CANTONS OR FREE CITIES 行政区和自由城市
Isolated independent cities, counties, or regions are fairly common in Faerun. A canton is a small, independent rural region, usually centered on a handful of large villages or small towns. A free city is the same thing, consisting of a small city and its immediate area. Unlike a true city-state, a free city has little ability to exert power abroad, but cantons and free cities have been known to resist the aggression of larger states with tenacity and determination.
在费伦，孤立的中立城市，县郡，或者区域是很常见的。一个行政区就是一片小型，独立的乡村地区，通常位于几个大型村庄或者小型城镇的中心。一座自由城市同样如此，由一座小型城市和其临近区域组成。和真正的城邦不同的是，一座自由城市几乎没有什么向外扩张的力量，但是众所周知这些行政区和自由城市有着足够的坚韧和决心抵抗住更大一些的国家的侵略。
CANTON翻译成行政区感觉怪怪的，金山词霸上有州的意思，不如翻译成州或者自治州或者自治区如何？
