This is a list of English and non-English terms for administrative divisions.
English
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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| amphoe || || district
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| Amt || || county (formerly; the modern term is kreis, which means literally "circle")
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| amt || || county (replaced with regions in 2007)
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| amt || || county (formerly; the modern term is fylke)
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| apskritis || || county
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| anakhett || || prefecture
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| rowspan="2" | arrondissement ||
| rowspan="2" | borough, district
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| border|22px French-speaking countries
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|autónoma||border|22px Spanish-speaking countries
| rowspan="3" | autonomous
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|autônomo, autônoma||border|22px Portuguese-speaking countries
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|автоно́мный (avtonomny)||
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| aimag (аймаг)|| || province
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| baladiyah (baladiyat) || 22px Arab countries || municipality
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| barangay || || village (rural) or ward
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| rowspan="3" | bairro ||
| rowspan="4" | neighbourhood, district
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| barrio || border|22px Spanish-speaking countries
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|бановина (banovina)
|frameless|25x25px Yugoslavia
|banate, province
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|bayan
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|municipality
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| Bezirk || || district
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| Bezirk || || district
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| Bezirk || || district
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| Bundesland || (colloquial term)
| rowspan="2" | federal state
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| Bundesland || (colloquial term)
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| bibhag || || division
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| bwrdeistref || || borough county
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| canton (French)<br>cantone (Italian)<br>chantun (Romansh)<br>Kanton (German) ||
| rowspan="2" | canton
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|kanton (Bosnian)
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| castello || || municipality
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| changwat || || province
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| chef-lieu || || chief town or city
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| rowspan="2" | comarca || border|22px Portuguese-speaking countries (judicial system)
| rowspan="2" | county
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| border|22px Spanish-speaking countries
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| comuna || || division of município
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| comuna || border|22px Spanish-speaking countries || commune
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| comună || || rural commune
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| comune || || municipality
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| comunidad || || community
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| comunidade intermunicipal || || intermunicipal community
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| comunidade urbana || || urban community
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| rowspan="2" | concelho ||
| rowspan="2" | municipality; synonym of município
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| corregimiento || || subdivision of a distrito
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|daerah
|Malay-speaking countries
|district
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| provinsi
| rowspan="3" | || province
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| Daerah Istimewa || Special District, all are first level (provincial level)
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| Daerah Khusus Ibukota || Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only.
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| dào (Mandarin)|| || circuit
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| deelgemeente || || submunicipality
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| demos (δήμος)|| || municipality
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| departamento || border|22px Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) || department
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| département || border|22px French-speaking countries || department
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| desa || || village
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| district || || district
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| distrik || || district
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| rowspan="4" | distrito || || group of municipalities
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| || municipality
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| rowspan="2" | district
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| border|22px Spanish-speaking countries
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| distrito, distritu || || municipality
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| distrito federal || ||federal district
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| dō ||
| rowspan="3" | circuit
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| rowspan="2" | do || The Master Kim Jong-Un
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| dombon || || area or region
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| dzongkhag || || district
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| rowspan="3" | estado ||
| rowspan="3" | federal state
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|etrap
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|district
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| rowspan="2" | freguesia ||
| rowspan="2" | civil parish
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| fylke || || county
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| rowspan="2" | gemeente || (22px Flanders)
| rowspan="2" | municipality
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| Gemeinde || || rowspan="4" | municipality
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| Gemeinde ||
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| Gemeinde ||
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| Gemeinde ||
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| gewog || || block
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| gmina || || commune, municipality
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| gobolka || || administrative region
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| gouvernorat || || governorate
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| grande área metropolitana || || greater metropolitan area
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| губе́рния (guberniya) ||Russian Empire || governorate
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| hameau || || hamlet
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| hanua || || village
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| iduhu || || clan
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| raj || || empire
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| rajya || || state
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| il or vilayet || || province
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| ilçe || || district
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| rowspan="2" | imarah || 22px Arab countries (formerly)
| rowspan="2" | emirate
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|jamoat
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|commune or municipality
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| járás || || district
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| Jilla || ||district
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| rowspan="2" | județ || (formerly)
| rowspan="2" | county
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| jurydyka || || village
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| kabupaten || || regency
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|kampung or kampong
|Malay-speaking countries and Cambodia
|village, hamlet, neighbourhood
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| kasselrij || || county or burgraviate
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| kecamatan || || district
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| kelurahan || || (urban) village or subdistrict
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| ken || || prefecture
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| khan || || district or section
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| khett || || province
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| khoueng || || province
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| khum || || commune
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| kilil || || region
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| rowspan="2" | kommun || (Swedish speaking)
| rowspan="2" | municipality
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| rowspan="2" | kommune ||
| rowspan="2" | municipality
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| kota || || chartered city
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| кожуун (kozhuun) || (frameless|25x25px Tyva Republic) || rural council
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| край (krai) || || region
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| rowspan="2" | kraj ||
| rowspan="2" | region
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| Kreis || || district
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| krom || || group
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| krong || || municipality
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| ku || || ward
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| kunta || || municipality
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| lääni || || province
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| lalawigan || || province
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| län || || county
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| Land || (official term) || state
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| Land || (official term) || state
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| lieu-dit || || place name
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| linn || || town or city
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| rowspan="2" | lugar || || division of zona in Cape Verde
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| || hamlet
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| lungsod || || city
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| maakond || || county
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|մարզ (marz)
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|province or region
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| maḥoz || || district
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| mancomunidad || || association of municipalities, commonwealth
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| merindad || 22px Medieval Spain || county
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| mesorregião || ||mesoregion (division of estado)
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| minṭaqah (minṭaqat) || 22px Arab countries || province, region
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| microrregião || ||microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios)
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|მხარე (mkhare)
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|region
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| muban || || village
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| muḥafaẓah (muḥafaẓat) || 22px Arab countries || governorate
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|mukim
|Malay-speaking countries
|subdistrict, subdivision of subdistrict, survey district
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| municipalidad || border|22px Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) || municipality
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| rowspan="2" | municipio || border|22px Spanish-speaking countries
| rowspan="2" | municipality
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| border|22px Portuguese-speaking countries
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| nafa || || subdistrict
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| negeri || || state
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| nomos || || prefecture
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| novads || || municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights)
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| NUTS || || Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
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| rowspan="2" | obec ||
| rowspan="2" | municipality
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| область (oblast) || Countries formerly in the frameless|25x25px Soviet Union or frameless|25x25px Yugoslavia|| province, region
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| община (obshtina)|| || municipality
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| rowspan="2" | okres ||
| rowspan="2" | district
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| rowspan="2" | okrug ||
| rowspan="2" | district
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| rowspan="3" | opština ||
| rowspan="3" | municipality
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| ostan (ostan-e) || || province
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| pagasts || || parish
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|panchayati raj
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|village council
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| rowspan="2" | paróquia ||
| rowspan="2" | parish (religious division)
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| rowspan="2" | parroquia || (border|22px Galicia)
| rowspan="2" | parish
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| pedanía || || county
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| Περιφέρειες (periféreia) || || periphery
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| phum || || village
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| phumpheak || || zone
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| pilseta || || town/city
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| povit || || county
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| powiat || || county
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| rowspan="2" | pradesh || ||state of India<br>
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|province of Nepal
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| probinsya || || province
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| provinsi || || province
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| rowspan="2" | provincia || border|22px Spanish-speaking countries
| rowspan="2" | province
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| rowspan="3" | província || (formerly)
| rowspan="3" | province
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| prowincja || || province
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|purok
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|district or zone
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| rowspan="3" | raion ||
| rowspan="3" | district
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| rajons || || district
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| rowspan="3" | região || || group of estados; also macrorregião
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| rowspan="2" | region
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| rowspan="2" | região autónoma ||
| rowspan="2" | autonomous region
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| regierungsbezirk || || district
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| region || || region
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| regione || || region
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|şäher
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|capital city district
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| sangkat || || commune or quarter
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| sector || || sector (municipality)
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| sector autónomo || || | autonomous sector (municipality)
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| сельсовет (selsoviet) || || rural council
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| shěng/shêng || <br> || province
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| shì/shih || <br> || city
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| sitio ||
| district or zone
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|շրջան (shrjan)
|frameless|25x25px Republic of Artsakh
|province or region
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|hromada
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|municipality
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| srŏk || || district
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| sum || || district
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| subdistrito, subdistritu || || administrative post
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| subregião || || subregion
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| suco, suku || || division of administrative post
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| -stan || Central Asian countries|| land (denotes high level of autonomy)
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| rowspan="2" | sýsla ||
| rowspan="2" | district
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| tambon || || subdistrict
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| thesaban || || municipality
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| tỉnh || || province
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| todōfuken || || prefectural level divisions (collectively)
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|tuman
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|district
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| ulus || (frameless|25x25px Sakha Republic) || district
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| upazila || || subdistrict
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| union parishad || || council or constituency
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| mouza || ||mouza
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| gram/gaon || || village
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| Ward || || ward
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| vald || || parish, rural municipality
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| vármegye || || county
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| rowspan="2" |вилоят (viloyat)
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| rowspan="2" |region
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| во́лость (volost) |||| district
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| wojewodztwo || || voivodeship
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| waterschap || || water board
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|welaýaty
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|region
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| rowspan="2" | wilayah || 22px Arab countries
| rowspan="2" | province, territory
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| xiàn/hsien || <br> || county
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| země || || land (historical)
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| zona || || zone (division of freguesia)
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| ziemia || || land
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| rowspan="3" | Zillah ||
| rowspan="3" | district
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| župa || || county (historical)
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| rowspan="2" | županija || (Croatian speaking)
| rowspan="2" | county
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| maahaanam || (Tamil speaking)||province
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| maavattam || (Tamil speaking)||district
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| pirathesam/koattam || (Tamil speaking)||division
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| palaatha || (Sinhala speaking)||province
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| dhisthrikaya || (Sinhala speaking)||district
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| kottahsha || (Sinhala speaking)||division
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See also
- Administrative division
- Census division
- Census-designated place - statistical territorial subdivisions in the United States
- List of administrative divisions by country