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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 #Brazil for example. Once more countries are created here, remove this line.
See also Template:place, the template used to generate definitions of place names.
departments are further divided into municipalities (municipios)
Armenia
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).
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.
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
Prefecture-level divisions: 293 prefecture-level cities (地級市/地级市(dìjíshì)), 7 prefectures (地區/地区(dìqū) only in Heilongjiang, Tibet and Xinjiang), 30 autonomous prefectures (自治州(zìzhìzhōu))
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
6 districts (מְחוֹזוֹתm pl(m'khozot) each having around a million people and one area (אֵזוֹרm sg(ezór). CBS example
Which are further divided into fifteen sub-districts (נָפוֹתf pl(nafót)), 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
City or municipal councils (עִירִיּוֹתf pl(ʿiriyót)) – an authority with the status of a city.
Local councils (מוֹעְצוֹת מְקוֹמִיּוֹתf pl(mo'atsót mekomiyót)) – an authority that is not large enough to have the status of a city.
Regional councils (מוֹעְצוֹת אֵזוֹרִיּוֹתf pl(mo'atsót ezoriyót)) – 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 (שְׁכוּנוֹתf pl(sh'khunót)) or older ones into quarters (רובעים / רֹבָעִיםf pl(rova'ím)), but these are usually descriptive (e.g. לב העיר(lev ha'ir, literally “heart of the city”), הרובע היהודי(harova' hay'hudí, literally “the Jewish quarter”)) and might be considered SOP.
47 prefectures (都道府県 (todōfuken), including Tokyo, Hokkaido, and the urban prefectures (府 (fu)) of Kyoto and Osaka)
792 cities (市 (shi), including Tokyo's special wards (特別区 (tokubetsu-ku)), 743 towns (町 (machi)) and 143 villages (村 (mura))
Other subdivisions are:
354 districts (郡 (gun)). 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 (支庁 (shichō)): the main subdivision of Hokkaido. Some prefectures also have subprefectures (Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Tokyo, Shimane and Yamagata).
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 (도 (道, MR: to, RR: do)) and 4 special cities (특별시 (特別市, MR: t'ŭkpyŏlsi, RR: teukbyeolsi): Pyongyang, Kaesong, Nampo and Rason)
The 9 provinces are divided into 27 cities (시 (市, si), excluding the 4 special cities above) and 82 counties (군 (郡, MR: kun, RR: gun))
The 27 cities (including the 4 special cities) are subdivided into neighborhoods 동 (洞, MR: tong, RR: dong))
Counties are further subdivided into towns (읍 (邑, ŭp, eup)), and villages (리 (里, ri). Some counties may also have workers' districts (로동자구 (勞動者區, rodongjagu)).
The 9 provinces are divided into 75 cities (시 (市, si), excluding the 8 special cities above) and 82 counties (군 (郡, gun))
The 83 cities (including the 8 special cities) as well as Jeju and Seogwipo are divided into 104 districts (구 (區, gu))
Busan, Incheon, Daegu and Ulsan are also subdivided into counties in addition to districts.
Counties are further subdivided into towns (읍 (邑, eup)), townships (면 (面, myeon)) and villages (리 (里, ri), and districts and cities without districts are further subdivided into neighborhoods (동 (洞, dong)
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
17 provinces (ແຂວງ(khǣung)), divided into 148 districts (ເມືອງ(mư̄ang))
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
There were formerly 6 administrative provinces subdivided into 22 regions
The provinces were dissolved, now the 22 regions are the highest subdivision
Provinces subdivided into municipalities (gemeente), which are mostly administrative in nature.
Municipalities are subdivided into places (woonplaats), 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. woonplaats covers anything from a tiny hamlet to a big city. A woonplaats may not even have anyone living in it (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is one).
16 governorates (مُحَافَظَة(muḥāfaẓa): 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.
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.
Each federal subject, except the federal cities, are subdivided into:
districts (район(rajon)), 1873 are administrative districts and 1823 are municipal districts, include those in territories internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.
2 regions (вилоят(viloyat)), 1 autonomous region (Gorno-Badakhstan) and districts under Republican subordination (including Dushanbe), divided into districts (ноҳия(nohiya)) and cities (шаҳр(šahr)).
Tanzania
Thailand
76 provinces (จังหวัด(jang-wàt)), including the special administrative region of Bangkok
The provinces excluding Bangkok are subdivided into 878 districts or amphoe (อำเภอ(am-pəə)).
Bangkok is subdivided into 50 districts (เขต(kèet)), which are then subdivided into 180 subdistricts (แขวง(kwɛ̌ɛng)).
The districts are further subdivided into 7,255 subdistricts or tambons (ตำบล(dtam-bon))
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.