List of administrative divisions by country

World map showing boundaries of many high and low-level administrative divisions

The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories.

Legend

• The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level entity is the only sovereign), or regional state (unitary with substantial delegation of power)
• Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English, in plural form (except languages that take the singular form with numbers, such as Hungarian).
• Square brackets indicate a term that has not yet been confirmed.

Administrative divisions by country

Member and observer states of the United Nations

(Row colors are for visual differentiation only.)

Member states of United Nations specialized agencies

Other states

See also

• ISO 3166-2, codes for country subdivisions
• Capital districts and territories
• List of terms for country subdivisions
• List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions
• List of autonomous areas by country
• List of sovereign states
• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
• List of first-level administrative divisions by population
• List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008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

1. Including 2 departments of disputed sovereignty in Tierra del Fuego Province: Argentine Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands (the latter includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
2. also known as Congo-Kinshasa.
3. also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
4. Estonia's linnad (towns) and vallad (parishes) are known collectively as omavalitsused (municipalities).
6. * 30^{[citation needed]} city-municipalities (thesaban nakhon)
   • 178^{[citation needed]} town-municipalities (thesaban mueang)
   • 2,232^{[citation needed]} subdistrict-municipalities (thesaban tambon)
7. Not all have active governments. No county-level government exists in:
   • The 11 census areas in Unorganized Borough of Alaska
   • Any counties of Rhode Island
   • 8 of 14 counties of Massachusetts
   • Any counties of Connecticut, which are being replaced for census purposes by councils of governments
   • Oglala Lakota and Todd Counties in South Dakota, which are administered by neighboring counties.

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3. Not counting vienna
4. The districts of Vienna are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
5. Not counting statutory cities
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8. Dutch : Gewesten; French: Régions or German: Regionen.
9. Dutch: Provincies; French: Provinces or German: Provinzen. The Brussels-Capital Region is not divided into provinces.
10. Dutch: Arrondissementen; French: Arrondissements or German: Arrondissements.
11. Dutch: Gemeenten; French: Communes or German: Gemeinden.
12. Chobe District and all six of Botswana's urban districts are not divided into second-level administrative subdivisions.
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14. Consisting of urban and rural communes.
15. Improvement districts are almost always coterminous with a national or provincial park.
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18. Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions that do cover Northern Manitoba, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions.
19. The New Brunswick Equal Opportunity program abolished county and parish governments in 1966. Counties and parishes are now only used by locals as geographic identifiers, and for statistical purposes; there is no meaningful government between the provincial and municipal level.
20. Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions, however, these serve no provincial or local governmental functions whatsoever; the province has no meaningful government between the provincial and municipal level.
21. Note that only 11 single-tier municipalities are located in an independent census division. The remaining 162 single-tier municipalities are known as separated municipalities and are counted as part of the statistical area of a neighbouring regional municipality, county, or district by Statistics Canada despite their separated government structures.
22. In Ontario, districts are only used in some instances to streamline services delivered by the provincial government, and for statistical purposes, and have no elected government of their own. Areas of districts that are not part of a single-tier municipality or First Nations indian reserves are either administered directly by the government of Ontario or a local services board.
23. In Prince Edward Island, governments at the county, parish, and township level have been abolished. Counties, parishes, and townships are now only used by locals as geographic identifiers, and for statistical purposes; there is no meaningful government between the provincial and municipal level.
24. In the Northwest Territories, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no elected government of their own.
25. In Nunavut, regions are used to streamline services delivered by the territorial government, and have no elected government of their own.
26. The districts of N'Djamena are not considered to be administrative subdivisions of any level.
27. According to article 118 parr. 7 of Chilean Constitution, their establishment is a voluntary faculty for the municipalities.
28. either zìráncūnjí ("natural" villages) or xíngzhèngcūnjí (bureaucratic villages, i.e. created for administrative convenience).
29. or Danish:syssel.
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31. Due to be replaced by [communes] [1]
32. Timor-Leste.
33. Small boroughs
34. constituencies
35. Chiefdoms
36. consisting of kaupungit (urban communes) and kunnat (communes).
37. also known as a pays d'outre-mer (overseas country).
38. or, informally, Bundesländer (federal states).
39. Region Hannover, Regionalverband Saarbrücken and Städteregion Aachen
40. usually in rural areas and known by various names in different states, e.g. Amt, Samtgemeinde, Verbandsgemeinde and Verwaltungsgemeinschaft
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46. The city has a special status because it is currently being leased to Russia with Baikonur Cosmodrome until the year 2050
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48. French; alternatively German:Kantone.
49. "Cartes du Luxembourg". 23 March 2023.
50. French; alternatively German:Gemeinden.
51. Luxembourgish: quartierën; alternatively French:quartiers, German:Stadtvierteln.
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66. (in Spanish) Sistema Nacional de Estadística Archived 2007-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
67. federal subjects, grouped into 7 federal districts
68. Including the Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, the Donetsk People's Republic, Kherson Oblast, the Lugansk People's Republic and Zaporozhye Oblast, which were illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 and 2022 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
69. Including Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
70. Including the Republic of Crimea (annexed by Russia in 2014) and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (annexed in 2022) which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
71. Including Sevastopol which was illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
72. Illegally annexed in 2014 but internationally recognized as part of Ukraine
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74. (French; alternatively German:Kantone, Italian:cantoni or Romansh:chantuns). Six cantons, formerly called demi-cantons (French; alternatively German:Halbkantone or Romansh:mez-chantuns), have only one representative in the Council of States instead of two.
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78. Tunisia Governorates
79. Portail de l'industrie Tunisienne Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, in French
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81. Currently, one oblast (Luhansk) is fully under Russian control, and three more (Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia) are partially under Russian control.
82. One city (Sevastopol) is currently under Russian control.
83. Currenltly under Russian control
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89. also known as municipalities.
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93. Nominal. All provincial governments are de facto abolished.