List of terms for administrative divisions
This is a list of English and non-English terms for administrative divisions.
English[]
- Bailiwick
- Borough
- Canton
- City
- Commune
- State (constituent)
- County
- Department
- District
- Duchy
- Emirate
- Federal state
- State (federative)
- Governorate
- Hundred
- Metropolitan Area
- Municipality
- Parish
- Prefecture
- Province
- Region
- Rural district
- Shire
- Subdistrict
- Subprefecture
- Town
- Township
- Village
- Viceroyalty
- Voivodeship
Non-English[]
This is an alphabetical list of native non-English terms for administrative divisions; some, such as arrondissement and okrug, have become English loanwords. Terms in italics are prefixes or suffixes.
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Name | Countries | English equivalents |
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amphoe | Thailand | district |
amt | Germany | county (formerly; the modern term is kreis, which means literally "circle") |
amt | Denmark | county (replaced with regions in 2007) |
amt | Norway | county (formerly; the modern term is fylke) |
apskritis | Lithuania | county |
Cambodia | prefecture | |
arrondissement | Netherlands | borough, district |
French-speaking countries | ||
autónoma | Spanish-speaking countries | autonomous |
autônomo, autônoma | Portuguese-speaking countries | |
автоно́мный (avtonomny) | Russia | |
aimag | Mongolia | province |
baladiyah (baladiyat) | Arab countries | municipality |
barangay | Philippines | village (rural) or ward |
bairro | Brazil | neighbourhood, district |
Portugal | ||
Mozambique | ||
barrio | Spanish-speaking countries | |
бановина (banovina) | Yugoslavia | banate, province |
bayan | Philippines | municipality |
bezirk | Austria | district |
bundesland | Germany (colloquial term) | federal state |
bundesland | Austria (colloquial term) | |
bibhag | Bangladesh | division |
Wales | borough county | |
canton (French) cantone (Italian) chantun (Romansh) kanton (German) |
Switzerland | canton |
kanton (Bosnian) | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
castello | San Marino | municipality |
changwat | Thailand | province |
chef-lieu | France | chief town or city |
comarca | Portuguese-speaking countries (judicial system) | county |
Spanish-speaking countries | ||
comuna | Angola | division of município |
comuna | Spanish-speaking countries | commune |
comună | Romania | rural commune |
comune | Italy | municipality |
comunidad | Spain | community |
comunidade intermunicipal | Portugal | intermunicipal community |
comunidade urbana | Portugal | urban community |
concelho | Cape Verde | municipality; synonym of município |
Portugal | ||
corregimiento | Panama | subdivision of a distrito |
daerah | Malay-speaking countries | district |
propinsi | Indonesia | province |
id:Daerah Istimewa | Special District, all are first level (provincial level) | |
id:Daerah Khusus Ibukota | Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only. | |
dào (Mandarin) | China | circuit |
deelgemeente | Belgium | submunicipality |
demos | Greece | municipality |
departamento | Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) | department |
département | French-speaking countries | department |
desa | Indonesia | village |
district | Suriname | district |
distrik | Indonesia | district |
distrito | Portugal | group of municipalities |
São Tomé and Príncipe | municipality | |
Philippines | district | |
Spanish-speaking countries | ||
distrito, distritu | East Timor | municipality |
distrito federal | Brazil | federal district |
dō | Japan | circuit |
do | North Korea | |
South Korea | ||
Cambodia | area or region | |
dzongkhag | Bhutan | district |
estado | Brazil | federal state |
Mexico | ||
Venezuela | ||
etrap | Turkmenistan | district |
freguesia | Cape Verde | civil parish |
Portugal | ||
fylke | Norway | county |
gemeente | Belgium ( Flanders) | municipality |
Netherlands | ||
gemeinde | Austria | municipality |
gemeinde | Germany | |
gemeinde | Italy | |
gemeinde | Switzerland | |
gewog | Bhutan | block |
gmina | Poland | commune, municipality |
gobolka | Somalia | administrative region |
Guinea | governorate | |
grande área metropolitana | Portugal | greater metropolitan area |
губе́рния (guberniya) | Russian Empire | governorate |
hameau | France | hamlet |
Papua New Guinea | village | |
Papua New Guinea | clan | |
raj | India | empire |
rajya | India | state |
il or vilayet | Turkey | province |
ilçe | Turkey | district |
imarah | Arab countries (formerly) | emirate |
United Arab Emirates | ||
jamoat | Tajikistan | commune or municipality |
járás | Hungary | district |
Jilla | Nepal | district |
judeţ | Moldova (formerly) | county |
Romania | ||
jurydyka | Poland | village |
kabupaten | Indonesia | regency |
kampung or kampong | Malay-speaking countries and Cambodia | village, hamlet, neighbourhood |
Netherlands | county or burgraviate | |
kecamatan | Indonesia | district |
kelurahan | Indonesia | (urban) village or subdistrict |
ken | Japan | prefecture |
khan | Cambodia | district or section |
Cambodia | province | |
khoueng | Laos | province |
khum | Cambodia | commune |
kilil | Ethiopia | region |
kommun | Finland (Swedish speaking) | municipality |
Sweden | ||
kommune | Denmark | municipality |
Norway | ||
kota | Indonesia | chartered city |
кожуун (kozhuun) | Russia ( Tyva Republic) | rural council |
край (krai) | Russia | region |
kraj | Czech Republic | region |
Slovakia | ||
Kreis | Germany | district |
krom | Cambodia | group |
krong | Cambodia | municipality |
kunta | Finland | municipality |
lääni | Finland | province |
Philippines | province | |
län | Sweden | county |
land | Austria (official term) | state |
land | Germany (official term) | state |
lieu-dit | France | place name |
linn | Estonia | town or city |
lugar | Cape Verde | division of zona in Cape Verde |
Portugal | hamlet | |
Philippines | city | |
maakond | Estonia | county |
մարզ (marz) | Armenia | province or region |
megye | Hungary | county |
mahoz | Israel | district |
mancomunidad | Spain | association of municipalities, commonwealth |
merindad | Medieval Spain | county |
mesorregião | Brazil | mesoregion (division of estado) |
mintaqah (mintaqat) | Arab countries | province, region |
microrregião | Brazil | microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios) |
მხარე (mkhare) | Georgia | region |
muban | Thailand | village |
muhafazah (muhafazat) | Arab countries | governorate |
mukim | Malay-speaking countries | subdistrict, subdivision of subdistrict, survey district |
municipalidad | Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) | municipality |
municipio | Spanish-speaking countries | municipality |
Portuguese-speaking countries | ||
nafa | Israel | subdistrict |
negeri | Malaysia | state |
nomos | Greece | prefecture |
novads | Latvia | municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights) |
NUTS | Europe | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics |
obec | Czech Republic | municipality |
Slovakia | ||
область (oblast) | Countries formerly in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia | province, region |
община (obshtina) | Bulgaria | municipality |
okres | Czech Republic | district |
Slovakia | ||
okrug | Serbia | district |
Russia | ||
opština | Republika Srpska | municipality |
Montenegro | ||
Serbia | ||
ostan (ostan-e) | Iran | province |
pagasts | Latvia | parish |
panchayati raj | India | village council |
paróquia | Portugal | parish (religious division) |
Cape Verde | ||
parroquia | Spain ( Galicia) | parish |
Andorra | ||
Spain | county | |
Περιφέρειες (perif��reia) | Greece | periphery |
phum | Cambodia | village |
Cambodia | zone | |
pilseta | Latvia | town/city |
powiat | Poland | county |
pradesh | India | state of India |
Nepal | province of Nepal | |
Philippines | province | |
provinsi | Indonesia | province |
provincia | Spanish-speaking countries | province |
Italy | ||
província | Portugal (formerly) | province |
Angola | ||
São Tomé and Príncipe | ||
prowincja | Poland | province |
райо́н (raion) | Russian-speaking countries | district |
Moldova | ||
rajons | Latvia | district |
região | Brazil | group of estados; also macrorregião |
Guinea-Bissau | region | |
Portugal | ||
região autónoma | Portugal | autonomous region |
São Tomé and Príncipe | ||
regierungsbezirk | Germany | district |
region | Denmark | region |
regione | Italy | region |
şäher | Turkmenistan | capital city district |
sangkat | Cambodia | commune or quarter |
sector | Guinea-Bissau | sector (municipality) |
sector autónomo | Guinea-Bissau | autonomous sector (municipality) |
сельсовет (selsoviet) | Russia | rural council |
շրջան (shrjan) | Republic of Artsakh | province or region |
сільрада (silrada) | Ukraine | rural council |
srŏk | Cambodia | district |
sum | Mongolia | district |
subdistrito, subdistritu | East Timor | subdistrict (submunicipality) |
subregião | Portugal | subregion |
suco, suku | East Timor | division of submunicipality |
-stan | Central Asian countries | land (denotes high level of autonomy) |
sýsla | Faroe Islands | district |
Iceland | ||
tambon | Thailand | subdistrict |
thesaban | Thailand | municipality |
tinh | Vietnam | province |
todōfuken | Japan | prefectural level divisions (collectively) |
tuman | Uzbekistan | district |
улу́с (ulus) | Russia ( Sakha Republic) | district |
upazila | Bangladesh | subdistrict |
union parishad | Bangladesh | council or constituency |
mouza | Bangladesh | mouza |
gram/gaon | Bangladesh | village |
Ward | Bangladesh | ward |
vald | Estonia | parish, rural municipality |
вилоят (viloyat) | Tajikistan | region |
Uzbekistan | ||
во́лость (volost) | Russia | district |
wojewodztwo | Poland | voivodeship |
waterschap | Netherlands | water board |
welaýaty | Turkmenistan | region |
wilayah | Arab countries | province, territory |
Malaysia | ||
Czech Republic | land (historical) | |
zona | Cape Verde | zone (division of freguesia) |
ziemia | Poland | land |
Zillah | Pakistan | district |
Bangladesh | ||
India | ||
župa | Slovakia | county (historical) |
županija | Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian speaking) | county |
Croatia | ||
Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) | province | |
Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) | district | |
Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) | division | |
Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) | province | |
Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) | district | |
Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) | division |
See also[]
- Administrative division
- Census division
- Census-designated place - statistical territorial subdivisions in the United States
Categories:
- Types of administrative division