Editing Regional autonomy

{{short description|Decentralization of governance to outlying regions}}
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'''Regional autonomy''' is the authority of a [[region]] to govern and administer the interests of the local people according to its own initiatives. 21st-century examples of disputes over autonomy include the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]] and [[Catalonia]] in Spain, [[Sicily]] in Italy, and the disputes over autonomy of provinces in [[Indonesia]]. Other examples of autonomous regions include the [[Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]] in China and the [[Cherokee Nation]] in the United States. There is also an example of Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan Tamils asked for regional autonomy and the government declined it, leading to struggle by the Tamil community.

== See also ==
* [[Autonomous administrative division]]
* [[Regionalisation]]
* [[Regionalism (disambiguation)]]
* [[Regionalism (politics)]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.idea.int/publications/country/upload/6_regional_autonomy.pdf Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: How to Make Decentralization Work]

[[Category:Autonomy]]
[[Category:Politics]]
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