A
nāḥiyah ( , plural
nawāḥī ), or
nahia, is a regional or local type of
administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages and/or sometimes smaller towns. In
Tajikistan, it is a second-level division while in
Syria,
Iraq,
Lebanon,
Jordan,
Xinjiang and the former
Ottoman Empire, where it was also called a
bucak, it is a third-level or lower division. It can constitute a division of a
qadaa,
mintaqah or other such
district-type of division and is sometimes translated as "
subdistrict".