Wiktionary:Place names


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This is a list of all types of place names separated by country. Please explain all the place names that a country use (city, town, county, province, state, prefecture, etc. when applicable).

Some suggestions to enrich the descriptions for placenames of each country:
 * Official status:
 * Mention if a type of place is official status in the country or not. (e.g., in some countries, "city" is an official, government-sanctioned status, in others it's just arbitrary usage of the word)
 * Say if there's an official term prefered instead of "city" or "town". (like "municipality")
 * Say if an English speaker would usually use terms like "town"/"city" regardless of the words that the native speakers use.
 * Usage/sources
 * Feel free to provide external links and/or links to Wikipedia as sources.
 * Link to current categories that Wiktionary uses.
 * Link to categories that Wikipedia uses.
 * Languages:
 * Mention both the placename in English and the official language of the country (as in city/ciudad).
 * Comprehensiveness:
 * Mention all types of placename, down to the smallest ones such as "village" or "borough".
 * Mention any obscure types of placenames like "region" or "macroregion" (which could maybe be a group of cities, a group of states, etc., depending on the country).
 * Mention former types of placenames, i.e. that a country does not have anymore.
 * Explain the capitals that the country has, such as capitals of states/provinces and say if the capital of the country is the capital of the state too.
 * Appeal/illustration:
 * Add some map or image if you'd like!

This list can be used when deciding names of categories and formatting definitions.

Note: See for example. Once more countries are created here, remove this line.

See also Template:place, the template used to generate definitions of place names.

Wikipedia categories

 * Category:First-level administrative country subdivisions
 * Category:Second-level administrative country subdivisions
 * Category:Third-level administrative country subdivisions
 * Category:Fourth-level administrative country subdivisions
 * Category:Fifth-level administrative country subdivisions
 * Category:Sixth-level administrative country subdivisions

Andorra

 * 7 parishes (parròquies)
 * Some parishes are subdivided into quarters (quarts)
 * One parish (Canillo) subdivided into 10 veïnats

Antigua and Barbuda

 * Divided into six parishes and two dependencies

Argentina

 * 6 traditional regions
 * 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.
 * 377 departments
 * departments are further divided into municipalities

Australia

 * 6 states, 3 federal territories, 7 external territories
 * 547 local government areas (LGAs), which can either be cities, boroughs shires, or unorganised areas. These are subdivided into localities (rural) and suburbs (urban).

Bangladesh

 * 8 regions
 * 64 districts
 * 495 subdistricts or upazilas
 * 330 towns, governed by municipal corporations
 * 12 cities, governed by city corporations : Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Ragpur, Comilla, Borishal, Narayanganj and Gazipur

Belgium

 * 3 regions (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia)
 * 10 provinces, 5 each for Flanders and Wallonia.
 * 581 municipalities (Dutch:, French: , German: )

Belize

 * 6 districts
 * Districts subdivided into constituencies

Bhutan

 * Divided into 20 dzongkhags, or districts
 * Each district is subdivided into gewogs, or groups of villages
 * Gewogs are subdivided into chewogs for elections and thromdes "municipalities" for administration

Bolivia

 * 9 departments (departamentos)
 * Departments subdivided into provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
 * Municipalities subdivided into cantons (cantones)

Brazil

 * Brazil has 27 federative units: 26 states (estados) and 1 federal district (Federal District/Distrito Federal). Until 1988 there was a third type, federal territory.
 * Brazil is divided into 5 regions, where the federative units are located: South, Southeast, North, Northeast and Center-West.
 * Each state is officially divided into municipalities (municípios).
 * But the Federal District, not being a state, is officially divided into "administrative regions" (regiões administrativas), not municipalities. (See List of administrative regions in Federal District.)
 * The municipalities with an urban area are commonly called cities (non-official). Small municipalities are called towns in English sometimes. (non-official)
 * Often, a state is divided into multiple levels of "regions", including "mesoregions" and "microregions", each comprised of multiple municipalities. Wikipedia article List of municipalities in Bahia illustrates those divisions in the state of Bahia. There are arbitrary regions such as Chapada Diamantina and Greater São Paulo that don't qualify as "mesoregion" or "microregion".
 * Each municipality is further divided into neighborhoods (bairros).
 * Brasília is an administrative region (i.e., not a municipality) in the Federal District. Brasília is the capital of the Federal District and also the capital of the country.

Current categories:
 * Category:en:States of Brazil
 * Category:en:Regions of Brazil
 * Category:en:Municipalities in Brazil
 * With subcategories such as: Category:en:Municipalities in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Category:en:Cities in Brazil

Cambodia

 * 24 provinces and the city of Phnom Penh
 * 162 districts

Canada
Divided into 10 provinces and 3 territories. Further subdivisions vary depending on the province or territory.


 * Alberta: 74 municipal districts, 19 cities, 105 towns, 80 villages, and 51 summer villages
 * British Columbia: 28 regional districts, subdivided into 52 cities, 50 district municipalities, 1 Indian government district, 1 island municipality, 1 mountain resort municipality, 1 resort municipality, 14 towns, 42 villages and 312 Indian reserves
 * Manitoba: 97 rural municipalities, 10 cities, 25 towns and 2 villages

Chile

 * 17 regions (regiones)
 * Regions subdivided into provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into communes (comunas)

China

 * Province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions (: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, Xinjiang), 2 special administrative regions (: Hong Kong and Macau) and 4 directly-administered municipalities (: Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin)
 * Prefecture-level divisions: 293 prefecture-level cities, 7 prefectures ( only in Heilongjiang, Tibet and Xinjiang), 30 autonomous prefectures

Colombia

 * 32 departments (departamentos) and one capital district
 * Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
 * Municipalities subdivided into corregimientos in rural areas and comunas in urban areas

Costa Rica

 * 7 provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into cantons (cantones)
 * Cantons subdivided into districts (distritos)

Cuba

 * Formerly six large historical provinces (provincias)
 * Currently 15 provinces and one special municipality (Isla de la Juventud)
 * Provinces subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Czech Republic

 * The Czech Republic has 14 higher-level territorial administrative units (vyšší územní samosprávné celky): 13 regions () + Prague (officially the Capital City of Prague, Hlavní město Praha).
 * These regions are subdivided into 76 districts ; Prague does not belong into any of them.

Denmark

 * 5 regions and the autonomous regions of Faroe Islands and Greenland
 * 98 municipalities

Dominican Republic

 * 31 provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Ecuador

 * 24 provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into cantons (cantones)

El Salvador

 * 14 departments (departamentos)
 * Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Equatorial Guinea

 * 7 provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into districts (distritos)

Ethiopia

 * 12 regions and 2 chartered cities (: Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa)

Finland
Finland has, according to a Wikipedia article,
 * 19 regions (Finnish maakunta, Swedish landskap)
 * the regions are divided into 70 sub-regions (Finnish seutukunta, Swedish ekonomisk region)
 * the sub-regions are divided into 320 municipalities (Finnish kunta, Swedish kommun)
 * A municipality may be a city (Finnish kaupunki, Swedish stad) or a rural area such as a town (Finnish kylä, Swedish by)
 * Historically, from 1634 to 2009, there were provinces (Finnish: lääni, Swedish: län)
 * There are 15 Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (Finnish: elinkeino-, liikenne- ja ympäristökeskus, abbreviated ely-keskus, Swedish: närings-, trafik- och miljöcentralen, abbreviated NTM-centralen)
 * The capital of the country is Helsinki (Finnish Helsinki, Swedish Helsingfors)

See also
 * List of urban areas by population in Finland
 * Official website for Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment

France

 * 19 regions : 13 are in Metropolitan France and 6 are overseas
 * 96 departments
 * The departments are subdivided into:
 * 320 s (non-governing)
 * 1,995 cantons (non-governing)
 * 34,826 communes, either cities, towns or villages

Georgia

 * 2 autonomous republics (: Abkhazia and Adjara, Abkhazia being de facto under control of the unrecognized state of South Ossetia) and 9 regions, divided into 76 municipalities

Germany

 * 16 states
 * 13 area states
 * 3 city states (: Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen)
 * The area states are further subdivided into districts
 * Some states divide districts into, which are then divided into municipalities
 * Districts are further subdivided into municipalities

Greece

 * 13 regions and the autonomous region of Mount Athos
 * 332 municipalities

Grenada

 * Divided into 6 parishes

Guatemala

 * Divided into 22 departments (departamentos)
 * Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Honduras

 * 18 departments (departamentos)
 * Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipalidades)
 * Municipalities subdivided into aldeas
 * Aldeas subdivided into caserios
 * Some caserios subdivided into barrios or colonias

India

 * 28 states and 8 union territories
 * States and union territories are further divided into divisions, except in Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Tripura, and five union territories (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Puducherry)
 * Divisions and states/union territories without divisions are subdivided into 766 districts (zillas)
 * Districts are subdivided into 6057 subdistricts (also termed mandals, circles, subdivisions, tehsils or taluks).

Indonesia

 * 38 provinces (, including Jakarta, Aceh, Special Region of Yogyakarta and the provinces forming West Papua)
 * 416 regencies and 98 cities
 * 7,252 districts
 * In West Papua, these are called
 * In the Special Region of Yogyakarta, these are called
 * In Aceh, these are called
 * 83,411 subdistricts ( in urban areas,  in rural areas)
 * In Aceh, subdistricts are called.

Iran

 * 31 provinces
 * 472 counties (, divided into bakhsh

Republic of Ireland

 * 26 counties, the city and county of Limerick, and the cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway

Israel

 * 6 districts ( each having around a million people and one area (. CBS example
 * Which are further divided into fifteen sub-districts, although two of these include the same area as the district and such are not usually listed.
 * 3 metropolitan areas, a separate distinction from districts. CBS example
 * There are 3 types of local government: Government website
 * City or municipal councils – an authority with the status of a city.
 * Local councils – an authority that is not large enough to have the status of a city.
 * Regional councils – an authority of several settlements, usually rural. The most common form of communities are kibbutzim and moshavim.
 * However most of these divisions are mainly used for administrative purposes and colloquially (in addresses for example) only the local types are used and sometimes their divisions (e.g. kibbutzim and moshavim).
 * Cities are sometimes divided into neighbourhoods or older ones into quarters, but these are usually descriptive (e.g. , ) and might be considered SOP.

Italy

 * 17 regions
 * 107 provinces
 * 14 metropolitan cities : Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bari, Catania, Bologna, Florence, Venice, Genoa, Messina, Reggio Calabria, Cagliari
 * 7,904 comunes

Japan

 * 47 prefectures (, including Tokyo, Hokkaido, and the urban prefectures of Kyoto and Osaka)
 * 792 cities (, including Tokyo's special wards, 743 towns and 143 villages

Other subdivisions are:
 * 354 districts . These are non-governing divisions below prefectures, but are used in addresses and maps. These are usually divided into towns and villages (see above)
 * 158 subprefectures : the main subdivision of Hokkaido. Some prefectures also have subprefectures (Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Tokyo, Shimane and Yamagata).
 * wards, only in certain cities (Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, Kawasaki, Kyoto, Saitama, Hiroshima, Sendai, Chiba, Kitakyushu, Sakai, Niigata, Hamamatsu, Kumamoto, Sagamihara, Okayama and Shizuoka)

Kazakhstan

 * 17 regions (Kazakh: ) and the independent cities of Almaty, Astana and Shymkent
 * 170 districts (Kazakh: )

Kenya

 * 8 provinces (Swahili: )
 * 47 counties (Swahili: )
 * 497 divisions (Swahili: )
 * 2,427 locations (Swahili: )

North Korea
''Note: Korean terms listed here are romanized according to the McCune-Reischauer system; the Revised Romanization (RR) is provided after the MR romanization. In case the MR and RR are the same, only one romanization is provided


 * The first-level divisions are 9 provinces and 4 special cities (: Pyongyang, Kaesong, Nampo and Rason)
 * The 9 provinces are divided into 27 cities (, excluding the 4 special cities above) and 82 counties
 * The 27 cities (including the 4 special cities) are subdivided into neighborhoods )
 * Counties are further subdivided into towns, and villages (. Some counties may also have workers' districts.

South Korea

 * The first-level divisions are 9 provinces, 1 special city (: Seoul), 1 special self-governing city (: Sejong) and 6 metropolitan cities (: Busan, Incheon, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju and Ulsan)
 * The 9 provinces are divided into 75 cities (, excluding the 8 special cities above) and 82 counties
 * The 83 cities (including the 8 special cities) as well as Jeju and Seogwipo are divided into 104 districts
 * Busan, Incheon, Daegu and Ulsan are also subdivided into counties in addition to districts.
 * Counties are further subdivided into towns, townships and villages (, and districts and cities without districts are further subdivided into neighborhoods (

Laos

 * 17 provinces, divided into 148 districts

Madagascar

 * There were formerly 6 administrative provinces subdivided into 22 regions
 * The provinces were dissolved, now the 22 regions are the highest subdivision
 * Regions are subdivided into districts
 * Districts are subdivided into communes
 * Communes are subdivided into fokontany

Malawi

 * Three regions: Central, Northern, Southern
 * Regions are subdivided into districts

Malaysia

 * 13 states and 3 federal districts (: Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya)
 * 17 divisions (, in Sabah and Sarawak only)
 * 19 cities, 39 municipalities , and 92 districts

Mexico

 * 31 states (estados)
 * States subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
 * Mexico City is not a state or municipality, but is divided into 16 boroughs (delegaciones)

Federated States of Micronesia

 * Divided into 4 states
 * Each state is subdivided into municipalities

Myanmar

 * Top-level divisions
 * 7 regions
 * 7 states
 * 1 union territory
 * 1 self-administered regions
 * 7 self-administered zones

Nauru

 * 14 administrative districts grouped into 8 electoral constituencies
 * Districts are subdivided into villages

Nepal

 * 7 provinces
 * 77 districts, which are subdivided into:
 * 6 metropolitan cities : Kathmandu, Pokhara, Bharatpur, Lalitpur, Birgunj, Biratnagar
 * 11 sub-metropolitan cities (
 * 276 municipalities (
 * 460 rural municipalities (

Netherlands

 * 12 provinces
 * Provinces subdivided into municipalities, which are mostly administrative in nature.
 * Municipalities are subdivided into places, which represent individual settlements. A municipality may have only one place in it, or it may have many individual places spread across a wider area.
 * No legal distinction is made between places of different sizes or statuses. covers anything from a tiny hamlet to a big city. A  may not even have anyone living in it ( is one).

New Zealand

 * 16 regions (Maori: )
 * 13 regions and 53 districts and the Chatham Islands

Nicaragua

 * 15 departments (departamentos) and 2 autonomous communities
 * Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Nigeria

 * 36 states and one federal territory around Abuja
 * 774 local government areas (LGAs)

Pakistan

 * 7 provinces
 * 39 divisions
 * 170 districts
 * 655 tehsils

Palestine

 * 2 regions (West Bank and Gaza Strip)
 * 16 governorates (: 11 in the West Bank and 5 in the Gaza Strip), including areas under Israeli control. These are subdivided into cities, towns, villages, refugee camps and neighborhoods.

Panama

 * 10 provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into districts (distritos)
 * Districts subdivided into corregimientos

Paraguay

 * 17 departments (departamentos) and one capital district

Peru

 * 25 regions (regiones)
 * Regions subdivided into provinces (provincias)
 * Provinces subdivided into districts (distritos)

Philippines

 * 17 regions : 16 are administrative, and 1 (Bangsamoro) is autonomous
 * 81 provinces ( or )
 * 145 cities ( or ) and 1,489 municipalities ( or )
 * Certain cities are further divided into administrative districts . These divisions are non-governing, geographical units used in addresses.
 * Manila, Davao City, Iloilo City and Samal have their districts defined by law.
 * Other cities such as Quezon City or Caloocan have districts, but their boundaries are not defined in law, nonetheless these are commonly used in addressing. Those districts are usually former barangays that have been split into smaller ones.
 * 42,029 barangays

Poland

 * 16 provinces or voivodeships (województwa)
 * 379 counties (powiaty)
 * 2479 municipalities (gminy)

Portugal

 * Portugal has three tiers of administration:
 * (administrative regions)
 * (municipalities)
 * (civil parishes)
 * Since 2013 there exist two  (metropolitan areas)
 * (intermunicipal communities) replaced the former urban communities
 * Outside of mainland Portugal exist two  (autonomous regions)
 * Category:pt:Autonomous regions of Portugal

Romania

 * 41 counties and the city of Bucharest
 * 2,686 communes
 * 103 cities
 * 217 towns

Russia

 * 89 federal subjects, 6 of which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, namely Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Crimea, Zaporozhye and Sevastopol. These are subdivided into these subclasses:
 * 24 republics
 * 9 krais
 * 48 oblasts
 * 3 federal cities : Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Sevastopol
 * 1 autonomous oblast : Jewish Autonomous Oblast
 * 4 autonomous okrugs : Nenetsk, Yamalia, Khantia-mansia and Chukotka
 * Each federal subject, except the federal cities, are subdivided into:
 * districts, 1873 are administrative districts and 1823 are municipal districts, include those in territories internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.
 * cities of federal subject significance

San Marino

 * 9 municipalities (castelli), including the capital city
 * Each municipality has a main settlement known as a
 * Municipalities subdivided into parishes or curacies (curazie)

Saudi Arabia

 * Divided into 13 regions / provinces
 * Provinces are subdivided into 118 governorates
 * Governorates are subdivided into sub-governorates
 * Regional capitals are not part of any governorate, but are governed by municipal councils

Senegal

 * 14 regions
 * Regions subdivided into departments
 * Departments subdivided into arrondissements

South Africa

 * 9 provinces

Spain

 * 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities (ciudad autónoma: Ceuta and Melilla)
 * 50 provinces
 * 8,131 municipalities
 * Municipalities are further subdivided into, but these have geographical units with no administration
 * Catalonia's provinces are subdivided into, which are then subdivided into municipalities (Catalan: )

Sri Lanka

 * 7 provinces (Sinhala:, Tamil: )
 * 25 districts (Sinhala:, Tamil: )

Sweden

 * 21 regions
 * 290 municipalities

Switzerland

 * 26 cantons (German:, French: , Italian: , Romansch: )
 * The cantons are further subdivided into districts (German:, French: , Italian: )
 * The districts are further subdivided into 2,636 municipalities (German:, French: , Italian: , Romansch: )

Taiwan

 * 2 provinces (, non-governing): Taiwan and Fujian
 * 13 counties, 6 special municipalities (: Taipei, Kaohsiung, New Taipei City, Taichung, Tainan, Taitung and Taoyuan) and 3 cities (: Chiayi, Hsinchu and Keelung)

Tajikistan

 * 2 regions, 1 autonomous region (Gorno-Badakhstan) and districts under Republican subordination (including Dushanbe), divided into districts and cities.

Thailand

 * 76 provinces, including the special administrative region of Bangkok
 * The provinces excluding Bangkok are subdivided into 878 districts or.
 * Bangkok is subdivided into 50 districts, which are then subdivided into 180 subdistricts.
 * The districts are further subdivided into 7,255 subdistricts or

Turkey

 * 81 provinces
 * 973 districts
 * Districts are further subdivided into:
 * towns
 * villages
 * neighborhoods

Tuvalu

 * 9 islands, with villages on each (no further subdivision)

Ukraine

 * 27 regions, belonging to either one of three types:
 * 24 oblasts
 * 2 cities with special status : Kyiv and Sevastopol
 * 1 autonomous republic : Crimea
 * 136 districts
 * 457 cities, 886 towns and 28,556 villages
 * 1,469 hromadas

United Arab Emirates

 * Divided into 7 emirates

United States

 * 50 states, some called commonwealths in their formal names.
 * Also the District of Columbia, territories, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other entities.
 * Most states divided into counties, but Louisiana into parishes, Alaska into boroughs, and the New England states into towns, though counties exist, often used for judicial districts.
 * States have varying local-government nomenclature and relationships among the state (or equivalent), the counties (or equivalents), and the local governments
 * Native peoples are in a curious position, the tribes being principally in a treaty relationship with the federal government, sometimes having reservations. The native peoples can vote is US and state (?) elections.

Uruguay

 * 19 departments (departamentos)
 * Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Venezuela

 * 9 administrative regions (regiones administrativas)
 * Regions subdivided into 23 states (estados), a capital district (distrito capital), and the federal dependencies (Dependencias Federales)
 * States subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
 * Municipalities subdivided into parishes (parroquias)

Vietnam

 * 58 provinces and 5 municipalities (: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong, Da Nang and Can Tho)
 * Provinces are further subdivided into these subunits:
 * provincial cities, which are subdivided into wards and communes
 * towns (, which are subdivided into wards and communes
 * districts (, which are subdivided into townships and communes
 * Municipalities are further subdivided into these subunits:
 * municipal cities, which are subdivided into wards
 * urban wards or boroughs, which are subdivided into wards
 * towns (, which are subdivided into wards and communes
 * districts (, which are subdivided into townships and communes