The Kambojas were also a self-governing political unit (republic) under the Maurya Emperors.

The wards are survivors of the mediaeval governmental system that allowed very small areas to exist as self-governing units within the wider city.

Charter schools would be authorized, perhaps by a county or state board of education, to function as self-governing units outside the control of the local school district.

Rhombomeres are considered self-governing developmental units, with certain aspects of the rhombomere phenotype being determined at the time of formation.

The term was chosen for the United States Congress to emphasize the status of each state represented there as a self-governing unit.

In the following years it was a self-governing administrative unit.

Local governments were not viewed as agents of development but as self-governing units.

Every village was a self-governing unit.

Cities are self-governing units administered independently of the larger jurisdictions within which they are located.

In other words, the Kambojas formed a self-governing political unit under the Maurya emperors.