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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).
3 federal-level entities: Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina (FBH), Republika Srpska and the condominium of Brčko District. FBH is divided into 10 cantons, in turn divided into 64 municipalities (opština/општина), and Republika Srpska is divided into 65 municipalities.
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
20 counties (županija) and one city-county, the capital city of Zagreb. These counties are often usually grouped into 4 or 5 historical and cultural regions (Croatia proper, Dalmatia, Istria, and Slavonia and Baranya).
The counties are divided into municipalities (općina) and cities (grad), both of which may encompass one or more settlements (naselje), which are non-administrative entities. Urbanized areas of cities may be divided into city districts (gradski kotari) or local committee areas (mjesni odbori).
Cuba
Formerly six large historical provinces (provincias)
Currently 15 provinces and one special municipality (Isla de la Juventud)
Provinces subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
27 governorates (مُحَافَظَة(muḥāfaẓa), subdivided into markaz or counties (مَرْكَز(markaz), pl. marakizمَرَاكِز(marākiz)), qism (قِسْم(qism), pl. aqsamأَقْسَام(ʔaqsām)), and cities.
Counties and aqsam are divided into villages, and cities divided into districts.
Districts may be further divided into subdistricts.
19 regions (Finnish maakunta, Swedish landskap), including Åland, which has greater autonomy over most regions.
Regions are divided into 70 sub-regions (Finnish seutukunta, Swedish ekonomisk region). These are mostly for statistics purposes and have no administrative functions.
Sub-regions are divided into 320 municipalities (Finnish kunta, Swedish kommun)
Municipalities 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|elinkeino-, liikenne- ja ympäristökeskus, abbreviated ely-keskus, Swedish: närings-,_trafik-_och_miljöcentralen, abbreviated NTM-centralen)
France
19 regions (région): 13 are in Metropolitan France and 6 are overseas
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:
8 traditional regions (地方 (chihō)): Hokkaido, Tōhoku, Kantō, Chūbu, Kansai (Kinki), Chūgoku, Shikoku and Kyushu. These subdivisions do not have any administrative value, but are used in statistics collection, geography and weather reports; such often feature in names of regional companies and institutions. Some regional schemes further divide Chūbu into Tōkai (composed of Aichi, Gifu, Mie and Shizuoka prefectures, and sometimes the southern part of Yamanashi Prefecture) and Hokuriku (composed of Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, and sometimes Niigata Prefecture), the prefectures of Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata may be grouped into the Kōshin'etsu region separate from Kantō, and Okinawa Prefecture may be treated as a separate region from Kyushu.
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
7 regions (Kyrgyz: облус(oblus)) and 2 cities of republican importance (Bishkek and Osh)
Regions subdivided into 44 districts (район(rayon)), including the districts of Bishkek, and 13 cities of regional importance.
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).
80 municipalities (општина(opština)), including the 10 municipalities forming the City of Skopje
Norway
Note: Norwegian terms linked here are generally in Bokmål, with the Nynorsk equivalent listed after. Where the term in Bokmål and Nynorsk is the same, only the form in Bokmål is linked.
15 counties (fylke) forming Metropolitan Norway, and the integral territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
Counties are divided into 442 municipalities (kommune).
Three municipalities (Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger) are further divided into boroughs.
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.
9 municipalities (castelli), including the capital city
Each municipality has a main settlement known as a capoluogo
Municipalities subdivided into parishes or curacies (curazie)
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Divided into 13 regions / provinces
Provinces are subdivided into 118 governorates (محافظة)
Governorates are subdivided into sub-governorates
Regional capitals are not part of any governorate, but are governed by municipal councils (أمانة)
Senegal
14 regions
Regions subdivided into departments
Departments subdivided into arrondissements
Serbia
3 province-level divisions: Central Serbia, Vojvodina and Kosovo and Metohija (disputed). Vojvodina and the disputed Kosovo and Metohija (under control of the de facto independent state of Kosovo) are autonomous provinces with their own administration. Remainder of country is under Central Serbia, which is under direct control and has no autonomous authority.
The cantons are further subdivided into districts (German: Bezirk, French: district, Italian: distretto)
The districts are further subdivided into 2,636 municipalities (German: Gemeinde, French: commune, Italian: comune, Romansch: vischnanca)
Syria
14 governorates (مُحَافَظَة(muḥāfaẓa), subdivided into 61 districts (مِنْطَقَة(minṭaqa)). This includes areas under de facto control of the AANES (Autonomous Administration of North East Syria, aka Rojava) and Israel (as with the Golan Heights).
Taiwan (Republic of China)
2 provinces (省 (shěng), non-governing): Taiwan and Fuchien (Fujian)
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
31 regions (Swahili: mkoa), divided into 184 districts (wilaya)
Districts are further subdivided into divisions (tarafa)
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))
457 cities (місто(misto)), 886 settlements (селище(selyšče)) and 28,556 villages (село(selo)). Until 2023, settlements are divided between urban-type settlements (селище міського типу(selyšče misʹkoho typu)) and rural-type settlements.
England is subdivided into 9 administrative regions and 48 ceremonial counties including Greater London (which is divided into 33 local government districts and the 32 boroughs of London) and the City of London. The ceremonial counties are divided into local administration districts (LADs)
Scotland is subdivided into 32 council areas (Scottish Gaelic: comhairle). These can encompass large cities such as Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, to large sparsely populated areas such as the Highlands or the Orkney Islands. Previously, Scotland was administratively divided into 34 counties or shires, which remain as geographical or cultural divisions.
Wales is divided into 22 local councils
Northern Ireland is divided into six traditional counties, which are no longer administrative units; some of these have areas administered as part of the Republic of Ireland. Administratively, Northern Ireland is divided into 11 single-tier local government districts (LGDs).
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.
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