List 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.

World map showing boundaries of many high and low-level administrative divisions

Legend

• 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
		First-level	Second-level	Third-level	Fourth-level	Fifth-level+
Afghanistan	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)	2,972 villages (fshatra)
Algeria	Unitary	58 provinces (wilayat)	553 districts (daïras)	1,541 communes (baladiyahs)
Andorra	Unitary	7 parishes (parròquies)
Angola	Unitary	18 provinces (províncias)	163 municipalities (municípios)	618 communes (comunas)	villages (aldeias)
Antigua and Barbuda	Unitary	6 parishes 2 dependencies	60 major divisions	116 communities[1]	353 localities[2]
Argentina	Federal	23 provinces (provincias)	378 departments (departamentos)[a] 135 Partidos (Buenos Aires Province only)	1,298 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	Federal	9 states (Bundesländer)	93 districts (Bezirke),[3][4] including 14 statutory cities (Statutarstädte)	2,078 municipalities (Gemeinden),[5] including: 186 towns (Städte) 771 market towns (Marktgemeinden)
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)
The Bahamas	Unitary	32 districts	32+ town committees
		New Providence	24 supervisory districts
Bahrain	Unitary	4 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)
Bangladesh	Unitary	8 divisions (bibhag)	64 districts (zila)	495 sub-districts (upazila)[6] 12 City corporations	4,596 union councils (union parishads)[6] 327 municipal corporations (paurasabhas)
Barbados	Unitary	11 parishes
Belarus	Unitary	6 regions (oblasti or voblastsi) 1 autonomous city	118 districts (raiony)
Belgium	Federal	3 regions[7]	10 provinces[8]	43 districts[9]	581 municipalities[10]
Belize	Unitary	6 districts	201 municipalities
Benin	Unitary	12 departments (départements)	77 communes (communes)	546 districts (arrondissements)
Bhutan	Unitary	20 districts (dzongkhag)	201 blocks (gewogs) 61 thromdes
Bolivia	Regional	9 departments (departamentos)	112 provinces (provincias)	339 municipalities (municipios)
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Federal	2 federal entities:
		Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10 cantons (kantona)	79 municipalities (općine or opštine)	local communities
		Republika Srpska	64 municipalities (opštine)	local communities
		1 condominium of the federal entities:
		Brčko District
Botswana	Unitary	10 rural districts 7 urban districts	21 sub-districts[11]	519 villages[12]	localities
Brazil	Federal	26 states (estados)	5,568 municipalities (municípios) 1 state district (distrito estadual)	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)[13]
Brunei	Unitary	4 districts (daerah)	38 subdistricts (mukim)	villages (kampung)
Bulgaria	Unitary	28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области)	265 municipalities (obshtini, общини)	wards or quarters (rayon) mayoralties (kmetstvo) settlements (naseleno myasto)
Burkina Faso	Unitary	13 regions (régions)	45 provinces	325 departments (départements)[14]
Burundi	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)	villages (phum)
Cameroon	Unitary	10 regions (régions)	58 departments (départements)	360 communes, or districts (arrondissements)
Canada	Federal	10 provinces:
		Alberta	264 municipalities
			8 Metis settlements
			63 counties	403 hamlets
			7 improvement districts[b]
			6 specialized municipalities
			3 special areas
		British Columbia	27 regional districts 1 unincorporated area	162 municipalities 160 electoral areas[15]
		Manitoba	98 rural municipalities unincorporated areas[c][d]	37 municipalities 2 local government districts
		New Brunswick	15 counties (comtés)[e]	152 parishes (paroisses)	104 municipalities (municipalités)
		Newfoundland and Labrador	(unincorporated)[f]	277 municipalities
		Nova Scotia	18 counties:
			3 regional municipalities
			9 county municipalities		38 municipalities
			6 historic counties administered by district municipalities	12 district municipalities
		Ontario	173 single-tier municipalities[g]
			8 regional municipalities	241 lower-tier municipalities 46 local services boards
			22 counties
			10 districts[h]
		Prince Edward Island	3 counties[i]	14 parishes	70 townships	63 municipalities
		Quebec	87 regional county municipalities (municipalités régionale de comté) (RCM/MRC) 17 territories equivalent to a regional county municipality (territoires équivalents) (TE): 5 TEs coextensive (or nearly coextensive) with an urban agglomeration (agglomérations) 9 cities (cités/villes) independent of any RCM 3 other equivalent territories: Jamésie Eeyou Istchee Kativik	1,108 municipalities (municipalités)	45 boroughs (arrondissements)[j]
		Saskatchewan	296 rural municipalities	478 municipalities
			2 unincorporated areas: Northern Saskatchewan Administration District Prince Albert National Park
		3 territories:
		Northwest Territories	5 regions[k]	24 municipalities
		Nunavut	3 regions[l]	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	Unitary	20 prefectures (préfectures) 1 autonomous commune	85 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)
Chad	Unitary	23 regions (régions)	67 departments (départements)[16]	340 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)
Chile	Regional	16 regions (regiones)	56 provinces (provincias)	346 communes (comunas)	neighborhood units (unidades vecinales)[17]
China, People's Republic of	Regional	23 provinces (shěng) (including Taiwan Province, which is claimed but not administered) 5 autonomous regions (zìzhìqū) 4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì) 2 Special administrative regions (tè bié xíng zhèng qū)	280+ prefecture-level cities (dìjíshī) 17 prefectures (dìqū) 30 autonomous prefectures (zìzhìzhōu)	1,400+ counties (xiàn) 110+ autonomous counties (zìzhìxiàn) 850+ county-level districts ((shìxiá)qū) 1 special district (tèqū) 370+ county-level cities (xiànjíshì) 1 forestry district (línqū)	19,500+ towns (zhèn) 14,600+ townships (xiāng) 1,000+ ethnic townships (mínzúxiāng) 6,100+ subdistricts (jiēbàn or jiēdàobànshìchù) 11 district public offices (qūgōngsuǒ) then Urban areas: (residential) communities (shèqū) or neighbourhoods (jūmínqū) Rural areas: villages (cūnjí), village areas or village groups.[18]
		2 special administrative regions (tèbié xíngzhèngqū), Hong Kong and Macao	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	Federal	3 autonomous islands (+1 claimed) (îles autonomes)	16 prefectures (préfectures)	54 communes	318 villes or villages
Democratic Republic of the Congo[m]	Unitary	25 provinces 1 Capital City	145 territories 33 cities	264 chiefdoms 470 sectors 313 communes	6,070 groupings 2,401 quarters
Republic of the Congo[n]	Unitary	12 departments	80+ districts	communes
Costa Rica	Unitary	7 provinces (provincias)	82 cantons (cantones) 24 indigenous territories	492 districts (distritos) 3 special cities (ciudad): San José, Cartago, Puntarenas	Urban: asentamiento, caserío, ciudad, localidad Rural: barrio, poblado
Croatia	Unitary	20 counties (županije)	128 towns (gradovi) 428 municipalities (općine)	4,117+ local communities [hr] (mjesnih odbora) (gradske četvrti [Zagreb], gradski kotari [Split])	6,700+ settlements (naselja)
Cuba	Unitary	15 provinces (provincias) 1 special municipality (municipio especial)	160+ municipalities (municipios)
Cyprus	Unitary	6 districts (eparchies)	610 communities
Czech Republic	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
		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, Kingdom of	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)[19]	29 municipalities (kommunur)[20]
		Greenland	5 municipalities (kommuner)
			Northeast Greenland National Park
Djibouti	Unitary	6 regions (régions)	15 sub-prefectures[21] 6 arrondissements (within Djibouti City)
Dominica	Unitary	10 parishes
Dominican Republic	Unitary	31 provinces (provincias) 1 National District (Distrito Nacional)	158 municipalities (municipios)	40+ municipal districts (distritos municipales)
East Timor[22]	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	Unitary	24 provinces (provincias)	221 cantons (cantones)	1,000+ parishes (parroquias)
Egypt	Unitary	27 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	271 marakiz or aqsam	4,617+ villages or districts	sheyakha or residential districts
El Salvador	Unitary	14 departments (departamentos)	262 municipalities (municipios)
Equatorial Guinea	Unitary	8 provinces (provincias)	32 districts (distritos)
Eritrea	Unitary	6 regions (zoba)	58 districts	Communes (Kebabis)	Villages and towns
Estonia[o]	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[23] 4,455 villages (külad)
Eswatini	Unitary	4 regions (tifundza)	50+ tinkhundla[24]	360+ imiphakatsi[25]
Ethiopia	Federal	12 regions (kililoch) 2 chartered cities (astedader akababiwach)	68 zones (zonoch)	600+ districts (woreda)	16,000+ wards (kebele)
Fiji	Unitary	4 divisions	14 provinces	+ 50 districts
		1 dependency
Finland	Regional	18 regions (maakuntaa)	70+ subregions (seutukuntaa)	293 municipalities (kuntaa) [26]
		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	35,357 communes (The 3 communes of Paris, Lyon, and Marseilles are further subdivided into municipal arrondissements.)
		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[27]	5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives)	40+ communes
		Saint-Barthélemy	2 parishes	40 quarters
		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	30+ communes
		1 overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer):
		French Southern and Antarctic Lands	5 districts
Gabon	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) Adjara, autonomous republic Abkhazia, an autonomous republic administered as a partially recognized country	72 municipalities (munitsip’alit’et’ebi) 5 cities (k'alak'i) 67 communities (temi)	1,000s+ administrative units (administ’ratsiuli erteulebi) ? rural communities (sasoplo temebi)	10,000s+ populated places/settlements (dasakhlebuli p’unkt’ebi) ? townlets (kalakebi) ? urban-type settlements (dabebi) ? villages (soplebi)
Germany	Federal	16 states (Länder)[28]
		Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Hesse North Rhine-Westphalia	19 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke)	3 special regional associations (Kommunalverbände besonderer Art)[29] 294 rural districts (Landkreise or Kreise)	1281 municipal associations (Gemeindeverbände)[30] 10907 municipalities (Gemeinden), including 1951 towns (Städte) 386 market towns (Märkte) (only in Bavaria)
		Brandenburg Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia
				103 cities (urban districts) (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise)
		Bremen	2 cities (Städte): Bremen (city) Bremerhaven	7 boroughs (Stadtbezirke)	32 quarters (Stadtteile)	113 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile)
		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)	74 regional units (perifereiakés enótites)	332 municipalities (dímoi)
		1 autonomous monastic state (aftonomi monastiki politeia): Agio Oros
Grenada	Unitary	6 parishes 1 dependency
Guatemala	Unitary	22 departments (departamentos)	332 municipalities (municipios)
Guinea	Unitary	8 regions (régions)	33 prefectures (préfectures)	330+ sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)	[districts] [sectors]
			5 communes
Guinea-Bissau	Unitary	8 regions (regiões) 1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo)	39 sectors (setores)
Guyana	Unitary	10 regions	64 neighborhood councils
Haiti	Unitary	10 departments (départements)	42 arrondissements	144 communes	571 communal sections (sections communales)	10,180 villages
Honduras	Unitary	18 departments (departamentos)	298 municipalities (municipios)	3,731 villages (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 8 union territories	102 divisions	766 districts (zile)[31]	5924 subdistricts (tahsīl or mandal)	Revenue Villages
			Local governments: Urban local governance; Single tier system of government. Rural local governance; 3 tier system of government.	Urban Local Bodies: 255 Municipal corporations (nagar nigam) 1,897 Municipal councils/Municipalities (nagar pālikā) 2,437 Town councils (nagar pañcāyat)	Rural Local Bodies (Panchayati Raj Institutions): 665 District councils (zilla parishad) 6,711 Block councils (panchayat samiti) 255,219 Village councils (grām pañcāyat)
Indonesia	Regional	38 provinces (provinsi) including 9 special regions (daerah istimewa/khusus)	416 regencies (kabupaten) 98 cities (kota)	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)
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	Unitary	26 counties (contaetha) 3 cities (cathracha) 2 cities and counties	2 metropolitan districts (ceantair cathracha) 4 borough districts (ceantair buirge) 89 municipal districts (ceantair bardasacha)	3,440 electoral divisions (toghroinn ceantair)	18,641 small areas (ceantair beaga) 51,430 townlands (bailte)
Israel	Regional	6 districts (meḥozot)[32] Judea and Samaria Area	15 sub-districts (nafot)[32]	52 natural regions[32]	255 local authority units (reshut mekomiot) 77 cities (arim)[33] 124 local councils (moaṣot mekomiot)[34] 54 regional councils (moaṣot azoriot)[35]	populated places (mekomot me'uchlasim) on urban local authorities: * internal municipal divisions (chalukot pnimiyot) * municipal districts (mechozot) * neighborhoods (shkhunot) on rural local authorities: * community settlements (yishuvim kahilti'im) * institutional localities (yishuvim musdi'im) * farm clusters (kibbutzum) * farm settlements (moshavim) * collective farm villages (moshavim shitufiim) * rural localities (yishuvim kifri'im)
Italy	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)	37,000+ fractions (frazioni) and circumscriptions (circoscrizioni)[citation needed]
Ivory Coast	Unitary	14 autonomous districts (districts autonomes)	31 regions (régions)	108 departments (départements) 1 unincorporated area	510 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)	8,000+ villages
Jamaica	Unitary	14 parishes
Japan	Regional	47 prefectural divisions (todōfuken) 1 metropolis (to, viz. Tokyo) 1 territory (dō, viz. Hokkaidō) 2 urban prefectures (fu, viz. Kyoto and Osaka) 43 prefectures (ken)	792 Cities (shi) 307 districts (gun) 18 subprefectures (shichō) 23 special wards (tokubetsu-ku)	1,700+ municipalities (shichōsonku) cities (shi) towns (chō) villages (son) wards (ku)	ōaza, aza, chō, chōme
Jordan	Unitary	12 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	52 Districts (Alwia'a)	89 Subdistricts (Nahiya)	qurah
Kazakhstan	Regional	17 regions (oblys) 3 cities with region rights (qala) Baikonur[36]	319 raions (awdan) oblıstıq qala	kent	awıl aymaq
Kenya	Regional	47 counties (kaunti)	262 sub-counties (kaunti ndogo)	2,400+ locations (mtaa)	Cities, Municipalities and Towns villages (vijiji)
Kiribati[p]	Unitary	None
Kuwait	Unitary	6 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	132 areas (manāṭiq)
Kyrgyzstan	Unitary	7 regions (oblus) 2 independent cities (šaar (keneš))	44 districts (rayon) 14 towns (gorkeneš)	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)	71 cities/towns (pilsētas) 512 parishes (pagasti)
Lebanon	Unitary	9 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)[37]	26 districts (qaḍya)	1,030 municipalities
Lesotho	Unitary	10 districts	80+ constituencies	120+ community councils
Liberia	Unitary	15 counties	60+ districts
Libya	Unitary	22 districts (sha'biyat)	99 baladiyat
Liechtenstein	Unitary	11 municipalities (Gemeinden)
Lithuania	Unitary	10 counties (apskritys)	60 municipalities (savivaldybės)	500+ elderships (seniūnijos)	sub-eldership (seniūnaitija)
Luxembourg	Unitary	12 cantons[38]	102 communes[39][40]	24 quarters[41]
Madagascar	Unitary	23 regions (faritra)	114 districts (distrika)	1,579 communes (kaominina) 17,485 villages (fokontany)[citation needed]
Malawi	Unitary	3 regions	28 districts	130+ traditional authorities	60+ subchiefdoms
Malaysia	Federal	13 states (negeri) 3 federal territories (wilayah persekutuan)	17 divisions (bahagian) (Only in Sabah and Sarawak) 160 districts (daerah/jajahan)	1,000+ subdistricts (mukim) 8,000+ villages (kampung) 21 presint
Maldives	Unitary	17 atolls 4 cities	189 islands
Mali	Unitary	10 régions 1 capital district	40+ cercles (circles)	1,400+ arrondissements	700+ communes
Malta	Unitary	5 regions (reġjuni)	68 local councils (kunsilli lokali)
Marshall Islands	Unitary	24 municipalities
Mauritania	Regional	15 regions (wilayat); capital city of Nouakchott spans 3 regions	44 departments[42] or moughataas	216 communes (some of which are consolidated with departments)
Mauritius	Unitary	Rodrigues	14 zones	120+ villages, 4 Towns 173 localities
		Mauritius	9 districts
		2 outer islands with no government (+2 claimed)
Mexico	Federal	31 states (estados)	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)
Federated States of Micronesia	Federal	4 states	70+ municipalities
Moldova	Regional	32 districts or raions (Romanian: raioane) 3 municipalities (municipii): Chișinău, Bălți, and 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]
Monaco	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	Unitary	25 municipalities (opštine)	1,256 naselja[citation needed]
Morocco	Unitary	12 regions (3 containing parts of occupied Western Sahara)	13 prefectures 62 provinces	circles[citation needed]	rural communes[citation needed]
					communes urbaines arrondissements[citation needed]
Mozambique	Unitary	11 provinces (provincias)	128 districts (distritos)	405 administrative posts (postos)	[urban districts][citation needed] localities (localidades)[citation needed]
Myanmar	Unitary	7 States	67 Districts	330 Townships	3,183 Wards 13,602 Village tracts	70,838 Villages
		7 Regions
		1 Union Territory
		5 Self-Administered Zones
		1 Self-Administered Division
Namibia	Unitary	14 regions[43]	121 constituencies[43]	cities towns villages settlements
Nauru	Unitary	14 districts
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, Kingdom of the	Regional	4 constituent countries (landen):
		Netherlands	12 provinces (provincies)	342 municipalities (gemeenten)	urban districts (deelgemeenten)
			3 public bodies (openbare lichamen) (Caribbean Netherlands region)	Bonaire	2 towns, neighbourhoods[44]
				Sint Eustatius	neighbourhoods[45]
				Saba	4 villages[46]
		Aruba	8 regions[47]
		Curaçao	2 districts and 1 special city[48]	10 areas[49]	4 town quarters
		Sint Maarten	8 administrative units[50]
New Zealand	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: Chatham Islands
			5 unitary authorities
			3 outlying islands: Kermadec Islands Subantarctic Islands Three Kings Islands
		Ross Dependency
		1 self-administering territory:
		Tokelau	3 island councils
		2 states in free-association:
		Cook Islands	10 island councils	districts	tapere
		Niue	14 villages
Nicaragua	Regional	15 departments (departamentos) 2 autonomous regions (regiones autónomas)	153 municipalities (municipios)
Niger	Unitary	7 régions  Capital district, Niamey Urban Community	63 départements	communes, cantons, and groupements[quantify]
Nigeria	Federal	36 states 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)	354 primary municipalities (kommuner) 3 hundreds (herader)
		Capital city of Oslo	15 boroughs (bydeler) 2 non-boroughs (Marka and Sentrum)
		2 integral overseas areas: Svalbard, Jan Mayen
		3 dependencies: Peter I Island, Bouvet Island, Queen Maud Land
Oman	Unitary	11 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	61 provinces (wilayat)
Pakistan	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	Unitary	16 states	town council(s)[51] village hall(s)[52][53] traditional villages[54]
Palestine	Unitary	16 governorates	121 municipal councils[55] 355 village councils[55]	local councils (East Jerusalem)[55]
Panama	Unitary	10 provinces (provincias)	68 districts (distritos)	587 corregimientos (corregimientos) 2 corregimiento-level indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas)	populated places (lugares poblados)
		4 indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas)	11 districts	79 corregimientos
Papua New Guinea	Regional	20 provinces 1 autonomous region 1 National Capital District	districts	Local-Level Government areas
Paraguay	Unitary	17 departments (departamentos) Asunción, the capital district (distrito capital)	262 districts (distritos)
Peru	Regional	26 regional level circumscriptions (gobiernos regionales) (provisional, de facto) 24 departments (departamentos)(constitutional) Regional Government of Callao Metropolitan Municipality of Lima	196 provinces (provincias)[56]	1,869 districts (distritos)[56]	2,645 populated centers
Philippines	Regional	16 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]
			66 city counties (powiat grodzki)
Portugal	Regional	18 districts (distritos) 2 autonomous regions (regiões autónomas)	308 municipalities (concelhos or municípios)	3,091 parishes (freguesias)	localities (localidades)[citation needed]
Qatar	Unitary	8 municipalities (baladiya'at)	98 Zones
Romania	Unitary	41 counties (județe)	320 cities and towns (orașe (including 103 major cities, municipii) 2,856 communes (divided into 12,955 villages, sate[citation needed])
		1 autonomous municipality	6 sectors
Russia	Federal	89 federal subjects:[57][58]
		48 oblasts[59] 24 republics[60] 4 autonomous okrugs 9 krais (territories) 1 autonomous oblast	2,027 districts 561 cities and towns of federal subject significance	416 Towns of district significance 767 urban-type settlements of district significance 15,002 selsoviets and equivalents
		3 federal cities[61]
		Moscow	12 administrative okrugs	125 districts (raions)	Settlements (poseleniy)[citation needed]
		St. Petersburg	18 districts (raions)	81 okrugs
		Sevastopol[62]	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	Federal	Saint Kitts	14 parishes
		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
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	29 districts (okruga) Belgrade, an autonomous city Vojvodina, an autonomous province Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (claimed but administered by the partially recognized independent Republic of Kosovo)	150 municipalities (opština) 24 cities (grada)
Seychelles	Unitary	26 districts
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)[63]	cadastraal areas (katastrálne územia)[citation needed]
Slovenia	Unitary	212 municipalities (občine)
Solomon Islands	Regional	9 provinces Honiara, the capital territory
Somalia	Federal	6 states	18 regions (gobolada)	75 districts
South Africa	Regional	9 provinces	44 district municipalities	205 local municipalities	4,468 wards
			8 metropolitan municipalities
South Korea	Regional	1 Special City (teukbyeolsi)	Autonomous districts ( jachigu) 5 counties		Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) Townships (myeon)	Rural villages (ri, fifth level) Urban villages (tong, fifth level) Hamlets (ban, sixth level)[citation needed]
		6 Metropolitan Cities (gwangyeoksi)
			75 cities (si) 77 counties (gun)
		6 provinces (do)		Districts(non-administrative) (ilbangu, haengjeonggu)
		2 Special Self-Governing Provinces(multi-leveled) (teukbyeol jachido(dacheungje))
		1 Special Self-Governing Province(single-leveled) (teukbyeol jachido(dancheungje))		2cities(non-administrative) (haengjeongsi)
		1 Special Self-Governing City (teukbyeol jachisi)
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 places of sovereignty (plazas de soberanía)
Sri Lanka	Regional	9 provinces	25 districts	331 divisions	14,015 Grama Niladhari
Sudan	Federal	18 states (wilayat)	86 districts
Suriname	Unitary	10 districts (districten)	62 resorts (ressorten)
Sweden	Unitary	21 counties (län) 20 county councils (landsting)	290 municipalities (kommuner)	2,523 registration districts
Switzerland	Federal	26 cantons[64]	137 districts[citation needed] (not in all cantons, names vary)	2,131 municipalities or communes[65] (varies by canton)
Syria	Unitary	14 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	60 districts (mintaqah)	subdistricts (nawaḥi)[citation needed]	villages[citation needed]
Tajikistan	Regional	3 regions (viloyatho) Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Dushanbe, capital city	60+ 60+ districts (nohiya, formerly raion)[dubious – discuss] 18 cities[66] 2 city councils (hukumati)[citation needed]	368 village communes (jamoats)[66]	65 towns[66] 4223 villages[citation needed]
Tanzania	Regional	31 regions (mikoa),[67] including Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region spanning five regions	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[q] 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
Trinidad and Tobago	Regional	7 regions 5 boroughs 2 cities 1 ward (Tobago)
Tunisia	Unitary	24 provinces (Wilayah)	264 delegations (Mutamadiyat)	350 municipalities (Baladiyah)[68]	2073 sectors (Imadats)[69]
Turkey	Unitary	81 provinces (il)	403 districts (ilçe)	403 district capitals 388 towns (belde) 18,260 villages (köy)	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) 7 cities with district status	?
		Ashgabat, the capital city-region	4 boroughs or districts (uly etraplar) (as of 2018)
Tuvalu	Unitary	9 districts
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[70]
Ukraine	Regional	24 oblasts (regions)[71] 2 cities with special status[72] 1 autonomous republic[73]	136 raions (districts)	1469 hromadas (communities)[74]	7567 starosta okruhs (elderships)[75]
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
					10,449 parishes[76] with some unparished areas
			6 metropolitan counties (covered by combined authorities)	36 metropolitan boroughs (a.k.a. metropolitan districts)
			21 two-tier 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)
		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	(contiguous with non-administrative parish of St Anne)
			Guernsey	10 parishes	Parish of Saint Peter Port is divided into four cantons, excluding Herm and Jethou
			Sark	(contiguous with non-administrative parish of St Peter)
		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
		Bermuda	9 parishes 2 municipalities
		British Antarctic Territory
		British Indian Ocean Territory	2 island groups
		British Virgin Islands	5 districts
		Cayman Islands	7 districts
		Falkland Islands	2 constituencies
		Gibraltar	7 major residential areas	70 enumeration areas[77]
		Montserrat	3 parishes
		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	3,142 counties and county-equivalents[citation needed] (19 boroughs and 11 census areas in Alaska, 64 Louisiana parishes, 41 independent cities).[r]	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.[78] 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[79]
		Northern Mariana Islands	4 municipalities
		Puerto Rico	78 municipalities	902 barrios[80]
		United States Virgin Islands	3 districts	20 subdistricts
		1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory:
		American Samoa	3 districts	15 counties	76 villages
			2 unorganized atolls
		United States Minor Outlying Islands:
		Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Palmyra Atoll (incorporated), Wake Island, Navassa Island (disputed), Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed), and Serranilla Bank (disputed)
Uruguay	Unitary	19 departments (departamentos)	125 municipalities (municipios)
Uzbekistan	Regional	12 regions (viloyatlar)	144 districts (tumanlar)[81][82]	Citizen assembly of villages Urban-type settlements Cities of district subordination
			Cities of regional subordination	Cities Citizen assembly of villages Urban-type settlement
		Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic	Cities of republican subordination	Urban-type settlements
			16 districts	Village citizen assemblies Urban-type settlements Cities of district subordination
		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)	82 provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh) 53 district level towns (thị xã) 523 districts (huyện) 11 đảo	619 commune-level towns (thị trấn) 1,203 wards (phường) 8,198 rural communes (xã)	neighborhoods (khu phố) hamlets (xóm, ấp) villages (làng, thôn, bản)
		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	21 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 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 wards

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)	123 municipalities
South Ossetia	Unitary	4 districts (raions)
Taiwan (Republic of China)	Regional	6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) (+12 claimed) 2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng)[83] (+33 claimed) 1 claimed special administrative region 2 claimed regions	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
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

1. 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)
2. Improvement districts are almost always coterminous with a national or provincial park.
3. With the exceptions of Riding Mountain National Park, and Duck Mountain Provincial Park and Forest, the vast majority of unincorporated areas in the province are within Northern Manitoba.
4. Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions that do cover Northern Manitoba, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. In Ontario, districts are only used in some instances to streamline services delivered by the provincial government, and for statistical purposes, and have no elected government of their own. Areas of districts that are not part of a single-tier municipality or First Nations indian reserves are either administered directly by the government of Ontario or a local services board.
9. 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.
10. Only in 8 municipalities
11. In the Northwest Territories, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no government of their own.
12. In Nunavut, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no government of their own.
13. also known as Congo-Kinshasa.
14. also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
15. Estonia's linnad (towns) and vallad (parishes) are known collectively as omavalitsused (municipalities).
16. See also: Subdivisions of Kiribati
17. • 30^{[citation needed]} city-municipalities (thesaban nakhon)
    • 178^{[citation needed]} town-municipalities (thesaban mueang)
    • 2,232^{[citation needed]} subdistrict-municipalities (thesaban tambon)
18. 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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10. Dutch: Gemeenten; French: Communes or German: Gemeinden.
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59. Including Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
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71. Currently, one oblast (Luhansk) is fully under Russian control, and three more (Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia) are partially under Russian control.
72. One city (Sevastopol) is currently under Russian control.
73. Currenltly under Russian control
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79. also known as municipalities.
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83. Nominal. All provincial governments are de facto abolished.