List of administrative divisions by country
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The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories.
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- The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level entity is the only sovereign), or regional state (unitary with substantial delegation of power)
- Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English, in plural form (except languages that take the singular form with numbers, such as Hungarian).
- Square brackets indicate a term that has not yet been confirmed.
Administrative divisions by country
Member and observer states of the United Nations
Country | Type | Administrative divisions | ||||
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First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level | Fifth-level+ | ||
Afghanistan
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Unitary | 34 provinces (velaya'at) | 421 districts (woleswali) | subdistricts (alaqadari) | ||
Albania | Unitary | 12 counties (qarqe) | 61 municipalities (bashki) | 373 units of local governance (njësite të qeverisjes vendore)
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2,972 villages (fshatra) | |
Algeria
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Unitary | 58 provinces (wilayat) | 553 districts (daïras) | 1,541 communes (baladiyahs) | ||
Andorra
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Unitary | 7 parishes (parròquies) | ||||
Angola
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Unitary | 18 provinces (províncias) | 163 municipalities (municípios) | 618 communes (comunas) | ||
Antigua and Barbuda
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Unitary | 6 parishes 2 dependencies |
60 major divisions
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116 communities[1]
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353 localities[2] | |
Argentina | Federal | 23 provinces (provincias) | 378 departments (departamentos)[a] 135 Partidos (Buenos Aires Province only) |
Municipalities (municipios)[quantify] | ||
1 autonomous city: | ||||||
Buenos Aires | 15 communes (comunas) | 48 neighbourhoods (barrios) | ||||
Armenia | Unitary | 10 provinces (marzer) 1 autonomous city |
70 municipalities (hamaynkner) | |||
Australia | Federal | 6 states: | ||||
New South Wales | 58 shires | wards (electoral unit) | suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] | |||
28 councils | ||||||
28 cities | ||||||
8 regional councils | ||||||
6 municipalities | ||||||
2 unincorporated areas | ||||||
Queensland | 30 regions | |||||
28 shires | ||||||
12 aboriginal shires | ||||||
7 cities | ||||||
1 town | ||||||
South Australia | 25 district councils | |||||
21 cities | ||||||
15 councils | ||||||
5 aboriginal councils | ||||||
4 regional councils | ||||||
2 towns | ||||||
1 rural city | ||||||
1 unincorporated area | ||||||
Tasmania | 23 municipalities | |||||
6 cities | ||||||
Victoria | 39 shires | |||||
33 cities | ||||||
10 unincorporated areas | ||||||
6 rural cities | ||||||
1 borough | ||||||
Western Australia | 104 shires | |||||
29 cities | ||||||
8 towns | ||||||
2 internal territories that are self-governing: | ||||||
Northern Territory | 9 regional councils | wards (electoral unit) | suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] | |||
5 unincorporated areas | ||||||
3 municipalities | ||||||
3 shires | ||||||
2 cities | ||||||
Australian Capital Territory | ||||||
1 internal territory that is not self-governing: | ||||||
Jervis Bay Territory | ||||||
7 external territories: | ||||||
Ashmore and Cartier Islands | ||||||
Australian Antarctic Territory | ||||||
Christmas Island | ||||||
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | (no administrative divisions; Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands for local government purposes) | |||||
Coral Sea Islands | ||||||
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | ||||||
Norfolk Island | ||||||
Austria
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Federal | 9 states (Bundesländer)
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(Statutarstädte) | 2,078 municipalities (Gemeinden),[5] including:
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Azerbaijan | Regional | 59 districts (Rayonlar) 11 cities (Şəhərlər) |
+2600 municipalities (Bələdiyyələr) | +4500 settlements (Yaşayış Məntəqələri) | ||
1 autonomous republic (Muxtar Respublika) | 7 districts (Rayonlar) 1 city (Şəhər) |
218 settlements (Yaşayış Məntəqələri) | ||||
Bahamas
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Unitary | 32 districts
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32+ town committees
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New Providence | 24 supervisory districts
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Bahrain
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Unitary | 4 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | ||||
Bangladesh
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Unitary | 8 divisions (bibhag) | 64 districts (zila) | 12 City corporations
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327 municipal corporations (paurasabhas)
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Barbados
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Unitary | 11 parishes | ||||
Belarus
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Unitary | 6 regions (oblasti or voblastsi) 1 autonomous city |
118 districts (raiony) | |||
Belgium
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Federal | 3 regions[7]
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10 provinces[8] | 43 districts[9] | 581 municipalities[10] | |
Belize | Unitary | 6 districts | 201 municipalities | |||
Benin
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Unitary | 12 departments (départements) | 77 communes (communes) | 546 districts (arrondissements) | ||
Bhutan
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Unitary | 20 districts (dzongkhag) | 201 blocks (gewogs) 61 thromdes |
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Bolivia | Regional | 9 departments (departamentos) | 112 provinces (provincias) | 339 municipalities (municipios) | ||
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Federal | 2 federal entities: | ||||
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10 cantons (kantona) | 79 municipalities (općine or opštine)
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local communities | |||
Republika Srpska | 64 municipalities (opštine) | local communities | ||||
1 condominium of the federal entities: | ||||||
Brčko District | ||||||
Botswana
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Unitary | 10 rural districts 7 urban districts |
21 sub-districts[11] | 519 villages[12] | localities | |
Brazil
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Federal | 26 states (estados)
|
5,568 municipalities (municípios)
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10,670 municipal districts (distritos municipais) | 610 municipal subdistricts (subdistritos municipais) | |
1 federal district (distrito federal) | 1 federal capital (capital federal) | 33 administrative regions (regiões administrativas) | ||||
Brunei | Unitary | 4 districts (daerah) | 38 subdistricts (mukim) | villages (kampung) | ||
Bulgaria
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Unitary | 28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области) | 265 municipalities (obshtini, общини) |
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Burkina Faso
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Unitary | 13 regions (régions) | 45 provinces | 325 departments (départements)[13] | ||
Burundi
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Unitary | 18 provinces | 119 communes | 2,639 collines | ||
Cambodia | Unitary | 24 provinces (khaet) 1 autonomous municipality (reachtheani; lit. 'capital') |
162 districts (srok) 27 municipalities (krong) 14 sections (khan) |
1,646 communes and quarters (khum and sangkat)
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villages (phum) | |
Cameroon
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Unitary | 10 regions (régions) | 58 departments (départements) | 360 communes, or districts (arrondissements) | ||
Canada
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Federal | 10 provinces: | ||||
Alberta | 264 municipalities
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8 Metis settlements
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63 counties/municipal districts | 403 hamlets | |||||
7 improvement districts[14]
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6 specialized municipalities | ||||||
3 special areas | ||||||
British Columbia | 27 regional districts 1 unincorporated area |
162 municipalities 160 electoral areas[15] |
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Manitoba | 98 rural municipalities unincorporated areas[16][17] |
2 local government districts
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New Brunswick | 15 counties (comtés)[18] | 152 parishes (paroisses)[18] | 104 municipalities (municipalités) | |||
Newfoundland and Labrador | (unincorporated)[19] | 277 municipalities | ||||
Nova Scotia | 18 counties: | |||||
3 regional municipalities | ||||||
9 county municipalities | 38 municipalities | |||||
6 historic counties administered by district municipalities
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12 district municipalities
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Ontario | 173 single-tier municipalities[20]
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8 regional municipalities
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241 lower-tier municipalities 46 local services boards |
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22 counties
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10 districts[21]
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Prince Edward Island | 3 counties[22] | 14 parishes[22] | 70 townships[22] | 63 municipalities | ||
Quebec | 87 regional county municipalities (municipalités régionale de comté) (RCM/MRC)
17 territories equivalent to a regional county municipality (territoires équivalents) (TE):
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1,108 municipalities (municipalités) | 45 boroughs (arrondissements) (only in 8 municipalities) |
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Saskatchewan | 296 rural municipalities | 478 municipalities | ||||
2 unincorporated areas: | ||||||
3 territories :
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Northwest Territories | 5 regions[23] | 24 municipalities | ||||
Nunavut | 3 regions[24] | 25 municipalities | ||||
Yukon | (unorganized) | 8 municipalities | ||||
Cape Verde | Unitary | 22 councils or municipalities (concelhos, also referred to as municípios) | 32 parishes (freguesias) | |||
Central African Republic
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Unitary | 20 prefectures (préfectures) |
72 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | |||
Chad | Unitary | 23 regions (régions) | 67 departments (départements)[25] | 340 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | ||
Chile | Regional | 16 regions (regiones) | 56 provinces (provincias) | 346 communes (comunas) | neighborhood units (unidades vecinales)[26] | |
China, People's Republic of | Regional | 4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì)
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(zìzhìzhōu) | 1 forestry district (línqū)
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11 district public offices (qūgōngsuǒ)then Urban areas: neighbourhoods (jūmínqū)
Rural areas: villages (cūnjí), village areas or village groups.[27] |
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Macao
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18 districts (Hong Kong only) | |||||
Colombia | Unitary | 32 departments (departamentos) | 1,102 municipalities (municipios) | Rural areas: 2,000+ corregimientos (towns) | veredas | |
Urban areas: communes (comunas) | neighbourhoods (barrios) | |||||
1 Capital District (Distrito Capital) | 20 localities (localidades) | |||||
Comoros
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Federal | 3 autonomous islands (+1 claimed) (îles autonomes)
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16 prefectures (préfectures) | 54 communes | 318 villes or villages | |
DR Congo, Democratic Republic of the[28]
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Unitary | 25 provinces 1 Capital City |
145 territories 32 cities |
264 chiefdoms 470 sectors 311 communes |
6,070 groupings 2,401 quarters |
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Congo, Republic of the[29]
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Unitary | 12 departments | 80+ districts | communes | ||
Costa Rica | Unitary | 7 provinces (provincias) | 82 cantons (cantones) | 450+ districts | ||
Croatia | Unitary | 20 counties (županije) | 128 towns (gradovi) 428 municipalities (općine) |
4,117+ local communities (mjesnih odbora) (gradske četvrti [Zagreb], gradski kotari [Split]) | 6,700+ settlements (naselja) | |
Cuba
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Unitary | 15 provinces (provincias) 1 special municipality (municipio especial) |
160+ municipalities (municipios) | |||
Cyprus
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Unitary | 6 districts (eparchies) | 610 communities | |||
Czech Republic
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Unitary | 13 regions (kraje) | 76 districts (okresy) / 205 municipalities with extended competence (3rd level municipalities) (obce s rozšířenou působností) |
393 municipalities with commissioned local authority (2nd level municipalities) (obce s pověřeným obecním úřadem) | 6,254 1st level municipalities (obce) 4 military training areas (vojenské újezdy) special status
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Capital City of Prague (Hlavní město Praha) | 10 districts (obvody) judicial only 22 administrative districts (správní obvody) |
57 municipal districts (městské části) | 112 cadastral communities (katastrální území) | |||
Denmark , the Kingdom of
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Regional | 1 senior member of the Kingdom: | ||||
Denmark | 5 regions (regioner) | 98 municipalities (kommuner) | ||||
2 self-governing territories within the Kingdom: | ||||||
Faroe Islands | 7 regions (sýsla)[30] | 29 municipalities (kommunur)[31] | ||||
Greenland | 5 municipalities (kommuner) | |||||
Northeast Greenland National Park | ||||||
Djibouti
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Unitary | 6 regions (régions) | 15 districts[32] 6 arrondissements (within Djibouti City) |
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Dominica
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Unitary | 10 parishes | ||||
Dominican Republic
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Unitary | 31 provinces (provincias) 1 National District (Distrito Nacional) |
158 municipalities (municipios)
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40+ municipal districts (distritos municipales) | ||
East Timor[33]
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Unitary | 13 municipalities (Municípios) 1 special administrative region (região administrativa especial) |
65 administrative posts (postos administrativos) | 442 sucos (villages, village areas, or village groups) | ||
Ecuador
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Unitary | 24 provinces (provincias) | 221 cantons (cantones) | 1,000+ parishes (parroquias) | ||
Egypt
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Unitary | 27 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)
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271 marakiz or aqsam | 4,617+ villages or districts | sheyakha or residential districts | |
El Salvador
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Unitary | 14 departments (departamentos) | 262 municipalities (municipios) | |||
Equatorial Guinea
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Unitary | 8 provinces (provincias) | 32 districts (distritos) | |||
Eritrea
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Unitary | 6 regions (zoba) | 58 districts
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Communes (Kebabis) | Villages and towns | |
Unitary | 15 counties (maakonnad) | 15 towns (linnad) | Districts (linnaosad)[citation needed] | Subdistricts (asumid)[citation needed] | ||
64 parishes (vallad) | Quarters (kandid) |
32 towns (linnad) 12 boroughs (alevid) 188 alevikud[34] 4,455 villages (külad) |
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Eswatini
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Unitary | 4 regions (tifundza) | 50+ tinkhundla[35] | 360+ imiphakatsi[36] | ||
Ethiopia
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Federal | 12 regions (kililoch) 2 chartered cities (astedader akababiwach) |
68 zones (zonoch)
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600+ districts (woreda) | kebeles (neighbourhoods or wards)
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Fiji
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Unitary | 4 divisions
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14 provinces | + 50 districts | ||
1 dependency | ||||||
Finland | Regional | 18 regions (maakuntaa) | 70+ subregions (seutukuntaa)
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317 municipalities (kuntaa) [37] | ||
1 autonomous region (Åland) (itsehallinnollinen maakunta) | 16 municipalities (kommuner (kuntaa)) | |||||
France | Regional | 18 regions (régions), including 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion) | 101 departments (départements) + the Metropolis of Lyon |
332 arrondissements | 2,054 cantons (electoral constituencies) | |
12,159 intercommunalities
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35,357 communes (The 3 communes of Marseilles are further subdivided into municipal arrondissements .)
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1 state private property, located overseas, under the direct authority of the French government: Clipperton Island | ||||||
5 overseas collectivities (collectivités d'outre-mer): | ||||||
French Polynesia[38] | 5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) | 40+ communes | ||||
Saint-Barthélemy | 2 parishes | 40 quarters | ||||
Collectivity of Saint Martin | ||||||
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | 2 communes | |||||
Wallis and Futuna | 3 traditional kingdoms (royaumes coutumiers) | 3 districts (Uvea only) | ||||
1 sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis): | ||||||
New Caledonia | 3 provinces
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30+ communes
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1 overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer): | ||||||
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | 5 districts | |||||
Gabon
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Unitary | 9 provinces | 49 departments (départements) | 152 cantons, 52 communes, 29 arrondissements | ||
Gambia | Unitary | 5 regions 1 city |
8 Local Government Areas | 43 districts | ||
Georgia | Regional | 10 regions (mkhare) (portions administered as the partially recognized country of South Ossetia, under Russian occupation) Adjara, autonomous republic |
5 cities (k'alak'i) 67 communities (temi) |
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Germany
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Federal | 16 states (Länder)[39] | ||||
Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Hesse North Rhine-Westphalia |
19 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke) |
3 special regional associations (Kommunalverbände besonderer Art)[40]
294 rural districts (Landkreise or Kreise) |
1281 municipal associations (Gemeindeverbände)[41]
10907 municipalities (Gemeinden), including
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Brandenburg | ||||||
103 cities (urban districts) (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise) | ||||||
Bremen | 2 cities (Städte):
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7 boroughs (Stadtbezirke) | 32 quarters (Stadtteile)
113 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile) |
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Berlin | 12 boroughs (Bezirke) | 97 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile) | ||||
Hamburg | 7 boroughs (Bezirke) | 104 quarters (Stadtteile) | 181 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile) | |||
Ghana | Unitary | 16 regions | 216 districts | Communities tema | ||
8 municipal districts | zones | |||||
3 metropolitan districts | submetropolitan districts | |||||
Greece | Regional | 7 decentralized administrations (apokentroménes dioikíseis) | 13 administrative regions (peripheries)
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74 regional units (perifereiakés enótites) |
332 municipalities (dímoi) |
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1 autonomous monastic state (aftonomi monastiki politeia): Agio Oros | ||||||
Grenada
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Unitary | 6 parishes 1 dependency |
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Guatemala
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Unitary | 22 departments (departamentos) | 332 municipalities (municipios) | |||
Guinea
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Unitary | 8 regions (régions) | 33 prefectures (préfectures) | 330+ sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | [districts] [sectors] |
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5 communes | ||||||
Guinea-Bissau
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Unitary | 8 regions (regiões) 1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo)
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39 sectors (setores) | |||
Guyana
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Unitary | 10 regions | 64 neighborhood councils
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Haiti | Unitary | 10 departments (départements) | 42 arrondissements | 144 communes
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571 communal sections (sections communales) | |
Honduras
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Unitary | 18 departments (departamentos) | 298 municipalities (municipios) | 3,731 aldeas | ||
Hungary | Unitary | 19 counties (vármegye) | 174 districts (járás) | 3,154 cities and towns (városok) | ||
1 autonomous city | 23 boroughs (kerület) 1 non-borough | |||||
Iceland | Unitary | 8 regions(svæði) | 64 municipalities (sveitarfélög) | |||
India | Federal | 28 states |
102 divisions (manḍal) | 766 districts (zile)[42] | 5924 subdistricts (tahsīl) | |
Local governments:
Urban local governance; Single tier system of government. Rural local governance; 3 tier system of government. |
Urban Local Bodies:
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Rural Local Bodies (Panchayati Raj Institutions):
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Indonesia
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Regional | 9 special regions (daerah istimewa)
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416 regencies (kabupaten)98 cities (kota, formerly kotamadya)
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7,266 districts (kecamatan, distrik, kapanewon, kemantren) | 83,467 villages (kelurahan, desa) | |
Iran | Unitary | 31 provinces (ostanha) | 467 counties (shahrestan) | districts (bakhsh) | rural districts ( dehestan )cities (shahr) |
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Iraq | Federal | 19 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt), including 4 governorates in the autonomous Kurdistan Region (counting Halabja) | 120 districts (aqḍyat) | 300+ subdistricts (naḥiyat) | villages (qaryat)[citation needed] | |
Ireland
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Unitary | 26 counties (contaetha) 3 cities (cathracha) |
89 municipal districts (ceantair bardasacha)
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3,440 electoral divisions (toghroinn ceantair) | 18,641 townlands (bailte)
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Israel
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Regional | 6 districts (meḥozot)[43] | 15 sub-districts (nafot)[43] | 52 natural regions[43] | 77 cities (arim)[44] 124 local councils (moaṣot mekomiot)[45] |
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Italy
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Regional | 15 regions (regioni)
5 autonomous regions with special statute (regioni autonome a statuto speciale) |
80 provinces (province) 2 autonomous provinces (province autonome) |
7,998 communes (comuni)
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37,000+ fractions (frazioni) and circumscriptions (circoscrizioni)[citation needed] | |
Ivory Coast
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Unitary | 14 autonomous districts (districts autonomes) | 31 regions (régions) | 108 departments (départements) 1 unincorporated area |
510 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | |
Jamaica
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Unitary | 14 parishes | ||||
Japan | Regional | 47 prefectural divisions (todōfuken) | 792 Cities (shi) 307 districts (gun) 18 subprefectures (shichō) 23 special wards (tokubetsu-ku) |
1,700+ municipalities (shichōsonku) | chōme
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Jordan
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Unitary | 12 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 52 Districts (Alwia'a) | 89 Subdistricts (Nahiya) | qurah | |
Kazakhstan
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Regional | 17 regions (oblys) 3 cities with region rights (qala) Baikonur[47] |
319 raions (awdan)oblıstıq qala |
kent | awıl aymaq | |
Kenya
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Regional | 47 counties (kaunti) | 262 sub-counties (kaunti ndogo) | 2,400+ locations (mtaa) | Cities, Municipalities and Towns villages (vijiji) |
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Kiribati
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Unitary | None | ||||
Kuwait
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Unitary | 6 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 132 areas (manāṭiq) | |||
Kyrgyzstan
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Unitary | 2 independent cities (šaar (keneš))
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14 towns (gorkeneš)
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rural communities or rural districts (ayyl aymagy) | ||
Laos | Unitary | 17 provinces (khoueng) 1 prefecture |
140+ districts (muang or muong) | villages (baan) | ||
Latvia | Unitary | 36 municipalities (novadi) 7 republic cities (Republikas pilsētas) |
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Lebanon
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Unitary | 9 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)[48] | 26 districts (qaḍya) | |||
Lesotho
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Unitary | 10 districts | 80+ constituencies | 120+ community councils | ||
Liberia | Unitary | 15 counties | 60+ districts | |||
Libya
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Unitary | 22 districts (sha'biyat) | 99 baladiyat | |||
Liechtenstein
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Unitary | 11 municipalities (Gemeinden) | ||||
Lithuania | Unitary | 10 counties (apskritys) | 60 municipalities (savivaldybės) | 500+ elderships (seniūnijos) | sub-eldership (seniūnaitija) | |
Luxembourg | Unitary | 12 cantons[49] | 102 communes[50][51] | 24 quarters[52]
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Madagascar
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Unitary | 22 regions (faritra) | 114 districts | 1,579 communes (kaominina) and 17,485 villages (fokontany)[citation needed] | ||
Malawi
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Unitary | 3 regions | 28 districts | 130+ traditional authorities | 60+ subchiefdoms | |
Malaysia
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Federal | 3 federal territories (wilayah persekutuan)
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160 districts (daerah/jajahan)
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1,000+ subdistricts (mukim) 8,000+ villages (kampung) 21 presint |
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Maldives | Unitary | 17 atolls 4 cities |
189 islands | |||
Mali
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Unitary | 10 régions 1 capital district |
40+ cercles (circles) | 1,400+ arrondissements | 700+ communes | |
Malta
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Unitary | 5 regions (reġjuni) | 68 local councils (kunsilli lokali) | |||
Marshall Islands
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Unitary | 24 municipalities
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Mauritania
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Regional | 15 regions (wilayat); capital city of Nouakchott spans 3 regions | 44 departments[53] or moughataas | 216 communes (some of which are consolidated with departments) | ||
Mauritius
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Unitary | Rodrigues | 14 zones | 120+ villages, 4 Towns 173 localities |
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Mauritius
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9 districts | |||||
2 outer islands with no government (+2 claimed)
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Mexico | Federal | 31 states (estados)
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2,458 municipalities (municipios) | A few municipalities are further divided into boroughs, some incompletely. | ||
1 autonomous city, Mexico City (Ciudad de México) | 16 boroughs (demarcaciones territoriales) | |||||
Micronesia | Federal | 4 states | 70+ municipalities
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Moldova | Regional | 32 districts or raions (Romanian: raioane) 3 municipalities ( Tighina 2 autonomous territorial units: Gagauzia and Left Bank of the Dniester (claimed but administered as the unrecognized independent country of Transnistria) |
10 municipalities (municipii)
50 cities[citation needed ]60+ city localities[citation needed] 660+ villages (Romanian: sate)[citation needed] 880+ village localities[citation needed] |
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Monaco
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Unitary | 1 municipality | 3 quarters | 10 wards | ||
Mongolia | Unitary | 21 provinces (aimags) | 331 districts (sum) | 1,538 bags[citation needed] | ||
1 capital city, Ulaanbaatar | 9 districts (düüregs) | 173 subdistricts (khoroos) | ||||
Montenegro
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Unitary | 25 municipalities (opštine) | 1,256 naselja[citation needed] | |||
Morocco
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Unitary | 12 regions (3 containing parts of disputed Western Sahara) | 13 prefectures 62 provinces |
circles[citation needed] | rural communes[citation needed] | |
communes urbaines arrondissements[citation needed] |
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Mozambique
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Unitary | 11 provinces (provincias) | 128 districts (distritos) | 405 administrative posts (postos) | [urban districts][citation needed] localities (localidades)[citation needed] |
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Myanmar | Unitary | 7 States | 67 Districts | 330 Townships | 70,838 Villages | |
7 Regions | ||||||
1 Union Territory | ||||||
5 Self-Administered Zones | ||||||
1 Self-Administered Division | ||||||
Namibia | Unitary | 14 regions[54] | 121 constituencies[54]
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cities towns villages settlements |
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Nauru
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Unitary | 14 districts
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Nepal | Federal | 7 provinces (Pradesh) | 77 districts (jilla) | 6 metropolitan cities (mahānagarpālikā) 11 sub-metropolitan cities (upa-mahānagarpālikā) 276 municipalities (nagarpālikā) 486 rural municipalities (gāunpālikā) |
6743 wards (wadā) | |
Netherlands, the Kingdom of the | Regional | 4 constituent countries (landen):
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Netherlands | 12 provinces (provincies) | 344 municipalities (gemeenten) | urban districts (deelgemeenten) | |||
3 public bodies (openbare lichamen)
(Caribbean Netherlands region) |
Bonaire | 2 towns, neighbourhoods[55] | ||||
Sint Eustatius | neighbourhoods[56] | |||||
Saba | 4 villages[57] | |||||
Aruba
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8 regions[58] | |||||
Curaçao
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2 districts and 1 special city[59] | 10 areas[60] | 4 town quarters | |||
Sint Maarten | 8 administrative units[61] | |||||
New Zealand
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Regional | Realm of New Zealand: | ||||
New Zealand | 11 non-unitary regions | 13 cities 53 districts |
wards (electoral unit) | suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] | ||
1 special territorial authority :
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5 unitary authorities | ||||||
3 outlying islands:
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Ross Dependency | ||||||
1 self-administering territory: | ||||||
Tokelau | 3 island councils | |||||
2 states in free-association: | ||||||
Cook Islands | 10 island councils
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districts | tapere | |||
Niue | 14 villages | |||||
Nicaragua
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Regional | 15 departments (departamentos) 2 autonomous regions (regiones autónomas) |
153 municipalities (municipios) | |||
Niger | Unitary | Niamey Urban Community
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63 départements | communes, cantons, and groupements[quantify] | ||
Nigeria
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Federal | 1 Federal Capital Territory
|
774 Local Government Areas
|
8813 Wards | ||
North Korea | Unitary | 9 provinces (do) 4 special cities |
150+ cities, counties, workers' districts (in some counties), districts, and wards | towns (in counties), neighborhoods (in cities), villages (rural)[citation needed] | ||
North Macedonia | Unitary | 8 statistical regions | 80 municipalities (opštini) | |||
Norway | Regional | 14 counties (fylker) 14 county municipalities (fylkeskommuner) |
3 hundreds (herader)
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Capital city of Oslo | 15 boroughs (bydeler) 2 non-boroughs (Marka and Sentrum) |
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2 integral overseas areas: Svalbard, Jan Mayen | ||||||
3 dependencies: Peter I Island, Bouvet Island, Queen Maud Land | ||||||
Oman
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Unitary | 11 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 61 provinces (wilayat) | |||
Pakistan
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Federal | 4 provinces 2 autonomous territories |
38 divisions | 168 districts | 596 Tehsils | Almost 6,000 Union Councils |
1 federal capital territory | 5 zones | 27 union councils | ||||
Palau
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Unitary | 16 states | town council(s)[62]
traditional villages[65] |
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Palestine
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Unitary | 16 governorates
|
121 municipal councils[66]
355 village councils[66] |
local councils (East Jerusalem)[66] | ||
Panama
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Unitary | 10 provinces (provincias) | 68 districts (distritos) | 587 corregimientos (corregimientos) 2 corregimiento-level indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas) |
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4 indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas) | 11 districts | 79 corregimientos | ||||
Papua New Guinea | Regional | 20 provinces 1 autonomous region 1 National Capital District |
districts
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Local-Level Government areas
|
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Paraguay
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Unitary | 17 departments (departamentos) Asunción, the capital district (distrito capital) |
262 districts (distritos) | |||
Peru | Regional | 25 regions (departamentos) (formerly departments) | 196 provinces (provincias)[67] | 1,869 districts (distritos)[67] | 2,645 populated centers | |
Metropolitan Municipality of Lima | Lima Province | 43 districts | ||||
Philippines | Regional | 15 regions (rehiyong pampangasiwaan) Bangsamoro, an autonomous region (awtonomong rehiyon) |
82 provinces (lalawigan or probinsya) | 107 component cities (bahaging lungsod) 1,488 municipalities (bayan or munisipalidad) |
42,027 barangays (formerly barrios), some grouped into districts | |
22 independent cities (17 Highly Urbanized Cities and 5 Independent Component Cities) | ||||||
Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (pambansang punong rehiyon) | 16 Highly Urbanized Cities Pateros, an independent municipality | |||||
Poland | Unitary | 16 voivodeships (provinces) | 314 land counties (powiat ziemski) | 2,478 municipalities (gminy of 3 types) | 40,740 sołectwa (rural) dzielnice or osiedla (urban)[citation needed] |
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66 city counties (powiat grodzki) | ||||||
Portugal | Regional | 18 districts (distritos) 2 autonomous regions (regiões autónomas) |
concelhos or municípios)
|
3,091 parishes (freguesias)
|
localities (localidades)[citation needed] | |
Qatar
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Unitary | 8 municipalities (baladiya'at) | 98 Zones | |||
Romania | Unitary | 41 counties (județe) | ]) | |||
1 autonomous municipality | 6 sectors | |||||
Russia
|
Federal | 89 federal subjects:[68][69] | ||||
territories)
1 autonomous oblast |
2,027 districts 561 cities and towns of federal subject significance |
767 urban-type settlements of district significance
15,002 selsoviets and equivalents |
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3 federal cities[72] | ||||||
Moscow | 12 administrative okrugs | 125 districts (raions) | Settlements (poseleniy)[citation needed] | |||
St. Petersburg
|
18 districts (raions) | 81 okrugs | ||||
Sevastopol[73] | 4 districts (raions) | 9 municipal okrugs and the Town of Inkerman[citation needed] | ||||
Rwanda
|
Unitary | 5 provinces (intara) | 30 districts (uturere, singular akarere) municipalities (umujyi)[citation needed] |
410+ sectors (imirenge) | 9,100+ cells (utugari, singular akagali) | 14,000+ villages (imidugudu, singular umuduguduakagari) |
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Federal | Saint Kitts | 14 parishes
|
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Nevis | ||||||
Saint Lucia
|
Unitary | 10 districts (formerly 12 quarters) | ||||
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
|
Unitary | 6 parishes | ||||
Samoa
|
Unitary | 11 districts (itūmālō) | ||||
San Marino
|
Unitary | 9 castelli ("castles") | ||||
São Tomé and Príncipe
|
Regional | 6 districts Autonomous Region of Príncipe |
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Saudi Arabia
|
Unitary | 13 regions (manaṭiq)
|
150 governorates (muḥafaẓat)
|
1541 subdistricts (marakiz)[citation needed] | ||
Senegal
|
Unitary | 14 regions | 46 departments | 133 arrondissements | communes[citation needed] | |
Serbia | Regional | 150 municipalities (opština) 24 cities (grada) |
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Seychelles
|
Unitary | 26 districts
|
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Sierra Leone
|
Unitary | 4 provinces 1 area |
14 districts | 149 chiefdoms | ||
Singapore | Unitary | 5 districts | 31 constituencies | 93 wards | ||
1 Central Business District | ||||||
Slovakia
|
Unitary | 8 regions (kraje) | 79 districts (okresy) | 2,891 municipalities (obcí) of which 141 are cities or towns (mestá)[74] | cadastraal areas (katastrálne územia)[citation needed] | |
Slovenia
|
Unitary | 212 municipalities (občine) | ||||
Solomon Islands
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Regional | 9 provinces Honiara, the capital territory |
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Somalia | Federal | 6 states | 18 regions (gobolada)
|
75 districts
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South Africa | Regional | 9 provinces | 44 district municipalities
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205 local municipalities | 4,468 wards | |
8 metropolitan municipalities | ||||||
South Korea | Regional | 6 provinces (do) | 75 cities (si) (gun)
77 counties |
Districts (gu) | Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) |
Rural villages (ri, fifth level)
Hamlets (ban, sixth level)[citation needed] |
6 Metropolitan Cities (gwangyeoksi) | Autonomous districts (gu, jachigu) 5 counties |
Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) |
Rural villages (ri) | |||
3 Special Self-Governing Provinces (teukbyeol jachido) | 2 si | Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) |
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1 Special Self-Governing City (teukbyeol jachisi) | ||||||
1 Special City (teukbyeolsi) | 25 districts (gu) | Neighborhoods (dong) | ||||
South Sudan
|
Federal | 10 States 2 Administrative Areas 1 Area with Special Administrative Status |
183 counties | 540 Payams | 2,500 Bomas | |
Spain
|
Regional | 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) | 50 provinces (provincias) | 477 comarcas | 8,129 municipalities (municipios) | |
2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast | ||||||
3 minor North African coastal territories (plazas de soberanía) | ||||||
Sri Lanka | Regional | 9 provinces | 25 districts | 320+ divisions
|
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Sudan
|
Federal | 18 states (wilayat) | 86 districts | |||
Suriname
|
Unitary | 10 districts (districten) | 62 resorts (ressorten) | |||
Sweden | Unitary | 20 county councils (landsting)
|
290 municipalities (kommuner) | 2,523 registration districts | ||
Switzerland | Federal | 26 cantons[75] | 137 districts[citation needed] (not in all cantons, names vary) | 2,131 municipalities or communes[76] (varies by canton) | ||
Syria
|
Unitary | 14 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 60 districts (mintaqah) | subdistricts (nawaḥi)[citation needed] | villages[citation needed] | |
Tajikistan
|
Regional | Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province , capital city
Dushanbe |
60+ 60+ districts (nohiya, formerly raion)[dubious ] 18 cities[77] 2 city councils (hukumati)[citation needed] |
368 village communes (jamoats)[77] | 65 towns[77] 4223 villages[citation needed] |
|
Tanzania
|
Regional | 31 regions (mkoa),[78] including Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region spanning five mkoas]] | 120+ districts (wilayat) | divisions[citation needed] | [wards] | [villages] |
Thailand | Unitary | 76 provinces (changwat) | 878 districts (amphoe) | 7,255 subdistricts (tambons) | 74,944 villages (muban) Community associations (chum-chon) |
|
Municipalities (thesaban) of 3 types take some responsibilities of districts and subdistricts[c] Pattaya special administrative area | ||||||
Bangkok special administrative area | 50 districts (khet) | 180 subdistricts (kwaeng) | ||||
Togo
|
Unitary | 5 régions | 30 préfectures | |||
Tonga | Unitary | 5 provinces
|
23 districts
|
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Trinidad and Tobago
|
Regional | 7 regions 5 boroughs 2 cities 1 ward (Tobago) |
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Tunisia | Unitary | 24 governorates (wilayat) | mutamadiyat )
|
municipalities (] | 2073 sectors (imadats)[80] | |
Turkey | Unitary | 81 provinces (il) | 403 districts (ilçe) | 403 district capitals |
32,244 neighborhoods (mahalle) (not in villages) | |
30 metropolitan municipalities (consolidated province-municipalities) | 519 consolidated district-municipalities | |||||
Turkmenistan
|
Unitary | 5 regions (welaýatlar) (also known as provinces) | 37 districts (etraplar) |
? | ||
Ashgabat, the capital city-region | 4 boroughs or districts (uly etraplar) (as of 2018) | |||||
Tuvalu
|
Unitary | 9 districts
|
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Uganda | Unitary | 135 districts 1 city |
167 counties 31 municipalities 25 city divisions |
1,496 subcounties 580 town councils 89 municipal divisions/boroughs |
10,717 parishes 71,213 villages[81] |
|
Ukraine | Regional | 136 raions (districts) | 1469 hromadas (communities)[85] | 7567 starosta okruhs (elderships)[86] | ||
United Arab Emirates
|
Federal | 7 emirates (imarat) | Regions, sectors, and municipalities | Local districts | Local communities | |
United Kingdom
|
Regional | 4 constituent countries: | ||||
1 constituent country without devolution: | ||||||
England | Greater London | City of London | 25 wards | |||
32 London boroughs (including 1 city )
|
areas | |||||
unparished areas
|
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8 regions with no devolution | 11 combined authorities and combined county authorities (metropolitan) | 36 metropolitan boroughs (a.k.a. metropolitan districts) | ||||
21 non-metropolitan counties | 164 non-metropolitan districts | |||||
Berkshire (non-governing, non-metropolitan) | 6 non-metropolitan districts (de facto unitary authorities) | |||||
56 unitary authorities Isles of Scilly (sui generis)
|
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39 historic counties | 5 lathes | |||||
3 parts | ||||||
3 ridings | ||||||
6 rapes | ||||||
3 constituent countries with devolution: | ||||||
Northern Ireland | 11 districts | |||||
Scotland | 32 council areas | 1,369 communities | ||||
Wales | 22 principal areas | 878 communities | ||||
3 crown dependencies: | ||||||
Bailiwick of Guernsey | 3 jurisdictions: | |||||
Alderney | 12 parishes | |||||
Guernsey | Herm | |||||
Sark | ||||||
Isle of Man | 6 sheadings
|
15 parishes, 9 towns and villages | ||||
Jersey | 12 parishes | 48 vingtaines | ||||
6 cueillettes | ||||||
14 British Overseas Territories: | ||||||
Akrotiri and Dhekelia | ||||||
Anguilla
|
14 districts
|
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Bermuda | 9 parishes
2 municipalities |
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British Antarctic Territory | ||||||
British Indian Ocean Territory | 2 island groups | |||||
British Virgin Islands | 5 districts | |||||
Cayman Islands | 7 districts
|
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Falkland Islands | 2 constituencies | |||||
Gibraltar | 7 major residential areas | 70 enumeration areas[88] | ||||
Montserrat | 3 parishes
|
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Pitcairn Islands | 4 islands | |||||
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | 3 constituent parts: | |||||
Ascension Island | ||||||
Saint Helena | 8 districts | |||||
Tristan da Cunha | ||||||
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | 2 island groups | |||||
Turks and Caicos Islands | 6 districts | |||||
United States
|
Federal | 50 states | Louisiana parishes, 41 independent cities).[d]
|
Local government in the United States varies widely by state; some entities cross county and other boundaries. The US Census in 2012 counted 19,522 municipalities, 16,364 townships, 37,203 special districts, and 12,884 independent school districts which have active governments.[89] Many states use township as a governmental level between county and municipality. Most states have counties with unincorporated areas (no municipal government). Municipal governments are called cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and townships, and can form 1-3 layers of government. Many municipalities are administratively divided into boroughs, wards, districts, neighborhoods, or villages, which may or may not have an active government. The US Census defines minor civil divisions and census county divisions for top-level county divisions, many only for statistical purposes. | ||
326 Indian reservations | ||||||
1 federal district: | ||||||
Washington, D.C. | ||||||
4 unincorporated organized territories: | ||||||
Guam | 19 villages[90] | |||||
Northern Mariana Islands | 4 municipalities
|
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Puerto Rico | 78 municipalities | 902 barrios[91] | ||||
United States Virgin Islands | 3 districts
|
20 subdistricts
|
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1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory: | ||||||
American Samoa | 3 districts | 15 counties | 76 villages | |||
2 unorganized atolls | ||||||
United States Minor Outlying Islands: | ||||||
Midway Islands, Palmyra Atoll (incorporated), Wake Island, Navassa Island (disputed), Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed), and Serranilla Bank (disputed)
|
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Uruguay
|
Unitary | 19 departments (departamentos) | 125 municipalities (municipios) | |||
Uzbekistan | Regional | 12 regions (viloyatlar) | 144 districts (tumanlar)[92][93] |
Citizen assembly of villages Urban-type settlements |
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Cities of regional subordination | Cities Citizen assembly of villages |
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Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic | Cities of republican subordination | Urban-type settlements | ||||
16 districts | Village citizen assemblies Urban-type settlements |
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Tashkent, an independent city | 15 districts | Urban-type settlements | ||||
Vanuatu
|
Unitary | 6 provinces | municipalities, local councils | |||
Vatican City | Unitary | None | ||||
Venezuela | Federal | 23 states (estados) | 335 municipalities (municipios) | 1,136 parroquias[citation needed] | ||
1 capital district, Caracas | ||||||
Federal dependencies of 12 island groups
|
Francisco de Miranda Insular Territory, directly administered remainder | |||||
Vietnam
|
Unitary | 58 provinces (tỉnh) |
523 districts (huyện)11 đảo |
8,198 rural communes (xã)
|
||
5 municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) | 46 boroughs (quận)
1 city within municipality (thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương)
|
577 wards (phường) | ||||
Yemen | Unitary | 1 municipality
|
333 districts
|
2,210+ [subdistricts][citation needed] | 38,284 [villages][citation needed] | |
Zambia | Unitary | 10 provinces | 89 districts | |||
Zimbabwe
|
Unitary | 10 provinces | 59 districts | 1,200 municipalities
|
Member states of United Nations specialized agencies
Country | Type | Administrative divisions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level+ | ||
Kosovo | Unitary | 7 districts | 38 municipalities |
Other states
Country | Type | Administrative divisions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level+ | ||
Abkhazia | Unitary | 7 districts (araion) | Cities and towns[quantify] | ||
South Ossetia | Unitary | 4 districts (raions) | |||
Taiwan (Republic of China) | Regional | 6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) 2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng)[94] |
13 counties (xiàn) (shì)
3 provincial cities |
170 districts (qū) 12 county-administered cities (xiànxiáshì) 40 urban townships (zhèn) 146 rural townships (xiāng) |
Urban villages (lǐ) Rural villages (cūn) |
Somaliland | Unitary | 6 regions (gobolada) | 18 districts | ||
Northern Cyprus
|
Unitary | 5 ilçe | subdistricts | components, quarters | |
Transnistria | Unitary | 5 raions
1 municipality, Tiraspol |
|||
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (notional, mostly administered as part of Morocco)
|
Unitary | 4 provinces (wilayat )
|
25 districts (daïras) |
See also
- ISO 3166-2, codes for country subdivisions
- Capital districts and territories
- List of terms for country subdivisions
- List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions
- List of autonomous areas by country
- List of sovereign states
- List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
- List of first-level administrative divisions by population
- Federal Information Processing Standard(FIPS) in 2008
- Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), which covers the subdivisions of the members of the European Union
Notes
- ^ Including 2 departments of disputed sovereignty in Tierra del Fuego Province: Argentine Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands (the latter includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
- ^ Estonia's linnad (towns) and vallad (parishes) are known collectively as omavalitsused (municipalities).
- ^ * 30[citation needed] city-municipalities (thesaban nakhon)
- 178[citation needed] town-municipalities (thesaban mueang)
- 2,232[citation needed] subdistrict-municipalities (thesaban tambon)
- ^ Not all have active governments. No county-level government exists in:
- The 11 census areas in Unorganized Borough of Alaska
- Any counties of Rhode Island
- 8 of 14 counties of Massachusetts
- Any counties of Connecticut, which are being replaced for census purposes by councils of governments
- Oglala Lakota and Todd Counties in South Dakota, which are administered by neighboring counties.
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- ^ Not counting vienna
- ^ The districts of Vienna are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
- ^ Not counting statutory cities
- ^ "Upazilla List". Bangladesh National Portal.
- ^ Dutch : Gewesten; French: Régions or German: Regionen.
- ^ Dutch: Provincies; French: Provinces or German: Provinzen. The Brussels-Capital Region is not divided into provinces.
- ^ Dutch: Arrondissementen; French: Arrondissements or German: Arrondissements.
- ^ Dutch: Gemeenten; French: Communes or German: Gemeinden.
- ^ Chobe District and all six of Botswana's urban districts are not divided into second-level administrative subdivisions.
- ^ "Index of /programs-surveys/international-programs/mapping-files/time-series". www2.census.gov. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
- ^ Consisting of urban and rural communes.
- ^ Improvement districts are almost always coterminous with a national or provincial park.
- Comma-separated value). 2021 Canadian census. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
- Northern Manitoba.
- ^ Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions that do cover Northern Manitoba, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions.
- ^ a b The New Brunswick Equal Opportunity program abolished county and parish governments in 1966. Counties and parishes are now only used by locals as geographic identifiers, and for statistical purposes; there is no meaningful government between the provincial and municipal level.
- ^ Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions whatsoever; the province has no meaningful government between the provincial and municipal level.
- ^ Note that only 11 single-tier municipalities are located in an independent census division. The remaining 162 single-tier municipalities are known as separated municipalities and are counted as part of the statistical area of a neighbouring regional municipality, county, or district by Statistics Canada despite their separated government structures.
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- ^ a b c In Prince Edward Island, governments at the county, parish, and township level have been abolished. Counties, parishes, and townships are now only used by locals as geographic identifiers, and for statistical purposes; there is no meaningful government between the provincial and municipal level.
- ^ In the Northwest Territories, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no elected government of their own.
- ^ In Nunavut, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no elected government of their own.
- ^ The districts of N'Djamena are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
- ^ According to article 118 parr. 7 of Chilean Constitution, their establishment is a voluntary faculty for the municipalities.
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- ^ Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa.
- ^ also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
- ^ or Danish:syssel.
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- ^ Timor-Leste.
- ^ Small boroughs
- ^ constituencies
- ^ Chiefdoms
- ^ consisting of kaupungit (urban communes) and kunnat (communes).
- ^ also known as a pays d'outre-mer (overseas country).
- ^ or, informally, Bundesländer (federal states).
- ^ Region Hannover, Regionalverband Saarbrücken and Städteregion Aachen
- ^ usually in rural areas and known by various names in different states, e.g. Amt, Samtgemeinde, Verbandsgemeinde and Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
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- ^ federal subjects, grouped into 7 federal districts
- 2022 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- ^ Including Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- annexed in 2022) which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- ^ Including Sevastopol which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- ^ Annexed by Russia in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
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- Council of Statesinstead of two.
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- ^ Tunisia Governorates
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- ^ Currently, one oblast (Luhansk) is fully under Russian control, and three more (Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia) are partially under Russian control.
- ^ One city (Sevastopol) is currently under Russian control.
- ^ Currenltly under Russian control
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- ^ Census Bureau Reports There Are 89,004 Local Governments in the United States
- ^ also known as municipalities.
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- ^ Nominal. All provincial governments are de facto abolished.