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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  Thailand ●●● 790+ district
amt  Denmark
 Germany[1]
 Norway
●●●
●●●●
 
13
 
 
county
apskritis  Lithuania ●● 10
arrondissement     Belgium
 France
 Haiti
 Netherlands
Quebec Québec
 
●●●  ●●●●●
●●●
 
●●●●●
aymag  Mongolia ●● 21 province
bailiwick  Guernsey
 Jersey
1
1
baladiyah Qatar Qatar ●●● 10 municipality
binh See tỉnh
borough  Australia
Quebec Quebec
 UK
 USA
●●●●●
●●●●●
●●●●●
●●●●●
1
 
 
 
See also burgh, county borough, municipal borough
burgh
Bundesland  Austria
 Germany[2]

(●)
9
 
state (federal)
bwrdeistref  Wales borough county [?]
canton  Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Costa Rica
 Ecuador
 France
Jersey Jersey
 Luxembourg
Quebec Québec
  Switzerland
●●
 
●●●
●●●●
 
●●●●
●●●●●
●●●
10
70+
 
3800+
 
12
 
26
changwat  Thailand ●● 75 province
commune (municipality)
See also comune, communidad
comune  Italy ●●●●●? 8000+ commune
municipality
communidad  Spain community
autonomous community
county
cúige  Ireland 4 province
deelgemeente  Belgium
departamento
département
district
Distrikt  Germany district
distrito district
duchy
dzongkhag  Bhutan district
emirate
eparchy  Greece 73 province
estado  Mexico
 Venezuela
state
faritany  Madagascar 6 province
fylke  Norway county
Gemeinde municipality
gobolka  Somalia
gouvernorat  Guinea governorate
guberniya  Imperial Russia governorate
il  Turkey 81 province
imarah emirate
intara  Rwanda 12 province
judetul  Moldova county
Kanton   Switzerland ●●● 26 (See canton)
kaza  Turkey district
ken  Japan prefecture
khett  Cambodia province
khoueng  Laos 16 province
kilil  Ethiopia
kozhuun Flag of Tuva Tuva 17 district
krai  Russia
kraj  Czech Republic
 Slovakia
kwaeng  Thailand ●●●● 150+
lääni, län  Finland
 Sweden
6
province
county
maakond  Estonia county
marz  Armenia 11 province
megye  Hungary county
mehoz  Israel district
merindad  Spain county
mintaqah  Saudi Arabia 13 province
mkoa  Kenya 8 province
muban  Thailand ●●●●● 69000+ village
muhafazah governorate
municipality
See also municipio
municipio
nafa  Israel
negeri  Malaysia state
nomos  Greece prefecture
oblast, oblast', oblasy  Bulgaria
 Kyrgyzstan
 Ukraine
28
7
24
province
oblys  Kazakhstan 14 province
okres  Czech Republic
 Slovakia
district
okrug  Russia district
opstina  Montenegro
 Serbia
ostan  Iran 30 province
parish
pradesh  India province
prefecture
propinsi  Indonesia 33 province
provincia  Argentina
 Bolivia
 Chile
 Cuba
 Ecuador
 Equatorial Guinea
 Italy
 Panama
 Peru
 Spain
24
 
51
15
22
7
103
9
180
50
province
province  Canada
 France
 Gabon
 Papua New Guinea

●●

10
39
9
20
See also provincia, provincie
provincie  Belgium
 Netherlands
10
12
province
provinsi See propinsi
quang
raion district
raionul  Moldova district
région  France 26 region
regione
renmin gongshe  China ●●●●? 0 (commune)
rural district
sahari
selsoviet  Soviet Union rural district
shabiyah
sheng  China 22/23 province
shire
sirol
somon See sum
SAR
state
suba  Pakistan 4 province
subdistrict
subprefecture
sultanate
sum  Mongolia
 China
sumon See sum
sýsla  Faroe Islands
 Iceland
territory
tambon  Thailand ●●●● 7200+ commune
tỉnh  Vietnam 59 province
ulus
velayat See wilayah
viloyat  Tajikistan 3 province
See also wilayah
voblast, voblaść  Belarus 7 province
voivodship See vojewództwo
volost
wilayah, wilaya  Afghanistan
 Oman
34
60+
province
vojewództwo Poland Poland 16 province
wodera
zupanija  Croatia


  1. ^ Within the (Bundes)Länder of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg
  2. ^ Technically incorrect; see States of Germany.