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1-718: A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in northern Germanic countries and related colonies, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions . The equivalent term in Swedish is härad (in Uppland also known as hundare during the early Middle Ages); in Danish and Norwegian , herred ; in Finnish , kihlakunta ; and in Estonian , kihelkond . The Scanian hundreds were Danish until