List of terms for administrative divisions
This is a list of English and non-English terms for administrative divisions.
English
- Bailiwick
- Border
- Borough
- Canton
- City
- Commune
- State (constituent)
- County
- Department
- District
- Duchy
- Emirate
- Federal state
- State (federative)
- Governorate
- Hundred
- Metropolitan Area
- Municipality
- Parish
- Prefecture
- Province
- Region
- Regency
- Rural district
- Shire
- Subdistrict
- Subdivision
- Subprefecture
- Town
- Township
- Village
- Viceroyalty
- Voivodeship
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 |
dō |
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 | 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
- Administrative division
- Census division
- Census-designated place - statistical territorial subdivisions in the United States
- List of administrative divisions by country