List of terms for subnational entities

This is a list of native terms for subnational entities.

  1. Amt (dan,deu)
  2. Apskritis (lit) => County
  3. Arrondissement (fra)
  4. Autonoma => Autonomous
  5. Avtonomnyy => Autonomous
  6. Aymag (mon) => Province
  7. Baladiyat => Municipality
  8. Binh
  9. Bundesland (deu) => Federal state
  10. Bwrdeistref => Welsh for "Borough County"
  11. Canton - Cantons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cantons of Switzerland, Cantons of France
  12. Changwat => Province
  13. Commune (fra)
  14. Comunidad (spa) => Community
  15. County
  16. Departamento (spa) => Department
  17. Département (fra) => Department
  18. Distrikt (deu) => District
  19. Distrito (spa) => District
  20. Division => Division
  21. Dzongkhag => District
  22. Emirate
  23. Estado (spa) => (Federal) State
  24. Fylke (nob) => County
  25. Gemeinde (deu) => Municipality
  26. Gobolka
  27. Gouvernorat => Governorate
  28. Guberniya (Imperial Russia => Governorate)
  29. Ili
  30. iProvense
  31. Judetul (ron) => County
  32. Kanton (deu) => Canton
  33. Khett
  34. Khoueng
  35. Kozhuun
  36. Kraj/Krai (rus,cze,slk)=> land, territory
  37. Laani => County
  38. Län (swe) => County
  39. Land (deu) => (Federal) State
  40. Maakond(est) => County
  41. Megye (hun)
  42. Mintaqah => Region
  43. Mintaqat => Region
  44. Muhafazat (ara) => Governorate
  45. Municipio (spa) => Municipality
  46. Nakhon
  47. Negeri
  48. Nomos => Prefecture
  49. Oblast' => Oblast (=> Province)
  50. Oblast (bul,rus) => Oblast (=> Province)
  51. Oblast (kyr) => (Kyrgyzstan)
  52. Oblys (kaz) => Oblast (=> Province)
  53. Okres (cze,slk) => District
  54. Okrug (rus) => District
  55. Opstina
  56. Ostan-e
  57. Parish
  58. Parroquia
  59. Periphery - Peripheries of Greece
  60. Pradesh - state or province eg Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh (central state); used in India
  61. Propinsi
  62. Province
  63. Provincia (ita,spa) => Province
  64. Provincie (nld) => Province
  65. Quang
  66. Quarter
  67. Raion (Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union; =district [see okrug], literally "region")
  68. Raioni => District
  69. Raionul => District (Moldova)
  70. Rajons => District / county
  71. Rayonu => District
  72. Regione => Region
  73. Respublika => Republic
  74. Rural district
  75. Sahari
  76. Selsoviet
  77. Sheng
  78. Shire (eng) e.g. Shires of England
  79. Sirol
  80. Somon
  81. Subprefecture
  82. Sultanate (subnational?)
  83. Sum (subnational entity)
  84. Sumon
  85. Territory (eng)
  86. Tinh
  87. Ulus
  88. Velayat (tur)
  89. Velayat-e => Province
  90. Viloyati => Province
  91. Voblast => Oblast (=> Province)
  92. Voivodship (Poland)
  93. Volost
  94. Wilayah (ara) => Province
  95. Wilaya (ara) => Province
  96. Wilayat => Province
  97. Wojewodztwo (pol) => Voivodship
  98. Zupanija (hrv) => County


Subnational entity
Banner | Borough | Canton | Circuit | City | Commune | County | Council | Department | District | Division | Dominion | Duchy | Governorate | Hamlet | Municipality | Neighbourhood | Parish | Prefecture | Province | Region | Republic | State | Territory | Town | Township | Village | Voivodship | Community
Autonomous: banner | city | community | county | prefecture | province | region | republic | ward
Civil: parish | township
Federal: capital | district | capital district | capital territory
Local: council
Metropolitan: borough | county
National: capital district | capital territory
Rural: council | district | municipality
Urban: district
edit See also: List of terms for subnational entities, List of subnational entities, Matrix of subnational entities