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
(Row colors are for visual differentiation only.)
Member states of United Nations specialized agencies
Country | Type | Administrative divisions | |||
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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) | 123 municipalities | ||
South Ossetia | Unitary | 4 districts (raions) | |||
Taiwan (Republic of China) | Regional | 6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) (+12 claimed) 2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng)[93] (+33 claimed) |
13 counties (xiàn) 3 provincial cities (shì) |
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 |
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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (notional, mostly occupied by 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
- 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
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)
- 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.
References
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