List of country subdivisions named after people

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This is a list of country subdivisions named after people. It details the name of the country subdivision and eponym. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the administrative division.

This is a summary from List of etymologies of country subdivision names.

Australia[]

• Jervis Bay Territory – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
• Queensland – Queen Victoria
• Tasmania – Abel Tasman
• Victoria – Queen Victoria

Bermuda[]

• Devonshire Parish – William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire
• Hamilton Parish – James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton
• Paget Parish – William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert
• Pembroke Parish – William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
• St. George's Parish – St. George
• Sandys Parish – Sir Edwin Sandys
• Smith's Parish – Sir Thomas Smith (English aristocrat)
• Southampton Parish – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
• Warwick Parish – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick

Brazil[]

• Rondônia – Marshal Cândido Rondon
• Santa Catarina – Saint Catherine
• São Paulo – Saint Paul

Canada[]

This is a summary of Canadian provincial name etymologies.

• Alberta – Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria
• British Columbia – Christopher Columbus (-> Columbia, an American sailing ship -> Columbia River -> Columbia Territory of Hudson's Bay Company -> British Columbia)
• Prince Edward Island – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (brother of George III of the United Kingdom), commander of British forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Chile[]

• Santiago Metropolitan Region – Saint James the Greater
• O'Higgins Region – Bernardo O'Higgins
• Aisén (region) – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (officially, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region)
• Magallanes Region – Ferdinand Magellan

Colombia[]

• Bogotá – Bacatá – an indigenous cacique (emperor)
• Bolívar Department – Simón Bolívar
• Caldas Department – Francisco José de Caldas
• Nariño Department – Antonio Nariño
• Norte de Santander Department – Francisco de Paula Santander
• Santander Department – Francisco de Paula Santander
• Sucre Department – Antonio José de Sucre
• Córdoba Department – José María Córdoba

Dominican Republic[]

• Duarte – Juan Pablo Duarte
• Espaillat – Ulises Francisco Espaillat (author and president)
• María Trinidad Sánchez – María Trinidad Sánchez (female soldier)
• Monseñor Nouel – Monseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (archbishop and president)
• Sánchez Ramírez – Brigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez

Ecuador[]

• Bolívar – Simón Bolívar

Estonia[]

• Valga – from German family names de Walco or de Walko.

France[]

• Adélie Land – Adélie, wife of Jules Dumont d'Urville
• Kerguelen Islands – Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec
• Lorraine (formerly Lotharingia) – Lothar
• Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – St. Peter
• Wallis and Futuna – Samuel Wallis

Jamaica[]

• Clarendon Parish – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
• Hanover Parish – George I of Great Britain, of the House of Hanover
• Saint Ann Parish – Lady Anne Hyde (first wife of James II of England)
• Saint Elizabeth Parish – Elizabeth Modyford (wife of Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet, the first English colonial governor of Jamaica)
• Saint James Parish – James II of England
• Trelawny Parish – Sir William Trelawny, 6th Baronet

Malaysia[]

• Putrajaya – Tunku Abdul Rahman

Mexico[]

• Ciudad Juarez – Benito Juárez
• Guerrero – Vicente Guerrero
• Hidalgo – Miguel Hidalgo
• Morelos – José María Morelos
• Quintana Roo – Andrés Quintana Roo
• Veracruz-Llave – Ignacio de la Llave

New Zealand[]

• Auckland – Earl of Auckland
• Cook Islands – Captain James Cook
• D'Urville Island – Jules Dumont d'Urville

Norway[]

• Jan Mayen – Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout
• Queen Maud Land – Queen Maud of Norway

Papua New Guinea[]

• Bougainville – Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Paraguay[]

• Presidente Hayes – President Rutherford B. Hayes of the United States

Philippines[]

This is a summary of Philippine provincial name etymologies.

• Aurora – Aurora Aragon Quezon
• Isabela – Queen Isabella II of Spain
• Quezon – Manuel Luis Quezon
• Quirino – Elpidio Quirino
• Rizal – José Rizal
• Sultan Kudarat – Muhammad Kudarat

Romania[]

This is a summary from Etymological list of counties of Romania

• Bessarabia – from Basarab I

Russia[]

• Kaliningrad Oblast – Mikhail Kalinin
• Khabarovsk Krai – Yerofey Khabarov
• Kirov Oblast – Sergey Kirov
• Leningrad Oblast – Vladimir Lenin
• Saint Petersburg – Peter the Great
• Sverdlovsk Oblast – Yakov Sverdlov
• Ulyanovsk Oblast – Vladimir Lenin
• Vladimir Oblast – Vladimir the Great
• Yaroslavl Oblast – Yaroslav the Wise

United Kingdom[]

• Anglesey – Ongull, a Scandinavian landowner
• Angus – King Oengus I of the Picts
• Bedfordshire – Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire)
• Brecknockshire – Prince Brychan
• Buckinghamshire – Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire)
• Cardigan – Ceredig, son of Cunedda
• Fife – , one of the seven sons of
• Glamorgan – Prince
• Gwynedd – Cunedda
• Hampshire – Hamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner
• Kirkcudbright – Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert")
• Lothian –
• Merionethshire – , son of Cunedda
• Montgomery, Powys – Roger de Montgomery
• Nottinghamshire – Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire)
• Roxburghshire – Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire)
• Rutland – Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land")

Dependencies

• Gibraltar – Arabic Jabal Tāriq (جبل طارق), meaning "mountain of Tariq", because Tariq ibn-Ziyad, the militar leader of the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711, landed there from Africa

United States[]

This is a summary from List of U.S. state name etymologies.

• Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
• District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus
• Georgia – King George I of Great Britain
• Louisiana – King Louis XIV of France
• Maryland – Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I
• New York – James Stuart, Duke of York (later James II of England)
• Northern Mariana Islands – Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain
• North Carolina and South Carolina – King Charles I of England
• Pennsylvania – Admiral Sir William Penn
• Virginia and West Virginia – Queen Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen"
• Washington – George Washington

Related lists:

• List of U.S. counties named after women
• Lists of U.S. county name etymologies

Uruguay[]

• Artigas – José Artigas
• Flores – Venancio Flores

Venezuela[]

• Anzoátegui – José Antonio Anzoátegui
• Bolívar – Simón Bolívar
• Falcón – Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
• Miranda – Francisco de Miranda
• Monagas – José Tadeo Monagas
• Sucre – Antonio José de Sucre
• Vargas – José María Vargas

See also[]

• List of etymologies of country subdivision names
• List of eponyms
• List of places named after people