Summary

Administrative divisions by country

Member and observer states of the United Nations

Country	Administrative divisions
	First-level	Second-level	Third-level	Fourth-level and smaller
Afghanistan	34 provinces (velaya'at)	421 districts (woleswali)	subdistricts (alaqadari)
Albania	12 counties (qarqe)	61 municipalities (bashki)	373 units of local governance (njësi të qeverisjes vendore)	2,972 villages (fshatra)
Algeria	58 provinces (wilayas)	553 districts (daïras)	1,541 communes (baladiyahs)
Andorra	7 parishes (parròquies)
Angola	18 provinces (províncias)	163 municipalities (municípios)	618 communes (comunas)
Antigua and Barbuda	6 parishes 2 dependencies
Argentina (federal state)	23 provinces (provincias)	378 departments (departamentos)[1] 135 Partidos (Buenos Aires Province only)	Municipalities (municipios)
	1 autonomous city (ciudad autónoma)	15 communes (comunas)	48 Neighbourhoods (barrios)
Armenia	10 provinces (marzer) 1 autonomous city	503 municipalities (hamaynkner)
Australia (federal state)	6 states 9 territories[2]	539 local government areas[3] Unincorporated areas
Austria (federal state)	9 states (Bundesländer)	93 districts (Bezirke)[4]	2,098 municipalites (Gemeinden)
Azerbaijan (regional state or de facto federal state)	59 districts (Rayonlar) 11 cities (Şəhərlər)[5]		+2600 municipalities (Bələdiyyələr)	+4500 settlements (Yaşayış Məntəqələri)
	1 autonomous republic (Muxtar Respublika)	7 districts (Rayonlar) 1 city (Şəhər)	218 settlements (Yaşayış Məntəqələri)
Bahamas	32 districts New Providence
Bahrain	4 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)g
Bangladesh	8 divisions (bibhag)	64 districts (zila)	491 sub-districts (upazila)[6] 12 City corporations	4,554 union councils (union parishads) 327 municipal corporations (paurasabhas)
Barbados	11 parishes
Belarus	6 regions (oblasti or voblastsi) 1 autonomous city	118 districts (raiony)
Belgium (federal state)	3 regions[7]	10 provinces[8]	43 districts[9]	590 municipalities[10]
Belize	6 districts	city councils, town councils, village councils and community councils
Benin	12 departments (départements)	77 communes (communes)	546 districts (arrondissements)
Bhutan	20 districts (dzongkhag)	201 blocks (gewogs)b 61 thromdesm
Bolivia (regional state or de facto federal state)	9 departments (departamentos)	112 provinces (provincias)	339 municipalities (municipios)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (federal state)	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina	10 cantons (kantona)	143 municipalities (općine or opštine)	local community
	Republika Srpska		64 municipalities (opštine)	local community
	Brčko District
Botswana	10 rural districts 7 urban districts	21 sub-districts[11]
Brazil (federal state)	26 states (estados)	5,568 municipalities (municípios) 1 state district (distrito estadual)	10,607 municipal districts (distritos municipais)	subdistricts (subdistritos)
	1 federal district (distrito federal)			33 administrative regions (regiões administrativas)
Brunei	4 districts (daerah)	38 subdistricts (mukim)w	villages (kampung)
Bulgaria	28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области)	265 municipalities (obshtini, общини)
Burkina Faso	13 regions (régions)	45 provinces	325 departments (départements)[12]
Burundi	18 provinces	119 communes	2,639 collines
Cambodia	24 provinces (khêt) 1 autonomous municipality	193 districts (srŏk)	1,646 communes (khum)
Cameroon	10 regions (régions)	58 departments (départements)	360 communes, or districts (arrondissements)
Canada (federal state)	10 provinces 3 territories	293 census geographic units[13]	3,572 municipalities
Cape Verde	22 councils or municipalities (concelhos, also referred to as municípios)	32 parishes (freguesias)
Central African Republic	16 prefectures (préfectures) 1 autonomous commune	72 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)
Chad	23 regions (régions)	67 departments (départements)[14]	340 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)
Chile (regional state or de facto federal state)	16 regions (regiones)	54 provinces (provincias)	346 communes (comunas)
China, People's Republic of (regional state or de facto federal state)	23 provinces (shěng) 5 autonomous regions (zìzhìqū) 4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì)	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) then Urban areas: (residential) communities (shèqū) or neighbourhoods (jūmínqū) Rural areas: villages (cūnjí), village areas or village groups.[15]
	2 special administrative regions (tèbié xíngzhèngqū/dahkbiht hàhngjingkēui)	18 districts (Hong Kong only)
Colombia (regional state or de facto federal state)	32 departments (departamentos) 1 Capital District (Distrito Capital)	1,102 municipalities (municipios)	2,000+ corregimientos [16]
Comoros (federal state)	3 autonomous islands (îles autonomes)	16 prefectures (préfectures)	54 communes	318 villes or villages
DR Congo[17]	26 provinces	145 territories cities	264 chiefdoms 470 sectors communes	groupings quarters
Congo[18]	12 departments	80+ districts	communes
Costa Rica	7 provinces (provincias)	82 cantons (cantones)	450+ districts
Croatia	21 counties (županije)	127 towns (gradovi) 429 municipalities (općine)	4,117+ local communities (mjesnih odbora) (gradske četvrti [Zagreb], gradski kotari [Split])	6,700+ settlements (naselja)
Cuba	16 provinces (provincias)	160+ municipalities (municipios)
Cyprus	6 districts (eparchies)	610 communities
Czech Republic	13 regions (krajů)	76 districts (okresy) statistical only 205 municipalities with extended competence (3rd level municipalities) (obce s rozšířenou působností)	393 municipalities with commissioned local authority (2nd level municipalities) (obce s pověřeným obecním úřadem)	6,254 1st level municipalities (obcí) 4 military proving grounds (vojenský újezd) special status
	Capital City of Prague (Hlavní město Praha)	10 districts (obvody) judicial only 22 administrative districts (správní obvody)	57 municipal districts (městské části)	112 cadastral communities (katastrální území)
Denmark, the Kingdom of (regional state or de facto federal state)	1 senior member of the Kingdom:  Denmark
	5 regions (regioner)	98 municipalities (kommuner)
	2 self-governing territories within the Kingdom:
	Faroe Islands	7 regions (sýsla)[19]	29 municipalities (kommunur)[20]
	Greenland	5 municipalities (kommuner)
Djibouti	6 regions (régions)	15 districts[21] 6 arrondissements (within Djibouti City)
Dominica	10 parishes
Dominican Republic	31 provinces (provincias) 1 National District (Distrito Nacional)	110+ municipalities (municipios)	40+ municipal districts (distritos municipales)
East Timor[22]	12 municipalities (Municípios) 1 special administrative region (região administrativa especial)	65 administrative posts (postos administrativos)	442 sucos [23]
Ecuador	24 provinces (provincias)	221 cantons (cantones)	1,000+ parishes (parroquias)
Egypt	27 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	271 marakiz or aqsam	4,617+ villages or districts	sheyakha or residential districts
El Salvador	14 departments (departamentos)	262 municipalities (municipios)
Equatorial Guinea	8 provinces (provincias)	32 districts (distritos)
Eritrea	6 regions (zoba)	57 districts	Communes (Kebabis)	Villages and towns
Estonia[24]	15 counties (maakonnad)	15 towns (linnad)	linnaosaddis	asumidsd
		64 parishes (vallad)	kandid[25]	17 linnad[16] 9 alevid[26] 173 alevikud[27] 4,430 külad[23]
Eswatini	4 regions (tifundza)	50+ tinkhundla[28]	360+ imiphakatsi[29]
Ethiopia (federal state)	10 regions (kililoch) 2 chartered cities (astedader akababiwach)	68 zones (zonoch)	600+ districts (woreda)	kebeles[30][31]
Fiji	4 divisions	14 provinces	+ 50 districts
	1 dependency
Finland (regional state or de facto federal state)	18 regions (maakuntaa)	70+ subregions (seutukuntaa)	317 municipalities (kuntaa) [32]
	1 autonomous region (Åland) (itsehallinnollinen maakunta)	16 municipalities (kommuner (kuntaa))
France (regional state or de facto federal state)	18 regions (régions)	101 departments (départements) [33] + the Metropolis of Lyon	332 arrondissements	4,032 cantons (fourth-level), 12,159 intercommunalities (fifth level), 35,357 communes (sixth-level) [34]
	1 state private property, located overseas, under the direct authority of the French government:  Clipperton Island
	5 overseas collectivities (collectivités d'outre-mer)
	French Polynesia[35]	5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives)	40+ communes
	Saint-Barthélemy
	Saint-Martin
	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	2 communes
	Wallis and Futuna	3 traditional kingdoms (royaumes coutumiers)	3 districts (Uvea only)
	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	5 districts
Gabon	9 provinces	50 departments (départements)	152 cantons, 52 communes, 29 arrondissements
Gambia	5 regions 1 city (The country is alternatively split between 8 Local Government Areas)	43 districts
Georgia (regional state or de facto federal state)	9 regions (mkhare) 2 autonomous republics (avt'onomiuri resp'ublik'a)	5 cities (k'alak'i) 67 communities (temi)
Germany (federal state)	16 states (Länder) [36]	19 Regierungsbezirke [37] (only in 4 states)	400+ districts (Kreise) [38]	11,000+ municipalities (Gemeinden)
			some areas also have a form of Gemeindeverbände [39] as an intermediary between Gemeinde and Kreis levels
	Baden-Württemberg  Bavaria  Hesse  North Rhine-Westphalia	Regierungsbezirke [37]	rural districts (Landkreise or Kreise)	towns (Städte)
				municipalities (Gemeinden) Märkte (only in Bavaria)
			cities (urban districts) (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise)
	Brandenburg  Lower Saxony  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  Rhineland-Palatinate  Saarland  Saxony  Saxony-Anhalt  Schleswig-Holstein  Thuringia		rural districts (Landkreise or Kreise)	towns (Städte)
				municipalities (Gemeinden)
			cities (urban districts) (Kreisfreie Städte)
	Bremen			2 cities (Städte): Bremen (city) Bremerhaven
	Berlin	12 boroughs (Bezirke)	96 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile)
	Hamburg	7 boroughs (Bezirke)	104 quarters (Stadtteile)	181 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile)
Ghana	16 regions	216 districts	Communities tema
		8 municipal districts	zones
		3 metropolitan districts	submetropolitan districts
Greece (regional state or de facto federal state)	7 decentralized administrations (apokentroménes dioikíseis)	13 administrative regions (peripheries)	74 regional units (perifereiakés enótites)	332 municipalities (dímoi)
	1 autonomous monastic state (aftonomi monastiki politeia)::  Mount Athos
Grenada	6 parishesi 1 dependency
Guatemala	22 departments (departamentos)	332 municipalities (municipios)
Guinea	8 regions (régions)	33 prefectures (préfectures)	330+ sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)	[districts] [sectors]
		5 communes
Guinea-Bissau	8 regions (regiões) 1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo)	39 sectors (setores)
Guyana	10 regions	27 neighborhood councils
Haiti	10 departments (départements)	42 arrondissements	144 communes	571 communal sections (sections communales)
Honduras	18 departments (departamentos)	298 municipalities (municipios)	3,731 aldeas
Hungary	19 counties (megye)	197 districts (Járás)	3,154 cities and towns (városok)
	1 autonomous city
Iceland	72 municipalities
India (federal state)	28 states (rājya) 8 union territories (sangh shāsit pradesh)	722 districts (zile)[40]	5,924 tahsīlen municipal corporations (cities) (nagar nigam) Municipal councils (nagar pālika) Notified area council (nagar panchāyat)	Community development block (sāmudāyik vikās khand) village council (grām panchāyat)
Indonesia (regional state or de facto federal state)	34 provinces (provinsi) including 5 special regions (daerah istimewa)	416 regencies (kabupaten) 98 cities (kota, formerly ‘’kotamadya’’)	7,094 districts (kecamatan, distrik, kapanewon, kemantren)	83,447 villages (kelurahan, desa)
Iran	31 provinces (ostanha)	324 counties (shahrestan)	districts (bakhsh)	dehestan municipalities (shahr)
Iraq (federal state)	19 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	120 districts (aqḍyat)[41]	300+ subdistricts (naḥiyat)	villages (qaryat)
Ireland	26 counties (contaetha) 3 cities (cathracha) 2 cities and counties	2 metropolitan districts 4 borough districts 89 municipal districts
Israel	6 districts (mehozot) [42] Judea and Samaria Area	15 sub-districts (nafot) [42]	52 Natural regions [42]	77 cities (arim) [43] 124 local councils (moatzot mekomiot) [44] 54 regional councils (moatzot azoriot) [45]
Italy (regional state or de facto federal state)	20 regions (regioni)	80 provinces (province) 2 autonomous provinces (province autonome)	7,998 communes (comuni)	37,000+ fractions (frazioni) and circumscriptions (circoscrizioni)
Ivory Coast	12 districts	31 regions (régions)	108 departments (départements) 1 unincorporated area	510 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures)
	2 autonomous districts (districts autonomes)
Jamaica	14 parishes
Japan (regional state or de facto federal state)	47 prefectures (todōfuken)[46]	28 sub-prefectures (shichō) 15 designated cities (seirei shitei toshi)	1,700+ municipalities (shichōsonku) [47]	ōaza, aza, chō, chōme
	Tokyo Metropolis	23 special wards (tokubetsu-ku) 26 cities (toshi) 1 district (gun) 4 subprectures (shichō)
Jordan	12 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	52 Districts (Alwia'a)	89 Subdistricts (Nahiya)	qurah
Kazakhstan	14 regions (oblys) 3 cities with region rights (qala) Baikonur[48]	319 raions (awdan) oblıstıq qala	kent	awıl aymaq
Kenya (regional state or de facto federal state)	47 counties (kaunti)	262 sub-counties (kaunti ndogo)	2,400+ locations (mtaa)	Cities, Municipalities and Towns villages (vijiji)
Kiribati	24 local councils 12 uninhabited islands/atolls
Kuwait	6 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)	132 areas (manāṭiq)
Kyrgyzstan	7 provinces (oblast) 2 independent cities (šaar (keneš))	44 raions (rayon) 14 towns (gorkeneš)	rural communities or rural districts (aiyl okmotu)
Laos	17 provinces (khoueng) 1 prefecture	140+ districts (muang or muong)	villages (baan)[23]
Latvia	110 municipalities (novadi) 9 republic cities (Republikas pilsētas)
Lebanon	8 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) [49]	26 districts (qaḍya)
Lesotho	10 districts	80+ constituencies	120+ community councils
Liberia	15 counties	60+ districts
Libya	22 districts (sha'biyat)	99 baladiyat
Liechtenstein	11 municipalities (Gemeinden)
Lithuania	10 counties (apskritys)	60 municipalities (savivaldybės)	500+ elderships (seniūnijos)
Luxembourg	12 cantons [50]	105 communes[51] [52]	24 quarters [53]
Madagascar	22 faritra r	114 districts	1,579 kaomininacom and 17,485 fokontany[23]
Malawi	3 regions	28 districts	(130+ ["traditional authorities"])	(60+ ["subchiefdoms"])
Malaysia (federal state)	13 states (negeri)	139 districts (daerah) (Grouped into divisions in Sabah and Sarawak)	1,000+ subdistricts (mukim)	8,000+ villages (kampung)
	3 federal territories (Wilayah Persekutuan)
	Kuala Lumpur	11 sub-districts (mukim)	150+ villages (kampung)
	Labuan	27 villages (kampung)
	Putrajaya	21 presint
Maldives	19 atolls 2 cities	189 islands
Mali	10 régions[54] 1 capital district	40+ cercles [55]	1,400+ arrondissements [56]	700+ communes
Malta	5 reġjunir	68 kunsilli lokali (local councils)m
Marshall Islands	24 municipalitiesm
Mauritania	12 régions [57]r	50+ départementsdep[58]	200+ communes
	Additionally Nouakchott:
	Nouakchott-Nord Regionr	3 départementsdep[58]
	Nouakchott-Ouest Regionr	3 départementsdep[58]
	Nouakchott-Sud Regionr	3 départementsdep[58]
Mauritius	4 islands	9 districts 14 zones	120+ villages, 4 Towns 173 localities
Mexico (federal state)	31 estadoss	2,458 municipiosm
	1 autonomous city	16 demarcaciones territoriales[59]
F.S. Micronesia (federal state)	4 states	70+ municipalities
Moldova (regional state or de facto federal state)	32 raioanedis 3 municipiuci 1 unitate teritorială autonomăa 1 unitatea teritorială:[60]	15 [municipalities]m 50 [cities]ci 60+ [city localities][61] 660+ [villages][23] 880+[village localities][61]
Monaco	10 quartiers [25]i
Mongolia	21 aimagspro	331 sums dis	1,538 bags
	1 khot m	9 düüregs dis	132 khoroos
Montenegro	24 opštine m	1,256 naselja
Morocco	12 regionsr [62]	13 prefectures 62 [provinces]pro	cercles [55]	communes ruralescom
				[municipalities] m communes urbainescom arrondissements
Mozambique	11 provinciaspro	128 distritos dis	405 postos	[urban districts] dis localidades [61]
Myanmar	7 States	67 Districts	330 Townships	3,183 Wards (4th-level) 13,602 Village tracts (4th-level) 70,838 Villages (5th-level)
	7 Regions
	1 Union Territory
	5 Self-Administered Zones
	1 Self-Administered Division
Namibia	14 regions[63]	121 constituencies[63]	citiesm townsm villagesm settlements
Nauru	14 districtsi
Nepal (federal state)	7 provinces (Pradesh)	77 districts (jilla)	6 metropolitan cities (mahānagarpālikā) 11 sub-metropolitan cities (upa-mahānagarpālikā) 276 municipalities (nagarpālikā) 486 rural municipalities (gāunpālikā)	6743 wards (wadā)
Netherlands (regional state or de facto federal state)	4 countries (landen):
	Netherlands	12 provinces (provincies)	355 municipalities (gemeenten)
		3 public bodies (openbare lichamen): Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius
	Aruba
	Curaçao
	Sint Maarten
New Zealand (regional state or de facto federal state)	Realm of New Zealand:
	New Zealand	11 non-unitary regions	13 cities 53 districts
		1 special territorial authority: Chatham Islands
		5 unitary authorities
		3 outlying islands: Kermadec Islands Three Kings Islands Subantarctic Islands
	Ross Dependency
	1 self-administering territory:a
	Tokelau	3 autonomous communities
	2 states in free-association:a
	Cook Islands	10 island councils
	Niue	14 villages
Nicaragua (regional state or de facto federal state)	15 departamentosdepm 2 regiones autónomasa	150+ municipiosm
Niger	7 régions  Communauté Urbaine de Niamey	36 départements	265 communes, communes urbaines, communes rurales, postes administratifs[64]
Nigeria (federal state)	36 states 1 Federal Capital Territory	774 Local Government Areas
North Korea	9 dopro 1 chikhalsi 2 t'ŭkpyŏlsi 1 t'ŭkkŭpsici	150+ kun (gun) count sici kuyŏk [31] ku (gu) and chigu dis 1 t'ŭkkŭpsici	tong [30] ri [23] rodongjagu dis
North Macedonia	80 opštini m
Norway	11 counties (fylker)	356 municipalities (kommuner)
	2 integral overseas areas: Svalbard, Jan Mayen
	3 dependencies: Peter I Island, Bouvet Island, Queen Maud Land
Oman	11 muḥāfaẓātg	61 wilaya'atpro
Pakistan (federal state)	4 provinces 2 autonomous territories 1 federal capital territory	36 divisions	154 districts	596 counties (tehsils) (4th-level) Almost 6,000 Union Councils (5th-level)
	1 federal territory	5 zones	27 union councils
Palau	16 statesm
Palestine	West Bank Gaza Strip	16 governoratesg
Panama	10 provincias pro 3 comarcas indígenas	79 distritos dis	666 corregimientos 2 comarcas indígenas
	10 provincias pro	68 distritos dis	587 corregimientos m 2 comarcas indígenas m
	3 comarcas indígenasr	11 distritosdis	79 corregimientosm
Papua New Guinea (regional state or de facto federal state)	20 provinces 1 autonomous region 1 National Capital District	districts	Local-Level Government areas
Paraguay	17 departamentosdep 1 capital district (distrito capital)	250 distritos or municipios m
Peru (regional state or de facto federal state)	25 regiones r	190+ provinciaspro	1,800+ distritos [65]dis	84,000+ centros poblados → 1,800+ centros poblados menores (as government entity) 810,00+ [centros poblados dispersos] (only as censal unity)
	1 provinciapro	43 distritos[65]dis
Philippines (regional state or de facto federal state)	16 rehiyong pampangasiwaan r 1 awtonomong rehiyona, r	81 lalawigan[66]pro 38 malayang lungsod [67] 1 malayang bayan [68]	107 bahaging lungsodci [69] 1,489 karaniwang bayan [70]m[16]	42,027 barangay [71]v
Poland	16 voivodeships (województwa) [72]pro	380 powiaty count[73]	2,478 gminycom	40,740 sołectwa (rural) dzielnice or osiedla (urban)
Portugal (regional state or de facto federal state)	18 distritosdis 2 regiões autónomasa	308 concelhos[74]m	3,091 freguesiaspa
Qatar	7 baladiya'at m	98 Zones
Romania	41 județe count	320 orașeci (including 103 municipii m) 2,856 comunecom (divided into 12,955 sate [23])
	1 autonomous municipality	6 sectoare [75]
Russia (federal state)	85 federal subjects:[76][77]
	46 oblasts 22 republicsa[77] 4 autonomous okrugsa 9 krais[60] 1 autonomous oblasta	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[78]
	Moscow	12 administrative okrugsdis	Districts and settlements
	St. Petersburg	18 districtsdis
	Sevastopol[79]	4 districtsdis
Rwanda	5 intarapro	30 uturere [80]dis (umujyi m)	410+ imirenge [75][81]	9,100+ utugari [82] (then akagari ?[23])
Saint Kitts and Nevis (federal state)	Saint Kitts	9 parishes
	Nevis	5 parishes
Saint Lucia	10 Districts [25]m
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6 parishesa
Samoa	11 itūmālō i
San Marino	9 castellim
São Tomé and Príncipe	6 distritosdis Autonomous Region of Príncipea
Saudi Arabia	13 manaṭiq	118 muḥafaẓat r	marakizsd
Senegal	14 régions	45 départementsdep	arrondissements	communes
Serbia (regional state or de facto federal state)	29 okrugadis 1 autonomous city	150 opštinam 24 gradaci
Seychelles	26 districtsa
Sierra Leone	4 provinces 1 area	14 districts	149 chiefdoms
Singapore	5 districtsr	31 constituencies	93 wards
		1 Central Business Districtdis
Slovakia	8 kraje r	79 okresy dis	2,891 obcem, from that 130+ mestá[16][83]	katastrálne územia [84]
Slovenia	212 občine m
Solomon Islands (regional state or de facto federal state)	9 provincesm 1 capital territory
Somalia (federal state)	18 gobolada r	75 [districts] dis
South Africa (regional state or de facto federal state)	9 provinces	44 district municipalities	205 local municipalities	4,392 wards
		8 metropolitan municipalities
South Korea (regional state or de facto federal state)	8 dopro	75 sici 77 gun (kun)count	gu (ku)dis[26] dong[30] eup[16] myeon[85]	dong[30] ri[23]
	6 gwangyeoksici	44 gu (ku)dis 5 gun (kun)count	dong[30] eup[16] myeon[85]	ri[23]
	1 teukbyeol jachidoa	2 si	dong[30] eup[16] myeon[85]
	1 teukbyeol jachisi
	1 teukbyeolsi	25 gu (ku)dis[26]	dong[30]
South Sudan (federal state)	10 States 2 Administrative Areas 1 Area with Special Administrative Status	183 counties	540 Payams	2,500 Bomas
Spain (regional state or de facto federal state)	17 comunidades autónomasr, a	50 provinciaspro[86]	477 comarcas	8,122 municipiosm
	2 ciudades autónomasa			2 municipios[87]
	3 plazas menores de soberanía[88]
Sri Lanka (regional state or de facto federal state)	9 provinces	25 districts dis	320+ divisions
Sudan (federal state)	18 wilaya'ats	86 [districts]
Suriname	10 districten dis	62 ressorten [89]
Sweden	21 län count 20 landsting [90]	290 kommuner m	2,523 distrikt
Switzerland (federal state)	26 cantons [91]	137 districts [92]dis	2,197 communes [93]m
Syria	14 muḥāfaẓātg	60 manaṭiq [94]dis	nawaḥisd	[villages] [23]
Tajikistan (regional state or de facto federal state)	3 viloyathopro 1 viloyat mukhtora 1 capital city	60+ Nohiyadis 14 [cities]ci 2 hukumati[95]	(jamoats)	([villages][23])
Tanzania (regional state or de facto federal state)	31 mkoa[96] r	120+ wilaya dis	[divisions]div	[wards] [31] then [villages] [23]
Thailand	76 changwat[97]pro 76 PAO[98]	878 amphoe [99]dis	7,255 tambon[100]sub 30 Thesaban nakhon[101]m 178 Thesaban mueang[102]m 2,232 Thesaban tambon[103]m City of Pattaya[104]	74,944 muban[105]vil 5,335 SAO[106]sub Chumchon[107]com
	1 special administrative area	50 khet[108]dis	180 kwaeng[109]sub
Togo	5 régions	30 préfectures
Tonga	5 provinces	23 districts
Trinidad and Tobago (regional state or de facto federal state)	9 regions Tobago (governed by Tobago House of Assembly) 3 boroughs 2 cities
Tunisia	24 wilaya'atg	mutamadiyat dis	shaykhat m
Turkey	81 il pro	957 ilçe dis	3,200+ belediye m	[neighbourhoods] [30] [41,000 villages] [23]
Turkmenistan	5 welaýatlarr 1 capital city district	70+ ?adyndaky etraplar dis [110] 40+ ?etraplar dis 15 [towns] [16]
Tuvalu	9 municipalitiesm
Uganda	134 districts 1 city	167 counties 22 municipalities 5 city divisions	1,106 subcounties 151 town councils 63 municipal divisions/boroughs	parishes villages
Ukraine (regional state or de facto federal state)	24 oblasts (regions) 2 cities with special status 1 autonomous republic	140 raions (districts)	1469 hromadas (communities)[111]
United Arab Emirates (federal state)	7 emirates (imarat)	local municipalities
United Kingdom (regional state or de facto federal state)	1 constituent country with no devolution:
	England  ∟ 9 regions (Greater London)	6 metropolitan counties	36 metropolitan districts	parishes[112]
		76 non-metropolitan counties	201 non-metropolitan districts
		∟ 56 unitary authorities
		32 London boroughs
		City of London
	3 constituent countries with devolution:
	Northern Ireland	(6 counties) 11 districts
	Scotland	32 council areas		communities
	Wales	10 county boroughs 9 counties 3 cities		communities
	3 crown dependencies:
	Guernsey[113]	10 parishes 2 dependencies: Alderney and Sark
	Jersey[113]	12 parishes	vingtaines, cueillettes
	Isle of Man	6 sheadings	15 parishes, 9 towns and villages
	14 British Overseas Territories:
	Akrotiri and Dhekelia
	Anguilla	14 districts
	Bermuda	9 parishes 2 municipalities
	British Indian Ocean Territory
	British Virgin Islands	5 districts
	Cayman Islands	7 districts
	Falkland Islands
	Gibraltar
	Montserrat	3 parishes
	Pitcairn Islands
	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	3 parts of the territory: Saint Helena Ascension Island Tristan da Cunha	Saint Helena has 8 districts
	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
	Turks and Caicos Islands	6 districts
United States (federal state)	50 states  1 federal district 1 incorporated territory: Palmyra Atoll ( US Minor Outlying Islands)	3,142 counties and county-equivalents (including 41 independent cities)	Municipalities and minor civil divisions (including cities, plantations, towns, townships, villages, etc.): 35,930 municipal bodies (Note that municipalities and cities can exist in multiple counties.)
	4 unincorporated organized territories:
	Guam	19 villages[114]
	Northern Mariana Islands	4 municipalities
	Puerto Rico	78 municipalitiesm	900+ barrios[30][115]
	Virgin Islands	3 districts	20 subdistricts
	1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory:
	American Samoa	3 districts	15 counties	76 villages
		2 unorganized atolls
	10 unincorporated unorganized territories; US Minor Outlying Islands: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Wake Island, Navassa Island, Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed), and Serranilla Bank (disputed)
Uruguay	19 departamentosdep	112 municipiosm
Uzbekistan (regional state or de facto federal state)	12 viloyatlar 1 respublikaa 1 independent city	174 tumanlardis 120 shaharlarci
Vanuatu	6 provinces	municipalities, local councils
Vatican City	None
Venezuela (federal state)	23 estadoss	335 municipiosm	1,136 parroquiaspa
	dependencias federales [116] 1 Capital District
Vietnam	58 provinces (tỉnh)	69 provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh) 51 district level towns (thị xã) 595 districts (huyện) 8 đảo	693 commune-level towns (thị trấn) 1,100+ wards (phường) 10,000+ rural communes (xã)
	5 municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương)	49 boroughs (quận)	1,400+ wards (phường)
Yemen	21 muḥāfaẓātg 1 municipality	333 districtsdis	2,210+ [subdistricts]sd	38,284 [villages] [23]
Zambia	10 provinces	89 districts
Zimbabwe	8 provinces 2 cities	59 districts	1,200 municipalities

Other states

Country	Administrative divisions
	First-level	Second-level	Third-level	Fourth-level and smaller
Taiwan (Republic of China)	6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì)		170 districts (qū) 12 county-administered cities (xiànxiáshì) 40 urban townships (zhèn) 146 Rural townships (xiāng)	Urban Villages (lǐ) Rural Villages (cūn)
	2 Provinces (shěng) (defunct)[117] p	3 provincial cities (shì) 13 counties (xiàn)
Kosovo[118]	7 rajone dis[119][120]	35 komuna m[59][121]
Northern Cyprus	5 kaza
Transnistria	5 raions r Tiraspol m
Western Sahara	4 wilaya dis	[municipalités] m	[communes]	[arrondissements] dis

See also

• Country subdivision
• ISO 3166-2, codes for country subdivisions
• Associated state
• Asymmetric federation
• Capital districts and territories
• Condominium, joint sovereignty over an area shared by two or more states.
• Dependent territory
• Federacy
• Federation
• Federated state
• List of terms for country subdivisions
• List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions
• List of autonomous areas by country
• List of ISO 3166 country codes
• List of sovereign states
• List of the most populous country subdivisions
• Matrix of country subdivisions
• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area (all)
• List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), which covers the subdivisions of the members of the European Union

Notes

Terms in italics

Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English. They should be in plural form, followed by a footnote or footnotes indicating the generally accepted English equivalent or translation. Known alternative spellings are given in brackets following a term.

Terms in brackets

Entries in standard brackets either indicate that the term used is informal or that its use is yet to be confirmed. An English term in square brackets indicates that the local name for the term is not yet known or confirmed; when confirmed, it is replaced by the local name in italics.

Footnote letters (^{dis m pro r})

These indicate, respectively, four common types of administrative division in English: districts; municipalities; provinces; and regions. Other English terms are also footnoted.

Administrative divisions with ISO 3166-1

Administrative divisions with ISO 3166-1 are cited for statistics matters even when they do not have a special status (for example, the overseas regions of France).

Antarctic claims

Administrative divisions that are entirely Antarctic claims suspended under the Antarctic Treaty are not listed.

Autonomous areas

Not all the autonomous areas are part of the formal hierarchy of the administrative division system of a country (for example, the autonomous region of Zanzibar comprises 5 regions of Tanzania, the first tier on administrative divisions on that country). For more details, see List of autonomous areas by country.

Footnotes

References