"township" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific geographic area with locally elected officials, such as a municipality or district. For example: "The township of Crookville has a population of 10,000 people."
Swaths of the semi-rural township and pastoral environs have been bulldozed, flattened, rezoned, redeveloped, and covered with "people farms".
He was accused by the truth and reconciliation commission of conspiring with the apartheid security forces to stoke township violence in the early 1990s, a charge he has always vehemently denied.
The main road through Katine has been upgraded to tarmac, Atirir is set to be elevated to a township, and with a chance Airir will be reconnected, to the national electricity grid, she expects business to pick up.
Growing up biracial in the formerly segregated township of Soweto, Noah once said his birth was a crime.
Eight years ago, in the coastal township of Shawbost on the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis, I was given an extraordinary document.
A walk round Allira's township, where 16% of people are unemployed, shows run down weatherboard houses, battered and rusted cars and piles of rubbish in gardens.
True writes Mitt Romney in his precinct of Washington and Wells township was given credit for 22 ballots when he actually only received two.
Mexican officials say the fight began when police officers came under fire while responding to a report of armed men taking over the Rancho del Sol, in Ecuandureo, a township near the border with Jalisco state.
Yet just a short bus ride away is the poverty-ridden township of Alexandria, where many people still stuff cash under their mattresses.Across sub-Saharan Africa as a whole only about a quarter of adults have accounts at formal financial institutions, and only 3% have credit cards.
Family-planning workers, who are available in every township, might help with this, Mr Cai believes.Changing officials' habits could prove hard.
In January Hebei Daily, a state-run newspaper, said that in Mancheng county, to which Shijing township belongs, 37 rock quarries and rubble pits had been shut.Hebei's economy has suffered.
