared in Russian in 1719 and was partially written off from the Swedish Herat, which at that time included up to a thousand households. In one province of Russia, there were five districts, in which there were one and a half to two thousand households. Each had a head — the Zemstvo commissar; a clerk and three dispatchers worked under him. The definition did not last long, only until 1727, when the districts were renamed into counties.
In the United States of America and Great Britain, this is the name of the constituency - the lowest territorial unit. The only exception is the federal district of Columbia, called the District of Columbia, which includes Washington with all the surrounding areas.
For France, the district is an outdated, but no less popular, definition of unit of department. In all other countries, the word denotes a county or district.
District in culture
The concept of “district” from a popular novel greatly affected youth culture.
For the first time, it reached the youth with the Hunger Games trilogy. In the state described in the novel, there were 13 districts, and children who were supposed to perform in a bloody show built on the murders were forcibly removed from each. The novel made such a strong impression on the younger generation that now in the district culture is an analogue of the ghetto that has similar problems, in particular poverty, hunger, a high level of crime and the arbitrariness of the police.
In this regard, in colloquial speech the named word has an exclusively negative connotation.
By the way, after the trilogy appeared on large screens, a lot of shooting games and logical quests with the name "district" began to appear.