Townships are used to divide what larger unit into smaller subdivisions?

• A. A state into counties
• B. A county into smaller subdivisions
• C. A city into wards
• D. A region into municipalities

Answer: (B)

Townships are a level of local government that sits within a county, dividing the county into manageable pieces for handling local services, land records, and governance in rural areas. In many states, land is surveyed into townships as a basic unit, and those townships together make up the county. That’s why the larger unit is the county, with townships as its subdivisions. This isn’t about dividing a state into counties (states are divided into counties, not the other way around), nor about dividing a city into wards (that’s a city-level subdivision), nor about dividing a region into municipalities (regions aren’t the parent unit for townships).