In Austria, a district (Bezirk) is an administrative division normally encompassing several municipalities, roughly equivalent to the Landkreis in Germany. The administrative office of a district, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft, is headed by a Bezirkshauptmann.
New! The Horses of the Plains. Most of the evolutionary development of the horse (54 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago) actually took place in North America, where they developed the very successful strategy of grazing (eating grass) rather than browsing (eating softer succulent leaves).
In Europe, the Russian Federation has the highest number of horses at 1,319,358. China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia in Asia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Columbia in Latin America, and Ethiopia in Africa also each have national horse populations of more than one million.