List of terms for administrative divisions

This is a list of English and non-English terms for administrative divisions.

English

Bailiwick Borough Canton City Commune County Department District Duchy

Emirate Federal state Municipality Parish Prefecture Province Region Rural district Shire

State (federative) State (constituent) Subdistrict Subprefecture Town Township Village Viceroyalty Voivodeship

Non-English

This is an alphabetical list of native non-English terms for administrative divisions; some, such as arrondissement and okrug, have become English loanwords. Terms in italics are prefixes or suffixes.

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Name	Countries	English equivalents
amphoe	Thailand	district
Amt	Denmark Germany	county
apskritis	Lithuania	county
anakhett	Cambodia	prefecture
arrondissement	French-speaking countries Netherlands	borough district
autónoma	Spanish-speaking countries	autonomous
autônomo, autónoma	Portuguese-speaking countries	autonomous
avtonomny	Russia	autonomous
aimag	Mongolia	province
baladiyah (baladiyat)	Arab countries	municipality
barangay	Philippines	village (rural) or ward
bairro	Brazil Portugal Mozambique	neighbourhood district
barrio	Spanish-speaking countries	neighbourhood district
Bezirk	Austria	district
Bundesland	Austria Germany (colloquial)	federal state
bwrdeistref	Wales	borough county
canton (French) cantone (Italian) chantun (Rumantsch) Kanton (German)	Switzerland	canton
changwat	Thailand	province
chef-lieu	France	Chief Town/City
comarca	Portuguese-speaking countries (judicial system) Spanish-speaking countries	county
comuna	Angola Spanish-speaking countries	commune; division of município in Angola
comună	Romania	rural commune
comunidad	Spain	community
comunidade intermunicipal	Portugal	intermunicipal community
comunidade urbana	Portugal	urban community
concelho	Cape Verde Portugal	municipality; synonym of município
corregimiento	Panama	subdivision of a distrito
id:Daerah Tingkat I (Daerah Tingkat Satu or Dati Satu)	Indonesia	First level administrative division
id:Daerah Tingkat II (Daerah Tingkat Dua or Dati Dua)	Indonesia	Second level administrative division
id:Daerah Istimewa	Indonesia	Special District, all are first level (provincial level)
id:Daerah Khusus Ibukota	Indonesia	Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only.
dào (Mandarin)	China	circuit
deelgemeente	Belgium	submunicipality
departamento	Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries)	department
département	French-speaking countries	department
desa	Indonesia	village
district	Suriname	district
distrito	Philippines Portugal São Tomé and Príncipe Spanish-speaking countries	district / (group of municipalities in Portugal) (municipality in São Tomé and Príncipe)
distrito, distritu	East Timor	municipality
distrito federal	Brazil	federal district
dō (Japanese) do (Korean)	Japan Korea (North and South)	circuit
dombon	Cambodia	area or region
dzongkhag	Bhutan	district
estado	Brazil Mexico Venezuela	federal state
freguesia	Cape Verde Portugal	civil parish
fylke	Norway	county
gemeente	Flanders (Belgium) Netherlands	municipality
Gemeinde	German-speaking countries	municipality
gewog	Bhutan	block
gmina	Poland	commune municipality
gobolka	Somalia
gouvernorat	Guinea	governorate
grande área metropolitana	Portugal	greater metropolitan area
guberniya	Russian Empire	governorate
hameau	France	hamlet
hanua	Papua New Guinea	village
iduhu	Papua New Guinea	clan
il	Turkey	province
ilçe	Turkey	district
imarah	United Arab Emirates also formerly by other Arab countries	emirate
judeţ	Romania Moldova (formerly)	county
jurydyka	Poland	village
kabupaten	Indonesia	regency
Kanton	Switzerland (German-speaking)	canton
kanton	Bosnia and Herzegovina	canton
kasselrij	Netherlands	county or burgraviate
kecamatan	Indonesia	subdistrict
ken	Japan	prefecture
khan	Cambodia	district or section
khett	Cambodia	province
khoueng	Laos	province
khum	Cambodia	commune
kilil	Ethiopia	region
kommun	Finland (Swedish) Sweden	municipality
kota	Indonesia	chartered city
kozhuun	Russia	district
krai	Russia	region
kraj	Czech Republic Slovakia	region
Kreis	Germany	district
krom	Cambodia	group
krong	Cambodia	municipality
kunta	Finland	municipality
Lääni	Finland	province
lalawigan	Philippines	province
Län	Sweden	county (Sweden)
Land	Austria (official) Germany	state
lieu-dit	France	place name
linn	Estonia	town/city
lugar	Cape Verde Portugal	division of zona in Cape Verde / hamlet
lungsod	Philippines	city
maakond	Estonia	county
megye	Hungary	county
mahoz	Israel	district
mancomunidad	Spain	association of municipalities, commonwealth
merindad	Medieval Spain	county
mesorregião	Brazil	mesoregion (division of estado)
mintaqah (mintaqat)	Arab countries	province, region
microrregião	Brazil	microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios)
muban	Thailand	village
muhafazah (muhafazat)	Arab countries	governorate
municipalidad	Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries)	municipality
município municipio	Portuguese-speaking countries Spanish-speaking countries	municipality
nafa	Israel	subdistrict
negeri	Malaysia	state
nomos	Greece	prefecture
novads	Latvia	municipality (amalgated urban areas without town rights)
NUTS	Europe	Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
oblast oblast'	Slavic countries	province region
община (obshtina)	Bulgaria	municipality
okres	Czech Republic Slovakia	district
okrug	Russia Serbia	district
opština	Montenegro Republika Srpska Serbia	municipality
ostan (ostan-e)	Iran	province
pagasts	Latvia	parish
paróquia	Cape Verde Portugal	parish (religious division)
parroquia	Spain ( Galicia) Andorra	parish
pedanía	Spain	county
periféreia (Περιφέρειες)	Greece	periphery
phum	Cambodia	village
phumpheak	Cambodia	zone
pilseta	Latvia	town/city
powiat	Poland	county
pradesh	India	state
probinsya	Philippines	province
provinsi	Indonesia	province
provincia	Italy Spanish-speaking countries	province
província	Angola Portugal (formerly) São Tomé and Príncipe	province
prowincja	Poland	province
райо́н (raion)	Moldova Russian-speaking countries	district
rajons	Latvia	district
região	Brazil Guinea-Bissau Portugal	region / (group of estados in Brazil; also macrorregião)
região autónoma	Portugal São Tomé and Príncipe	autonomous region
Regierungsbezirk	Germany	district
respublika	Russia	republic
sangkat	Cambodia	commune or quarter
sector	Guinea-Bissau	sector (municipality)
sector autónomo	Guinea-Bissau	autonomous sector (municipality)
selsoviet	Russia	rural district
srŏk	Cambodia	district
sum	Mongolia	district
subdistrito, subdistritu	East Timor	subdistrict (submunicipality)
subregião	Portugal	subregion
suco, suku	East Timor	division of submunicipality
-stan	Central Asian countries Iran Pakistan Russia (regions)	"land" (denotes high level of autonomy)
sýsla	Iceland Faroe Islands	district
tambon	Thailand	subdistrict
thesaban	Thailand	municipality
tinh	Vietnam	province
todōfuken	Japan	prefectural level divisions (collectively)
ulus	Russia	district
vald	Estonia	(rural) municipality
wojewodztwo	Poland	voivodeship
volost	Russia, Russian Empire
voblast	Ukraine	province
waterschap	Netherlands	water board
wilayah velayah	Arab countries Malaysia	province, territory
zona	Cape Verde	zone (division of freguesia)
ziemia	Poland	land
županija	Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian speaking) Croatia	county
maahaanam	Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking)	province
maavattam	Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking)	District
Pirathesam/koattam	Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking)	Division
palaatha	Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking)	province
Dhisthrikaya	Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking)	District
Kottahsha	Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking)	Division

See also

• Country subdivision
  • Administrative division
  • Census division
    • Census-designated place - statistical territorial subdivisions in the United States.