User:David Kernow/List of terms for subnational divisions
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Terms in bold are used in English-speaking regions; terms in italics are obsolete. Country names in italics indicate the term is no longer used there. Each term is singular; for plural form, see linked article. When a term is used by more than one country or region, these are listed alphabetically.
(cf List of terms for country subdivisions, User:David Kernow/Table of terms for subnational divisions, User:David Kernow/NUTS levels)
Term | Country or region where used |
Approximate NUTS/LAU level |
Number | Approximate equivalent in English |
---|---|---|---|---|
amphoe | ![]() |
●●● | 790+ | district |
amt | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
●●● ●●●● |
13 |
county |
apskritis | ![]() |
●● | 10 | |
arrondissement | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
●●● ●●●●● ●●● ●●●●● |
||
aymag | ![]() |
●● | 21 | province |
bailiwick | ![]() ![]() |
1 1 |
||
baladiyah | ![]() |
●●● | 10 | municipality |
binh | See tỉnh | |||
borough | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
●●●●● ●●●●● ●●●●● ●●●●● |
1 |
|
See also burgh, county borough, municipal borough | ||||
burgh | ||||
Bundesland | ![]() ![]() |
● (●) |
9 |
state (federal) |
bwrdeistref | ![]() |
borough county [?] | ||
canton | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
●● ●●● ●●●● ●●●● ●●●●● ●●● |
10 70+ 3800+ 12 26 |
|
changwat | ![]() |
●● | 75 | province |
commune | (municipality) | |||
See also comune, communidad | ||||
comune | ![]() |
●●●●●? | 8000+ | commune municipality |
communidad | ![]() |
community autonomous community | ||
county | ||||
cúige | ![]() |
4 | province | |
deelgemeente | ![]() |
|||
departamento | ||||
département | ||||
district | ||||
Distrikt | ![]() |
district | ||
distrito | district | |||
duchy | ||||
dzongkhag | ![]() |
district | ||
emirate | ||||
eparchy | ![]() |
73 | province | |
estado | ![]() ![]() |
state | ||
faritany | ![]() |
6 | province | |
fylke | ![]() |
county | ||
Gemeinde | municipality | |||
gobolka | ![]() |
|||
gouvernorat | ![]() |
governorate | ||
guberniya | ![]() |
governorate | ||
il | ![]() |
81 | province | |
imarah | emirate | |||
intara | ![]() |
12 | province | |
judetul | ![]() |
county | ||
Kanton | ![]() |
●●● | 26 | (See canton) |
kaza | ![]() |
district | ||
ken | ![]() |
prefecture | ||
khett | ![]() |
province | ||
khoueng | ![]() |
16 | province | |
kilil | ![]() |
|||
kozhuun | ![]() |
17 | district | |
krai | ![]() |
|||
kraj | ![]() ![]() |
|||
kwaeng | ![]() |
●●●● | 150+ | |
lääni, län | ![]() ![]() |
6 |
province county | |
maakond | ![]() |
county | ||
marz | ![]() |
● | 11 | province |
megye | ![]() |
county | ||
mehoz | ![]() |
district | ||
merindad | ![]() |
county | ||
mintaqah | ![]() |
13 | province | |
mkoa | ![]() |
8 | province | |
muban | ![]() |
●●●●● | 69000+ | village |
muhafazah | governorate | |||
municipality | ||||
See also municipio | ||||
municipio | ||||
nafa | ![]() |
|||
negeri | ![]() |
state | ||
nomos | ![]() |
prefecture | ||
oblast, oblast', oblasy | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
28 7 24 |
province | |
oblys | ![]() |
14 | province | |
okres | ![]() ![]() |
district | ||
okrug | ![]() |
district | ||
opstina | ![]() ![]() |
|||
ostan | ![]() |
30 | province | |
parish | ||||
pradesh | ![]() |
province | ||
prefecture | ||||
propinsi | ![]() |
● | 33 | province |
provincia | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
● | 24 51 15 22 7 103 9 180 50 |
province |
province | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
● ●● ● ● |
10 39 9 20 |
|
See also provincia, provincie | ||||
provincie | ![]() ![]() |
● | 10 12 |
province |
provinsi | See propinsi | |||
quang | ||||
raion | district | |||
raionul | ![]() |
district | ||
région | ![]() |
● | 26 | region |
regione | ||||
renmin gongshe | ![]() |
●●●●? | 0 | (commune) |
rural district | ||||
sahari | ||||
selsoviet | ![]() |
rural district | ||
shabiyah | ||||
sheng | ![]() |
22/23 | province | |
shire | ||||
sirol | ||||
somon | See sum | |||
SAR | ||||
state | ||||
suba | ![]() |
4 | province | |
subdistrict | ||||
subprefecture | ||||
sultanate | ||||
sum | ![]() ![]() |
|||
sumon | See sum | |||
sýsla | ![]() ![]() |
|||
territory | ||||
tambon | ![]() |
●●●● | 7200+ | commune |
tỉnh | ![]() |
59 | province | |
ulus | ||||
velayat | See wilayah | |||
viloyat | ![]() |
3 | province | |
See also wilayah | ||||
voblast, voblaść | ![]() |
7 | province | |
voivodship | See vojewództwo | |||
volost | ||||
wilayah, wilaya | ![]() ![]() |
34 60+ |
province | |
vojewództwo | ![]() |
16 | province | |
wodera | ||||
zupanija | ![]() |
- ^ Within the (Bundes)Länder of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg
- ^ Technically incorrect; see States of Germany.