prefecture

Etymology
From, from. Equivalent to. As an East Asian administrative division, a calque of 🇨🇬 and, also used to describe and  in some eras.

Noun

 * 1) The office or position of a prefect.
 * 2) The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَبْنَى الْوِلَايَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: المحافظة, مبنى المحافظة, مبنى الولاية
 * Catalan: prefectura
 * Chagatai: حكيملك
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Gagauz: valilik
 * German:
 * Latin: praefectūra
 * Lithuanian: prefektūra
 * Moore: perfɛktɩɩre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prefektur
 * Nynorsk: prefektur
 * Ottoman Turkish: تولیه, متولّیلك, ریاست, سنجاق
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: ولاية, محافظة
 * Catalan: prefectura
 * Chagatai: حكيملك
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ;  ; 都道府縣 ;  ;
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz: valilik
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: prefektur
 * Japanese:, , (of Japanese prefectures)
 * Khmer: អាណាខេត្ត
 * Korean:, 도도부현(都道府縣)
 * Latin: praefectūra
 * Lithuanian: prefektūra
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: prefektur
 * Nynorsk: prefektur
 * Ottoman Turkish: تولیه, متولّیلك, ریاست, سنجاق
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Uyghur: ۋىلايەت
 * Vietnamese: (省)