Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions/Naming

Introduction

Discussion: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Subnational_entities/Naming

Proper names in general: Wikipedia:Proper_names

Variants

This only shows current use of the naming variants without country disambiguation.

1. plain - X
   1. used by: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming
2. trailing no-bracket uppercase english - X English - [128]
   1. used by: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming
3. trailing no-bracket uppercase local - X Local - [3]
4. trailing no-bracket lowercase english - X english - [1]
5. trailing no-bracket lowercase local - X local - [0]
6. trailing bracket lowercase english - X (english) - [8]
7. trailing bracket lowercase english - X (local) - [1]
8. leading no-bracket uppercase english - English of X - [1]
9. leading no-bracket uppercase english - English X - [1] (Ireland only)
   1. used by: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming
10. leading no-bracket uppercase local - Local X [0]

With country disambiguation the following where found:

1. X (province of)
2. X (country)
3. X (somelandian province)

Note: in english it is common to uppercase, i.e. one does not write new York city.

Title vs. text

usage in article titles and article text sometimes differs. In some cases this might make linking more difficult.

• "X (english)" vs. "X english"
  • if "X english" is allowed in text, why not use it for title? (if you would not like this solution, please try to put it in words and write it here)
    • pro: 1) editor friendly, you wikify what is written. otherwise only because of the brackets one has more work 2) voice friendly, you can easier tell the article name to someone on the phone
• "english of X" vs. "X english"
• "english of X" vs. "X English"

Terms for subnational entities

see also the articles in the Category:Subnational entities

• Terms for entities in English-speaking countries
  • moved to Subnational entity
• Terms not used for entities in any English-speaking country
  • merged into List of terms for subnational entities

Current use

User:NoPuzzleStranger claims the only reason for the "current use" is that, as he says, User:Tobias Conradi unilaterally (i.e. without establishing a consensus first) moved hundreds (maybe thousands) of pages to the "X Entity"-type format. Statistics for this claim showing pages unilaterally moved by him, those moved by others, those that were allready in "X Entity"-format and those not moved at all are missing. It is uncontested that Tobias Conradi moved a lot of pages from "X entity", "X (entity)", "Entity of X".

• historical subdivisions e.g. Provinces of the Roman Empire, Provinces of the Ottoman Empire are marked [historic]
• entities where the entity term is only used in ambigous case are marked *

plain

1. Districts of Brunei (daerah)
2. Regions of France (région)
3. States of Germany (land)
4. Peripheries of Greece
5. Regions of Italy (regione)
6. Regions of Oman (mintaqah)
7. Provinces of Rwanda (intara)
8. Parishes of Saint Kitts and Nevis
9. Provinces of Vanuatu
10. Themas of Byzantine Empire [historic]

mixed

1. Provinces of Spain* "X (province)" vs, "Córdoba Province, Spain"

trailing - [141]

X Entity - [131]

X English - [128]

1. Provinces of Afghanistan* (velayat)
2. Counties of Albania (qark)
3. Districts of Albania (rrethe)
4. Provinces of Algeria* (wilayat)
5. Provinces of Angola*
6. Parishes of Antigua and Barbuda
7. Provinces of Argentina* (es: provincia)
8. Provinces of Armenia* (marz)
9. Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan (rayonu=Region,sahar=city)
10. Governorates of Bahrein (ar: muhafazah)
11. Divisions of Bangladesh
12. Parishes of Barbados
13. Provinces of Belarus (voblast)
14. Regions of Belgium* (fr,nl,de)
15. Districts of Belize
16. Departments of Benin* (fr: département)
17. Departments of Bolivia* (es: departamento)
18. Districts of Botswana*
19. Bosnia and Herzegovina Cantons of Bosnia and Herzegovina (bs: kanton/hr: zupanija)
20. Bosnia and Herzegovina Regions of Republika Srpska (?)
21. Regions of Brazil
22. States of Brazil* (pt: estado)
23. Provinces of Bulgaria (bg: oblast)
24. Provinces of Burkina Faso* (fr: province)
25. Provinces of Burundi (fr: province)
26. Provinces of Cameroon
27. Prefectures of Chad (fr: prefecture)
28. Provinces of Chile (es: provincia)
29. Regions of Chile* (es: región)
30. China (Mainland): Provinces* (shěng), Municipalities* (zhíxiáshì), Autonomous regions* (zìzhìqū), Prefecture-level cities* (dìjíshì), County-level cities* (xiànjíshì), Prefectures & Autonomous prefectures (dìqū & zìzhìzhōu), Districts (qū), Counties & Autonomous counties (xiàn & zìzhìxiàn), Leagues (méng), Banners & Autonomous banners (qí & zìzhìqí)
    • Historic: zhou / fu (usu. translated as "provinces", "prefectures", or "departments"), Circuits (dao / lu)
31. Departments of Colombia* (es: departamento)
32. Regions of the Republic of the Congo* (fr: region)
33. Cantons of Costa Rica (es: provincia)
34. Provinces of Costa Rica (es: provincia)
35. Provinces of Cuba* (es: provincia)
36. Regions of Czechia (kraj)
37. Counties of Denmark(*?) (amt)
38. Districts of Djibouti
39. Parishes of Dominica
40. Provinces of the Dominican Republic* (es: provincia)
41. Provinces of Ecuador* (es: provincia)
42. Departments of El Salvador (es: departamento)
43. Counties of Estonia (maakond)
44. Regions of Ethiopia* (kilil)
45. Provinces of Equatorial Guinea (provincia?)
46. Divisions of Fiji
47. Provinces of Finland* (lääni,län)
48. Provinces of Gabon* (fr: province)
49. Regions of Ghana*
50. Prefectures of Greece*
51. Provinces of Greece
52. Parishes of Grenada
53. Departments of Guatemala* (es: departamento)
54. Prefectures of Guinea
55. Regions of Guinea-Bissau
56. Departments of Honduras (es: departamento)
57. Provinces of Iran*
58. Governorates of Iraq* (muhafazah)
59. Districts of Israel (mehozot)
60. Provinces of Italy (it: provincia)
61. Parishes of Jamaica
62. Prefectures of Japan (to / dō / fu / ken)
63. Subprefectures in Hokkaido (shichō)
64. Districts of Japan(*?) (gun)
65. Provinces of Japan (kuni) [historic]
66. Provinces of Kazakhstan* (oblysy)
67. Provinces of Kenya
68. Provinces of Kyrgyzstan (oblasty)
69. Korea (North): Provinces* (to), Directly governed cities* (chikhalsi)
70. Korea (South): Provinces* (do), special cities* (teukbyeolsi), metropolitan cities* (gwangyeoksi), cities* (si), counties (gun), wards (gu)
71. Provinces of Laos* (khoueng)
72. Counties of Latvia (rajons, maybe better translated as district?)
73. Districts of Lebanon* (qadaa)
74. Governorates of Lebanon* (muhafazah)
75. Districts of Lesotho
76. Counties of Liberia (?)
77. Counties of Lithuania (apskritis)
78. Provinces of Madagascar (?)
79. Districts of Mauritius*
80. Provinces of Mongolia (aymag) in line with provinces of Outer Mongolia [historic]
81. Provinces of Mozambique*
82. Administrative divisions of Myanmar* (states and divisions)
83. Regions of Namibia*
84. Districts of Nauru*
85. Provinces of New Zealand* [historic]
86. Regions of New Zealand*
87. Territorial Authorities of New Zealand* (mostly Districts)
88. Departments of Nicaragua*
89. States of Nigeria
90. Provinces of the Ottoman Empire* [historic]
91. Districts of Pakistan (zilla)
92. Provinces of Pakistan*
93. Provinces of Panama* (provincia)
94. Provinces of Papua New Guinea*
95. Departments of Paraguay* (es: departamento)
96. Districts of Peru (es: distrito)
97. Provinces of Peru (es: provincia)
98. Regions of Peru (es: region)
99. Counties of Poland* (es: powiat)
100. Voivodships of Poland
101. Regions of the Philippines* (es: rehiyon)
102. Provinces of the Philippines* (Filipino: lalawigan or probinsya)
103. Counties of Romania* (judet)
104. Provinces of the Roman Empire* (it/lat: provincia/provincae) [historic]
105. Quarters of Saint Lucia*
106. Parishes of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
107. Provinces of Saudi Arabia* (mintaqah) [not inline with general use of province for wilaya]
108. Provinces of São Tomé and Príncipe (pt:?)
109. Regions of Senegal (region)
110. Districts of Serbia (okrug)
111. Provinces of Sierra Leone
112. Regions of Slovakia (kraj,=county)
113. Provinces of the Solomon Islands*
114. Provinces of South Africa
115. Provinces of Sri Lanka
116. Districts of Swaziland*
117. Counties of Sweden (län)
118. Republic of China (Taiwan): Provinces* (shěng), Municipalities* (zhíxiáshì), Provincial cities* (shěngxiáshì), Counties (xiàn), County-controlled cities (xiànxiáshì), Districts* (qū)
119. Provinces of Thailand (changwat)
120. Provinces of Turkey (il)
121. Provinces of Turkmenistan (welayat)
122. Counties of the United States
123. Provinces of Uzbekistan (viloyat)
124. Departments of Uruguay (es: departamento)
125. States of Venezuela (es: estado)
126. Provinces of Vietnam* (tinh)
127. Provinces of Zambia
128. Provinces of Zimbabwe*

X Local - [3]

1. Oblasts of Russia (=province)
2. Krais of Russia (=territory)
3. Oblasts of Ukraine (=province)

X entity - [1]

X english - [1]

1. Counties of Croatia (zupanija) [upper casing immediatly reverted by one wikipedian]

Regions of Japan (not official, that means no subnational entities)*

X (entity) - [10]

X (english) - [8]

1. Provinces of Belgium* (provincie,provinz,province =province)
2. Rural districts of Germany* (Landkreis)
3. Counties of Hungary* (megye)
4. Districts of Luxembourg (district)
5. Cantons of Luxembourg (canton)
6. States of Mexico* (estado)
7. Provinces of the Netherlands* (provincie)
8. Autonomous communities of Spain

X (local) - [2]

1. Comarcas of Spain* (=county?)
2. Departments of France* (fr. département)

leading - [2]

English (of) X - [2]

English of X - [1]

1. Cantons of Switzerland* (current English use)

not subnational: Despotate of Epirus, Empire of Trebizond, Empire of Nicaea

English X - [1]

1. Counties of Ireland