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This is a list of all types of place names separated by country. Please explain all the place names that a country use (city, town, county, province, state, prefecture, etc. when applicable).

Some suggestions to enrich the descriptions for placenames of each country:
* Official status:
** Mention if a type of place is official status in the country or not. (e.g., in some countries, "city" is an official, government-sanctioned status, in others it's just arbitrary usage of the word)
** Say if there's an official term prefered instead of "city" or "town". (like "municipality")
** Say if an English speaker would usually use terms like "town"/"city" regardless of the words that the native speakers use.
* Usage/sources
** Feel free to provide external links and/or links to Wikipedia as sources.
** Link to current categories that Wiktionary uses.
** Link to categories that Wikipedia uses.
* Languages:
** Mention both the placename in English and the official language of the country (as in [[city]]/[[ciudad]]).
* Comprehensiveness:
** Mention all types of placename, down to the smallest ones such as "village" or "borough".
** Mention any obscure types of placenames like "region" or "macroregion" (which could maybe be a group of cities, a group of states, etc., depending on the country).
** Mention former types of placenames, i.e. that a country does not have anymore.
** Explain the capitals that the country has, such as capitals of states/provinces and say if the capital of the country is the capital of the state too.
* Appeal/illustration:
** Add some map or image if you'd like!

This list can be used when deciding names of categories and formatting definitions.

Note: See [[#Brazil]] for example. Once more countries are created here, remove this line.

See also [[Template:place]], the template used to generate definitions of place names.

==Wikipedia categories==
* [[w:Category:First-level administrative country subdivisions|Category:First-level administrative country subdivisions]]
* [[w:Category:Second-level administrative country subdivisions|Category:Second-level administrative country subdivisions]]
* [[w:Category:Third-level administrative country subdivisions|Category:Third-level administrative country subdivisions]]
* [[w:Category:Fourth-level administrative country subdivisions|Category:Fourth-level administrative country subdivisions]]
* [[w:Category:Fifth-level administrative country subdivisions|Category:Fifth-level administrative country subdivisions]]
* [[w:Category:Sixth-level administrative country subdivisions|Category:Sixth-level administrative country subdivisions]]

==List of countries==
{{Wiktionary:Place names/Index}}

===Abhkazia===

===Afghanistan===

===Albania===

===Algeria===

===Andorra===
* 7 parishes ({{l|ca|parròquia|parròquies}})
* Some parishes are subdivided into quarters ({{l|ca|quart|quarts}})
* One parish (Canillo) subdivided into 10 {{l|ca|veïnat|veïnats}}

===Angola===

===Antigua and Barbuda===
* Divided into six parishes and two dependencies

===Argentina===
* 6 traditional regions ({{m|es|Cuyo}}, {{m|es|Gran Chaco}}, {{m|es|Mesopotamia}}, {{m|es|Noroeste}}, {{m|es|Pampa}}, {{m|es|Patagonia}})
* 23 provinces ({{m|es|provincia|provincia}}) and the autonomous city of [[Buenos Aires]].
* 377 departments ({{m|es|departamento|departamentos}})
* departments are further divided into municipalities ({{m|es|municipio|municipios}})

===Armenia===

===Australia===
* 6 states, 3 federal territories, 7 external territories
* 547 local government areas (LGAs), which can either be cities, boroughs shires, or unorganised areas. These are subdivided into localities (rural) and suburbs (urban).

===Azerbaijan===

===Bahamas===

===Bahrain===

===Bangladesh===
* 8 regions ({{m|bn|বিভাগ}})
* 64 districts ({{m|bn|জেলা}})
** 495 subdistricts or [[upazila]]s ({{m|bn|উপজেলা}})
*** 330 towns, governed by municipal corporations ({{m|bn|পৌর কর্পোরেশন}})
** 12 cities, governed by city corporations ({{m|bn|সিটি কর্পোরেশন}}): [[Dhaka]], [[Chattogram]], [[Khulna]], [[Sylhet]], [[Rajshahi]], [[Mymensingh]], [[Ragpur]], [[Comilla]], [[Borishal]], [[Narayanganj]] and [[Gazipur]]

===Barbados===

===Belarus===

===Belgium===
* 3 regions ([[Brussels]], [[Flanders]] and [[Wallonia]])
* 10 provinces, 5 each for Flanders and Wallonia.
* 581 municipalities (Dutch: {{m|nl|gemeente}}, French: {{m|fr|commune}}, German: {{m|de|Gemeinde}})

===Belize===
* 6 districts
* Districts subdivided into constituencies

===Benin===

===Bhutan===
* Divided into 20 dzongkhags, or districts
* Each district is subdivided into gewogs, or groups of villages
* Gewogs are subdivided into chewogs for elections and thromdes "municipalities" for administration

===Bolivia===
* 9 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}})
* Departments subdivided into provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})
* Municipalities subdivided into cantons ({{l|es|cantón|cantones}})

===Bosnia and Herzegovina===

===Botswana===

===Brazil===
[[File:Brazil, administrative divisions (states) - en - colored.svg|thumb|350px|upright|The 26 states + the Federal District of Brazil.]]
* [[Brazil]] has 27 [[federative unit]]s: 26 [[state]]s ([[estado]]s) and 1 [[federal district]] ([[Federal District]]/[[Distrito Federal]]). Until 1988 there was a third type, ''federal territory''.
* Brazil is divided into 5 regions, where the federative units are located: South, Southeast, North, Northeast and Center-West.
* Each state is officially divided into [[municipality|municipalities]] ([[município|municípios]]).
** But the [[Federal District]], not being a state, is officially divided into "administrative regions" (regiões administrativas), not municipalities. (See [[w:List of administrative regions in Federal District|List of administrative regions in Federal District]].)
** The municipalities with an [[urban]] area are commonly called [[city|cities]] (non-official). Small municipalities are called [[town]]s in English sometimes. (non-official)
* Often, a state is divided into multiple levels of "regions", including "mesoregions" and "microregions", each comprised of multiple municipalities. Wikipedia article [[w:List of municipalities in Bahia|List of municipalities in Bahia]] illustrates those divisions in the state of Bahia. There are arbitrary regions such as [[w:Chapada Diamantina|Chapada Diamantina]] and [[w:Greater São Paulo|Greater São Paulo]] that don't qualify as "mesoregion" or "microregion".
* Each municipality is further divided into [[neighborhood]]s (bairros).
* [[Brasília]] is an administrative region (i.e., not a municipality) in the Federal District. Brasília is the capital of the Federal District and also the capital of the country.

Current categories:
* [[:Category:en:States of Brazil]]
* [[:Category:en:Regions of Brazil]]
* [[:Category:en:Municipalities in Brazil]]
** With subcategories such as: [[:Category:en:Municipalities in São Paulo, Brazil]]
* [[:Category:en:Cities in Brazil]]

===Brunei===

===Bulgaria===

===Burkina Faso===

===Burundi===

===Cambodia===
* 24 provinces ({{l|km|ខេត្ត}}) and the city of Phnom Penh
* 162 districts ({{l|km|ស្រុក}})

===Cameroon===

===Canada===
Divided into 10 provinces and 3 territories. Further subdivisions vary depending on the province or territory.

* Alberta: 74 municipal districts, 19 cities, 105 towns, 80 villages, and 51 summer villages
* British Columbia: 28 regional districts, subdivided into 52 cities, 50 district municipalities, 1 Indian government district, 1 island municipality, 1 mountain resort municipality, 1 resort municipality, 14 towns, 42 villages and 312 Indian reserves
* Manitoba: 97 rural municipalities, 10 cities, 25 towns and 2 villages

===Cape Verde===

===Central African Republic===

===Chad===

===Chile===
* 17 regions ({{l|es|región|regiones}})
* Regions subdivided into provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into communes ({{l|es|comuna|comunas}})

===China===
* Province-level divisions: 22 provinces ({{l|zh|省}}), 5 autonomous regions ({{l|zh|自治區}}: [[Guangxi]], [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Ningxia]],  [[Tibet]], [[Xinjiang]]), 2 special administrative regions ({{l|zh|特別行政區}}: [[Hong Kong]] and [[Macau]]) and 4 directly-administered municipalities ({{l|zh|直轄市}}: [[Beijing]], [[Chongqing]], [[Shanghai]], [[Tianjin]])
* Prefecture-level divisions: 293 prefecture-level cities ({{l|zh|地級市}}), 7 prefectures ({{l|zh|地區}} only in [[Heilongjiang]], [[Tibet]] and [[Xinjiang]]), 30 autonomous prefectures ({{l|zh|自治州}})

===Colombia===
* 32 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}}) and one capital district
* Departments subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})
* Municipalities subdivided into {{l|es|corregimiento|corregimientos}} in rural areas and {{l|es|comuna|comunas}} in urban areas

===Comoros===

===Democratic Republic of the Congo===

===Republic of the Congo===

===Costa Rica===
* 7 provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into cantons ({{l|es|cantón|cantones}})
* Cantons subdivided into districts ({{l|es|distrito|distritos}})

===Croatia===

===Cuba===
* Formerly six large historical provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Currently 15 provinces and one special municipality (Isla de la Juventud)
* Provinces subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})

===Cyprus===

===Czech Republic===
* The [[Czech Republic]] has 14 higher-level territorial administrative units (''[[vyšší územní samosprávný celek|vyšší územní samosprávné celky]]''): 13 [[region]]s (''{{m|cs|kraj|kraje}}'') + [[Prague]] (officially the [[Capital City of Prague]], ''[[Hlavní město Praha]]'').
* These regions are subdivided into 76 [[district]]s ({{m|cs|okres|okresy}}); Prague does not belong into any of them.

===Denmark===
* 5 regions ({{m|da|region}}) and the autonomous regions of [[Faroe Islands]] and [[Greenland]]
* 98 municipalities ({{m|da|kommune}})

===Djibouti===

===Dominica===

===Dominican Republic===
* 31 provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})

===East Timor===

===Ecuador===
* 24 provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into cantons ({{l|es|cantón|cantones}})

===Egypt===

===El Salvador===
* 14 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}})
* Departments subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})

===Equatorial Guinea===
* 7 provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into districts ({{l|es|distrito|distritos}})

===Eritrea===

===Estonia===

===Eswatini===

===Ethiopia===
* 12 regions ({{l|am|ክልል}}) and 2 chartered cities ({{l|am|አስተዳደር አካባቢ}}: [[Addis Ababa]] and [[Dire Dawa]])

===Fiji===

===Finland===
Finland has, according to a [[w:Administrative_divisions_of_Finland|Wikipedia article]],
* 19 [[w:Regions_of_Finland|regions]] (Finnish {{l|fi|maakunta|maakunta}}, Swedish {{l|sv|landskap|landskap}})
* the regions are divided into 70 [[w:Sub-regions_of_Finland|sub-regions]] (Finnish {{l|fi|seutukunta|seutukunta}}, Swedish {{l|sv|ekonomisk_region|ekonomisk region}})
* the sub-regions are divided into 320 [[w:Finnish_municipalities|municipalities]] (Finnish {{l|fi|kunta|kunta}}, Swedish {{l|sv|kommun|kommun}})
** A municipality may be a city (Finnish {{l|fi|kaupunki|kaupunki}}, Swedish {{l|sv|stad|stad}}) or a rural area such as a town (Finnish {{l|fi|kylä|kylä}}, Swedish {{l|sv|by|by}})
* Historically, from 1634 to 2009, there were [[w:Provinces_of_Finland|provinces]] (Finnish: {{l|fi|lääni|lääni}}, Swedish: {{l|sv|län|län}})
* There are 15 [[w:Centre_for_Economic_Development,_Transport_and_the_Environment|Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment]] (Finnish: {{l|fi|elinkeino-,_liikenne-_ja_ympäristökeskus|elinkeino-, liikenne- ja ympäristökeskus}}, abbreviated ely-keskus, Swedish: {{l|sv|närings-,_trafik-_och_miljöcentralen|närings-, trafik- och miljöcentralen}}, abbreviated NTM-centralen)
* The capital of the country is [[w:Helsinki|Helsinki]] (Finnish {{l|fi|Helsinki|Helsinki}}, Swedish {{l|sv|Helsingfors|Helsingfors}})

See also
* [[w:List_of_urban_areas_in_Finland_by_population|List of urban areas by population in Finland]]
* [http://www.ely-keskus.fi/en/web/ely-en/ Official website for Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment]

===France===
* 19 regions ({{m|fr|région}}): 13 are in Metropolitan France and 6 are overseas
* 96 departments ({{m|fr|département}})
* The departments are subdivided into:
** 320 {{m|fr|arrondissement}}''s'' (non-governing)
** 1,995 cantons (non-governing)
** 34,826 [[commune]]s, either cities, towns or villages
*

===Gabon===

===Gambia===

===Georgia===
* 2 autonomous republics ({{l|ka| ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა}}: [[Abkhazia]] and [[Adjara]], Abkhazia being ''de facto'' under control of the unrecognized state of [[South Ossetia]]) and 9 regions ({{l|ka|მხარე}}), divided into 76 municipalities ({{l|ka|მუნიციპალიტეტი}})

===Germany===
* 16 states ({{m|de|Land}})
** 13 area states ({{m|de|Flachenland}})
** 3 city states ({{m|de|Stadtstaat}}: [[Berlin]], [[Hamburg]] and [[Bremen]])
* The area states are further subdivided into districts ({{m|de|Kreis}})
** Some states divide districts into {{m|de|Amt|Ämte}}, which are then divided into municipalities
* Districts are further subdivided into municipalities ({{m|de|Gemeinde}})

===Ghana===

===Greece===
* 13 regions ({{m|el|περιφέρεια}}) and the autonomous region of [[Mount Athos]]
* 332 municipalities ({{m|el|δήμος}})

===Grenada===
* Divided into 6 parishes

===Guatemala===
* Divided into 22 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}})
* Departments subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})

===Guinea===

===Guinea-Bissau===

===Guyana===

===Haiti===

===Honduras===
* 18 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}})
* Departments subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipalidad|municipalidades}})
* Municipalities subdivided into {{l|es|aldea|aldeas}}
* Aldeas subdivided into {{l|es|caserio|caserios}}
* Some caserios subdivided into {{l|es|barrio|barrios}} or {{l|es|colonia|colonias}}

===Hungary===

===Iceland===

===India===
* 28 states and 8 [[union territory|union territories]]
* States and union territories are further divided into divisions, except in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Goa]], [[Gujarat]], [[Kerala]], [[Manipur]], [[Mizoram]], [[Sikkim]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Telangana]] and [[Tripura]], and five union territories ([[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], [[Chandigarh]], [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu]], [[Lakshadweep]] and [[Puducherry]])
* Divisions and states/union territories without divisions are subdivided into 766 districts (''[[zilla]]s'')
* Districts are subdivided into 6057 subdistricts (also termed [[mandal]]s, [[circle]]s, [[subdivision]]s, [[tehsil]]s or [[taluk]]s).

===Indonesia===
* 38 provinces ({{m|id|provinsi}}, including [[Jakarta]], [[Aceh]], [[Special Region of Yogyakarta]] and the provinces forming [[West Papua]])
* 416 regencies ({{m|id|kabupaten}}) and 98 cities ({{m|id|kota}})
* 7,252 districts ({{m|id|kecamatan}})
** In West Papua, these are called {{m|id|distrik}} 
** In the Special Region of Yogyakarta, these are called {{m|id|kapanewon}} 
** In Aceh, these are called {{m|id|mukim}}
* 83,411 subdistricts ({{m|id|kelurahan}} in urban areas,  {{m|id|desa}} in rural areas)
** In Aceh, subdistricts are called {{m|id|gampong}}.

===Iran===
* 31 provinces ({{l|fa|استان|tr=ostân}})
* 472 counties ({{l|fa|شهرستان|tr=šahrestân}}, divided into [[bakhsh]] ({{l|fa|بخش|tr=baxš}})

===Iraq===

===Republic of Ireland===
* 26 counties ({{m|ga|contae}}), the city and county of [[Limerick]], and the cities of [[Dublin]], [[Cork]] and [[Galway]]

===Israel===
* 6 districts ({{m|he|מְחוֹזוֹת|tr=m'khozot|g=m-p}} each having around a million people and one area ({{m|he|אֵזוֹר|tr=ezór|g=m-s}}. [http://www1.cbs.gov.il/shnaton65/st02_15x.pdf CBS example]
** Which are further divided into fifteen sub-districts ({{m|he|נָפוֹת|tr=nafót|g=f-p}}), although two of these include the same area as the district and such are not usually listed<!--(to avoid things like Tel Aviv–Yafo, Tel Aviv Sub-district, Tel Aviv District, Israel)-->.
* 3 metropolitan areas, a separate distinction from districts. [http://www.cbs.gov.il/shnaton60/st02_16.pdf CBS example]
* There are 3 types of local government: [http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/LocalAuthorities_eng.htm <!--Ugly--> Government website]
** City or municipal councils ({{m|he|עִירִיּוֹת|tr=ʿiriyót|g=f-p}}) – an authority with the status of a city.
** Local councils ({{m|he|מוֹעְצוֹת מְקוֹמִיּוֹת|tr=mo'atsót mekomiyót|g=f-p}}) – an authority that is not large enough to have the status of a city.
** Regional councils ({{m|he|מוֹעְצוֹת אֵזוֹרִיּוֹת|tr=mo'atsót ezoriyót|g=f-p}}) – an authority of several settlements, usually rural. The most common form of communities are [[kibbutzim]] and [[moshavim]].
* However most of these divisions are mainly used for administrative purposes and colloquially (in addresses for example) only the local types are used and sometimes their divisions (e.g. [[kibbutzim]] and [[moshavim]]).
* Cities are sometimes divided into neighbourhoods ({{m|he|שְׁכוּנוֹת|tr=sh'khunót|g=f-p}}) or older ones into quarters ({{he-m|רובעים|dwv=רֹבָעִים|tr=rova'ím|g=f-p}}), but these are usually descriptive (e.g. {{m|he|לב העיר|tr= lev ha'ir|lit=heart of the city}}, {{m|he|הרובע היהודי|tr=harova' hay'hudí|lit=the Jewish quarter}}) and might be considered SOP.

===Italy===
* 17 regions ({{m|it|regione}})
* 107 provinces ({{m|it|provincia}})
** 14 metropolitan cities ({{m|it|città metropolitane}}): [[Rome]], [[Milan]], [[Naples]], [[Turin]], [[Palermo]], [[Bari]], [[Catania]], [[Bologna]], [[Florence]], [[Venice]], [[Genoa]], [[Messina]], [[Reggio Calabria]], [[Cagliari]]
** 7,904 [[comune]]s ({{m|it|comune}})

===Ivory Coast===

===Jamaica===

===Japan===
* 47 prefectures ({{ja-l|都道府県||todōfuken}}, including [[Tokyo]], [[Hokkaido]], and the urban prefectures ({{ja-l|府||fu}}) of [[Kyoto]] and [[Osaka]])
* 792 cities ({{ja-l|市||shi}}, including Tokyo's special wards ({{ja-l|特別区||tokubetsu-ku}}), 743 towns ({{ja-l|町||machi}}) and 143 villages ({{ja-l|村||mura}})

Other subdivisions are:
* 354 districts ({{ja-l|郡||gun}}). These are non-governing divisions below prefectures, but are used in addresses and maps. These are usually divided into towns and villages (see above)
* 158 subprefectures ({{ja-l|支庁||shichō}}): the main subdivision of Hokkaido. Some prefectures also have subprefectures ([[Kagoshima]], [[Miyazaki]], [[Tokyo]], [[Shimane]] and [[Yamagata]]).
* wards ({{ja-l|区||ku}}), only in certain cities ([[Yokohama]], [[Osaka]], [[Nagoya]], [[Sapporo]], [[Fukuoka]], [[Kobe]], [[Kawasaki]], [[Kyoto]], [[Saitama]], [[Hiroshima]], [[Sendai]], [[Chiba]], [[Kitakyushu]], [[Sakai]], [[Niigata]], [[Hamamatsu]], [[Kumamoto]], [[Sagamihara]], [[Okayama]] and [[Shizuoka]])

===Jordan===

===Kazakhstan===
* 17 regions (Kazakh: {{m|kk|облыс}}) and the independent cities of [[Almaty]], [[Astana]] and [[Shymkent]]
* 170 districts (Kazakh: {{m|kk|аудан}})

===Kenya===
* 8 provinces (Swahili: {{m|sw|mkoa}})
* 47 counties (Swahili: {{m|sw|kaunti}})
* 497 divisions (Swahili: {{m|sw|taarafa}})
* 2,427 locations (Swahili: {{m|sw|mtaa}})

===North Korea===
''Note: Korean terms listed here are romanized according to the [[WT:About Korean/Romanization|McCune-Reischauer]] system; the Revised Romanization (RR) is provided after the MR romanization. In case the MR and RR are the same, only one romanization is provided

* The first-level divisions are 9 provinces ({{ko-l|도|道|tr=MR: to, RR: do}}) and 4 special cities ({{ko-l|특별시|特別市|tr=MR: t'ŭkpyŏlsi, RR: teukbyeolsi}}: [[Pyongyang]], [[Kaesong]], [[Nampo]] and [[Rason]])
* The 9 provinces are divided into 27 cities ({{ko-l|시|市}}, excluding the 4 special cities above) and 82 counties ({{ko-l|군|郡|tr=MR: kun, RR: gun}})
* The 27 cities (including the 4 special cities) are subdivided into neighborhoods {{ko-l|동|洞|tr=MR: tong, RR: dong}})
* Counties are further subdivided into towns ({{ko-l|읍|邑|tr=ŭp, eup}}), and villages ({{ko-l|리|里}}. Some counties may also have workers' districts ({{ko-l|로동자구|勞動者區}}).

===South Korea===
* The first-level divisions are 9 provinces ({{ko-l|도|道}}), 1 special city ({{ko-l|특별시|特別市}}: [[Seoul]]), 1 special self-governing city ({{ko-l|특별자치시|特別自治市}}: [[Sejong]]) and 6 metropolitan cities ({{ko-l|광역시| 廣域市}}: [[Busan]], [[Incheon]], [[Daegu]], [[Daejeon]], [[Gwangju]] and [[Ulsan]])
* The 9 provinces are divided into 75 cities ({{ko-l|시|市}}, excluding the 8 special cities above) and 82 counties ({{ko-l|군|郡}})
* The 83 cities (including the 8 special cities) as well as [[Jeju]] and [[Seogwipo]] are divided into 104 districts ({{ko-l|구|區}})
* [[Busan]], [[Incheon]], [[Daegu]] and [[Ulsan]] are also subdivided into counties in addition to districts.
* Counties are further subdivided into towns ({{ko-l|읍|邑}}), townships ({{ko-l|면|面}}) and villages ({{ko-l|리|里}}, and districts and cities without districts are further subdivided into neighborhoods ({{ko-l|동|洞}}

===Kuwait===

===Kyrgyzstan===

===Laos===
* 17 provinces ({{l|lo|ແຂວງ}}), divided into 148 districts ({{l|lo|ເມືອງ}})

===Latvia===

===Lebanon===

===Lesotho===

===Liberia===

===Libya===

===Liechtenstein===

===Lithuania===

===Luxembourg===

===Macedonia===

===Madagascar===
* There were formerly 6 administrative provinces subdivided into 22 regions
* The provinces were dissolved, now the 22 regions are the highest subdivision
* Regions are subdivided into districts
* Districts are subdivided into communes
* Communes are subdivided into fokontany

===Malawi===
* Three regions: Central, Northern, Southern
* Regions are subdivided into districts

===Malaysia===
* 13 states ({{m|ms|negeri}}) and 3 [[federal district]]s ({{m|ms|wilayah persekutuan}}: [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Labuan]] and [[Putrajaya]])
* 17 divisions ({{m|ms|bahagian}}, in Sabah and Sarawak only)
* 19 cities ({{m|ms|bandar raya}}), 39 municipalities ({{m|ms|bandar}}), and 92 districts ({{m|ms|daerah}})

===Maldives===

===Mali===

===Malta===

===Marshall Islands===

===Mauritania===

===Mauritius===

===Mexico===
* 31 states ({{l|es|estado|estados}})
* States subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})
* Mexico City is not a state or municipality, but is divided into 16 boroughs ({{l|es|delegación|delegaciones}})

===Federated States of Micronesia===
* Divided into 4 states
* Each state is subdivided into municipalities

===Moldova===

===Mongolia===

===Montenegro===

===Morocco===

===Mozambique===

===Myanmar===
* Top-level divisions
** 7 regions ({{l|my|တိုင်းဒေသကြီး}})
** 7  states ({{l|my|ပြည်နယ်}})
** 1 union territory ({{l|my|ပြည်ထောင်စုနယ်မြေ}})
** 1 self-administered regions ({{l|my|ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်း}})
** 7 self-administered zones ({{l|my|ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ}})

===Namibia===

===Nauru===
* 14 administrative districts grouped into 8 electoral constituencies
* Districts are subdivided into villages

===Nepal===
* 7 provinces ({{m|ne|प्रदेश}})
* 77 districts ({{m|ne|जिल्ला}}), which are subdivided into:
** 6 metropolitan cities ({{m|ne|महानगरपालिका}}): [[Kathmandu]], [[Pokhara]], [[Bharatpur]], [[Lalitpur]], [[Birgunj]], [[Biratnagar]]
** 11 sub-metropolitan cities ({{m|ne|उपमहानगरपालिका}}
** 276 municipalities ({{m|ne| नगरपालिका}}
** 460 rural municipalities ({{m|ne|गाउँपालिका}}

===Netherlands===
* 12 provinces ({{m|nl|provincie}})
* Provinces subdivided into municipalities ({{m|nl|gemeente}}), which are mostly administrative in nature.
* Municipalities are subdivided into places ({{m|nl|woonplaats}}), which represent individual settlements. A municipality may have only one place in it, or it may have many individual places spread across a wider area.
* No legal distinction is made between places of different sizes or statuses. {{m|nl|woonplaats}} covers anything from a tiny hamlet to a big city. A {{m|nl|woonplaats}} may not even have anyone living in it ({{w|Amsterdam Airport Schiphol}} is one).

===New Zealand===
* 16 regions (Maori: {{m|mi|ngā tākiwa}})
* 13 regions and 53 districts and the Chatham Islands

===Nicaragua===
* 15 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}}) and 2 autonomous communities
* Departments subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})

===Niger===

===Nigeria===
* 36 states and one federal territory around [[Abuja]]
* 774 local government areas ([[LGA]]s)

===Norway===

===Oman===

===Pakistan===
* 7 provinces ({{m|ur|صوبہ|tr=sūbah}})
* 39 divisions ({{m|ur|ڈویژن|tr=ḍivīzhan}})
* 170 districts ({{m|ur| ضلع|tr=ẓilā}})
* 655 [[tehsil]]s ({{m|ur|تحصیل|tr=tahsīl}})

===Palau===

===Palestine===
* 2 regions ([[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]])
* 16 governorates ({{l|ar|مُحَافَظَة}}: 11 in the West Bank and 5 in the Gaza Strip), including areas under Israeli control. These are subdivided into cities, towns, villages, refugee camps and neighborhoods.

===Panama===
* 10 provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into districts ({{l|es|distrito|distritos}})
* Districts subdivided into {{l|es|corregimiento|corregimientos}}

===Papua New Guinea===

===Paraguay===
* 17 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}}) and one capital district

===Peru===
* 25 regions ({{l|es|región|regiones}})
* Regions subdivided into provinces ({{l|es|provincia|provincias}})
* Provinces subdivided into districts ({{l|es|distrito|distritos}})

===Philippines===
* 17 regions ({{m|tl|rehiyon}}): 16 are administrative, and 1 ([[Bangsamoro]]) is autonomous
* 81 provinces ({{m|tl|lalawigan}} or {{m|tl|probinsiya}})
* 145 cities ({{m|tl|lungsod}} or {{m|tl|siyudad}}) and 1,489 municipalities ({{m|tl|bayan}} or {{m|tl|munisipalidad}})
* Certain cities are further divided into administrative districts ({{m|tl|distrito}}). These divisions are non-governing, geographical units used in addresses.
** [[Manila]], [[Davao City]], [[Iloilo City]] and [[Samal]] have their districts defined by law. 
** Other cities such as [[Quezon City]] or [[Caloocan]] have districts, but their boundaries are not defined in law, nonetheless these are commonly used in addressing. Those districts are usually former barangays that have been split into smaller ones.
* 42,029 [[barangay]]s

===Poland===
* 16 provinces or [[voivodeship]]s ({{l|pl|województwo|województwa}})
* 379 counties ({{l|pl|powiat|powiaty}})
* 2479 municipalities ({{l|pl|gmina|gminy}})

===Portugal===

* Portugal has three tiers of administration:
*# {{m|pt|região|regiões}} {{m|pt|administrativa|administrativas}} ([[administrative region|administrative regions]])
*# {{m|pt|município|municípios}} ([[municipality|municipalities]])
*# {{m|pt|freguesia|freguesias}} ([[civil]] [[parish|parishes]])
* Since 2013 there exist two {{m|pt|área|áreas}} {{m|pt|metropolitana|metropolitanas}} ([[metropolitan]] [[area|areas]])
* {{m|pt|comunidade|Comunidades}} {{m|pt|intermunicipal|intermunicipais}} ([[intermunicipal communities]]) replaced the former urban communities
* Outside of mainland Portugal exist two {{m|pt|região|regiões}} {{m|pt| autónoma| autónomas}} ([[autonomous]] [[region|regions]])
** [[:Category:pt:Autonomous regions of Portugal]]

===Qatar===

===Romania===
* 41 counties ({{m|ro|județ}}) and the city of [[Bucharest]]
* 2,686 communes ({{m|ro|comună}})
** 103 cities ({{m|ro|municipiu}})
** 217 towns ({{m|ro|oraș}})

===Russia===
* 89 federal subjects ({{m|ru|субъект федерации}}), 6 of which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, namely [[Donetsk]], [[Kherson]], [[Zaporizhzhia]], [[Crimea]], [[Zaporozhye]] and [[Sevastopol]]. These are subdivided into these subclasses:
** 24 republics ({{m|ru|республика}})
** 9 krais ({{m|ru|край}})
** 48 oblasts ({{m|ru|область}})
** 3 federal cities ({{m|ru|город федерального значения}}): [[Moscow]], [[Saint Petersburg]] and [[Sevastopol]]
** 1 autonomous oblast ({{m|ru|автономная область}}): [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]]
** 4 autonomous okrugs ({{m|ru| [[автономный]] [[округ]]}}): [[Nenetsk]], [[Yamalia]], [[Khantia-mansia]] and [[Chukotka]]
* Each federal subject, except the federal cities, are subdivided into:
** districts ({{m|ru|район}}), 1873 are administrative districts and 1823 are municipal districts, include those in territories internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.
** cities of federal subject significance ({{m|ru|город федерального значения}})

===Rwanda===

===Saint Kitts and Lewis===

===Saint Lucia===

===Saint Vincent and the Grenadines===

===Samoa===

===San Marino===
* 9 municipalities ({{l|it|castello|castelli}}), including the capital city
* Each municipality has a main settlement known as a {{l|it|capoluogo}}
* Municipalities subdivided into parishes or curacies ({{l|it|curazia|curazie}})

===São Tomé and Príncipe===

===Saudi Arabia===
* Divided into 13 regions / provinces
* Provinces are subdivided into 118 governorates ({{l|ar|محافظة}})
* Governorates are subdivided into sub-governorates
* Regional capitals are not part of any governorate, but are governed by municipal councils ({{l|ar|أمانة}})

===Senegal===
* 14 regions
* Regions subdivided into departments
* Departments subdivided into arrondissements

===Serbia===

===Seychelles===

===Sierra Leone===

===Singapore===

===Slovakia===

===Slovenia===

===Solomon Islands===

===Somalia===

===South Africa===
* 9 provinces

===South Sudan===

===Spain===
* 17 [[autonomous community|autonomous communities]] ({{m|es|comunidad autónoma}}) and 2 autonomous cities (''ciudad autónoma'': [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]])
* 50 provinces ({{m|es|provincia}})
* 8,131 municipalities ({{m|es|municipio}})
* Municipalities are further subdivided into {{m|es|comarca|comarcas}}, but these have geographical units with no administration
* Catalonia's provinces are subdivided into {{m|ca|comarca|comarques}}, which are then subdivided into municipalities (Catalan: {{m|ca|municipi}})

===Sri Lanka===
* 7 provinces (Sinhala: {{m|si|පළාත}}, Tamil: {{m|ta|மாகாணம்}})
* 25 districts (Sinhala: {{m|si|දිස්ත්‍රි‌ක්‌ක}}, Tamil: {{m|ta|மாவட்டம்}})

===Sudan===

===Suriname===

===Sweden===
* 21 regions ({{m|sv|region}})
* 290 municipalities ({{m|sv|kommun}})

===Switzerland===
* 26 cantons (German: {{m|de|Kanton}}, French: {{m|fr|canton}}, Italian: {{m|it|cantone}}, Romansch: {{m|rm|chantun}})
* The cantons are further subdivided into districts (German: {{m|de|Bezirk}}, French: {{m|fr|district}}, Italian: {{m|it|distretto}})
* The districts are further subdivided into 2,636 municipalities (German: {{m|de|Gemeinde}}, French: {{m|fr|commune}}, Italian: {{m|it|comune}}, Romansch: {{m|rm|vischnanca}})

===Syria===

===Taiwan===
* 2 provinces ({{zh-l|省}}, non-governing): [[Taiwan]] and [[Fujian]]
* 13 counties {{zh-l|縣}}, 6 special municipalities ({{zh-l|直轄市}}: [[Taipei]], [[Kaohsiung]], [[New Taipei City]], [[Taichung]], [[Tainan]], [[Taitung]] and [[Taoyuan]]) and 3 cities ({{zh-l|市}}: [[Chiayi]], [[Hsinchu]] and [[Keelung]])

===Tajikistan===
* 2 regions ({{l|tg|вилоят}}), 1 autonomous region ([[Gorno-Badakhstan]]) and districts under Republican subordination (including [[Dushanbe]]), divided into districts ({{l|tg|ноҳия}}) and cities ({{l|tg|шаҳр}}).

===Tanzania===

===Thailand===
* 76 provinces ({{l|th|จังหวัด}}), including the special administrative region of [[Bangkok]]
* The provinces excluding Bangkok are subdivided into 878 districts or {{m|en|amphoe}} ({{l|th|อำเภอ}}).
** Bangkok is subdivided into 50 districts ({{l|th|เขต}}), which are then subdivided into 180 subdistricts ({{l|th|แขวง}}).
* The districts are further subdivided into 7,255 subdistricts or {{m|en|tambon|tambons}} ({{l|th|ตำบล}})

===Togo===

===Tonga===

===Trinidad and Tobago===

===Tunisia===

===Turkey===
* 81 provinces ({{m|tr|il}})
* 973 districts ({{m|tr|ilçe}})
* Districts are further subdivided into:
** towns ({{m|tr|belde}})
** villages ({{m|tr|köy}})
** neighborhoods ({{m|tr|mahalle}})

===Turkmenistan===

===Tuvalu===
* 9 islands, with villages on each (no further subdivision)

===Uganda===

===Ukraine===
* 27 regions, belonging to either one of three types:
** 24 oblasts ({{m|uk|область}})
** 2 cities with special status ({{m|uk| міста зі спеціальним статусом}}): [[Kyiv]] and [[Sevastopol]]
** 1 autonomous republic ({{m|uk|автономна республіка}}): [[Crimea]]
* 136 districts ({{m|uk|район}})
* 457 cities ({{m|uk|місто}}), 886 towns ({{m|uk|селище}}, {{m|uk|селище міського типу}}) and 28,556 villages ({{m|uk|село}})
* 1,469 hromadas ({{m|uk|громада}})

===United Arab Emirates===
* Divided into 7 emirates

===United States===
* 50 states, some called commonwealths in their formal names.
*: Also the District of Columbia, territories, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other entities.
* Most states divided into counties, but Louisiana into parishes, Alaska into boroughs, and the New England states into towns, though counties exist, often used for judicial districts.
* States have varying local-government nomenclature and relationships among the state (or equivalent), the counties (or equivalents), and the local governments
* Native peoples are in a curious position, the tribes being principally in a treaty relationship with the federal government, sometimes having reservations. The native peoples can vote is US and state (?) elections.

===Uruguay===
* 19 departments ({{l|es|departamento|departamentos}})
* Departments subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})

===Uzbekistan===

===Vanuatu===

===Venezuela===
* 9 administrative regions ({{l|es|región administrativa|regiones administrativas}})
* Regions subdivided into 23 states ({{l|es|estado|estados}}), a capital district (distrito capital), and the federal dependencies (Dependencias Federales)
* States subdivided into municipalities ({{l|es|municipio|municipios}})
* Municipalities subdivided into parishes ({{l|es|parroquia|parroquias}})

===Vietnam===
* 58 provinces ({{m|vi|tỉnh}}) and 5 municipalities ({{m|vi|thành phố trực thuộc trung ương}}: [[Hanoi]], [[Ho Chi Minh City]], [[Haiphong]], [[Da Nang]] and [[Can Tho]])
* Provinces are further subdivided into these subunits:
** provincial cities ({{m|vi|thành phố thuộc tỉnh}}), which are subdivided into wards ({{m|vi|phường}}) and communes ({{m|vi|xã}})
** towns ({{m|vi|thị xã}}, which are subdivided into wards ({{m|vi|phường}}) and communes ({{m|vi|xã}})
** districts ({{m|vi|huyện}}, which are subdivided into townships ({{m|vi|thị trấn}}) and communes ({{m|vi|xã}})
* Municipalities are further subdivided into these subunits:
** municipal cities ({{m|vi|thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương}}), which are subdivided into wards ({{m|vi|phường}})
** urban wards or boroughs ({{m|vi|quận}}), which are subdivided into wards ({{m|vi|phường}})
** towns ({{m|vi|thị xã}}, which are subdivided into wards ({{m|vi|phường}}) and communes ({{m|vi|xã}})
** districts ({{m|vi|huyện}}, which are subdivided into townships ({{m|vi|thị trấn}}) and communes ({{m|vi|xã}})

===Yemen===

===Zambia===

===Zimbabwe===