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The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative country subdivisions currently (as of 2006) used by countries and their major dependent territories. It is ordered alphabetically by country name in English.

Numbers of divisions 

To simplify maintaining the table, numbers of divisions are only specified where a country has around thirty or fewer instances; for example, as of 2006, the twelve qarku (counties) of Albania. For numbers greater than thirty, the number rounded down to the nearest ten (or, in the case of thousands, the nearest hundred) is given, suffixed by a plus sign "+"; for example, the "300+" komuna (communes) of Albania. More precise figures should be found in the articles linked by the table.

Terms in italics 

Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English. They should be in plural form, followed by a footnote or footnotes indicating the generally accepted English equivalent or translation. Known alternative spellings are given in brackets following a term.

Terms in brackets 

Entries in standard brackets either indicate that the term used is informal or that its use is yet to be confirmed. An English term in square brackets indicates that the local name for the term is not yet known or confirmed; when confirmed, it is replaced by the local name in italics.

Footnote letters ( ^{c d m p r} ) 

These indicate, respectively, five common types of administrative division in English: capitals; districts; municipalities; provinces; and regions. Other English terms appear among the numbered footnotes.

British overseas territories and crown dependencies 

Where these have administrative divisions, they are listed as if separate countries.

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• Matrix of country subdivisions
   

Country	Administrative divisions
	First-level	Second-level	Third-level	Fourth-level and smaller
Afghanistan	30+ velaya'at p	360+ [districts] d
Albania	12 qarku [8][30]	30+ rrethe d	300+ komuna [7] 60+ bashkia m	(3000+ lokaliteteve [13]?)
Algeria	48 provinces p	553 daïras [5]	1,541 municipalities of Algeria [7]
For Åland, see Finland below.
For American Samoa, see United States below.
Andorra	7 parròquies [15]	(52 ?[localities] [13] :) quarts [17] veïnats [14] villages
Anguilla	14 districts
Angola	18 províncias p	150+ municípios [31]m
Antigua and Barbuda	6 parishes 2 dependencies
Argentina	22 provincias p	370+ departamentos [9]	municipios [32]m	localidades d
	Buenos Aires Province	partidos [33]
	Buenos Airesc[1]		15 comunas [7]	40+ barrios [14]
Armenia	10 marzer [34]p Yerevanc
For Aruba, see Netherlands below.
Australia	6 states 10 territories	Local Government Areas[35]
Austria	9 Bundesländer [21]	80+ Politische Bezirke d 15 Statutarstädte [6]	2300+ Gemeinden m[7]
Azerbaijan		50+ rayonlar d	11 saharlar [6]
	1 muxtar respublika [1]	7 rayonlar d	1 sahar [6]
Bahamas	31 districts New Providence
Bahrain	5 muhāfazāt [12]
Bangladesh	6 bibhaggulo [10]	60+ zillaggulo d
Barbados	11 parishes
Belarus	6 voblastsi p Minskc	110+ rayony d
Belgium	3 gewesten [36]r	10 provincies [37]p	43 arrondissements d	580+ gemeenten [38]m
Belize	6 districts
Bermuda	9 parishes 2 municipalities
Benin	12 départements [9]	70+ communes	arrondissements	[villages] [28] [city districts] d
Bhutan	20 dzongkhag d	200+ gewog [2][28]
Bolivia	9 departamentos [9]	90+ provincias p	320+ secciones [19][39]	1000+ cantones [4]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Fed. of Bosnia & Herzegovina	10 kantoni [4]	70+ opčine m
	Republika Srpska	7 [regions]	60+ opčine m
	Brčko District
Botswana	9 districts	[subdistricts] [22]
Brazil	26 estados [21] Brasíliac	4400+ municípios m
Brunei	4 daerah-daerah d	38 mukim p	kampong [28]
Bulgaria	28 oblasti p	260+ obshtini m[7]
Burkina Faso	(13 régions) 40+ provinces	350+ départements [9]
Burundi	17 provinces	120+ communes [7]d	2600+ collines [40]
Cambodia	20 khêt p 4 krong [1]	180+ srok d	khum [7]	khan [19] then sangkat [17]
Cameroon	10 provinces	50+ départements [9]	310+ arrondissements	[subdistricts] [22]
Canada	10 provinces:
	Alberta	19 census divisions	sections townships ranges
	British Columbia	27 regional districts 1 region	(land districts)
	Manitoba	23 census divisions	sections townships ranges
	New Brunswick	15 counties	parishes
	Newfoundland and Labrador	10 census divisions	(districts)
	Nova Scotia	18 counties
	Ontario	census divisions[41]	boroughs etc.[42]
	Prince Edward Island	3 counties	lots royalties
	Quebec	90+ comtés [8] 3 communautés urbaines [43]	municipalités [44]	arrondissements [3]
	Saskatchewan	18 census divisions	sections townships ranges
	3 territories:
	Northwest Territories	2? regions
	Nunavut	3? regions
	Yukon
Cape Verde	22 concelhos [8][45]	30+ freguesias [15]
Cayman Islands	8 districts
Central African Republic	16 préfectures [16] Banguic[1]	60+ sous-préfectures [23]	170+ communes
Chad	18 régions r	40+ départements [9]	communes	communautés rurales [18]
	including N'Djamenac	10 arrondissements
Chile	13 regiones r	50+ provincias p	320+ comunas m
China (PRC)	"province" level: 22 shěng p 5 zìzhìqū [1] 4 zhíxiáshì m	"prefecture" level: 280+ dìjíshī [6] 17 dìqū [16] 30 zìzhìzhōu [1]	"county" level: 1400+ xiàn [8] 110+ zìzhìxiàn [1] 850+ (shìxiá)qū d 2 tèqū [46] 370+ xiànjíshì [6] 1 línqū [47]	"township" level: 19500+ zhèn [26] 14600+ xiāng [27] 1000+ mínzúxiāng [48] 6100+ jiēbàn [49][22] 11 qūgōngsuǒ [50] then Urban areas: shèqū [51] or jūmínqū [14] Rural areas: cūnjí [28][52]
	Inner Mongolia[53]	3 méng [54]	40+ qí [55] 3 zìzhìqí [1]	180+ sūmù [27] 1 mínzúsūm [48] then urban and rural divisions as above.
	2 tèbiéxíngzhèngqū [56] :
	Hong Kong	18 [districts]	[municipal councils]
	Macau	2 concelhos d	5 freguesias [15]
For the Republic of China, see Taiwan below.
Colombia	32 departamentos [9] Bogotác	1100+ municipios m	2000+ corregimientos [26]
Comoros	3 [autonomous islands] [1]
DR of the Congo[57]	10 provinces Kinshasac	40+ sous-régions [24] [3] :
		mairies [58] :
		[cities]	communes	quartiers [17][14]
		territoriale [59] :
		[districts]	territoires [25]	[towns] then quartiers [17][14] cheffries [20] then villages
Republic of the Congo[60]	10 régions r	80+ [districts] d	communes
	Brazzavillec	7 arrondissements
Costa Rica	7 provincias p	80+ cantons	450+ [districts] d
Côte d'Ivoire[61]	19 régions r	50+ départements [9]	180+ sous-préfectures [23]
Croatia	20 županije [8] Zagrebc	120+ grad [26] 420+ opčine m	6700+ naselje [62]
Cuba	14 provincias p Havanac	160+ municipios m
Cyprus	6 eparchies d
Czech Republic	13 kraje r	70+ okresy d[63] 3 statutární města [6]	města, obecy m[64]
	Praguec	15? obvody d
Denmark	5 regioner r	90+ kommuner m
	Faroe Islands[1]	7 sýsla [65]r	30+ kommunur m[7]
	Greenland[1]	3 amter [8] (or lansdele p)	18 kommuner m[66]
Djibouti	5 régions r	(15 [districts] d)[67]
	Djibouti Cityc	6 arrondissements
Dominica	10 parishes
Dominican Republic	31 provincias p Distrito Nacionald	110+ municipios m 40+ distritos municipales d	secciones [19]
East Timor[68]	13 [districts] d	60+ [subdistricts] [22]	(sulos, sucos [28])
Ecuador	22 provincias p	210+ cantones [4]	1000+ parròquias [15]
Egypt	27 muhāfazāt [12]
El Salvador	14 departamentos [9]	260+ municipios m
For England, see United Kingdom below.
Equatorial Guinea	(2 regións r) 7 provincias p
Eritrea	6 zoba r	[districts] d
Estonia[69]	15 maakonnad [8]	30+ linnad [26]	linnaosad d
		190+ vallad [15][7]	alevikud [3] külad [28]
Ethiopia	9 kililoch r[21] 2 astedader akababiwach [6]	([zones]?) 12 rasgez akababiwach [1]	600+ woreda (wereda)d	kebeles [14][29]
For the Faroe Islands, see Denmark above.
Fiji	4 divisions 1 dependency	15 provinces
Finland	5 läänit p	19 maakunta r	70+ seutukunta [24]	430+ kunnat m[70]
	Åland[1]	16 [municipalities] m
France	(25 régions r Corsica[71]) 90+ départements [9]	320+ arrondissements	3800+ cantons	36000+ communes
	French Guiana[72]	2 arrondissements	19 cantons	22 communes
	French Polynesia[73][74]	5 subdivisions administratives		40+ communes
	Southern/Antarctic Lands[75][25]	4 [districts] d
	Guadeloupe[72]	3 arrondissements	30+ communes	40+ cantons
	Martinique[72]	4 arrondissements	30+ communes	40+ cantons
	Mayotte[73][76]		17 communes
	New Caledonia	3 provinces	30+ communes
	Réunion[72]	4 arrondissements	20+ communes	40+ cantons
	St. Pierre and Miquelon[73]	2 communes
	Wallis and Futuna[73]	3 royaumes coutumiers [77]	3 [districts] d
Gabon	9 provinces	30+ départements [9]
Gambia	5 divisions Banjulc	30+ districts
Georgia	9 [regions] p 2 avtonomiuri respublika [1] Tbilisic	50+ raioni d 9 k'alak'i [6]
Germany	16 Länder [78][21]	22 Regierungsbezirke [8]	430+ Kreise d then Ämter [79]	12300+ Gemeinden m
Ghana	10 regions	120+ districts
		8 municipal districts	zones
		3 metropolitan districts	submetropolitan districts
Greece	13 periphereia 1 [autonomous region] [1]	50+ nomoi [16]	140+ eparchia p	270+ demoi m then [localities] [13] ([communes] [7]?)
For Greenland, see Denmark above.
Grenada	6 parishes 2 dependencies
For Guam, see United States below.
Guatemala	22 departamentos [9]	municipios m
Guernsey[80]	10 parishes
Guinea	8 régions r	33 préfectures [16]	330+ sous-préfectures [23]	[districts] d [sectors] [20]
		Conakryc	5 communes
Guinea-Bissau	8 regiões r 1 sector autónomo [1]	30+ ?setores [20]
Guyana	10 regions
Haiti	10 départements [9]	30+ arrondissements d	communes	sections [81]
Honduras	18 departamentos [9]	290+ municipios m
Hungary	19 megyék 23 megyei jogú város [8] Budapestc
Iceland	8 landsvæði r	23 sýslur [8] 8 kaupstaðir [6][27] 7 bæir [26] ?5 [other]	100+ sveitarfélög m
India	28 states 7 territories	600+ districts	tehsils (tahsils, tahasils), taluks (talukas) [8]	blocks
Indonesia	33 provinsi [82]p 3 daerah istimewa [1] Jakartac	340+ kabupaten [83] 90+ kota [6][84]	kecamatan [22]	desa, kelurahan [28]
Iran	30 ostanha p	310+ shahrestan [8]	bakhsh d
Iraq	18 muhāfazāt [12]p	?aqdyat d[85]	?nahiyat [8]?	?qaryat [28]
Republic of Ireland	26 condae (contae) [8]
For Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom below.
Isle of Man	6 sheadings	17 parishes
Israel	6 mehozot d	15 nafot [22]	(50+? [natural regions]?)
Italy	(15 regioni r 5 regioni autonome [1]) 100+ province p (then circondari d)	8100+ comuni [7]m	frazioni [11]	?località [13]
Jamaica	14 parishes
Japan	47 todōfuken [10][16][86]	28 shichō [23] 15 seirei shitei toshi [6]	1800+ shichōsonku m[87]	ōaza, aza, chō, chōme
Jersey[80]	12 parishes	vingtaines, cueillettes
Jordan	12 muhāfazāt [12]	50+ nahia
Kazakhstan	14 oblystar p 3 qalalar [6]	210+ raioni d maslikhat
Kenya	7 mkoa p Nairobic	40 [districts] d [4]	260+ tarafa [10]	1000+ mtaa [13] then kijiji [28]
Kiribati
North Korea	9 do p 3 [SARs] [56] 2 chikhalsi [6]	150+ kun (gun) [8] si [6] kuyŏk [29] ku (gu) and chigu d 1 t'ŭkkŭpsi [6]	tong [14] ri [28] rodongjagu d
South Korea	9 do p 1 teukbyeol jachido [1]	si [6] gun (kun) [8]	gu (ku) d[3] eup [26]	dong [14] ri [28]
	6 gwangyeoksi [6]	gu (ku) d gun (kun) [8]	dong [14] eup [26] myeon [27]	ri [28]
	Seoulc	gu (ku) d[3]	dong [14]
Kuwait	6 muhāfazāt [12]
Kyrgyzstan	7 oblastlar p 2 šaar (keneš) [6]	40+ rayony d 14 gorkeneš [26]	aiyl okmotus [18]
Laos	16 khoueng p 1 khetphiset [88] Vientianec	140+ muang [89]d	baan [28]
Latvia	26 apriņķi [90]d 7 lielpilsētas [6]	72 [towns] [26] 7 novad m	470+ pagast m[15]
Lebanon	6 muhāfazāt [12]	26 qadya d[8]
Lesotho	10 districts	wards
Liberia	15 counties	60+ districts
Libya	(4 [provinces] p?) 32 sha'biyat m
Liechtenstein	11 Gemeinden m
Lithuania	10 apskritys [8]	40+ rajoni savivaldybė [91]m 8 savivaldybė m 8 miesto savivaldybė [92]m	500+ seniūnijos [93]
Luxembourg	3 [districts]	12 cantons [94]	110+ communes [95]m	24 quartierën [96]
Macedonia	(8 ?regioni r) 80+ opštini m
Madagascar	6 faritanin' mizakatena