User:David Kernow/List of terms for subnational divisions

Terms in bold are used in English-speaking regions; terms in italics are obsolete. Country names in italics indicate the term is no longer used there. Each term is singular; for plural form, see linked article. When a term is used by more than one country or region, these are listed alphabetically.

(cf List of terms for country subdivisions, User:David Kernow/Table of terms for subnational divisions, User:David Kernow/NUTS levels)

Term	Country or region where used	Approximate NUTS/LAU level	Number	Approximate equivalent in English
amphoe	Thailand	●●●	790+	district
amt	Denmark Germany Norway	●●● ●●●●	13	county
apskritis	Lithuania	●●	10
arrondissement	Belgium France Haiti Netherlands  Québec	●●●  ●●●●● ●●●   ●●●●●
aymag	Mongolia	●●	21	province
bailiwick	Guernsey Jersey		1 1
baladiyah	Qatar	●●●	10	municipality
binh	See tỉnh
borough	Australia  Quebec UK USA	●●●●● ●●●●● ●●●●● ●●●●●	1
	See also burgh, county borough, municipal borough
burgh
Bundesland	Austria Germany	● (●)	9	state (federal)
bwrdeistref	Wales			borough county [?]
canton	Bosnia and Herzegovina Costa Rica Ecuador France  Jersey Luxembourg  Québec Switzerland	●●   ●●● ●●●●   ●●●● ●●●●● ●●●	10 70+   3800+   12   26
changwat	Thailand	●●	75	province
commune				(municipality)
	See also comune, communidad
comune	Italy	●●●●●?	8000+	commune municipality
communidad	Spain			community autonomous community
county
cúige	Ireland		4	province
deelgemeente	Belgium
departamento
département
district
Distrikt	Germany			district
distrito				district
duchy
dzongkhag	Bhutan			district
emirate
eparchy	Greece		73	province
estado	Mexico Venezuela			state
faritany	Madagascar		6	province
fylke	Norway			county
Gemeinde				municipality
gobolka	Somalia
gouvernorat	Guinea			governorate
guberniya	Imperial Russia			governorate
il	Turkey		81	province
imarah				emirate
intara	Rwanda		12	province
judetul	Moldova			county
Kanton	Switzerland	●●●	26	(See canton)
kaza	Turkey			district
ken	Japan			prefecture
khett	Cambodia			province
khoueng	Laos		16	province
kilil	Ethiopia
kozhuun	Tuva		17	district
krai	Russia
kraj	Czech Republic Slovakia
kwaeng	Thailand	●●●●	150+
lääni, län	Finland Sweden		6	province county
maakond	Estonia			county
marz	Armenia	●	11	province
megye	Hungary			county
mehoz	Israel			district
merindad	Spain			county
mintaqah	Saudi Arabia		13	province
mkoa	Kenya		8	province
muban	Thailand	●●●●●	69000+	village
muhafazah				governorate
municipality
	See also municipio
municipio
nafa	Israel
negeri	Malaysia			state
nomos	Greece			prefecture
oblast, oblast', oblasy	Bulgaria Kyrgyzstan Ukraine		28 7 24	province
oblys	Kazakhstan		14	province
okres	Czech Republic Slovakia			district
okrug	Russia			district
opstina	Montenegro Serbia
ostan	Iran		30	province
parish
pradesh	India			province
prefecture
propinsi	Indonesia	●	33	province
provincia	Argentina Bolivia Chile Cuba Ecuador Equatorial Guinea Italy Panama Peru Spain	●	24   51 15 22 7 103 9 180 50	province
province	Canada France Gabon Papua New Guinea	● ●● ● ●	10 39 9 20
	See also provincia, provincie
provincie	Belgium Netherlands	●	10 12	province
provinsi	See propinsi
quang
raion				district
raionul	Moldova			district
région	France	●	26	region
regione
renmin gongshe	China	●●●●?	0	(commune)
rural district
sahari
selsoviet	Soviet Union			rural district
shabiyah
sheng	China		22/23	province
shire
sirol
somon	See sum
SAR
state
suba	Pakistan		4	province
subdistrict
subprefecture
sultanate
sum	Mongolia China
sumon	See sum
sýsla	Faroe Islands Iceland
territory
tambon	Thailand	●●●●	7200+	commune
tỉnh	Vietnam		59	province
ulus
velayat	See wilayah
viloyat	Tajikistan		3	province
	See also wilayah
voblast, voblaść	Belarus		7	province
voivodship	See vojewództwo
volost
wilayah, wilaya	Afghanistan Oman		34 60+	province
vojewództwo	Poland		16	province
wodera
zupanija	Croatia