noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'
administrative division; partitioning for governance
Rare term for dividing an area or organization into administrative units; mostly historical or bureaucratic. Modern Japanese more often uses 区分 or 分割.
江戸時代の村を区処する記録が残っている。
Records remain of the administrative division of villages in the Edo period.
この地域は
This area was once divided into districts for administrative purposes.