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  • 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

Country Type Administrative divisions
First-level Second-level Third-level Fourth-level Fifth-level+
Afghanistan Unitary 34 provinces (velaya'at) 421 districts (woleswali) subdistricts (alaqadari) * villages (kali)
* neighborhoods (gawandi)
Albania Unitary 12 counties (qarqe) 61 municipalities (bashki) 373 units of local governance (njësite të qeverisjes vendore) 2,972 villages (fshatra)
Algeria Unitary 69 provinces (wilayat) 547 districts (daïras) 1,541 communes (baladiyahs) localities
Andorra Unitary 7 parishes (parròquies) 53 populated places (llocs poblats or poblacions):
* quarters (quarts)
* neighbourhoods (veinats) in Canillo
Angola Unitary 21 provinces (províncias) 326 municipalities (municípios) 618 communes (comunas) villages (aldeias)
Antigua and Barbuda Unitary 6 parishes 15 divisions
8 districts		 116 communities[1] 353 localities[2]
2 dependencies
Argentina Federal 23 provinces (provincias) 378 departments (departamentos)[a] 1,218 municipalities (municipios)
559 communes ("comunas")
113 rural communes ("comunas rurales")
110 developmental commissions ("comisiones de fomento")
178 municipal commissions ("comisiones municipales")
138 governing boards ("juntas de gobierno")[quantify]		 localities (localidades)
settlements (asentamientos)
135 partidos[b]
1 autonomous city:
Buenos Aires 15 communes (comunas) 48 neighbourhoods (barrios)
Armenia Unitary 10 provinces (marzer) 70 municipalities (hamaynkner)
1 autonomous city:
Yerevan 12 districts
Australia Federal 6 states:
New South Wales 58 shires wards (electoral unit) suburbs [urban] and localities [rural]
28 cities
28 councils
8 regional councils
6 municipalities
2 unincorporated areas
Queensland 30 regions
28 shires
12 Aboriginal shires
7 cities
1 town
South Australia 25 district councils
21 cities
15 councils
5 Aboriginal councils
4 regional councils
2 towns
1 rural city
1 unincorporated area
Tasmania 23 municipalities
6 cities
Victoria 39 shires
33 cities
10 unincorporated areas
6 rural cities
1 borough
Western Australia 104 shires
29 cities
8 towns
2 internal territories that are self-governing:
Australian Capital Territory
Northern Territory 9 regional councils wards (electoral unit) suburbs [urban] and localities [rural]
5 unincorporated areas
3 municipalities
3 shires
2 cities
1 internal territory that is not self-governing:
Jervis Bay Territory
7 external territories:
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Australian Antarctic Territory[c]
Christmas Island 1 shire
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1 shire
Coral Sea Islands
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Norfolk Island
Austria Federal 9 states (Bundesländer) 94 districts (Bezirke)[d][e][f] 2,095 municipalities (Gemeinden)[g][h] villages (Ortschaften)
Azerbaijan Regional 67 districts (rayonlar) +2600 municipalities (bələdiyyələr) +4500 settlements (yaşayış məntəqələri)
11 cities (şəhərlər)
1 autonomous republic (Muxtar Respublika):
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic 7 districts (rayonlar) 218 settlements (yaşayış məntəqələri)
1 city (səhər)
The Bahamas Unitary 33 districts 32+ town committees
New Providence 24 supervisory districts
Bahrain Unitary 4 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)
Bangladesh Unitary 8 divisions (bibhag) 64 districts (zila) 495 sub-districts (upazila)[3]
12 City corporations		 4,596 union councils (union parishads)[3]
327 municipal corporations (paurasabhas)
Barbados Unitary 11 parishes
Belarus Unitary 6 regions (oblasti or voblastsi) 118 districts (raiony)
1 autonomous city:
Minsk
Belgium Federal 3 communities (Dutch: gemeenschappen; French: communautés; German: Gemeinschaften)[i]
3 regions (Dutch: gewesten; French: régions; German: Regionen):
Brussels 43 arrondissements
(Dutch: arrondissementen;
French: arrondissements;
German: Arrondisements)		 565 municipalities
(Dutch: gemeenten;
French: communes;
German: Gemeinden)
Flanders
Wallonia		 10 provinces[j]
(Dutch: provincies;
French: provinces;
German: Provinzen)
Belize Unitary 6 districts 247 municipalities
Benin Unitary 12 departments (départements) 77 communes (communes) 545 districts (arrondissements)
Bhutan Unitary 20 districts (dzongkhag) 205 blocks (gewogs) 1,044 chiwogs[4] 5,000+ villages (yue or depa)
61 "thromdes"
Bolivia Regional 9 departments (departamentos) 112 provinces (provincias) 340 municipalities (municipios)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Federal 2 federal entities:
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 cantons (kantona) 79 municipalities (općine or opštine) local communities
Republika Srpska[k] 6 regions 64 municipalities (opštine) local communities
1 condominium of the federal entities:
Brčko District
Botswana Unitary 10 rural districts 23 sub-districts[l] 519 villages[5] localities
7 urban districts
Brazil[6] Federal 26 states
(estados)		 5,569 municipalities
(municípios)

1 state district
(distrito estadual)		 10,740 municipal districts
(distritos municipais)		 610 municipal subdistricts
(subdistritos municipais)
1 federal district
(distrito federal)		 1 federal capital
(capital federal)		 35 administrative regions
(regiões administrativas)
Brunei Unitary 4 districts (daerah) 39 subdistricts (mukim) 406 villages (kampung)
Bulgaria Unitary 28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области) 265 municipalities (obshtini, общини) wards or quarters (rayon) mayoralties (kmetstvo) settlements (naseleno myasto)
Burkina Faso Unitary 17 regions (régions) 45 provinces 325 departments (départements)[m] * villages (villages)
* neighbourhoods (quartiers)
Burundi Unitary 5 provinces 42 communes 3,044 collines[n]
Cambodia Unitary 24 provinces (khaet) 163 districts (srok and khan) 1,652 communes and quarters (khum and sangkat) 14,578 villages (phum) blocks (krŏm)
33 municipalities (krong)
1 autonomous municipality (reachtheani):[o]
Phnom Penh 14 sections (khan)
Cameroon Unitary 10 regions (régions) 58 departments (départements) 360 communes, or districts (arrondissements) * villages (villages)
* localities (localités)
Canada Federal 10 provinces:
Alberta 264 municipalities
8 Metis settlements
63 counties 403 hamlets
7 improvement districts[p]
6 specialized municipalities
3 special areas
British Columbia 27 regional districts 162 municipalities
160 electoral areas[7]
1 unincorporated area
Manitoba 98 rural municipalities 37 municipalities
2 local government districts
unincorporated areas[q][r]
New Brunswick 12 regional service commissions 8 cities
28 towns
21 villages
1 regional municipality
17 rural communities
12 rural districts
Newfoundland and Labrador 277 municipalities
Nova Scotia 9 county municipalities 21 villages
11 district municipalities
25 towns
4 regional municipalities
Ontario 173 single-tier municipalities[s]
8 regional municipalities 241 lower-tier municipalities
46 local services boards
22 counties
10 districts[t]
Prince Edward Island 2 cities
10 towns
44 rural municipalities
1 resort municipality
Quebec 87 regional county municipalities (municipalités régionale de comté) (RCM/MRC)

17 territories equivalent to a regional county municipality (territoires équivalents) (TE):

 1,108 municipalities (municipalités) 45 boroughs (arrondissements)[u]
Saskatchewan 296 rural municipalities 478 municipalities
2 unincorporated areas:
3 territories:
Northwest Territories 5 regions[v] 24 municipalities
Nunavut 3 regions[w] 25 municipalities
Yukon (unorganized) 8 municipalities
3,406 Indian reserves[8]
Cape Verde Unitary 22 councils or municipalities (concelhos[x]) 32 parishes (freguesias)
Central African Republic Unitary 20 prefectures (préfectures) 84 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) 198 communes
1 autonomous commune (commune autonome):
Bangui 4 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) 8 urban districts (arrondissements) 16 groups (groupements) 205 neighbourhoods (quartiers)
2 communes
Chad Unitary 23 provinces (provinces) 120 departments (départements) 454 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)
Chile Regional 16 regions (regiones) 56 provinces (provincias) 346 communes (comunas) neighborhood units (unidades vecinales)[y]
China, People's Republic of Regional 23 provinces (shěng)[z] 280+ prefecture-level cities (dìjíshī)

17 prefectures (dìqū)

30 autonomous prefectures (zìzhìzhōu)

 1,400+ counties (xiàn)
110+ autonomous counties (zìzhìxiàn)
850+ county-level districts ((shìxiá)qū)
1 special district (tèqū)
370+ county-level cities (xiànjíshì)
1 forestry district (línqū)		 19,500+ towns (zhèn)
14,600+ townships (xiāng)
1,000+ ethnic townships (mínzúxiāng)
6,100+ subdistricts (jiēbàn or jiēdàobànshìchù)
11 district public offices (qūgōngsuǒ)

Urban areas:
(residential) communities (shèqū) or neighbourhoods (jūmínqū)

Rural areas: villages (cūnjí), village areas or village groups[aa]
5 autonomous regions (zìzhìqū)
4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì)
2 special administrative regions (tèbié xíngzhèngqū):
Hong Kong 18 districts
Macau 7 parishes (freguesias)
Colombia Unitary 32 departments (departamentos) 1,102 municipalities (municipios) 2,000+ corregimientos (towns) veredas
communes (comunas) neighbourhoods (barrios)
1 Capital District (Distrito Capital):
Bogotá 20 localities (localidades)
Comoros Federal 3 autonomous islands(îles autonomes)[ab] 16 prefectures (préfectures) 54 communes 318 villes or villages
Congo, Democratic Republic of the[ac] Unitary 25 provinces 145 territories

33 cities

 264 chiefdoms

470 sectors

313 communes

 6,070 groupings

2,401 quarters
1 Capital City:
Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of the[ad] Unitary 15 departments 80+ districts communes
Costa Rica Unitary 7 provinces (provincias) 84 cantons (cantones) 492 districts (distritos)
3 special cities (ciudades especiales)		 Urban: asentamiento, caserío, ciudad, localidad
Rural: barrio, poblado
24 indigenous territories
Croatia Unitary 20 counties (županije) 128 towns (gradovi) 4,117+ local communities [hr] (mjesnih odbora) (gradske četvrti [Zagreb], gradski kotari [Split]) 6,700+ settlements (naselja)
428 municipalities (općine)
Cuba Unitary 15 provinces (provincias) 160+ municipalities (municipios)
1 special municipality (municipio especial):
Isla de la Juventud
Cyprus Unitary 6 districts (eparchies)[ae] 20 municipalities (dímoi)[9]
Czech Republic Unitary 13 regions (kraje) 76 districts (okresy) 393 municipalities with commissioned local authority[af] (obce s pověřeným obecním úřadem) 6,254 1st level municipalities (obce)
205 municipalities with extended competence[ag] (obce s rozšířenou působností) 4 military training areas (vojenské újezdy)
1 capital city:
Capital City of Prague (Hlavní město Praha) 10 districts (obvody)[ah] 57 municipal districts (městské části) 112 cadastral communities (katastrální území)
22 administrative districts (správní obvody)
Denmark, Kingdom of Regional Denmark 5 regions (regioner) 98 municipalities (kommuner)
2 autonomous territories:
Faroe Islands 6 regions
(Faroese: sýsla;
Danish: syssel)		 29 municipalities (kommunur)[10]
Greenland 5 municipalities (kommuner)
1 national park
(Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq;
Danish: Nationalpark):
Northeast Greenland National Park
Djibouti Unitary 6 regions (régions) 15 sub-prefectures[ai]
6 arrondissements[aj]
Dominica Unitary 10 parishes 41 local authorities:[11]
1 city
1 town
1 urban district
1 territory
37 village districts
Dominican Republic Unitary 31 provinces (provincias) 158 municipalities (municipios) 40+ municipal districts (distritos municipales)
1 National District (Distrito Nacional):
Distrito Nacional
Ecuador Unitary 24 provinces (provincias) 221 cantons (cantones) 1,000+ parishes (parroquias) populated places (lugares poblados):
* caseríos
* barrios
* recintos
* comunas
* anejos
* colonias, etc.
Egypt Unitary 27 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 351 municipal divisions:
177 kism 4,617+ villages or districts (qura or ahya) residential districts (sheyakha)
162 markaz
9 new cities
3 police-administered areas
El Salvador Unitary 14 departments (departamentos) 44 municipalities (municipios) 262 districts (distritos) * downtown areas/centres (cabeceras) [urban];
* cantons (cantones) [rural]		 * neighborhoods (barrios) & colonies (colonias) [urban];
* villages (aldeas) & hamlets (caserios) [rural]
Equatorial Guinea Unitary 8 provinces (provincias) 32 districts (distritos)
Eritrea Unitary 6 regions (zoba) 58 districts communes (kebabis) villages and towns

Estonia[ak]

 Unitary 15 counties (maakonnad) 15 towns (linnad) districts (linnaosad)[citation needed] subdistricts (asumid)[citation needed]
64 parishes (vallad) quarters (kandid)
 32 towns (linnad)
12 boroughs (alevid)
188 small boroughs (alevikud)
4,455 villages (külad)
Eswatini Unitary 4 regions (tifundza) 50+ constituencies (tinkhundla) 360+ chiefdoms (imiphakatsi)
Ethiopia Federal 12 regions (kililoch) 68 zones (zonoch) 600+ districts (woreda) 16,000+ wards (kebele)
2 chartered cities (astedader akababiwach)
Fiji Unitary 4 divisions 14 provinces + 50 districts (tikina) 1,000+ villages (koro)
1 dependency:
Rotuma 7 districts
Finland Regional 18 regions (maakuntaa) 70+ subregions (seutukuntaa) 293 municipalities (kuntaa)[al] wards (suuralueet) * districts (kaupunginosat) [urban]
* villages (kylät) [rural]
1 autonomous region (itsehallinnollinen maakunta):
Åland 16 municipalities (kommuner (kuntaa)) wards (suuralueet) * districts (kaupunginosat) [urban]
* villages (kylät) [rural]
France Regional 18 regions (régions)[am] 101 departments (départements) 332 arrondissements 2,054 cantons (electoral constituencies)
12,159 intercommunalities 35,357 communes[an]
Metropolis of Lyon
5 overseas collectivities (collectivités d'outre-mer):
French Polynesia[ao] 5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) 40+ communes
Saint-Barthélemy 2 parishes 40 quarters
Saint-Martin
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 2 communes
Wallis and Futuna 3 traditional kingdoms (royaumes coutumiers) 3 districts[ap]
1 sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis):
New Caledonia 3 provinces 30+ communes
1 overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer):
French Southern and Antarctic Lands[aq] 5 districts
1 state private property under the direct authority of the French government:
Clipperton Island
Gabon Unitary 9 provinces 49 departments (départements) 152 cantons
52 communes
29 arrondissements
Gambia Unitary 5 regions 8 Local Government Areas 43 districts electoral wards settlements
1 city
Georgia Regional 9 regions (mkhare) 69 municipalities (munitsip’alit’et’ebi):

64 communities (temi)

5 cities (k'alak'i)

 1,000s+ administrative units (administ’ratsiuli erteulebi)

? rural communities (sasoplo temebi)

 10,000s+ populated places/settlements (dasakhlebuli p’unkt’ebi)

? townlets (kalakebi)
? urban-type settlements (dabebi)
? villages (soplebi)
2 autonomous republics:
Abkhazia
Adjara
1 area without a constitutionally defined status:[ar]
South Ossetia[as]
1 city with special status:
Tbilisi 10 districts (raions)
Germany Federal 16 states (Länder):[at]
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Hesse
North Rhine-Westphalia		 19 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke)
 3 special regional associations (Kommunalverbände besonderer Art)[au]

294 rural districts (Landkreise or Kreise)

 1281 municipal associations (Gemeindeverbände)[av]

10907 municipalities (Gemeinden), including

1951 towns (Städte)
386 market towns (Märkte) (only in Bavaria)

Brandenburg
Lower Saxony
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saarland
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia

103 cities (urban districts) (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise)
Bremen 2 cities (Städte) 7 boroughs (Stadtbezirke) 32 quarters (Stadtteile) 113 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile)
Berlin 12 boroughs (Bezirke) 97 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile)
Hamburg 7 boroughs (Bezirke) 104 quarters (Stadtteile) 181 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile)
Ghana Unitary 16 regions 216 districts Communities tema
8 municipal districts zones
3 metropolitan districts submetropolitan districts
Greece Regional 7 decentralized administrations (apokentroménes dioikíseis) 13 administrative regions (peripheries) 74 regional units (perifereiakés enótites)

332 municipalities (dímoi)
1 autonomous monastic state (aftonomi monastiki politeia):
Agio Oros
Grenada Unitary 6 parishes
1 dependency:
Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Guatemala Unitary 22 departments (departamentos) 340 municipalities (municipios) sub-municipal zones (zonas sub-municipales) populated places (lugares poblados):
* villages (aldeas)
* settlements (asentamientos)
* quarters (colonias)
* rural estates/farmsteads/hamlets (fincas)
* spots (parajes)
Guinea Unitary 8 regions (régions) 33 prefectures (préfectures) 330+ sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) 4,142 units:
* districts
* villages		 15,741 sub-units:
* quarters (quartiers)
* sectors (secteurs)
5 communes
? units:
* districts
* villages		 ? sub-units:
* quarters (quartiers)
* sectors (secteurs)
Guinea-Bissau Unitary 8 regions (regiões) 39 sectors (setores) sections (secções) populated places (locais povoados):

towns (cidades)

villages (aldeias)

localities (localidades)

settlements (povoações)

communities (comunidades)
1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo):
Bissau
Guyana Unitary 10 regions 64 neighborhood councils
Haiti Unitary 10 departments (départements) 42 arrondissements 144 communes 571 communal sections (sections communales) 10,180 villages
Honduras Unitary 18 departments (departamentos) 298 municipalities (municipios) 3,731 villages (aldeas)
Hungary Unitary 19 counties (vármegye) 174 districts (járás) 3,154 municipalities (városok/községek)
1 autonomous city:
Budapest 23 districts (kerület)
1 non-district
Iceland Unitary 62 municipalities (sveitarfélög)
India Federal 28 states (rajya) 103 divisions (mandal) 788 districts/revenue districts (zilā)[13] sub-divisions/revenue divisions 6057 subdistricts (tahsīl)[aw]
community development blocks/tribal development blocks[ax]
revenue villages[ay]
255 municipal corporations (nagar nigam) wards
8 union territories (kendra-shāsit pradesh)
1,897 municipal councils/municipalities (nagar pālikā)
2,437 town councils (nagar pañcāyat)
665 district councils (zilā parishad) 6,711 block councils (panchayat samiti)[az]
255,219 village councils (grām pañcāyat)[ba]
Indonesia Regional 38 provinces (provinsi)[bb] 416 regencies (kabupaten) 7,266 districts (kecamatan/distrik/kapanewon/kemantren) 83,467 villages (kelurahan/desa)
98 cities (kota)
Iran Unitary 31 provinces (ostanha) 467 counties (shahrestan) districts (bakhsh) rural districts (dehestan) villages (rosta)
cities (shahr) neighbourhoods (mahalleh)
Iraq Federal 19 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)[bc] 120 districts (aqḍyat) 300+ subdistricts (naḥiyat) villages (qaryat)[citation needed]
Ireland Unitary 26 counties (contaetha) 89 municipal districts (ceantair bardasacha)
4 borough districts (ceantair buirge
2 metropolitan districts (ceantair cathracha)		 3,440 electoral divisions (toghroinn ceantair) 51,430 townlands (bailte)
3 cities (cathracha)
2 combined cities and counties 18,641 small areas (ceantair beaga)
Israel Regional 6 districts (meḥozot)[14] 15 sub-districts (nafot)[14] 52 natural regions[14] 255 local authority units (reshut mekomiot)

77 cities (arim)[15]
124 local councils (moaṣot mekomiot)[16]
54 regional councils (moaṣot azoriot)[17]

 populated places (mekomot me'uchlasim)

on urban local authorities:
* internal municipal divisions (chalukot pnimiyot)
* municipal districts (mechozot)
* neighborhoods (shkhunot)
on rural local authorities:
* community settlements (yishuvim kahilti'im)
* institutional localities (yishuvim musdi'im)
* farm clusters (kibbutzum)
* farm settlements (moshavim)
* collective farm villages (moshavim shitufiim)
* rural localities (yishuvim kifri'im)

Judea and Samaria Area[bd]
Italy Regional 20 regions (regioni):
15 ordinary regions (regioni ordinarie):
Abruzzo
Apulia
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Emilia-Romagna
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardy
Marche
Molise
Piedmont
Tuscany
Umbria
Veneto		 82 provinces (province)
2 autonomous provinces (province autonome)
4 regional decentralization entities (enti di decentramento regionale)
6 free municipal consortia (liberi consorzi comunali)
15 metropolitan cities (città metropolitane)		 7,896 communes (comuni) 60,101 fractions (frazioni) and circumscriptions (circoscrizioni)[21]
5 autonomous regions (regioni autonome):
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Sardinia
Sicily
Trentino-South Tyrol
Aosta Valley
Ivory Coast Regional 14 districts (districts autonomes) 31 regions (régions) 111 departments (départements) 510 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) 8,000+ villages (localités)
1 unincorporated area
Jamaica Unitary 14 parishes
Japan Unitary 47 prefectures (ken)[be] 792 Cities (shi)
307 districts (gun)
18 subprefectures (shichō)
23 special wards (tokubetsu-ku)		 1,719 municipalities (shichōsonku) ōaza
aza
chō
chōme
Jordan Unitary 12 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 52 Districts (Alwia'a) 89 Subdistricts (Nahiya) qurah
Kazakhstan Unitary 17 regions (oblys)
3 cities with region rights (qala)
Baikonur[bf]		 319 raions (audan)
oblystyq qala		 kent auyl aimaq
Kenya Regional 47 counties (kaunti) 262 sub-counties (kaunti ndogo) 2,400+ locations (mtaa) Cities, Municipalities and Towns
villages (vijiji)
Kiribati[bg] Unitary 24 unitary councils
Kuwait Unitary 6 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 132 areas (manāṭiq)
Kyrgyzstan Unitary 7 regions (oblus)
2 independent cities (shaar (kengesh))		 44 districts (rayon)
14 towns (gorkengesh)		 rural communities or rural districts (aiyl aimagy)
Laos Unitary 17 provinces (khoueng)
1 prefecture		 140+ districts (muang or muong) villages (baan)
Latvia Unitary 35 municipalities (novadi)
7 republic cities (Republikas pilsētas)		 71 cities/towns (pilsētas)
512 parishes (pagasti)
Lebanon Unitary 9 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)[22] 26 districts (qaḍya) 1,030 municipalities
Lesotho Unitary 10 districts 80+ constituencies 120+ community councils
Liberia Unitary 15 counties 60+ districts
Libya Unitary 22 districts (sha'biyat) 99 baladiyat
Liechtenstein Unitary 11 municipalities (Gemeinden)
Lithuania Unitary 10 counties (apskritys) 60 municipalities (savivaldybės) 500+ elderships (seniūnijos) sub-eldership (seniūnaitija)
Luxembourg Unitary 12 cantons[bh] 102 communes[23][bi] 24 quarters[bj]
Madagascar Unitary 24 regions (faritra) 114 districts (distrika) 1,579 communes (kaominina)
17,485 villages (fokontany)[citation needed]
Malawi Unitary 3 regions 28 districts 130+ traditional authorities 60+ subchiefdoms
Malaysia Federal 13 states (negeri)
3 federal territories (wilayah persekutuan)		 155 local government areas
Maldives Unitary 17 atolls
4 cities		 189 islands
Mali Unitary 19 regions (régions)
1 capital district		 40+ cercles (circles) 1,400+ arrondissements 700+ communes
Malta Unitary 5 regions (reġjuni) 68 local councils (kunsilli lokali)
Marshall Islands Unitary 24 municipalities
Mauritania Regional 15 regions (wilayat); capital city of Nouakchott spans 3 regions 44 departments[24] or moughataas 216 communes (some of which are consolidated with departments)
Mauritius Unitary Rodrigues 14 zones 120+ villages, 4 Towns
173 localities
Mauritius 9 districts
2 outer islands with no government (+2 claimed)
Mexico Federal 31 states (estados) 2,458 municipalities (municipios) A few municipalities are further divided into boroughs, some incompletely.
1 autonomous city, Mexico City (Ciudad de México) 16 boroughs (demarcaciones territoriales)
Federated States of Micronesia Federal 4 states 70+ municipalities
Moldova Regional 32 districts or raions (Romanian: raioane)

3 municipalities (municipii): Chișinău, Bălți, and Tighina
2 autonomous territorial units: Gagauzia and Left Bank of the Dniester (claimed but administered as the unrecognized independent country of Transnistria)

 10 municipalities (municipii)

50 cities[citation needed]
60+ city localities[citation needed]
660+ villages (Romanian: sate)[citation needed]
880+ village localities[citation needed]
Monaco Unitary 1 municipality 5 quarters 10 wards
Mongolia Unitary 21 provinces (aimags) 331 districts (sum) 1,538 bags[citation needed]
1 capital city, Ulaanbaatar 9 districts (düüregs) 173 subdistricts (khoroos)
Montenegro Unitary 25 municipalities (opštine) 1,256 naselja[citation needed]
Morocco Unitary 12 regions (3 containing parts of occupied Western Sahara) 13 prefectures
62 provinces		 circles[citation needed] rural communes[citation needed]
communes urbaines
arrondissements[citation needed]
Mozambique Unitary 11 provinces (provincias) 128 districts (distritos) 405 administrative posts (postos) [urban districts][citation needed]
localities (localidades)[citation needed]
Myanmar Unitary 7 States 67 Districts 330 Townships 70,838 Villages
7 Regions
1 Union Territory
5 Self-Administered Zones
1 Self-Administered Division
Namibia Unitary 14 regions[25] 121 constituencies[25] cities
towns
villages
settlements
Nauru Unitary 14 districts
Nepal Federal 7 provinces (Pradesh) 77 districts (jilla) 6 metropolitan cities (mahānagarpālikā)
11 sub-metropolitan cities (upa-mahānagarpālikā)
276 municipalities (nagarpālikā)

486 rural municipalities (gāunpālikā)

 6,743 wards (wadā)
Netherlands, Kingdom of the Regional 4 constituent countries (landen):
Netherlands 12 provinces (provincies) 342 municipalities (gemeenten) urban districts (deelgemeenten)
3 public bodies (openbare lichamen)

(Caribbean Netherlands region)

 Bonaire 2 towns, neighbourhoods[26]
Sint Eustatius neighbourhoods[27]
Saba 4 villages[28]
Aruba 8 regions[29]
Curaçao 2 districts and 1 special city[30] 10 areas[31] 4 town quarters
Sint Maarten 8 administrative units[32]
New Zealand Regional Realm of New Zealand:
New Zealand 11 non-unitary regions 13 cities
53 districts		 110 community boards
21 Auckland local boards
5 unitary authorities
1 special territorial authority:
3 outlying islands:
Ross Dependency[bk]
1 self-administering territory:
Tokelau 3 island councils
2 states in free-association:
Cook Islands 10 island councils districts tapere
Niue 14 villages
Nicaragua Regional 15 departments (departamentos)
2 autonomous regions (regiones autónomas)		 153 municipalities (municipios) populated places (lugares poblados)
*barrios
*comarcas
*sectores
*caserios
*comunidades
Niger Unitary 7 regions (régions) 
Capital district, Niamey Urban Community		 63 départements 265 communes, 122 cantons, and 81 groupements
Nigeria Federal 36 states
1 Federal Capital Territory		 774 Local Government Areas 8,813 Wards or Districts
North Korea Unitary 9 provinces (do)
4 special cities		 150+ cities, counties, workers' districts (in some counties), districts, and wards towns (in counties), neighborhoods (in cities), villages (rural)[citation needed]
North Macedonia Unitary 80 municipalities (opštini)
Norway Regional 14 counties (fylker), which also have status as first-level municipalities (fylkeskommuner) 354 second-level municipalities (kommuner)
3 hundreds (herader)
1 combined municipality and county:
Oslo 15 boroughs (bydeler)
2 non-boroughs[bl]
2 integral overseas areas:
Jan Mayen
Svalbard
3 dependencies:
Bouvet Island
Peter I Island[bm]
Queen Maud Land[bn]
Oman Unitary 11 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 61 provinces (wilayat)
Pakistan Federal 4 provinces
2 autonomous territories		 38 divisions 168 districts 596 Tehsils Almost 6,000 Union Councils
1 federal capital territory 5 zones 27 union councils
Palau Unitary 16 states town council(s)[33]

village hall(s)[34][35]

traditional villages[36]
Palestine Unitary 16 governorates 121 municipal councils[37]

355 village councils[37]

 local councils (East Jerusalem)[37]
Panama Unitary 10 provinces (provincias) 68 districts (distritos) 587 corregimientos (corregimientos)

2 corregimiento-level indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas)

 populated places (lugares poblados)
4 indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas) 11 districts 79 corregimientos
Papua New Guinea Regional 20 provinces
1 autonomous region
1 National Capital District		 districts Local-Level Government areas
Paraguay Unitary 17 departments (departamentos)
Asunción, the capital district (distrito capital)		 262 districts (distritos)
Peru Regional 26 regional level circumscriptions
(gobiernos regionales) 		196 provinces (provincias)[38] 1,869 districts (distritos)[38] 94,922 populated centers (centros poblados)[38][bo]
Philippines Regional 16 administrative regions (rehiyong pampangasiwaan)

Bangsamoro, an autonomous region (awtonomong rehiyon)

 82 provinces (lalawigan or probinsya) 107 component cities (bahaging lungsod)
1,488 municipalities (bayan or munisipalidad)		 42,027 barangays (formerly barrios), some grouped into districts
22 independent cities (17 Highly Urbanized Cities and 5 Independent Component Cities)
Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (pambansang punong rehiyon) 16 Highly Urbanized Cities

Pateros, an independent municipality

Poland Unitary 16 voivodeships (województwo) 314 land counties (powiat ziemski) 2,478 municipalities (gminy of 3 types) 40,740 sołectwa (rural)
dzielnice or osiedla (urban)[citation needed]
66 city counties (powiat grodzki)
Portugal Regional 2 autonomous regions (regiões autónomas)
21 intermunicipal communities (comunidades intermunicipais)
2 metropolitan areas (áreas metropolitanas)
18 districts (distritos)		 308 municipalities (concelhos or municípios) 3,259 parishes (freguesias) localities (localidades)[citation needed]
Qatar Unitary 8 municipalities (baladiya'at) 98 Zones
Romania Unitary 41 counties (județe) 320 cities and towns (orașe (including 103 major cities, municipii)
2,856 communes (divided into 12,955 villages, sate[citation needed])
1 autonomous municipality 6 sectors
Russia Federal 89 federal subjects:[bp][bq]
48 oblasts[br]
24 republics[bs]
4 autonomous okrugs
9 krais (territories)
1 autonomous oblast		 2,027 districts
561 cities and towns of federal subject significance		 416 Towns of district significance
767 urban-type settlements of district significance
15,002 selsoviets and equivalents
3 federal cities[bt]
Moscow 12 administrative okrugs 125 districts (raions)
St. Petersburg 18 districts (raions) 81 okrugs
Sevastopol[bu] 4 districts (raions) 9 municipal okrugs and the Town of Inkerman[citation needed]
Rwanda Unitary 4 provinces (intara)
1 city (umujyi)		 30 districts (uturere, singular akarere) 410+ sectors (imirenge) 2,148 cells (utugari, singular akagali) 14,000+ villages (imidugudu, singular umudugudu)
Saint Kitts and Nevis Federal 2 islands:
Saint Kitts 14 parishes
Nevis
Saint Lucia Unitary 10 districts (formerly 12 quarters)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Unitary 6 parishes
Samoa Unitary 11 districts (itūmālō) 43 subdistricts
San Marino Unitary 9 castelli ("castles")
São Tomé and Príncipe Regional 6 districts
Autonomous Region of Príncipe
Saudi Arabia Unitary 13 provinces (manaṭiq) 150 governorates (muḥafaẓat) 1528 centers (marakiz)[39]
Senegal Unitary 14 regions 46 departments 133 arrondissements communes[citation needed]
Serbia Regional 29 districts (okruga)
1 autonomous city
1 autonomous province (+1 claimed)[bv]		 150 municipalities (opština)
24 cities (grada)		 4,500+ settlements (naselja)
Seychelles Unitary 26 districts
Sierra Leone Unitary 4 provinces
1 area		 14 districts 149 chiefdoms
Singapore Unitary 5 community development councils 33 constituencies 98 wards
1 Central Business District
Slovakia Unitary 8 regions (kraje) 79 districts (okresy) 2,891 municipalities (obcí) of which 141 are cities or towns (mestá)[40] cadastraal areas (katastrálne územia)[citation needed]
Slovenia Unitary 212 municipalities (občine)
Solomon Islands Regional 9 provinces &
Honiara, the capital territory		 constituencies wards enumeration areas villages
Somalia Federal 6 states 18 regions (gobolada) 75 districts settlements
South Africa Regional 9 provinces 44 district municipalities 205 local municipalities 4,468 wards
8 metropolitan municipalities
South Korea Unitary 1 Special City (teukbyeolsi) Autonomous districts ( jachigu)
5 counties		 Neighborhoods (dong)

Towns (eup)
Townships (myeon)

 Rural villages (ri, fifth level)

Urban villages (tong, fifth level)

Hamlets (ban, sixth level)[citation needed]

6 Metropolitan Cities (gwangyeoksi)
75 cities (si)
77 counties (gun)
6 provinces (do) Districts(non-administrative) (ilbangu, haengjeonggu)
2 Special Self-Governing Provinces(multi-leveled) (teukbyeol jachido(dacheungje))
1 Special Self-Governing Province(single-leveled) (teukbyeol jachido(dancheungje)) 2cities(non-administrative) (haengjeongsi)
1 Special Self-Governing City (teukbyeol jachisi)
South Sudan Federal 10 States
2 Administrative Areas
1 Area with Special Administrative Status
 183 counties 540 Payams 2,500 Bomas
Spain Regional 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) 50 provinces (provincias) 477 comarcas 8,129 municipalities (municipios)
2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast
3 places of sovereignty (plazas de soberanía)
Sri Lanka Regional 9 provinces 25 districts 331 divisions 14,015 Grama Niladhari
Sudan Federal 18 states (wilayat) 86 districts
Suriname Unitary 10 districts (districten) 62 resorts (ressorten)
Sweden Unitary 21 counties (län) 290 municipalities (kommuner) 2,523 registration districts
Switzerland Federal 26 cantons[bw] 137 districts[citation needed] (not in all cantons, names vary) 2,131 municipalities or communes[41] (varies by canton)
Syria Unitary 14 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 60 districts (mintaqah) subdistricts (nawaḥi)[citation needed] villages[citation needed]
Tajikistan Regional 3 regions (viloyatho)
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
Dushanbe, capital city		 60+ districts (nohiya, formerly raion)[dubious – discuss]
18 cities[42]
2 city councils (hukumati)[citation needed]		 368 village communes (jamoats)[42] 65 towns[42]

4223 villages[citation needed]
Tanzania Regional 31 regions (mikoa),[43] including Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region spanning five regions 120+ districts (wilayat) divisions[citation needed] [wards] [villages]
Thailand Unitary 76 provinces (changwat) 878 districts (amphoe) 7,255 subdistricts (tambons) 74,944 villages (muban)

Community associations (chum-chon)
Municipalities (thesaban) of 3 types take some responsibilities of districts and subdistricts[bx]

Pattaya special administrative area

Bangkok special administrative area 50 districts (khet) 180 subdistricts (kwaeng)
Timor-Leste[by] Unitary 13 municipalities (municípios, munisípiu) 65 administrative posts (postos administrativos) 442 villages (sucos) 2,336 communities (aldeias)
1 special administrative region (região administrativa especial):
Oecusse
Togo Unitary 5 regions (régions) 30 prefectures (préfectures)
Tonga Unitary 5 administrative divisions 23 districts
Trinidad and Tobago Regional 7 regions
5 boroughs
2 cities
1 ward (Tobago)
Tunisia Unitary 24 governorates (Wilayah) 264 delegations (Mutamadiyat) 350 municipalities (Baladiyah)[44] 2073 sectors (Imadats)[45]
Turkey Unitary 81 provinces (il) 403 districts (ilçe) 403 district capitals

388 towns (belde)
18,260 villages (köy)

 32,244 neighborhoods (mahalle) (not in villages)
30 metropolitan municipalities (consolidated province-municipalities) 519 consolidated district-municipalities
Turkmenistan Unitary 5 regions (welaýatlar) (also known as provinces) * 37 districts (etraplar)
* 7 cities with district status (etrap hukukly)		 * 469 rural councils (or rural municipal units) (geňeşlikler, singular geňeşlik)
*68 towns (şäherçeler)		 * 1,690 villages (or rural settlements) (oba ilatly ýerler)
Ashgabat, the capital city-region 4 boroughs or districts (uly etraplar) (as of 2018)
Tuvalu Unitary 9 districts
Uganda Unitary 4 regions 15 sub-regions

135 districts
1 city

 167 counties
31 municipalities
25 city divisions		 1,496 subcounties
580 town councils
89 municipal divisions/boroughs		 10,717 parishes

71,213 villages[46]

Ukraine Regional 24 oblasts (regions)[bz]
2 cities with special status[ca]
1 autonomous republic[cb]		 136 raions (districts) 1469 hromadas (communities)[47] 7567 starosta okruhs (elderships)[48]
United Arab Emirates Federal 7 emirates (imarat):
Abu Dhabi 3 regions[49] 105 districts neighborhoods
Ajman 8 sectors[50] 76 neighborhoods
Dubai 9 sectors 226 communities
Fujairah 6 cities/areas (zones)[51] neighborhoods
Ras Al Khaimah 9 regions 99 zones (neighborhoods)
Sharjah 9 municipalities[52] 106 districts neighborhoods
Umm Al Quwain 8 sectors 92 zones
United Kingdom Regional 4 constituent countries:
1 constituent country without devolution:
England Greater London City of London 25 wards
32 London boroughs (including 1 city) areas
10,449 parishes[53] with some unparished areas
6 metropolitan counties (covered by combined authorities) 36 metropolitan boroughs (a.k.a. metropolitan districts)
21 two-tier non-metropolitan counties 164 non-metropolitan districts
Berkshire (non-governing, non-metropolitan) 6 non-metropolitan districts (de facto unitary authorities)
56 unitary authorities

Isles of Scilly (sui generis)

3 constituent countries with devolution:
Northern Ireland 11 districts
Scotland 32 council areas (comhairlean) 1,369 communities
Wales 22 principal areas (prif ardaloedd) 878 communities (cymunedau)
3 crown dependencies:
Bailiwick of Guernsey 3 jurisdictions:
Alderney(contiguous with non-administrative parish of St Anne)
Guernsey 10 parishes Parish of Saint Peter Port is divided into four cantons, excluding Herm and Jethou
Sark (contiguous with non-administrative parish of St Peter)
Isle of Man 6 sheadings 15 parishes, 9 towns and villages
Jersey 12 parishes 48 vingtaines
6 cueillettes
14 British Overseas Territories:
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Anguilla 14 districts
Bermuda 9 parishes
2 municipalities
British Antarctic Territory[cc]
British Indian Ocean Territory 2 island groups
British Virgin Islands 5 districts
Cayman Islands 7 districts
Falkland Islands 2 constituencies
Gibraltar 7 major residential areas 70 enumeration areas[54]
Montserrat 3 parishes
Pitcairn Islands 4 islands
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 3 constituent parts:
Ascension Island
Saint Helena 8 districts
Tristan da Cunha
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 2 island groups
Turks and Caicos Islands 6 districts
United States Federal 50 states:
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming		 3,049 counties (including 41 independent cities)[cd] Local government in the United States varies widely by state; some entities cross county and other boundaries. The US Census in 2012 counted 19,522 municipalities, 16,364 townships, 37,203 special districts, and 12,884 independent school districts which have active governments.[55] Many states use township as a governmental level between county and municipality. Most states have counties with unincorporated areas (no municipal government). Municipal governments are called cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and townships, and can form 1-3 layers of government. Many municipalities are administratively divided into boroughs, wards, districts, neighborhoods, or villages, which may or may not have an active government. One of the municipalities in the country is even divided into 5 counties, as the 5 boroughs of New York City also are counties. The US Census defines minor civil divisions and census county divisions for top-level county divisions, many only for statistical purposes.
Alaska 19 boroughs
Unorganized Borough
Louisiana 64 parishes
1 federal district:
Washington, D.C.
326 Indian reservations
4 unincorporated organized territories:
Guam 19 villages[ce]
Northern Mariana Islands 4 municipalities
Puerto Rico 78 municipalities 902 barrios[56]
United States Virgin Islands 3 districts 20 subdistricts
1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory:
American Samoa 3 districts 15 counties 76 villages
2 unorganized atolls
United States Minor Outlying Islands:
Baker Island
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Midway Islands
Palmyra Atoll[cf]
Wake Island
Bajo Nuevo Bank[cg]
Navassa Island[ch]
Serranilla Bank[ci]
Uruguay Unitary 19 departments (departamentos) 125 municipalities (municipios)
Uzbekistan Regional 12 regions (viloyatlar) 144 districts (tumanlar)[57][58]
 Citizen assembly of villages

Urban-type settlements
Cities of district subordination
Cities of regional subordination Cities

Citizen assembly of villages
Urban-type settlement
Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic Cities of republican subordination Urban-type settlements
16 districts Village citizen assemblies

Urban-type settlements
Cities of district subordination
Tashkent, an independent city 15 districts Urban-type settlements
Vanuatu Unitary 6 provinces municipalities, local councils
Vatican City Unitary None
Venezuela Federal 23 states (estados) 335 municipalities (municipios) 1,136 parishes (parroquias)[citation needed] populated centers (centros poblados)
1 capital district, Caracas
Federal dependencies of 12 island groups Francisco de Miranda Insular Territory, directly administered remainder
Vietnam Unitary 27 provinces (tỉnh)
 697 wards (phường)
2,611 communes (xã)
13 special zones (đặc khu)		 neighborhoods (khu phố)
hamlets (xóm, ấp)
villages (làng, thôn, bản)
7 municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương)
Yemen Unitary 21 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)
1 municipality		 333 districts 2,210+ [subdistricts][citation needed] 38,284 [villages][citation needed]
Zambia Unitary 10 provinces 89 districts wards villages
Zimbabwe Unitary 10 provinces 59 districts 1,200 wards villages

Member states of United Nations specialized agencies

Country Type Administrative divisions
First-level Second-level Third-level Fourth-level+
Kosovo Unitary 7 districts 38 municipalities 1,400+ settlements (naselja)

Other states

Country Type Administrative divisions
First-level Second-level Third-level Fourth-level+
Abkhazia Unitary 7 districts (araion)
City of Sukhumi		 123 municipalities
South Ossetia Unitary 4 districts (raions)
2 cities
Taiwan (Republic of China) Regional 6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) (+12 claimed)
2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng)[cj] (+33 claimed)

1 claimed special administrative region

2 claimed areas

 13 counties (xiàn)
3 provincial cities (shì)		 170 districts (qū)
12 county-administered cities (xiànxiáshì)
40 urban townships (zhèn)
146 rural townships (xiāng)		 Urban villages (lǐ)
Rural villages (cūn)
Somaliland Unitary 6 regions (gobolada) 18 districts
Northern Cyprus Unitary 6 districts (ilçe) subdistricts components, quarters
Transnistria Unitary 5 districts

1 municipality, Tiraspol
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (notional, mostly occupied by Morocco) Unitary 7 military regions

4 provinces (wilayat) (claimed)

 25 districts (daïras) (claimed)

See also

Notes

  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. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ Only in 8 municipalities
  22. ↑ In the Northwest Territories, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no government of their own.
  23. ↑ In Nunavut, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no government of their own.
  24. ↑ Also referred to as municípios.
  25. ↑ According to article 118 paragraph 7 of the Constitution of Chile, their establishment is a voluntary faculty for the municipalities.
  26. ↑ Including Taiwan Province, which is claimed by the People's Republic of China, but is de facto administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan).
  27. ↑ Either zìráncūnjí ("natural" villages) or xíngzhèngcūnjí (bureaucratic villages)
  28. ↑ Not including Mayotte, which is claimed by the Comoros, but is administered by France.
  29. ↑ Also known as Congo-Kinshasa
  30. ↑ Also known as Congo-Brazzaville
  31. ↑ Including 4 districts that are partially or entirely occupied by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Northern Cyprus).
  32. ↑ 2nd level municipalities
  33. ↑ 3rd level municipalities
  34. ↑ Judicial only
  35. ↑ Due to be replaced by [communes]
  36. ↑ Only within Djibouti City
  37. ↑ Estonia's linnad (towns) and vallad (parishes) are known collectively as omavalitsused (municipalities).
  38. ↑ Consisting of kaupungit (urban communes) and kunnat (communes)
  39. ↑ Including 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion).
  40. ↑ The 3 communes of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille are further subdivided into municipal arrondissements.
  41. ↑ also known as a pays d'outre-mer (overseas country).
  42. ↑ Uvea only
  43. ↑ Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  44. ↑ South Ossetia is not currently under Georgia's de facto jurisdiction, and has no final defined constitutional status in Georgia's territorial arrangement.[12]
  45. ↑ 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.
  46. ↑ or, informally, Bundesländer (federal states).
  47. ↑ Region Hannover, Regionalverband Saarbrücken and Städteregion Aachen
  48. ↑ usually in rural areas and known by various names in different states, e.g. Amt, Samtgemeinde, Verbandsgemeinde and Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
  49. ↑ Fifth-level administrative division
  50. ↑ Sixth-level administrative division
  51. ↑ Seventh-level administrative division
  52. ↑ Fifth-level administrative division
  53. ↑ Sixth-level administrative division
  54. ↑ Including 9 special regions (daerah istimewa/khusus)
  55. ↑ Including 4 governorates in the autonomous Kurdistan Region (counting Halabja).
  56. ↑ 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,[18][19] the International Court of Justice, and the European Union.[20]
  57. ↑ Including:
  58. ↑ The city has a special status because it is currently being leased to Russia with Baikonur Cosmodrome until the year 2050
  59. ↑
  60. ↑ French; alternatively German:Kantone.
  61. ↑ French; alternatively German:Gemeinden.
  62. ↑ Luxembourgish: quartierën; alternatively French:quartiers, German:Stadtvierteln.
  63. ↑ Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  64. ↑ Marka and Sentrum
  65. ↑ Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  66. ↑ Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  67. ↑ 2,959 of them have populated center municipality status, formally recognized by the State.
  68. ↑ Federal subjects, grouped into 7 federal districts
  69. ↑ 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
  70. ↑ Including Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
  71. ↑ 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
  72. ↑ Including Sevastopol which was illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
  73. ↑ Illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
  74. ↑ Administered by the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo
  75. ↑ (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.
  76. ↑
  77. ↑ Also known as East Timor.
  78. ↑ Currently, one oblast (Luhansk) is fully under Russian control, and three more (Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia) are partially under Russian control.
  79. ↑ One city (Sevastopol) is currently under Russian control.
  80. ↑ Currenltly under Russian control
  81. ↑ Claim frozen by the Antarctic Treaty.
  82. ↑ Not all have active governments. No county-level government exists in:
  83. ↑ also known as municipalities.
  84. ↑ Incorporated
  85. ↑ Disputed
  86. ↑ Disputed
  87. ↑ Disputed
  88. ↑ Nominal. All provincial governments are de facto abolished.

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