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Regional autonomy is decentralization of governance to outlying regions. Recent examples of disputes over autonomy include:

• The Basque region of Spain
• The Catalan region of Spain
• The Sicilia region of Italy
• The disputes over autonomy of provinces in Indonesia.

Current examples of autonomous regions include the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China and the Cherokee Nation in the United States.

See also

• Autonomous administrative division
• Regionalisation
• Regionalism

External links

• Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: How to Make Decentralization Work

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