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
Summarize
Perspective
Member and observer states of the United Nations
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)[cl] (+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)
- Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
- Not counting Vienna being a state, a district and a statutory city
- The districts of Vienna are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
- Including 14 statutory cities (Statutarstädte)
- Not counting statutory cities
- The Brussels-Capital Region is not divided into provinces.
- Chobe District and all six of Botswana's urban districts are not divided into second-level administrative subdivisions.
- Improvement districts are almost always coterminous with a national or provincial park.
- 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.
- Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions that do cover Northern Manitoba, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The districts of N'Djamena are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
- According to article 118 paragraph 7 of the Constitution of Chile, their establishment is a voluntary faculty for the municipalities.
- Including Taiwan Province, which is claimed by the People's Republic of China, but is de facto administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan).
- Including 4 districts that are partially or entirely occupied by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Northern Cyprus).
- Only within Djibouti City
- Including 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion).
- The 3 communes of Paris, Lyon, and Marseilles are further subdivided into municipal arrondissements.
- Uvea only
- Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
- South Ossetia is not currently under Georgia's de facto jurisdiction, and has no final defined constitutional status in Georgia's territorial arrangement.[8]
- South Ossetia's status is disputed. It considers itself to be an independent state, but this is recognised by only a few other countries. The Georgian government and most of the world's other states consider South Ossetia de jure a part of Georgia's territory.
- Including 9 special regions (daerah istimewa/khusus)
- Israeli designation for the West Bank. The West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip are considered occupied Palestinian territories by the United Nations, the United States,[14][15] the International Court of Justice, and the European Union.[16]
- The city has a special status because it is currently being leased to Russia with Baikonur Cosmodrome until the year 2050
- Luxembourgish: quartierën; alternatively French:quartiers, German:Stadtvierteln.
- Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
- Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
- Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
- Federal subjects, grouped into 7 federal districts
- Including the Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, the Donetsk People's Republic, Kherson Oblast, the Lugansk People's Republic and Zaporozhye Oblast, which were illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 and 2022 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- Including the Republic of Crimea (annexed by Russia in 2014) and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (annexed in 2022) which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- Including Sevastopol which was illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
- Administered by the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo
- (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.
- 30[citation needed] city-municipalities (thesaban nakhon)
- 178[citation needed] town-municipalities (thesaban mueang)
- 2,232[citation needed] subdistrict-municipalities (thesaban tambon)
- One city (Sevastopol) is currently under Russian control.
- Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
- Not all have active governments. No county-level government exists in:
- Any county of Connecticut, which are being replaced for census purposes by councils of governments
- 8 of 14 counties of Massachusetts
- Any counties of Rhode Island
- Oglala Lakota and Todd Counties in South Dakota, which are administered by neighboring counties.
References
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