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The list below is of terms for contemporary administrative country subdivisions. It is alphabetical by term in English (the headings) then by term as translated, transliterated or used as equivalent in any language.

Notes

  • Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English.
  • Where more than one country uses the same term, they are listed alphabetically by name in English.
  • The terms listed are meant to be in singular form, but are noted or queried as plural where this is known or thought to be the case.
  • A term in brackets indicates either that its use is informal or is yet to be confirmed.
  • Terms that are also used in other contexts, such as "city", "constituency", "region", "republic" etc, are only included here if they are used to identify administrative divisions by the country or countries listed.
  • A quicklink to this page may be provided locally by invoking the template {{LTCACS}}.

See also


(pl.?) China China

block

block  India
gewog  Bhutan

borough

alevik  Estonia
arrondissement Canada Canada
borough Australia Australia
Canada Canada
 England
 United States
 Wales[1]
bwrdeistref sirol  Wales[1]
delegación Mexico Mexico
gu, ku (pl.?)  Japan
 South Korea

canton

canton  Costa Rica
 France
 Luxembourg
 Switzerland[2]
cantone  Bolivia
 Ecuador
 Switzerland
chantun  Switzerland
Kanton, kanton  Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Luxembourg
Kantone  Switzerland[3]

cell

utugari (pl.?)  Rwanda

circle

cercle  Mali
 Morocco
 Switzerland
circoli (pl.)  Switzerland
daïrah  Algeria
Kreis  Switzerland

city

astedader akabibi Ethiopia Ethiopia
chikhalsi (pl.?)  North Korea
city Australia Australia
Canada Canada
 New Zealand
 United States
 Wales
dìjíshī  China
dina  Wales
gorod  Russia[4]
gwangyeoksi (pl.?)  South Korea
k'alak'i (pl.?) Georgia (country) Georgia
kaupstaðir (pl.?)  Iceland
kota (pl.?)  Indonesia
kreisfreie Städt  Germany
lielpilsēta  Latvia
lungsod (pl.?)  Philippines
misto zi spetsial'nym statusom [5]  Ukraine
municipiu (pl.?)  Moldova
oraş  Romania
qala  Kazakhstan
sahar  Azerbaijan
šaar (keneš) (pl.?)  Kyrgyzstan
serei shitei toshi [6] (pl.?)  Japan
shi, shih (pl.?)  Japan
 Taiwan
si (pl.?)  North Korea
 South Korea
siyudad (pl.?)  Philippines
Stadtkreise  Germany
statutární město  Czech Republic
Statutarstadt  Austria
thành phố (pl.?)  Vietnam
xiànjíshì  China

collectivity

collectivité  France[7]

commune

castello  San Marino
commune  Burundi
 Benin
 Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
 Congo[9]
 France
Guinea Guinea
 Haiti
 Luxembourg
 Monaco
 Morocco[10]
comuna Argentina Argentina
comună  Romania
comune  Italy
Gemeinde  Austria
 Germany
 Luxembourg
gmina  Poland
khum (pl.?)  Cambodia
kaupunki (pl.)  Finland[11]
kommune  Faroe Islands
 Norway
komuna (pl.)  Albania
kunta (pl.)  Finland[12]
kwaeng  Thailand[13]
obshtina  Bulgaria
opčina, občina  Slovenia
tambon  Thailand
vald  Estonia[14]

community

aiyl okmotus (pl.?)  Kyrgyzstan[15]
chumchon  Thailand
communauté Canada Canada[16]
 Chad[17]
 France[18]
shèqū (pl.?)  China

constituency

constituency  Namibia

county

amt  Denmark[19]
 Greenland
apskritis  Lithuania
comté Canada Canada
concelho  Cape Verde
condae, contae  Ireland
county  Canada
 England
 Liberia
 Uganda
United States United States
 Wales
fylke  Norway
gun, kun (pl.?)  North Korea
 South Korea
hsien (pl.?)  Taiwan
judeţ  Romania
län (pl.?)  Sweden
maakond  Estonia
megye  Hungary
megyei jogú város  Hungary
powiat  Poland
qadaa', qadaa  Iraq
qark  Albania
quartier Saint Lucia St. Lucia
Regierungsbezirk  Germany
sharestan (pl.?)  Iran
sir  Wales
sūm  Mongolia
sýslur  Iceland
tehsil, taluk[20]  India
xiàn  China
županija  Croatia

department

département  Burkina Faso
 Cameroon
 Chad
 Ivory Coast
 France[21]
 Gabon
 Haiti
 Mauritania
 Niger
 Senegal
departamento  Argentina
 Bolivia
 Colombia
 El Salvador
 Guatemala
 Honduras
 Nicaragua
 Paraguay
 Uruguay
 Venezuela

dependency

dependencia  Venezuela[22]
dependency  Antigua and Barbuda
 Fiji
 Grenada
 Mauritius
Saint Helena St. Helena

district

akarere [23]  Rwanda
amphoe, amphur  Thailand
Amt  Switzerland
Amtsbezirk  Switzerland
apriņķis  Latvia
arrondissement  Belgium
 Benin
 Cameroon
Chad Chad
Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo[9]
Djibouti Djibouti
 France[24]
 Haiti
 Niger
bakhsh (pl.?)  Iran
barangay, baranggay (pl.?)  Philippines
Bezirk  Austria
 Switzerland
chigu (pl.?)  North Korea
circondari (pl.)  Italy
daerah  Brunei
 Malaysia
distretto  Switzerland
district  Anguilla
 Bahamas
 Belize
 Botswana
Canada Canada[25]
 Cayman Islands
 England
 Gambia
 Ghana
 Lesotho
 Malawi
 Mauritius
 Nauru
 New Zealand
 Northern Ireland
 Seychelles
 Sierra Leone
 Singapore
 Swaziland
 Switzerland
 Uganda
 United States
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe
distrikkaya (pl.?)  Sri Lanka
distrikt  Suriname
distrito  Dominican Republic[26]
 Mozambique
 Panama
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Portugal
 São Tomé and Príncipe
dzonkhag  Bhutan
eparchy  Cyprus
?etrap (pl.?)  Turkmenistan[27]
gu, ku (pl.?)  North Korea
 South Korea
huyen (pl.?), quan [28]  Vietnam
ilçe  Turkey
itūmālō (pl.?)  Samoa
kayaing (pl.?)  Myanmar
khêt Thailand Thailand
Kreis  Germany
kreisfreie Städt  Germany
Landkreis  Germany[29]
línqū  China
mahoz  Israel
mintaqah  Syria
muang[30]  Laos
mutamadiyat (pl.?)  Tunisia
obvod Czech Republic Czech Republic
okres  Czech Republic
 Slovakia
okrug  Serbia
 Russia[31][32]
qadaa', qadaa  Iraq
 Lebanon
, shìxiáqū (pl.?)  China
 Taiwan
qūgōngsuǒ (pl.?)  China
raion, rayon  Azerbaijan
 Belarus
Georgia (country) Georgia
 Kazakhstan
 Russia
 Ukraine
rajons  Latvia
raionul  Moldova
rodongjagu (pl.?)  North Korea
rreth  Albania
selsoviet, selsovet  Russia[29]
srok (pl.)  Cambodia
Stadtkreise  Germany
tèqū (pl.)  China
wereda, woreda  Ethiopia
wilaya (pl.?)  Tanzania
zila, zilla, jela  Bangladesh

division

bibhag  Bangladesh
département  Cameroon
division  Canada[33]
 Fiji
 Gambia
taing (pl.?)  Myanmar
tarafa ) (pl.?)  Kenya
todōfuken  Japan

eldership, elderate

seniūnija  Lithuania

emirate

imarah  United Arab Emirates

fraction

frazione  Italy

governorate

muhāfazāh  Bahrain
 Egypt
 Iraq
 Jordan
 Kuwait
 Lebanon
 Oman
 Syria
 Tunisia
 Yemen

league

méng, chuulghan (pl.?) China China

locality

localidade  Mozambique
località )  Italy
locality  Malta[34]
lokaliteteve ) (pl.?)  Albania
mtaa ) (pl.?)  Kenya

municipality

baladiyah  Qatar
bashkia (pl.)  Albania
bayan (pl.?)  Philippines
belediye (pl.?)  Turkey
castello  San Marino
comuna  Chile
comune  Switzerland
commune  Belgium
 Luxembourg
 Switzerland
concelho  Portugal
 São Tomé and Príncipe
corregimiento  Panama
demos  Greece
gemeente  Belgium
 Netherlands
Gemeinde  Austria
 Belgium
 Germany
 Liechtenstein
 Luxembourg
 Switzerland
hot  Mongolia
kommun  Sweden
kommune  Denmark[35]
 Faroe Islands
 Greenland
 Norway
kunnat (pl.)  Finland
linn  Estonia[36]
misto zi spetsial'nym statusom [5]  Ukraine
municipalité Canada Canada
municipality Australia Australia
 Bermuda
 Canada
 Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia
 Uganda
 United States
 Zimbabwe
municipio  Argentina
 Bolivia
 Colombia
 Dominican Republic
 El Salvador
 Guatemala
 Honduras
 Mexico
 Nicaragua
 Puerto Rico
 Spain
 Venezuela
município  Angola[37]
 Brazil
 Cape Verde
 Portugal
municipiu  Romania
munisipyo  Philippines
novad (pl.?)  Laos
obec (pl.?)  Slovakia
obshtina  Bulgaria
omavalitsus (pl.)  Estonia
opčina, občina  Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Croatia
 Macedonia
 Slovenia
opština  Montenegro
 Serbia
pagast  Laos[38]
partido  Argentina
savivaldybė  Lithuania[39]
sha'biyah  Libya
shaykhat (pl.?)  Tunisia
shichōsonku (pl.?)  Japan
sveitarfélagið  Iceland
thu do  Vietnam[40]
umujyi ) (pl.?)  Rwanda
vald  Estonia[14]
zhíxiáshì (pl.)  China
 Taiwan

neighbourhood

barrio Argentina Argentina
 Philippines
 Puerto Rico
dong, tong (pl.?)  North Korea
 South Korea
jūmínqū (pl.?)  China
kebele  Ethiopia
lín (pl.?)  Taiwan
quartier Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]

parish

freguesia  Cape Verde
 Portugal
parish  Antigua and Barbuda
 Barbados
 Bermuda
 Canada
 Dominica
 England
 Grenada
 Guernsey
 Jamaica
 Jersey
 Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines St. Vincent &/ Gren.
 Uganda
 United States
parròquia  Andorra
 Ecuador
 Venezuela
vald  Estonia[14]

periphery

periphereia  Greece

prefecture

dìqū (pl.)  China
ken (pl.?)  Japan
nomos  Greece
préfecture  Central African Republic
 Guinea
prefekturë )  Albania

province

aymag, aimag  Mongolia
changwat  Thailand
concelho  São Tomé and Príncipe
do (pl.?)  North Korea
 South Korea
faritany  Madagascar
il  Turkey
intara  Rwanda
khêt, khêtt  Cambodia
khoueng (pl.?)  Laos
marz [41]  Armenia
mintaqah  Saudi Arabia
mukim (pl.?)  Brunei
lalawigan (pl.?)  Philippines
lansdele (pl.?)  Greenland
lääni  Finland
muhāfazāh  Iraq
oblast, oblast'  Bulgaria
 Russia[32]
 Ukraine
oblasty  Kyrgyzstan
oblys  Kazakhstan
ostan  Iran
palata (pl.?)  Sri Lanka
probinsya (pl.?)  Philippines
province  Belgium
 Burkina Faso
 Burundi
 Cameroon
 Canada
Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
 Fiji
 Gabon
 Kenya
 Pakistan
 Papua New Guinea
 Sierra Leone
 Solomon Islands
 South Africa
 Vanuatu
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe
provincia  Argentina
 Bolivia
 Chile
 Costa Rica
 Cuba
 Dominican Republic
 Ecuador
 Equatorial Guinea
 Italy
 Mozambique
 Panama
 Paraguay
 Peru
 Spain
província  Angola
provincie  Belgium
 Netherlands
provinsi, propinsi  Indonesia
Provinz  Belgium
shěng  China
 Taiwan
tỉnh (pl.?)  Vietnam
voblasts'  Belarus
województwo  Poland[42]
velayah  Afghanistan
viloyat  Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan
welayat  Turkmenistan
wilayah  Algeria
 Oman

quarter

quartier Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
 Luxembourg
 Monaco
Saint Lucia St. Lucia
sangkat (pl.?)  Cambodia
Stadtviertel  Luxembourg

range

range  Canada

regency

kabupaten (pl.?)  Indonesia

region

comarca indígena [43]  Panama
eilandgebieden  Netherlands Antilles[44]
faritra (pl.?)  Madagascar
gewest  Belgium
gobolka (pl.?)  Somalia
khetphiset Laos Laos[45]
kilil  Ethiopia
kraj  Czech Republic
 Slovakia
landsvæðun  Iceland
maakunta (pl.)  Finland
mintaqah  Oman
mkoa (pl.?)  Tanzania
região  Guinea-Bissau
region  Canada
 England
 Ghana
 Guyana
 Namibia
 New Zealand
Region  Belgium
région  Belgium
 Burkina Faso
 Chad
 Congo[9]
 Ivory Coast
 Djibouti
 France[46]
 Guinea
 Mali
 Mauritania
 Senegal
región  Chile
 Peru
regione  Italy
rehiyon  Philippines
sýsla (pl.?)  Faroe Islands
syssel (pl.?)  Faroe Islands
vikas kshetra  Nepal[47]
zoba (pl.?)  Eritrea

republic

respublika  Russia

section

khan (pl.?)  Cambodia
seccione  Bolivia
 Dominican Republic
section  Canada
 Haiti[48]

sector

cheffrie Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
sectoare (pl.?) Romania Romania
?setor  Guinea-Bissau
imirenge (pl.?)  Rwanda

sheading

sheading  Isle of Man

shire

qadaa', qadaa  Iraq
shire Australia Australia
 England

state

Bundesland  Austria
estado  Brazil
 Mexico
 Venezuela
kilil  Ethiopia
Land  Germany
pyi-neh (pl.?)  Myanmar
state  Australia
 India
 Malaysia
Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia
 Nigeria
 Palau
United States United States
wilayah  Sudan

subdistrict

jiēdàobànshìchù, jiēbàn (pl.?)  China
kecamatan (pl.?)  Indonesia
king amphoe, king amphur  Thailand
nafa  Israel
subdistrict United States Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

subject

subyekt  Russia

subprefecture

shichō (pl.?)  Japan
sous-préfecture  Central African Republic
 Ivory Coast
 Guinea

subregion

sous-région Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
seutukunta  Finland

territory

daerah istimewa (pl.?)  Indonesia
krai, kray  Russia[32]
territoire Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
 France
territorial authority  New Zealand
territory  Australia
 Canada
 India
 Pakistan
 United States
unitatea teritorială Moldova Moldova
wilayah persekutuan (pl.?)  Malaysia[49]

town

bayan (pl.?)  Philippines
bæir (pl.?)  Iceland
chō, machi (pl.?)  Japan
corregimiento  Colombia
eup (pl.?)  South Korea
gorkeneš (pl.?)  Kyrgyzstan
gorod  Russia
linn  Estonia[36]
miasto  Poland
selysche mis'koho typu  Ukraine
town Australia Australia
Canada Canada
 United States
zhèn (pl.?)  China

township

kaupstaðir  Iceland
mínzúsūm China China
mínzúxiāng (pl.?)  China
myeon (pl.?)  South Korea
sūmù China China
thi xa (pl.?)  Vietnam
township  Canada
 United States
xiāng (pl.?)  China
 Taiwan
zhèn (pl.?)  Taiwan

village[50]

barangay, baranggay (pl.?)  Philippines
cūn  China
desa (pl.?)  Indonesia
kampong (pl.?)  Brunei
kelurahan (pl.?)  Indonesia
kijiji ) (pl.?)  Kenya
külad (pl.)  Estonia
(pl.?)  Taiwan
muban  Thailand
qarya, qaryah  Iraq
ri (pl.?)  North Korea
 South Korea
selo  Ukraine
son, mura  Japan
sulos (pl.?)  East Timor
village Canada Canada
Democratic Republic of the Congo DR of the Congo[8]
 Uganda
 United States
zìráncūn  China

ward

barangay, baranggay (pl.?)  Philippines
kebele  Ethiopia
ku, gu (pl.?)  Japan
kuyŏk (pl.?)  North Korea

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b county borough.
  2. ^ also demi-canton ("half-canton").
  3. ^ also Halb-kantone ("half-canton").
  4. ^ also the two federalnyye goroda (federal cities; sing. federalny gorod) Moscow and St. Petersburg.
  5. ^ a b "city with special status", also referred to as a municipality.
  6. ^ "city designated by government ordinance", foreshortened to seirei shi ("government ordinance city"); also known as "designated city".
  7. ^ collectivité départementale (departmental collectivity: Mayotte), collectivité territoriale (territorial collectivity: Corsica), collectivité d'outre-mer (overseas collectivity: French Polynesia, Mayotte, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna).
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa.
  9. ^ a b c also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
  10. ^ consisting of communes urbaines (urban communes) and communes rurales (rural communes).
  11. ^ urban commune.
  12. ^ rural commune.
  13. ^ an "urban commune" found in Bangkok, equivalent to a tambon.
  14. ^ a b c commune, rural municipality or parish.
  15. ^ rural community.
  16. ^ communauté urbaine ("urban community", a metropolitan municipality).
  17. ^ communauté rurale ("rural community").
  18. ^ consisting of communautés urbaines (urban communities), communautés d'agglomération (agglomerated communities) and communautés de communes ("communal communities").
  19. ^ Until 2007; ?områder (regions) from 2007.
  20. ^ or tahsil, taluka.
  21. ^ also département d'outre-mer (overseas department).
  22. ^ federal dependency.
  23. ^ pl. uturere.
  24. ^ also arrondissement municipal (municipal arrondissement).
  25. ^ regional district.
  26. ^ distrito municipale (municipal district).
  27. ^ including ?adyndaky etrap (urban districts?).
  28. ^ urban districts.
  29. ^ a b rural district.
  30. ^ or muong.
  31. ^ also the top-level federalnyye okruga (federal districts; sing. federalny okrug) and St. Petersburg's munitsipalnyye okruga (municipal districts; sing. munitsipalnoye okrug).
  32. ^ a b c The Russian term is often used in English.
  33. ^ census division.
  34. ^ local council.
  35. ^ including Bornholm, a regionskommune (regional municipality).
  36. ^ a b urban municipality (town).
  37. ^ Also translated as "city council" [1]
  38. ^ rural municipality.
  39. ^ including rajono savivaldybė (district municipality) and miesto savivaldybė (city municipality).
  40. ^ or thành phố.
  41. ^ or ?gava.
  42. ^ also translated as voivodeship.
  43. ^ indigenous region.
  44. ^ island region.
  45. ^ special region.
  46. ^ also région d'outre-mer (overseas region).
  47. ^ development region.
  48. ^ section communale (communal section).
  49. ^ federal territory.
  50. ^ or village area, village group.