List of terms for administrative divisions

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

English

• Bailiwick
• Border
• Borough
• Canton
• City
• Commune
• State (constituent)
• County
• Department
• District
• Duchy
• Emirate
• Federal state
• State (federative)
• Governorate
• Hundred
• Metropolitan Area
• Municipality
• Parish
• Prefecture
• Province
• Region
• Regency
• Rural district
• Shire
• Subdistrict
• Subdivision
• 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.

Name	Countries	English equivalents
amphoe	Thailand	district
Amt	Germany	county (formerly; the modern term is kreis, which means literally "circle")
amt	Denmark	county (replaced with regions in 2007)
amt	Norway	county (formerly; the modern term is fylke)
apskritis	Lithuania	county
anakhett	Cambodia	prefecture
arrondissement	Netherlands	borough, district
	French-speaking countries
autónoma	Spanish-speaking countries	autonomous
autônomo, autônoma	Portuguese-speaking countries
автоно́мный (avtonomny)	Russia
aimag (аймаг)	Mongolia	province
baladiyah (baladiyat)	Arab countries	municipality
barangay	Philippines	village (rural) or ward
bairro	Brazil	neighbourhood, district
	Portugal
	Mozambique
barrio	Spanish-speaking countries
бановина (banovina)	Yugoslavia	banate, province
bayan	Philippines	municipality
Bezirk	Austria	district
Bezirk	Switzerland	district
Bezirk	Germany	district
Bundesland	Germany (colloquial term)	federal state
Bundesland	Austria (colloquial term)
bibhag	Bangladesh	division
bwrdeistref	Wales	borough county
canton (French) cantone (Italian) chantun (Romansh) Kanton (German)	Switzerland	canton
kanton (Bosnian)	Bosnia and Herzegovina
castello	San Marino	municipality
changwat	Thailand	province
chef-lieu	France	chief town or city
comarca	Portuguese-speaking countries (judicial system)	county
	Spanish-speaking countries
comuna	Angola	division of município
comuna	Spanish-speaking countries	commune
comună	Romania	rural commune
comune	Italy	municipality
comunidad	Spain	community
comunidade intermunicipal	Portugal	intermunicipal community
comunidade urbana	Portugal	urban community
concelho	Cape Verde	municipality; synonym of município
	Portugal
corregimiento	Panama	subdivision of a distrito
daerah	Malay-speaking countries	district
provinsi	Indonesia	province
Daerah Istimewa		Special District, all are first level (provincial level)
Daerah Khusus Ibukota		Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only.
dào (Mandarin)	People's Republic of China	circuit
deelgemeente	Belgium	submunicipality
demos (δήμος)	Greece	municipality
departamento	Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries)	department
département	French-speaking countries	department
desa	Indonesia	village
district	Suriname	district
distrik	Indonesia	district
distrito	Portugal	group of municipalities
	São Tomé and Príncipe	municipality
	Philippines	district
	Spanish-speaking countries
distrito, distritu	Timor-Leste	municipality
distrito federal	Brazil	federal district
dō	Japan	circuit
do	North Korea
	South Korea
dombon	Cambodia	area or region
dzongkhag	Bhutan	district
estado	Brazil	federal state
	Mexico
	Venezuela
etrap	Turkmenistan	district
freguesia	Cape Verde	civil parish
	Portugal
fylke	Norway	county
gemeente	Belgium ( Flanders)	municipality
	Netherlands
Gemeinde	Austria	municipality
Gemeinde	Germany
Gemeinde	Italy
Gemeinde	Switzerland
gewog	Bhutan	block
gmina	Poland	commune, municipality
gobolka	Somalia	administrative region
gouvernorat	Guinea	governorate
grande área metropolitana	Portugal	greater metropolitan area
губе́рния (guberniya)	Russian Empire	governorate
hameau	France	hamlet
hanua	Papua New Guinea	village
iduhu	Papua New Guinea	clan
raj	India	empire
rajya	India	state
il or vilayet	Turkey	province
ilçe	Turkey	district
imarah	Arab countries (formerly)	emirate
	United Arab Emirates
jamoat	Tajikistan	commune or municipality
járás	Hungary	district
Jilla	Nepal	district
județ	Moldova (formerly)	county
	Romania
jurydyka	Poland	village
kabupaten	Indonesia	regency
kampung or kampong	Malay-speaking countries and Cambodia	village, hamlet, neighbourhood
kasselrij	Netherlands	county or burgraviate
kecamatan	Indonesia	district
kelurahan	Indonesia	(urban) village or subdistrict
ken	Japan	prefecture
khan	Cambodia	district or section
khett	Cambodia	province
khoueng	Laos	province
khum	Cambodia	commune
kilil	Ethiopia	region
kommun	Finland (Swedish speaking)	municipality
	Sweden
kommune	Denmark	municipality
	Norway
kota	Indonesia	chartered city
кожуун (kozhuun)	Russia ( Tyva Republic)	rural council
край (krai)	Russia	region
kraj	Czech Republic	region
	Slovakia
Kreis	Germany	district
krom	Cambodia	group
krong	Cambodia	municipality
ku	Japan	ward
kunta	Finland	municipality
lääni	Finland	province
lalawigan	Philippines	province
län	Sweden	county
Land	Austria (official term)	state
Land	Germany (official term)	state
lieu-dit	France	place name
linn	Estonia	town or city
lugar	Cape Verde	division of zona in Cape Verde
	Portugal	hamlet
lungsod	Philippines	city
maakond	Estonia	county
մարզ (marz)	Armenia	province or region
maḥoz	Israel	district
mancomunidad	Spain	association of municipalities, commonwealth
merindad	Medieval Spain	county
mesorregião	Brazil	mesoregion (division of estado)
minṭaqah (minṭaqat)	Arab countries	province, region
microrregião	Brazil	microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios)
მხარე (mkhare)	Georgia	region
muban	Thailand	village
muḥafaẓah (muḥafaẓat)	Arab countries	governorate
mukim	Malay-speaking countries	subdistrict, subdivision of subdistrict, survey district
municipalidad	Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries)	municipality
municipio	Spanish-speaking countries	municipality
	Portuguese-speaking countries
nafa	Israel	subdistrict
negeri	Malaysia	state
nomos	Greece	prefecture
novads	Latvia	municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights)
NUTS	Europe	Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
obec	Czech Republic	municipality
	Slovakia
область (oblast)	Countries formerly in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia	province, region
община (obshtina)	Bulgaria	municipality
okres	Czech Republic	district
	Slovakia
okrug	Serbia	district
	Russia
opština	Republika Srpska	municipality
	Montenegro
	Serbia
ostan (ostan-e)	Iran	province
pagasts	Latvia	parish
panchayati raj	India	village council
paróquia	Portugal	parish (religious division)
	Cape Verde
parroquia	Spain ( Galicia)	parish
	Andorra
pedanía	Spain	county
Περιφέρειες (periféreia)	Greece	periphery
phum	Cambodia	village
phumpheak	Cambodia	zone
pilseta	Latvia	town/city
povit	Ukraine	county
powiat	Poland	county
pradesh	India	state of India
	Nepal	province of Nepal
probinsya	Philippines	province
provinsi	Indonesia	province
provincia	Spanish-speaking countries	province
	Italy
província	Portugal (formerly)	province
	Angola
	São Tomé and Príncipe
prowincja	Poland	province
purok	Philippines	district or zone
raion	Russia	district
	Moldova
	Ukraine
rajons	Latvia	district
região	Brazil	group of estados; also macrorregião
	Guinea-Bissau	region
	Portugal
região autónoma	Portugal	autonomous region
	São Tomé and Príncipe
regierungsbezirk	Germany	district
region	Denmark	region
regione	Italy	region
şäher	Turkmenistan	capital city district
sangkat	Cambodia	commune or quarter
sector	Guinea-Bissau	sector (municipality)
sector autónomo	Guinea-Bissau	autonomous sector (municipality)
сельсовет (selsoviet)	Russia	rural council
shěng/shêng	People's Republic of China  Taiwan	province
shì/shih	People's Republic of China  Taiwan	city
sitio	Philippines	district or zone
շրջան (shrjan)	Republic of Artsakh	province or region
hromada	Ukraine	municipality
srŏk	Cambodia	district
sum	Mongolia	district
subdistrito, subdistritu	Timor-Leste	administrative post
subregião	Portugal	subregion
suco, suku	Timor-Leste	division of administrative post
-stan	Central Asian countries	land (denotes high level of autonomy)
sýsla	Faroe Islands	district
	Iceland
tambon	Thailand	subdistrict
thesaban	Thailand	municipality
tỉnh	Vietnam	province
todōfuken	Japan	prefectural level divisions (collectively)
tuman	Uzbekistan	district
ulus	Russia ( Sakha Republic)	district
upazila	Bangladesh	subdistrict
union parishad	Bangladesh	council or constituency
mouza	Bangladesh	mouza
gram/gaon	Bangladesh	village
Ward	Bangladesh	ward
vald	Estonia	parish, rural municipality
vármegye	Hungary	county
вилоят (viloyat)	Tajikistan	region
	Uzbekistan
во́лость (volost)	Russia	district
wojewodztwo	Poland	voivodeship
waterschap	Netherlands	water board
welaýaty	Turkmenistan	region
wilayah	Arab countries	province, territory
	Malaysia
xiàn/hsien	People's Republic of China  Taiwan	county
země	Czech Republic	land (historical)
zona	Cape Verde	zone (division of freguesia)
ziemia	Poland	land
Zillah	Pakistan	district
	Bangladesh
	India
župa	Slovakia	county (historical)
županija	Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian speaking)	county
	Croatia
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

• Administrative division
• Census division
  • Census-designated place - statistical territorial subdivisions in the United States
• List of administrative divisions by country