List of terms for administrative divisions

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This is a list of English and non-English terms for administrative divisions.

English

Non-English

This is an alphabetical list of native non-English terms for administrative divisions; some, such as arrondissement and okrug, have become English loanwords. Terms in italics are prefixes or suffixes.

Name Countries English equivalents
amphoe
 Thailand district
amt
 Germany county (formerly; the modern term is kreis, which means literally "circle")
amt
 Denmark county (replaced with regions in 2007)
amt
 Norway county (formerly; the modern term is fylke)
apskritis
 Lithuania county
anakhett  Cambodia prefecture
arrondissement  Netherlands borough, district
French-speaking countries
autónoma
Spanish-speaking countries
autonomous
autônomo, autônoma Portuguese-speaking countries
автоно́мный (avtonomny)  Russia
aimag  Mongolia province
baladiyah (baladiyat) Arab countries municipality
barangay  Philippines village (rural) or ward
bairro  Brazil neighbourhood, district
 Portugal
 Mozambique
barrio
Spanish-speaking countries
бановина (banovina) Yugoslavia banate, province
bayan  Philippines municipality
bezirk  Austria district
bezirk  Switzerland district
bezirk  Germany district
bundesland  Germany (colloquial term) federal state
bundesland
 Austria (colloquial term)
bibhag  Bangladesh division
bwrdeistref  Wales borough county
canton (
German
)
 Switzerland canton
kanton (Bosnian)  Bosnia and Herzegovina
castello
 San Marino municipality
changwat
 Thailand province
chef-lieu
 France chief town or city
comarca Portuguese-speaking countries (judicial system) county
Spanish-speaking countries
comuna
 Angola division of
município
comuna
Spanish-speaking countries
commune
comună  Romania rural commune
comune  Italy municipality
comunidad
 Spain community
comunidade intermunicipal  Portugal intermunicipal community
comunidade urbana  Portugal urban community
concelho  Cape Verde municipality; synonym of município
 Portugal
corregimiento  Panama subdivision of a distrito
daerah
Malay-speaking countries district
provinsi  Indonesia province
Daerah Istimewa Special District, all are first level (provincial level)
Daerah Khusus Ibukota Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only.
dào
(Mandarin)
China
circuit
deelgemeente  Belgium submunicipality
demos  Greece municipality
departamento Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) department
département
French-speaking countries department
desa
 Indonesia village
district  Suriname district
distrik  Indonesia district
distrito  Portugal group of municipalities
 São Tomé and Príncipe municipality
 Philippines district
Spanish-speaking countries
distritu
 East Timor municipality
distrito federal  Brazil federal district
 Japan circuit
do  North Korea
 South Korea
dombon  Cambodia area or region
dzongkhag
 Bhutan district
estado
 Brazil federal state
 Mexico
 Venezuela
etrap  Turkmenistan district
freguesia  Cape Verde civil parish
 Portugal
fylke
 Norway county
gemeente  Belgium ( Flanders) municipality
 Netherlands
gemeinde
 Austria municipality
gemeinde
 Germany
gemeinde
 Italy
gemeinde
 Switzerland
gewog
 Bhutan block
gmina  Poland commune, municipality
gobolka
 Somalia administrative region
gouvernorat  Guinea governorate
grande área metropolitana
 Portugal greater metropolitan area
губе́рния (
guberniya
)
Russian Empire governorate
hameau  France hamlet
hanua  Papua New Guinea village
iduhu  Papua New Guinea clan
raj  India empire
rajya  India state
il or vilayet  Turkey province
ilçe
 Turkey district
imarah Arab countries (formerly) emirate
 United Arab Emirates
jamoat  Tajikistan commune or municipality
járás
 Hungary district
Jilla  Nepal district
judeţ
 Moldova (formerly) county
 Romania
jurydyka  Poland village
kabupaten  Indonesia regency
kampong
Malay-speaking countries and Cambodia village, hamlet, neighbourhood
kasselrij  Netherlands county or burgraviate
kecamatan  Indonesia district
kelurahan
 Indonesia (urban) village or subdistrict
ken  Japan prefecture
khan
 Cambodia district or section
khett  Cambodia province
khoueng
 Laos province
khum
 Cambodia commune
kilil
 Ethiopia region
kommun
 Finland (Swedish speaking) municipality
 Sweden
kommune  Denmark municipality
 Norway
kota  Indonesia chartered city
кожуун (kozhuun)  Russia ( Tyva Republic) rural council
край (krai)  Russia region
kraj  Czech Republic region
 Slovakia
Kreis  Germany district
krom  Cambodia group
krong
 Cambodia municipality
ku  Japan ward
kunta  Finland municipality
lääni
 Finland province
lalawigan  Philippines province
län  Sweden county
land
 Austria (official term) state
land  Germany (official term) state
lieu-dit  France place name
linn  Estonia town or city
lugar  Cape Verde division of zona in Cape Verde
 Portugal hamlet
lungsod
 Philippines city
maakond
 Estonia county
մարզ (marz)  Armenia province or region
megye  Hungary county
mahoz  Israel district
mancomunidad  Spain association of municipalities, commonwealth
merindad Medieval Spain county
mesorregião
 Brazil mesoregion (division of
estado
)
mintaqah (mintaqat) Arab countries province, region
microrregião
 Brazil microregion (division of
mesorregião, group of municípios
)
მხარე (mkhare)  Georgia region
muban  Thailand village
muhafazah (muhafazat) Arab countries governorate
mukim Malay-speaking countries subdistrict, subdivision of subdistrict, survey district
municipalidad
Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) municipality
municipio
Spanish-speaking countries
municipality
Portuguese-speaking countries
nafa  Israel subdistrict
negeri
 Malaysia state
nomos  Greece prefecture
novads
 Latvia municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights)
NUTS  Europe Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
obec  Czech Republic municipality
 Slovakia
область (oblast) Countries formerly in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia province, region
община (
obshtina
)
 Bulgaria municipality
okres  Czech Republic district
 Slovakia
okrug  Serbia district
 Russia
opština  Republika Srpska municipality
 Montenegro
 Serbia
ostan (ostan-e)  Iran province
pagasts
 Latvia parish
panchayati raj  India village council
paróquia  Portugal parish (religious division)
 Cape Verde
parroquia  Spain ( Galicia) parish
 Andorra
pedanía  Spain county
Περιφέρειες (
periféreia
)
 Greece periphery
phum
 Cambodia village
phumpheak  Cambodia zone
pilseta
 Latvia town/city
povit  Ukraine county
powiat  Poland county
pradesh  India state of India
 Nepal province of Nepal
probinsya  Philippines province
provinsi  Indonesia province
provincia
Spanish-speaking countries
province
 Italy
província  Portugal (formerly) province
 Angola
 São Tomé and Príncipe
prowincja
 Poland province
purok  Philippines district or zone
raion  Russia district
 Moldova
 Ukraine
rajons
 Latvia district
região  Brazil group of
estados; also macrorregião
 Guinea-Bissau region
 Portugal
região autónoma
 Portugal autonomous region
 São Tomé and Príncipe
regierungsbezirk  Germany district
region  Denmark region
regione  Italy region
şäher  Turkmenistan capital city district
sangkat
 Cambodia commune or quarter
sector  Guinea-Bissau sector (municipality)
sector autónomo  Guinea-Bissau autonomous sector (municipality)
сельсовет (selsoviet)  Russia rural council
sheng/shêng  People's Republic of China
 Taiwan
province
shi/shih  People's Republic of China
 Taiwan
city
sitio

 Philippines

district or zone
շրջան (shrjan) Republic of Artsakh province or region
hromada  Ukraine municipality
srŏk
 Cambodia district
sum  Mongolia district
subdistritu
 East Timor subdistrict (submunicipality)
subregião  Portugal subregion
suco, suku  East Timor division of
submunicipality
-stan Central Asian countries land (denotes high level of autonomy)
sýsla  Faroe Islands district
 Iceland
tambon  Thailand subdistrict
thesaban  Thailand municipality
tỉnh
 Vietnam province
todōfuken  Japan prefectural level divisions (collectively)
tuman  Uzbekistan district
ulus  Russia ( Sakha Republic) district
upazila
 Bangladesh subdistrict
union parishad  Bangladesh council or constituency
mouza  Bangladesh mouza
gram/gaon  Bangladesh village
Ward  Bangladesh ward
vald  Estonia parish, rural municipality
вилоят (viloyat)  Tajikistan region
 Uzbekistan
во́лость (volost)  Russia district
wojewodztwo
 Poland voivodeship
waterschap
 Netherlands water board
welaýaty  Turkmenistan region
wilayah Arab countries province, territory
 Malaysia
xian/hsien  People's Republic of China
 Taiwan
county
země  Czech Republic land (historical)
zona  Cape Verde zone (division of freguesia)
ziemia
 Poland land
Zillah
 Pakistan district
 Bangladesh
 India
župa  Slovakia county (historical)
županija  Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian speaking) county
 Croatia
maahaanam  Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) province
maavattam  Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) district
pirathesam/koattam  Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) division
palaatha  Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) province
dhisthrikaya  Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) district
kottahsha  Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) division

See also