Table of administrative divisions by country

The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories. It is ordered alphabetically by country name in English.

Notes

Numbers of divisions 

To simplify maintaining the table, numbers of divisions are only specified where a country has around thirty or fewer instances; for example, as of 2010, the twelve qarqe (counties) of Albania. For numbers greater than thirty, the number rounded down to the nearest ten (or, in the case of thousands, the nearest hundred) is given, suffixed by a plus sign "+"; for example, the "300+" komuna (communes) of Albania. More precise figures should be found in the articles linked by the table.

Terms in italics 

Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English. They should be in plural form, followed by a footnote or footnotes indicating the generally accepted English equivalent or translation. Known alternative spellings are given in brackets following a term.

Terms in brackets 

Entries in standard brackets either indicate that the term used is informal or that its use is yet to be confirmed. An English term in square brackets indicates that the local name for the term is not yet known or confirmed; when confirmed, it is replaced by the local name in italics.

Footnote letters ( ^{c d m p r} ) 

These indicate, respectively, five common types of administrative division in English: capitals; districts; municipalities; provinces; and regions. Other English terms appear among the numbered footnotes.

Administrative divisions with ISO 3166-1

Administrative divisions with ISO 3166-1 are cited for statistics matters even when they do not have a special status (for example, the overseas regions of France).

Antarctic claims

Administrative divisions that are entirely Antarctic claims suspended under the Antarctic Treaty are not listed.

Autonomous areas

Not all the autonomous areas are part of the formal hierarchy of the administrative division system of a country (for example, the autonomous region of Zanzibar comprises 5 regions of Tanzania, the first tier on administrative divisions on that country). For more details, see List of autonomous areas by country.

Dependent territories

Dependent territories are listed with their sovereign country. For more details, see List of dependent territories.

  

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Table

Country	Administrative divisions
	First-level	Second-level	Third-level	Fourth-level and smaller
Afghanistan	34 velaya'at ^p	399 woleswali ^d
Albania	12 qarqe [8][29]	61 bashki .	2,834 fshatra [27][30] njësi bashkiake, lagjje, rajone[28]
Algeria	48 wilayas ^p	553 daïras [5]	1,541 baladiyahs ^m[31]
Andorra	7 parròquies [14]^m	17 quarts [16] 10 veïnats [13] 33 [villages]
Angola	18 províncias ^p	163 municípios [32]^m	618 comunas
Antigua and Barbuda	6 parishes^i 2 dependencies
Argentina
	Buenos Aires	135 partidos ^m	cities and towns ^d
	Catamarca  Entre Ríos  Santa Fe	departamentos[9] ^d	municipios[33] and comunas[7] ^m
	Chaco  Corrientes  Misiones  Salta  San Luis  Santiago del Estero	departamentos ^d	municipios ^m
	Chubut	15 departamentos ^d	23 municipios, 4 comisiones de fomento,[34] 20 comunas rurales[35] ^m
	Córdoba	26 departamentos ^d	145 pedanías ^d	250 municipios and 177 comunas ^m
	Formosa	9 departamentos ^d	27 municipios, 10 comisiones de fomento, and 18 juntas vecinales[36] ^m
	Jujuy	16 departamentos ^d	61 municipios and comisiones municipales[37] ^m
	La Pampa  Neuquén  Río Negro  Santa Cruz  Tierra del Fuego	departamentos ^d	municipios and comisiones de fomento ^m
	La Rioja	18 departamentos ^m	delegaciones distritales ^d
	Mendoza	18 departamentos ^m	105 distritos ^d
	San Juan	19 departamentos ^m	comisiones vecinales[38]^d
	Tucumán	17 departamentos ^d	municipios and comunas rurales ^m
	Ciudad Autónoma:
	Buenos Aires ^c m[1]	15 comunas[7]	48 barrios[13]
Armenia	10 marzer [39]^p Yerevan^c	915 hamaynkner ^m
Australia	6 states 10 territories, including: - 6 external territories Ashmore and Cartier Islands Australian Antarctic Territory  Christmas Island  Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands Heard Island and McDonald Islands - 1 external autonomous territory[1]  Norfolk Island	562 local government areas[40]
Austria	9 Bundesländer ^p	95 Bezirke ^d	2,342 Gemeinden ^m[7]	7,800+ Katastralgemeinden [41]
Azerbaijan		59 rayon ^d 11 şəhər [6]	2 700 communities
	1 muxtar respublika [1]	7 rayon ^d 1 şəhər [6]
The Bahamas	31 districts^m New Providence	42 townships
Bahrain	4 muhāfazāt [11]^m
Bangladesh	7 bibhag [10]	64 zilla ^d	488 upozilla [42]	4,550 Union Parishads
Barbados	11 parishes^i
Belarus	6 voblastsi ^p Minsk^c	127 raën ^d	1,448 syélski savyét[17]
Belgium	3 regions [43]^r	10 provinces [44]^p	43 Arrondissements [45]^d	589 Municipalities [46]^m
Belize	6 districts	31 constituencies	180+ local councils
Benin	12 départements [9]	77 communes	546 arrondissements	[villages] [27] [city districts] ^d
Bhutan	20 dzongkhag ^d	205 gewog [2][27]
Bolivia	9 departamentos [9]	112 provincias ^p	314 municipios [18][47]	(before 2009) 1,384 cantones [4]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10 kantona [4]	79 općine ^m	local community
	Republika Srpska		63 opštine ^m
	Brčko District
Botswana	16 districts ^m	19 sub-districts [21]
Brazil	27 unidades federativas: [48]
	26 estados [20]	5565 municípios [33]
	1 distrito federal: [49]  Distrito Federal	31 regiões administrativas [50]
Brunei	4 daerah-daerah ^d	38 mukim ^p	kampung [27]
Bulgaria	28 oblasti ^p	287 obshtini ^m[7]	Sofia: 24 city raions; Plovdiv: 6 city raions; Varna: 5 city raions
Burkina Faso	13 régions	45 provinces	325 communes [7]
Burundi	17 provinces	121 communes [7]^d	2,639 collines [51]
Cambodia
	23 khêt ^p	150+ srŏk ^d	1400+ khum [7]	14000+ phum[27]
	Phnom Penh^c	khan[18]	sangkat[16]
Cameroon	10 regions	50+ départements [9]	310+ arrondissements	[subdistricts] [21]
Canada	10 provinces 3 territories	3,642 municipalities
Cape Verde	22 concelhos [8][52]^m	30+ freguesias [14]
Central African Republic	16 préfectures [15] Bangui^c[1]	60+ sous-préfectures [22]	170+ communes
Chad	22 régions ^r	61 départements [9]	sub-prefectures	communautés rurales [17]
	including N'Djamena^c	10 arrondissements	communes
Chile	15 regiones ^r	50+ provincias ^p	320+ comunas ^m
China	"province" level: 22 shěng ^p 5 zìzhìqū [1] 4 zhíxiáshì ^m	"prefecture" level: 280+ dìjíshī [6] 17 dìqū [15] 30 zìzhìzhōu [1]	"county" level: 1400+ xiàn [8] 110+ zìzhìxiàn [1] 850+ (shìxiá)qū ^d 1 tèqū [53] 370+ xiànjíshì [6] 1 línqū [54]	"township" level: 19500+ zhèn [25] 14600+ xiāng [26] 1000+ mínzúxiāng [55] 6100+ jiēbàn [21][56] 11 qūgōngsuǒ [57] then Urban areas: shèqū [58] or jūmínqū [13] Rural areas: cūnjí [27][59]
	Inner Mongolia (one of the five zìzhìqū)	3 méng [60]	40+ qí [61] 3 zìzhìqí [1]	180+ sūmù [26] 1 mínzúsūmù [55] then urban and rural divisions as above.
	2 tèbiéxíngzhèngqū [62] :
	Hong Kong	18 districts
	Macau	2 concelhos ^d	5+2 freguesias [14]
Colombia	32 departamentos [9] Bogotá^c	1100+ municipios ^m 2000+ corregimientos [25]
Comoros	3 [autonomous islands] [1]	municipalities
Democratic Republic of the Congo[63]	10 provinces Kinshasa^c	26 districts	territories	chiefdoms sectors
Republic of the Congo[64]	12 departments [9]	80+ [districts] ^d	communes
Costa Rica	7 provincias ^p	81 cantones	450+ [districts] ^d
Côte d'Ivoire[65]	2 districts autonomes
	12 districts	31 régions ^r	108 départements [9]	510 sous-préfectures
Croatia	21 županije [8] Zagreb^c	127 gradovi [25] 429 općine ^m	4117+ mjesnih odbora (gradske četvrti [Zagreb], gradski kotari [Split])	6700+ naselja
Cuba	16 provincias ^p	160+ municipios ^m
Cyprus	6 eparchies ^d	610 communities ^m
Czech Republic	13 krajů ^r	76 okresy ^d statistical only 205 obce s rozšířenou působností [66]	393 obce s pověřeným obecním úřadem [67]	6252 obcí [68] 5 vojenský újezd [69] special status
	Hlavní město Praha ^c	10 obvody ^d judicial only 22 správní obvody [70]	57 městské části [71]	112 katastrální území [72]
Denmark, the Kingdom of	1 senior member of the Kingdom:  Denmark
	5 regioner ^r	98 kommuner ^m
	2 autonomous countries within the Kingdom:[1]
	Faroe Islands	7 sýsla [73]^r	30+ kommunur ^m[7]
	Greenland	4 kommuner ^m[74]
Djibouti	5 régions ^r	(15 districts )[75]
	Djibouti City^c	6 arrondissements
Dominica	10 parishes ^m
Dominican Republic	31 provincias ^p Distrito Nacional^d	110+ municipios ^m 40+ distritos municipales ^d	secciones [18]
East Timor[76]	13 [districts] ^d	60+ [subdistricts] [21]	(sulos, sucos [27])
Ecuador	24 provincias ^p	210+ cantones [4]	1000+ parroquias [14] ^m
Egypt	27 muhāfazāt [11]	232 markazes	217 + cities	4617 + villages
El Salvador	14 departamentos [9]	262 municipios ^m
Equatorial Guinea	7 provincias ^p	30 distritos ^d
Eritrea	6 zoba ^r	57 districts ^d
Estonia[77]	15 maakonnad [8]	30 linnad [25]^m	linnaosad ^d	asumid [21]
		183 vallad [7][14]^m	kandid [16]	17 linnad [25] 9 alevid [3] 173 alevikud[78] 4,430 külad [27]
Ethiopia	9 kililoch ^r[20] 2 astedader akababiwach [6]	(zones?) 12 rasgez akababiwach [1]	600+ woreda (wereda)^d	kebeles [13][28]
Fiji	4 divisions 1 dependency	15 provinces ^m	+50 districts
Finland	18 maakuntaa ^r	70+ seutukuntaa [23] ^d	317 kuntaa [79] ^m
	1 itsehallinnollinen maakunta[1] ^r:  Åland	16 kommuner (kuntaa) ^m
France	18 régions ^r (27 before 2016), including: - 12 régions in mainland Europe  - 1 sui generis collectivité territoriale [80] - 5 régions d'outre-mer  French Guiana  Guadeloupe  Martinique  Mayotte  Réunion	101 départements [9] ^p [81] + the Metropolis of Lyon	335 arrondissements ^d , ,	4,032 "cantons" (fourth-level), 12159 "intercommunality" ^d (fifth level), 36781 communes (sixth-level) ^m [82]
	1 state private property, located overseas, under the direct authority of the French government: Clipperton Island
	5 collectivités d'outre-mer[83]
	French Polynesia[84]	5 subdivisions administratives	40+ communes
	Saint-Barthélemy
	Saint-Martin
	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	2 communes
	Wallis and Futuna	3 royaumes coutumiers [85]	3 [districts] ^d
	1 collectivité sui generis
	New Caledonia	3 provinces	30+ communes
	1 territoire d'outre-mer[24][86]
	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	4 [districts] ^d
Gabon	9 provinces	30+ départements [9]	152 cantons, 52 communes, 29 arrondissements,
Gambia	8 Local Government Areas	43 districts
Georgia	9 mkhare ^r 2 avt'onomiuri resp'ublik'a [1] Tbilisi^c	53 raioni ^d 6 sak'alak'o t'erit'oria [6]
Germany	16 Länder [20][87]	19 Regierungsbezirke [8] (only 4 of 16 states are divided into Regierungsbezirke)	430+ Kreise ^d then Ämter [88] (from part of Gemeinden)	12300+ Gemeinden ^m
Ghana	10 regions	120+ districts	Communities tema
		8 municipal districts	zones
		3 metropolitan districts	submetropolitan districts
Greece	7 Decentralized Administrations and 1 aftonomi monastiki politeia [1]	13 Peripheries, Mount Athos	325 demoi ^m	Demotikes enotites [12] (Municipal units [7])
		74 Regional Units ^p
Grenada	6 parishes^i 1 dependency
Guatemala	22 departamentos [9]	332 municipios ^m
Guinea	8 régions ^r	33 préfectures [15]	330+ sous-préfectures [22]	[districts] ^d [sectors] [19]
		Conakry^c	5 communes
Guinea-Bissau	8 regiões ^r 1 sector autónomo [1]	30+ ?setores [19]
Guyana	10 regions	27 neighborhood councils
Haiti	10 départements [9]	30+ arrondissements ^d	communes ^m	sections [89]
Honduras	18 departamentos [9]	298 municipios ^m
Hungary	19 megye 23 megyei jogú város [8] Budapest^c	173 subregions
Iceland	74 municipalities (sveitarfélög)
India	29 states 7 Union territories	640 districts	5564 tehsils (tahsils, tahasils), taluks (talukas), mandal [8]
Indonesia	34 provinsi [90]^p including 5 daerah istimewa [1] including Jakarta^c	340+ kabupaten [91] 90+ kota [6][92]	kecamatan, distrik [21]	desa, kelurahan, kampung [27]
Iran	31 ostanha ^p	310+ shahrestan [8]	bakhsh ^d	shahr ^m dehestan
Iraq	18 muhāfazāt [11]^(p)	? aqdyat ^d[93]	?nahiyat [8]^?	?qaryat [27]
Ireland	28 counties[8] 3 cities[6]	2 metropolitan districts 4 borough districts[3] 89 municipal districts[71]
Israel	7 mehozot ^d	16 nafot [21]	76 City councils  265 Local councils  53 Regional councils
Italy	15 regioni ^r 5 regioni autonome [1]	110 province ^p 2+1 province autonome [1]	1000+ regioni agrarie then 8057 comuni [7]^m (3299 comuni consists of 376 unione di comuni)	37000+frazioni and cities' circoscrizioni [94]^m
Jamaica	14 parishes ^m
Japan	47 todōfuken [10][15][95]	28 shichō [22] 15 seirei shitei toshi [6]	1700+ shichōsonku ^m[96]	ōaza, aza, chō, chōme
Jordan	12 muhāfazāt [11]	50+ nahia [21]
Kazakhstan	14 oblıstar ^p 3 qalalar [6]	319 awdandar ^d oblıstıq qalalar	kentter	awıl aymaqtar
Kenya	47 Counties ^p	262 Sub-Counties ^d to be replaced by more effective administration	2400+ mtaa [12]	Cities, Municipalities and Towns vijiji [27]
Kiribati	24 Island councils^m 12 uninhabited islands/atolls
North Korea	9 do ^p 3 [SARs] [62] 2 chikhalsi [6]	150+ kun (gun) [8] si [6] kuyŏk [28] ku (gu) and chigu ^d 1 t'ŭkkŭpsi [6]	tong [13] ri [27] rodongjagu ^d
South Korea	8 do ^p 1 teukbyeol jachido [1]	si [6] gun (kun) [8]	gu (ku) ^d[3] eup [25]	dong [13] ri [27]
	6 gwangyeoksi [6]	gu (ku) ^d gun (kun) [8]	dong [13] eup [25] myeon [26]	ri [27]
	1 teukbyeol jachisi^c	dong [13] eup [25] myeon [26]
	Seoul^c	gu (ku) ^d[3]	dong [13]
Kosovo[97]	7 rajone ^d[98][99]	35 komuna ^m[33][100]
Kuwait	6 muhāfazāt [11]^m
Kyrgyzstan	7 oblasttar ^p 2 šaarlar (keneš) [6]	40+ rayon ^d 14 gorkeneš [25]	aiyl okmotus [17]
Laos	16 khoueng ^p Vientiane^c	140+ muang [101]^d	baan [27]
Latvia	110 novadi ^m 9 Republikas pilsētas [6]	67 pilsētas [25] 470+ pagasti ^m[14]
Lebanon	6 muhāfazāt [11]	26 qadya ^d
Lesotho	10 districts	80+ constituencies	120+ community councils
Liberia	15 counties	60+ districts
Libya	22 sha'biyat ^m	Basic People's Congresses
Liechtenstein	11 Gemeinden ^m
Lithuania	10 apskritys [8]	43 rajono savivaldybė [102]^m 9 savivaldybės ^m 8 miesto savivaldybė [103]^m	500+ seniūnijos [104]
Luxembourg	3 [districts]	12 cantons [105]	105 communes[106] [107]^m	24 quartierën [108]
Macedonia	8 regioni ^i	80 opštini ^m
Madagascar	22 faritra ^r	?departemanta [9] or 110+ ?fivondronana [109]	1200+ ?firaisana [110] or ?kaominina [7] then 11000+ ?fokontany [27]
Malawi	3 regions	28 districts	(130+ ["traditional authorities"])	(60+ ["subchiefdoms"])
Malaysia	13 negeri:	139 daerah	1000+ mukim	8000+ kampung
	Johor  Kedah  Melaka  Negeri Sembilan  Pahang  Perak  Perlis  Penang  Selangor  Terengganu	75 daerah	800+ mukim [21]	5000+ kampung
	Kelantan	10 jajahan	63 mukim [21]	500+ kampung
	Sabah  Sarawak	16 bahagian	54 daerah	mukim then kampung
	3 Wilayah Persekutuan:
	Kuala Lumpur	11 mukim [21]	150+ kampung
	Labuan	27 kampung
	Putrajaya	21 presint"
Maldives	7 provinces Malé^c	20 [atolls][111]^m Malé^c
Mali	8 régions Bamako^c	40+ cercles [5]	1400+ arrondissements [112]	700+ communes
Malta	5 reġjuni^r	68 kunsilli lokali (local councils)^m
Marshall Islands	24 municipalities^m
Mauritania	12 régions [113]^r Nouakchott^c	50+ départements [9][114]	200+ communes
Mauritius	4 islands	9 districts 14 zones	120+ villages, 4 Towns 173 localities
Mexico	31 estados [20]	2400+ municipios ^m
	1 distrito federal^c	16 delegaciones [3]
Federated States of Micronesia	4 states	70+ municipalities
Moldova	32 raioane ^d 3 municipiu [6] 1 unitate teritorială autonomă [1] 1 unitatea teritorială [24]	15 [municipalities] ^m 50 [cities] [6] 60+ [city localities] [12] 660+ [villages] [7][27] 880+ [village localities] [12]
Monaco	1 commune^i	10 quartiers [16]^i
Mongolia	21 aimags ^p	331 sums ^d	1538 bags
	1 khot ^m	9 düüregs ^d	132 khoroos
Montenegro	21 opštine ^m Prijestonica Cetinje[115] Glavni Grad Podgorica ^c	1256 naselja
Morocco	12 [regions] ^r [116]	13 prefectures [15] 62 [provinces] ^p	cercles [5]	communes rurales [7]
				[municipalities] ^m communes urbaines [7] arrondissements
Mozambique	10 provincias ^p Maputo^c	120+ distritos ^d	400+ postos	[urban districts] ^d localidades [12]
Myanmar	7 taing detha gyi (regions) [10][117] 7 pyi-neh (states) [20]	67 kayaing ^d	330 townships [26]	[towns] [25] [wards] [28] [villages] [27]
Namibia	14 regions[118]	121 constituencies[118]	cities^m towns^m villages^m settlements
Nauru	14 districts^i
Nepal	5 vikas kshetra ^r	14 anchal	75 jilla [districts] ^d	ilaka, nagarpalika^m, gaun vikas samiti, ward[119] [villages] [27]
Netherlands, the Kingdom of	4 landen:
	Netherlands	12 provincies ^p	393 gemeenten ^m
		3 openbare lichamen
	Aruba
	Curaçao
	Sint Maarten
New Zealand	12 regions 4 unitary authorities	50+ districts 15 cities 1 special territorial authority
	2 states in free-association:[1]
	Cook Islands	10+ island councils
	Niue	14 villages
	1 self-administering territory:[1]
	Tokelau	3 autonomous communities
Nicaragua	15 departamentos [9] 2 regiones autónomas [1]	150+ municipios ^m
Niger	7 régions  Communauté Urbaine de Niamey^c	36 départements	265 communes, communes urbaines, communes rurales, postes administratifs[120]
Nigeria	36 states Abuja^c	770+ Local Government Areas
Northern Cyprus	5 kaza
Norway	19 fylker [8]	429 kommuner ^m[7][121]
	2 integral overseas areas: Svalbard Jan Mayen
	1 [dependencie]: Bouvet Island
Oman	11 muhāfazāt [11]	60+ wilaya'at ^p
Pakistan	4 provinces 1 territory Islamabad^c 1 self-administering state 1 self-administering territory	131 +7 Tribal Agencies and 6 Frontier Regions districts	596 tehsils [8][122]	Almost 6000 Union Councils
Palau	16 states ^m
State of Palestine	West Bank Gaza Strip	16 governorates [11]
Panama	10 provincias ^p 3 comarcas indígena ^r	70+ distritos ^d	corregimientos ^m 2 comarcas indígena ^r
Papua New Guinea	4 regions^i	20 provinces and 1 autonomous region, National Capital District	districts	Local-Level Government areas
Paraguay	17 departamentos [9] Asunción^c	250 distritos or municipios ^m
Peru	25 regiones ^r	190+ provincias ^p	1800+ distritos [123]^d	84000+ centros poblados → 1800+ centros poblados menores (as government entity) 80000+ [centros poblados dispersos] (only as censal unity)
Philippines	18 rehiyon ^r[124]	80 lalawigan [125]^p 38 malayang lungsod [126] 1 malayang bayan [127]	84 bahaging lungsod [6] [128] 1511 karaniwang bayan [129]^m[25]	42025 barangay [130]^d
Poland	16 voivodeships (województwa) [131]^p	360+ powiaty [8][132]	2400+ gminy [7]	40000+ sołectwa (rural) dzielnice or osiedla (urban)
Portugal	18 distritos ^d 2 regiões autónomas [1]  Azores  Madeira	308 concelhos [133]^m	3092 freguesias [14]
Qatar	7 baladiya'at ^m
Romania	41 județe [8]	320 orașe [6] (including 103 municipii ^m) 2,856 comune [7] (divided into 12,955 sate [27])
	Bucharest^c	6 sectoare [19]
Russia	85 federal subjects [134][135] :
	"subject" level:[136] 46 oblasts 21 republics [135][1] 4 autonomous okrugs [1] 9 krais [24] 1 autonomous oblast [1]	"district" level: 2,027 districts 561 cities and towns of federal subject significance	"rural" level: Towns of district significance (416), urban-type settlements of district significance (767), and selsoviets and equivalents (15,002)
	3 federal cities: [137]
	Moscow^c	10 administrative okrugs ^d	Districts and settements
	St. Petersburg	18 districts ^d
	Sevastopol [138]	4 districts ^d
Rwanda	5 intara ^p	30 uturere [139]^d (umujyi ^m)	410+ imirenge [19][140]	9100+ utugari [141] (then akagari ^?[27])
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Kitts	9 parishes
	Nevis	5 parishes
Saint Lucia	11 quartiers [16]^m
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6 parishes^a
Samoa	11 itūmālō ^i
San Marino	9 castelli [7]^m
São Tomé and Príncipe	2 concelhos ^p	7 distritos
Saudi Arabia	13 manaţiq ^p	muhafazat ^r	marakiz [21]
Senegal	14 régions	30+ départements [9]	arrondissements	communes
Serbia	5 regions - Belgrade, Šumadija and Western Serbia, Southern and Eastern Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo and Metohija[142][143] 2 of these regions (Vojvodina and Kosovo and Metohija) are also autonomous provinces [1] Kosovo declared independence in 2008.	29 okruga ^d Grad Beograd^c	150 opština ^m 24 grada [6]
Seychelles	25 districts^a Zil Elwannyen Sesel
Sierra Leone	3 provinces 1 area	15 districts	chiefdoms
Singapore	27 constituencies^m	Divisions/Wards
Slovakia	8 kraje ^r	70+ okresy ^d	2890+ obce ^m,[7] from that 130+ mestá ^c[25][144]	katastrálne územia [145]
Slovenia	12 statistične regije ^i	210 občine ^m
Solomon Islands	9 provinces^m Honiara
Somalia	18 gobolada ^r	75 [districts] ^d
South Africa	9 provinces	44 district municipalities	226 local municipalities	4277 wards
		8 metropolitan municipalities
South Sudan	28 states	85 counties	Payams	Bomas
Spain	17 comunidades autónomas ^r [1]	50 provincias ^p [146]	477 comarcas	8110 municipios ^m
	2 ciudades autónomas [1]	–		2 municipios [147]
	3 plazas menores de soberanía[148]
Sri Lanka	9 provinces ^p	25 districts ^d	320+ divisions
Sudan	18 wilaya'at [20]	86 [districts]
Suriname	10 districten ^d	60+ ressorten [149]
Swaziland	4 tifundza ^r	50+ tinkhundla[150]	360+ imiphakatsi[151]
Sweden	21 län [8]	290 kommuner ^m	församlingar [14]
Switzerland	26 cantons [152]	137 districts [153]^d	2,324 communes [154]^m
Syria	14 muhāfazāt [11]	60 manaţiq [155]^d	nawahi [21]	[villages] [27]
Taiwan	6 Special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) ^m		170 Districts qū ^d 12 County-controlled cities (xiànxiáshì) [6] 40 Urban townships (zhèn) [26] 146 Rural townships (xiāng) [26]	Urban Villages (lǐ) [27] Rural Villages (cūn) [27]
	2 Provinces (shěng)(Streamlined) ^p	3 Provincial cities (shì) [6] 13 Counties (xiàn) [8]
Tajikistan	3 viloyatho ^p 1 viloyat mukhtor [1] Dushanbe^c	60+ Nohiya ^d 14 [cities] [6] 2 hukumati [156]	(jamoats)	([villages] [27])
Tanzania	30 mkoa ^r	120+ wilaya ^d	[divisions] [10]	[wards] [28] then [villages] [27]
Thailand	76 changwat ^p Bangkok [157]	840+ amphoe [158]^d	tambon;[10] in Bangkok:169 khwaeng^d	chumchon or muban;[27]
Togo	5 régions	30 préfectures
Tonga	5 divisions	23 districts
Trinidad and Tobago	9 regions Tobago (governed by Tobago House of Assembly) 3 boroughs 2 cities
Tunisia	24 wilaya'at [11]	mutamadiyat ^d	shaykhat ^m
Turkey	81 il ^p	900+ ilçe ^d	3200+ belediye ^m	[neighbourhoods] [13] [41000 villages] [27]
Turkmenistan	5 welaýatlar ^p Aşgabat^c	70+ ?adyndaky etraplar ^d [159] 40+ ?etraplar ^d 15 [towns] [25]
Tuvalu	9 island groups^m
Uganda	111 districts Kampala^c	167 counties 22 municipalities 5 city divisions	1106 subcounties 151 town councils 63 municipal divisions/boroughs	parishes villages
Ukraine	24 oblasti ^p 2 mista zi spetsial'nym statusom ^m[160] 1 avtonomna respublika [1]  Crimea	640+ raiony ^d mista rehional'noho znachennia raiony u mistakh	mista raionoho znachennia selyshchni rady sil's'ki rady selyshcha
United Arab Emirates	7 imarat [161]	local municipalities
United Kingdom	(1 constituent country with no devolution):  England
	9 regions^i	75 non-metropolitan counties	201 non-metropolitan districts	parishes[162]
		6 metropolitan counties	36 metropolitan boroughs
		46 unitary authorities		parishes
		Greater London^c	32 London boroughs City of London
	(3 constituent countries with devolution):
	Northern Ireland	(6 counties) 11 districts
	Scotland	32 council areas		communities
	Wales	10 county boroughs 9 counties 3 cities		communities
	3 crown dependencies:
	Guernsey[163]	10 parishes 3 dependencies: Alderney, Herm and Sark
	Jersey[163]	12 parishes	vingtaines, cueillettes
	Isle of Man	6 sheadings	15 parishes, 9 towns and villages
	12 non-Antarctic civilian overseas territories:
	Anguilla	14 districts
	Bermuda	9 parishes 2 municipalities
	British Indian Ocean Territory
	British Virgin Islands	5 districts
	Cayman Islands	7 districts
	Falkland Islands
	Gibraltar
	Montserrat	3 parishes
	Pitcairn Islands
	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	3 parts of the territory: Saint Helena Ascension Island Tristan da Cunha	Saint Helena has 8 districts
	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
	Turks and Caicos Islands	6 districts
	2 sovereign base areas: Akrotiri and Dhekelia
United States	50 states 567 tribal entities 1 federal district 1 incorporated territory: Palmyra Atoll (grouped by ISO 3166-1 as US Minor Outlying Islands)	3000+ counties[164] 41 independent cities	Municipalities and minor civil divisions (including plantations, towns, townships, villages, etc.) 35,900 municipal bodies
	4 unincorporated organized territories:
	Guam	19 villages[165]
	Northern Mariana Islands	4 municipalities
	Puerto Rico	78 municipalities ^m	barrios [13]
	Virgin Islands	3 districts	20 subdistricts
	1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory:
	American Samoa	3 districts 1 region	15 counties
	10 unincorporated unorganized territories; undisputed are by ISO 3166-1 as US Minor Outlying Islands: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Wake Island, Navassa Island, Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed), and Serranilla Bank (disputed)
Uruguay	19 departamentos [9]^m	89 municipios [33]^m
Uzbekistan	12 viloyatlar ^p 1 respublika [1] Tashkent^c[1]	170+ tumanlar ^d 50+ shaharlar [6]
Vanuatu	6 provinces	municipalities, local councils
Vatican City
Venezuela	23 estados [20]	335 municipios ^m	1136 parroquias [14]
	dependencias federales [166] Caracas^c
Vietnam	58 tỉnh	67 thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh 51 thị xã 595 huyện 8 đảo	693 thị trấn 1100+ phường 10000+ xã
	5 thành phố trực thuộc trung ương	47 quận	1400+ phường
Western Sahara	3 régions ^r	[municipalités] ^m	[communes] ^7	[arrondissements] ^d
Yemen	21 muhāfazāt [11] Sana City	333 districts ^d	2210+ [subdistricts] [21]	38,284 [villages] [27]
Zambia	10 provinces	89 districts
Zimbabwe	8 provinces 2 cities	60+ districts	1200+ municipalities

See also

• Country subdivision
• ISO 3166-2, codes for country subdivisions
• Associated state
• Asymmetric federation
• Condominium, joint sovereignty over an area shared by two or more states.
• Dependent territory
• Federacy
• Federation
• Federated state
• List of terms for country subdivisions
• List of capitals serving as administrative divisions by country
• List of autonomous areas by country
• List of sovereign states
• List of the most populous country subdivisions
• Matrix of country subdivisions
• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area (all)
• List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the 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

Footnotes

^a pseudo-municipalities (administration is appointed)

^c capital; see also Capitals serving as administrative divisions.

^d districts.

ⁱ informals.

^m municipalities.

^p provinces.

^r regions.

References

1. Autonomous area or areas; see List of autonomous areas by country.
2. blocks.
3. boroughs.
4. cantons.
5. circles.
6. cities.
7. communes.
8. counties.
9. departments.
10. divisions.
11. Governorates_of_Bahrains.
12. localities.
13. neighbourhoods.
14. parishes.
15. prefectures.
16. quarters.
17. rural communities or rural districts.
18. sections.
19. sectors.
20. states.
21. subdistricts.
22. subprefectures.
23. subregions.
24. territories.
25. towns.
26. townships.
27. villages, village areas or village groups.
28. wards.
29. or prefektura (prefectures).
30. http://aac-al.org/qarku.php?l=e&idr=19
31. Baladiyah, formerly the French word commune was used
32. city councils
33. municipalities
34. development committees
35. rural communes
36. neighborhood councils
37. municipal committees
38. neighborhood committees
39. or gavaṙ.
40. consisting of shires, boroughs, cities, rural cities, towns, district councils, community government councils, municipalities, community development trusts and an aboriginal council.
41. "cadastral municipalities".
42. "Upazilla List". Bangladesh National Portal.
43. Dutch : Gemeenschap; French: régions or German: Regionen.
44. Dutch: Provincies; French: provinces or German: Provinzen.
45. Dutch: arrondissementen; French: arrondissements or German: Arrondissements.
46. Dutch: gemeenten; French: communes or German: Gemeinden.
47. or municipios (municipalities).
48. federative units
49. federal district
50. administrative regions
51. lit. "hills"
52. or municípios (municipalities).
53. special districts.
54. forestry district.
55. ethnic townships.
56. or jiēdàobànshìchù.
57. "district public offices".
58. (residential) communities.
59. either zìráncūnjí ("natural" villages) or xíngzhèngcūnjí (bureaucratic villages, i.e. created for administrative convenience).
60. "leagues"; Mongolian:chuulghan.
61. banners.
62. special administrative regions.
63. Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa.
64. also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
65. Also known as the Ivory Coast.
66. municipalities with extended competence (3rd level municipalities)
67. municipalities with commissioned local authority (2nd level municipalities)
68. 1st level municipalities
69. military proving grounds
70. administrative districts
71. municipal districts
72. cadastral communities
73. or Danish:syssel.
74. or [townships].
75. Due to be replaced by [communes]
76. Timor-Leste.
77. Estonia's linnad (towns) and vallad (parishes) are known collectively as omavalitsused (municipalities).
78. Small boroughs
79. consisting of kaupungit (urban communes) and kunnat (rural communes).
80. Corsica is not a region per se but assumes such a role and is often considered like one. It is a "collectivité territoriale" with a special status as defined by article 72 of the Constitution. See (in French)
81. The département (department) and commune (municipality) of Paris are unified into a single territorial collectivity.
82. The 3 communes (municipalities) of Paris, Lyon and Marseilles are further subdivided into arrondissements municipaux (municipal arrondissements), not to be confused with the arrondissements (districts) subdividing each département (department).
83. a collectivité d'outre-mer (overseas collectivity).
84. also known as a pays d'outre-mer (overseas country).
85. kingdoms.
86. a territoire d'outre-mer (overseas territory).
87. or, informally, Bundesländer.
88. "offices".
89. sections communales (communal sections).
90. or propinsi-propinsi, sing. propinsi.
91. regencies.
92. formerly kotamadya (municipalities).
93. sometimes translated as "shires" or "counties".
94. fractions
95. todōfuken : to (metropolis, viz. Tokyo) + dō (territory, viz. Hokkaidō) + fu (2 urban prefectures, viz. Kyoto and Osaka) + ken (43 prefectures)
96. shichōsonku : shi (city) + chō (town) + son (village) + ku (wards, boroughs)
97. ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has been recognised as an independent state by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.
98. Albanian; alternatively Serbian:regiona or okruga.
99. districts.
100. Albanian; alternatively Serbian:opstina.
101. or muong.
102. "district municipalities".
103. "city municipalities".
104. elderships, elderates.
105. French; alternatively German:Kantone.
106. http://www.luxembourg.public.lu/fr/tourisme/cartes/communes/index.html
107. French; alternatively German:Gemeinden.
108. Luxembourgish; alternatively French:quartiers, German:Stadtvierteln.
109. or fivondronampokontany.
110. or firaisampokontany.
111. also known as districts.
112. or communes.
113. or wilaya'at.
114. or moughataas.
115. Old Royal Capital.
116. some disputed; see Regions of Morocco.
117. Formerly divisions, until August 2010.
118. Nakale, Albertina (9 August 2013). "President divides Kavango into two". New Era (archived via allafrica.com). External link in |publisher= (help)
119. http://planetnepal.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions
120. FONDS AFRICAIN DE DEVELOPPEMENT: ETUDE DE MOBILISATION DES EAUX DANS LA REGION DE MARADI NIGER. DEPARTEMENT AGRICULTURE ET DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL, OCAR. African Development Bank Group, MARCH 2003
121. Mosvik and Inderøy kommune (two mulcipalties of Norway) merged by 1 January 2012, making the total number of communes in Norway 429. Mosvik kommune: Referendum. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
122. or tehsils.
123. or partidos.
124. including Muslim Mindanao, an autonomous region.
125. or probinsya.
126. or siyudad; cities independent from province, classified as either "highly urbanized" or "independent component" cities.
127. or munisipyo; municipality not under any provincial authority.
128. or siyudad; cities under provincial supervision ("component cities").
129. or munisipyo; regular municipalities under provincial supervision.
130. or barrios.
131. voivodeships.
132. consisting of 300+ powiat ziemski (rural counties) and 60+ powiat grodzki (urban counties) or miasta na prawach powiatu ("cities of county right").
133. or municípios.
134. federal subjects, grouped into 7 federal districts
135. Including Republic of Crimea which is annexed territory of Ukraine
136. Federal subjects of Russia are not considered to be administrative divisions
137. Including Sevastopol which is annexed territory of Ukraine
138. Annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by the Russian Federation
139. sing. akarere.
140. or French:secteurs administratifs (administrative sectors).
141. or French:cellules (cells).
142. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
143. http://www.srbija.gov.rs/pages/article.php?id=20617
144. Mestská a obecná štatistika SR
145. "cadastral areas".
146. Some provinces are divided in districts called comarcas
147. Ceuta and Melilla
148. minor sovereign places in North Africa
149. ?"resorts".
150. constituencies
151. Chiefdoms
152. (French; alternatively German:Kantone, Italian:cantoni or Romansh:chantuns). Six cantons, formerly called demi-cantons (French; alternatively German:Halbkantone or Romansh:mez-chantuns, have only one representative in the Council of States instead of two.
153. French; alternatively German:Ämter, (Amts)bezirke, Italian:distretti or Romansh:districts. This level of subdivisions is not present in all cantons.
154. French; alternatively German:Gemeinden, Italian:comuni or Romansh:vischnancas.
155. or manatuq.
156. city councils.
157. special governed districts
158. in Bangkok:khet.
159. ?urban districts.
160. "cities with special status".
161. emirates.
162. not all of England is parished - see unparished area.
163. a bailiwick.
164. or boroughs in Alaska and parishes in Louisiana.
165. also known as municipalities.
166. federal dependencies.