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List of administrative divisions by country

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List of administrative divisions by country
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Administrative divisions by country

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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.

The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories:

Member and observer states of the United Nations

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Member states of United Nations specialized agencies

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  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. Buenos Aires Province only
  3. Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  4. Not counting Vienna being a state, a district and a statutory city
  5. The districts of Vienna are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
  6. Including 14 statutory cities (Statutarstädte)
  7. Not counting statutory cities
  8. Including 186 towns (Städte), and 771 market towns (Marktgemeinden)
  9. Belgium has a complex system of federalism where language community and regional governments exercise different powers over often the same geographical areas in parallel.
  10. The Brussels-Capital Region is not divided into provinces.
  11. lit. 'Serb Republic'
  12. Chobe District and all six of Botswana's urban districts are not divided into second-level administrative subdivisions.
  13. Consisting of urban and rural communes
  14. lit. 'hills'
  15. lit. 'capital'
  16. Improvement districts are almost always coterminous with a national or provincial park.
  17. 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.
  18. Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions that do cover Northern Manitoba, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Only in 8 municipalities
  25. In the Northwest Territories, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no government of their own.
  26. In Nunavut, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no government of their own.
  27. Also referred to as municípios.
  28. The districts of N'Djamena are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
  29. According to article 118 paragraph 7 of the Constitution of Chile, their establishment is a voluntary faculty for the municipalities.
  30. Including Taiwan Province, which is claimed by the People's Republic of China, but is de facto administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan).
  31. Either zìráncūnjí ("natural" villages) or xíngzhèngcūnjí (bureaucratic villages)
  32. Not including Mayotte, which is claimed by the Comoros, but is administered by France.
  33. Also known as Congo-Kinshasa
  34. Also known as Congo-Brazzaville
  35. Including 4 districts that are partially or entirely occupied by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Northern Cyprus).
  36. 2nd level municipalities
  37. 3rd level municipalities
  38. Judicial only
  39. Due to be replaced by [communes]
  40. Only within Djibouti City
  41. Estonia's linnad (towns) and vallad (parishes) are known collectively as omavalitsused (municipalities).
  42. Consisting of kaupungit (urban communes) and kunnat (communes)
  43. Including 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion).
  44. The 3 communes of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille are further subdivided into municipal arrondissements.
  45. also known as a pays d'outre-mer (overseas country).
  46. Uvea only
  47. Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  48. South Ossetia is not currently under Georgia's de facto jurisdiction, and has no final defined constitutional status in Georgia's territorial arrangement.[8]
  49. 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.
  50. or, informally, Bundesländer (federal states).
  51. Region Hannover, Regionalverband Saarbrücken and Städteregion Aachen
  52. usually in rural areas and known by various names in different states, e.g. Amt, Samtgemeinde, Verbandsgemeinde and Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
  53. Fifth-level administrative division
  54. Sixth-level administrative division
  55. Seventh-level administrative division
  56. Fifth-level administrative division
  57. Sixth-level administrative division
  58. Including 9 special regions (daerah istimewa/khusus)
  59. Including 4 governorates in the autonomous Kurdistan Region (counting Halabja).
  60. 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]
  61. Including:
  62. The city has a special status because it is currently being leased to Russia with Baikonur Cosmodrome until the year 2050
  63. See also: Subdivisions of Kiribati
  64. French; alternatively German:Kantone.
  65. French; alternatively German:Gemeinden.
  66. Luxembourgish: quartierën; alternatively French:quartiers, German:Stadtvierteln.
  67. Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  68. Marka and Sentrum
  69. Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  70. Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  71. Federal subjects, grouped into 7 federal districts
  72. 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
  73. Including Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
  74. 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
  75. Including Sevastopol which was illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
  76. Illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
  77. Administered by the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo
  78. (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.
  80. Also known as East Timor.
  81. Currently, one oblast (Luhansk) is fully under Russian control, and three more (Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia) are partially under Russian control.
  82. One city (Sevastopol) is currently under Russian control.
  83. Currenltly under Russian control
  84. Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  85. Not all have active governments. No county-level government exists in:
  86. also known as municipalities.
  87. Incorporated
  88. Disputed
  89. Disputed
  90. Disputed
  91. Nominal. All provincial governments are de facto abolished.
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