The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories.
(Row colors are for visual differentiation only.)
| Country | Type | Administrative divisions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level | Fifth-level+ | |||
| Afghanistan | Unitary | 34 provinces (velaya'at) | 421 districts (woleswali) | subdistricts (alaqadari) | |||
| Albania | Unitary | 12 counties (Albanian: qarqe) | 61 municipalities (Albanian: bashki) | 373 units of local governance (Albanian: njësite të qeverisjes vendore) | 2,972 villages (Albanian: fshatra) | ||
| Algeria | Unitary | 58 provinces | 553 districts (daïras) | 1,541 communes (baladiyahs) | |||
| Andorra | Unitary | 7 parishes (parròquies) | |||||
| Angola | Unitary | 18 provinces (províncias) | 163 municipalities (municípios) | 618 communes (comunas) | |||
| Antigua and Barbuda | Unitary | 6 parishes 2 dependencies | 60 major divisions | 116 communities[1] | 353 localities[2] | ||
| Federal | 23 provinces (Spanish; Castilian: provincias) | 378 departments (departamentos) 135 Partidos (Buenos Aires Province only) | Municipalities (municipios) | ||||
| 1 autonomous city | |||||||
| Buenos Aires | 15 communes (comunas) | 48 neighbourhoods (barrios) | |||||
| Armenia | Unitary | 10 provinces (marzer) 1 autonomous city | 70 municipalities (hamaynkner) | ||||
| Australia | Federal | 6 states | |||||
| New South Wales | 58 shires | wards (electoral unit) | suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] | ||||
| 28 councils | |||||||
| 28 cities | |||||||
| 8 regional councils | |||||||
| 6 municipalities | |||||||
| 2 unincorporated areas | |||||||
| Queensland | 30 regions | ||||||
| 28 shires | |||||||
| 12 aboriginal shires | |||||||
| 7 cities | |||||||
| 1 town | |||||||
| South Australia | 25 district councils | ||||||
| 21 cities | |||||||
| 15 councils | |||||||
| 5 aboriginal councils | |||||||
| 4 regional councils | |||||||
| 2 towns | |||||||
| 1 rural city | |||||||
| 1 unincorporated area | |||||||
| Tasmania | 23 municipalities | ||||||
| 6 cities | |||||||
| Victoria | 39 shires | ||||||
| 33 cities | |||||||
| 10 unincorporated areas | |||||||
| 6 rural cities | |||||||
| 1 borough | |||||||
| Western Australia | 104 shires | ||||||
| 29 cities | |||||||
| 8 towns | |||||||
| 2 internal territories that are self-governing: | |||||||
| Northern Territory | 9 regional councils | wards (electoral unit) | suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] | ||||
| 5 unincorporated areas | |||||||
| 3 municipalities | |||||||
| 3 shires | |||||||
| 2 cities | |||||||
| Australian Capital Territory | |||||||
| 1 internal territory that is not self-governing: | |||||||
| Jervis Bay Territory | |||||||
| 7 external territories | |||||||
| Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |||||||
| Australian Antarctic Territory | |||||||
| Christmas Island | |||||||
| Cocos (Keeling) Islands | (no administrative divisions; Shire of Cocos (Keeling) Islands for local government purposes) | ||||||
| Coral Sea Islands | |||||||
| Heard Island and McDonald Islands | |||||||
| Norfolk Island | |||||||
| Austria | Federal | 9 states (Bundesländer) | 93 districts (Bezirke),[3] [4] including 14 statutory cities (Statutarstädte) | 2,078 municipalities (Gemeinden),[5] including:
| |||
| Azerbaijan | Regional | 59 districts (Rayonlar) 11 cities (Şəhərlər) | +2600 municipalities (Bələdiyyələr) | +4500 settlements (Yaşayış Məntəqələri) | |||
| 1 autonomous republic (Muxtar Respublika) | 7 districts (Rayonlar) 1 city (Şəhər) | 218 settlements (Yaşayış Məntəqələri) | |||||
| The Bahamas | Unitary | 32 districts | 32+ town committees | ||||
| New Providence | 24 supervisory districts | ||||||
| Bahrain | Unitary | 4 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | |||||
| Bangladesh | Unitary | 8 divisions (bibhag) | 64 districts (zila) | 491 sub-districts (upazila)[6] 12 City corporations | 4,571 union councils (union parishads)[7] 327 municipal corporations (paurasabhas) | ||
| Barbados | Unitary | 11 parishes | |||||
| Belarus | Unitary | 6 regions (oblasti or voblastsi) 1 autonomous city | 118 districts (raiony) | ||||
| Belgium | Federal | 3 regions[8] | 10 provinces[9] | 43 districts[10] | 581 municipalities[11] | ||
| Belize | Unitary | 6 districts | 201 municipalities | ||||
| Benin | Unitary | 12 departments (départements) | 77 communes (communes) | 546 districts (arrondissements) | |||
| Bhutan | Unitary | 20 districts (dzongkhag) | 201 blocks (gewogs) 61 thromdes | ||||
| Bolivia | Regional | 9 departments (departamentos) | 112 provinces (provincias) | 339 municipalities (municipios) | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Federal | 2 federal entities | |||||
| Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10 cantons (kantona) | 79 municipalities (općine or opštine) | local communities | ||||
| Republika Srpska | 64 municipalities (opštine) | local communities | |||||
| 1 condominium of the federal entities: | |||||||
| Brčko District | |||||||
| Botswana | Unitary | 10 rural districts 7 urban districts | 21 sub-districts[12] | 519 villages[13] | localities | ||
| Brazil | Federal | 26 states (estados) | 5,568 municipalities (municípios) 1 state district (distrito estadual) | 10,670 municipal districts (distritos municipais) | 610 municipal subdistricts (subdistritos municipais) | ||
| 1 federal district (distrito federal) | 1 federal capital (capital federal) | 33 administrative regions (regiões administrativas) | |||||
| Brunei | Unitary | 4 districts (daerah) | 38 subdistricts (mukim) | villages (kampung) | |||
| Bulgaria | Unitary | 28 provinces or regions (oblasti, области) | 265 municipalities (obshtini, общини) |
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| Burkina Faso | Unitary | 13 regions (régions) | 45 provinces | 325 departments (départements)[14] | |||
| Burundi | Unitary | 18 provinces | 119 communes | 2,639 collines | |||
| Cambodia | Unitary | 24 provinces (khaet) 1 autonomous municipality (reachtheani; lit. 'capital') | 162 districts (srok) 27 municipalities (krong) 14 sections (khan) | 1,646 communes and quarters (khum and sangkat) | villages (phum) | ||
| Cameroon | Unitary | 10 regions (régions) | 58 departments (départements) | 360 communes, or districts (arrondissements) | |||
| Canada | Federal | 10 provinces | |||||
| Alberta | 264 municipalities | ||||||
| 8 Metis settlements | |||||||
| 63 counties/municipal districts | 403 hamlets | ||||||
| 7 improvement districts[15] | |||||||
| 6 specialized municipalities | |||||||
| 3 special areas | |||||||
| British Columbia | 27 regional districts 1 unincorporated area | 162 municipalities 160 electoral areas[16] | |||||
| Manitoba | 98 rural municipalities unincorporated areas[17] [18] | 37 municipalities 2 local government districts | |||||
| New Brunswick | 15 counties (comtés)[19] | 152 parishes (paroisses) | 104 municipalities (municipalités) | ||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | (unincorporated)[20] | 277 municipalities | |||||
| Nova Scotia | 18 counties | ||||||
| 3 regional municipalities | |||||||
| 9 county municipalities | 38 municipalities | ||||||
| 6 historic counties administered by district municipalities | 12 district municipalities | ||||||
| Ontario | 173 single-tier municipalities[21] | ||||||
| 8 regional municipalities | 241 lower-tier municipalities 46 local services boards | ||||||
| 22 counties | |||||||
| 10 districts[22] | |||||||
| Prince Edward Island | 3 counties[23] | 14 parishes | 70 townships | 63 municipalities | |||
| Quebec | 87 regional county municipalities (municipalités régionale de comté) (RCM/MRC)----17 territories equivalent to a regional county municipality (territoires équivalents) (TE):
| 1,108 municipalities (municipalités) | 45 boroughs (arrondissements) (only in 8 municipalities) | ||||
| Saskatchewan | 786 municipalities 70 First Nations 2 unincorporated areas | ||||||
| 3 territories | |||||||
| Northwest Territories | 5 regions[24] | 24 municipalities | |||||
| Nunavut | 3 regions[25] | 25 municipalities | |||||
| Yukon | (unorganized) | 8 municipalities | |||||
| Cape Verde | Unitary | 22 councils or municipalities (concelhos, also referred to as municípios) | 32 parishes (freguesias) | ||||
| Central African Republic | Unitary | 20 prefectures (préfectures) 1 autonomous commune | 72 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | ||||
| Chad | Unitary | 23 regions (régions) | 67 departments (départements)[26] | 340 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | |||
| Chile | Regional | 16 regions (regiones) | 56 provinces (provincias) | 346 communes (comunas) | neighborhood units (unidades vecinales)[27] | ||
| China, People's Republic of | Regional | 23 provinces (shěng) (including Taiwan Province, which is claimed but not administered) 5 autonomous regions (zìzhìqū) 4 municipalities (zhíxiáshì) | 280+ prefecture-level cities (dìjíshī) 17 prefectures (dìqū) 30 autonomous prefectures (zìzhìzhōu) | 1,400+ counties (xiàn) 110+ autonomous counties (zìzhìxiàn) 850+ county-level districts ((shìxiá)qū) 1 special district (tèqū) 370+ county-level cities (xiànjíshì) 1 forestry district (línqū) | 19,500+ towns (zhèn) 14,600+ townships (xiāng) 1,000+ ethnic townships (mínzúxiāng) 6,100+ subdistricts (jiēbàn or jiēdàobànshìchù) 11 district public offices (qūgōngsuǒ) then----Urban areas: (residential) communities (shèqū) or neighbourhoods (jūmínqū)----Rural areas: villages (cūnjí), village areas or village groups.[28] | ||
| 2 special administrative regions (tèbié xíngzhèngqū), Hong Kong and Macao | 18 districts (Hong Kong only) | ||||||
| Colombia | Unitary | 32 departments (departamentos) | 1,102 municipalities (municipios) | Rural areas: 2,000+ corregimientos (towns) | veredas | ||
| Urban areas: communes (comunas) | neighbourhoods (barrios) | ||||||
| 1 Capital District (Distrito Capital) | 20 localities (localidades) | ||||||
| Comoros | Federal | 3 autonomous islands (+1 claimed) (îles autonomes) | 16 prefectures (préfectures) | 54 communes | 318 villes or villages | ||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Unitary | 25 provinces 1 Capital City | 145 territories 33 cities | 6,070 groupings 2,401 quarters | |||
| Republic of the Congo | Unitary | 12 departments | 80+ districts | communes | |||
| Costa Rica | Unitary | 7 provinces (provincias) | 82 cantons (cantones) | 450+ districts | |||
| Croatia | Unitary | 20 counties (županije) | 128 towns (gradovi) 428 municipalities (općine) | (mjesnih odbora) (gradske četvrti [Zagreb], gradski kotari [Split]) | 6,700+ settlements (naselja) | ||
| Cuba | Unitary | 15 provinces (provincias) 1 special municipality (municipio especial) | 160+ municipalities (municipios) | ||||
| Cyprus | Unitary | 6 districts (eparchies) | 610 communities | ||||
| Czech Republic | Unitary | 13 regions (kraje) | 76 districts (okresy) / 205 municipalities with extended competence (3rd level municipalities) (obce s rozšířenou působností) | 393 municipalities with commissioned local authority (2nd level municipalities) (obce s pověřeným obecním úřadem) | 6,254 1st level municipalities (obce) 4 military training areas (vojenské újezdy) special status | ||
| Capital City of Prague (Hlavní město Praha) | 10 districts (obvody) judicial only 22 administrative districts (správní obvody) | 57 municipal districts (městské části) | 112 cadastral communities (katastrální území) | ||||
| Denmark, Kingdom of | Regional | 1 senior member of the Kingdom: | |||||
| Denmark | 5 regions (regioner) | 98 municipalities (kommuner) | |||||
| 2 self-governing territories within the Kingdom: | |||||||
| Faroe Islands | 7 regions (sýsla)[29] | 29 municipalities (kommunur)[30] | |||||
| Greenland | 5 municipalities (kommuner) | ||||||
| Northeast Greenland National Park | |||||||
| Djibouti | Unitary | 6 regions (régions) | 15 districts[31] 6 arrondissements (within Djibouti City) | ||||
| Dominica | Unitary | 10 parishes | |||||
| Dominican Republic | Unitary | 31 provinces (provincias) 1 National District (Distrito Nacional) | 158 municipalities (municipios) | 40+ municipal districts (distritos municipales) | |||
| East Timor[32] | Unitary | 13 municipalities (Municípios) 1 special administrative region (região administrativa especial) | 65 administrative posts (postos administrativos) | 442 sucos (villages, village areas, or village groups) | |||
| Ecuador | Unitary | 24 provinces (provincias) | 221 cantons (cantones) | 1,000+ parishes (parroquias) | |||
| Egypt | Unitary | 27 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 271 marakiz or aqsam | 4,617+ villages or districts | sheyakha or residential districts | ||
| El Salvador | Unitary | 14 departments (departamentos) | 262 municipalities (municipios) | ||||
| Equatorial Guinea | Unitary | 8 provinces (provincias) | 32 districts (distritos) | ||||
| Eritrea | Unitary | 6 regions (zoba) | 58 districts | Communes (Kebabis) | Villages and towns | ||
| Estonia | Unitary | 15 counties (maakonnad) | 15 towns (linnad) | Districts (linnaosad) | Subdistricts (asumid) | ||
| 64 parishes (vallad) | Quarters (kandid) | 32 towns (linnad) 12 boroughs (alevid) 188 alevikud[33] 4,455 villages (külad) | |||||
| Eswatini | Unitary | 4 regions (tifundza) | 50+ tinkhundla[34] | 360+ imiphakatsi[35] | |||
| Federal | 12 regions (kililoch) 2 chartered cities (astedader akababiwach) | 68 zones (zonoch) | 600+ districts (woreda) | kebeles (neighbourhoods or wards) | |||
| Fiji | Unitary | 4 divisions | 14 provinces | + 50 districts | |||
| 1 dependency | |||||||
| Finland | Regional | 18 regions (maakuntaa) | 70+ subregions (seutukuntaa) | 317 municipalities (kuntaa) [36] | |||
| 1 autonomous region (Åland) (itsehallinnollinen maakunta) | 16 municipalities (kommuner (kuntaa)) | ||||||
| France | Regional | 18 regions (régions), including 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion) | 101 departments (départements) + the Metropolis of Lyon | 332 arrondissements | 2,054 cantons (electoral constituencies) | ||
| 12,159 intercommunalities | 35,357 communes (The 3 communes of Paris, Lyon, and Marseilles are further subdivided into municipal arrondissements.) | ||||||
| 1 state private property, located overseas, under the direct authority of the French government: Clipperton Island | |||||||
| 5 overseas collectivities (collectivités d'outre-mer): | |||||||
| French Polynesia[37] | 5 administrative subdivisions (subdivisions administratives) | 40+ communes | |||||
| Saint-Barthélemy | 2 parishes | 40 quarters | |||||
| Saint-Martin | |||||||
| Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | 2 communes | ||||||
| Wallis and Futuna | 3 traditional kingdoms (royaumes coutumiers) | 3 districts (Uvea only) | |||||
| 1 sui generis collectivity (collectivité sui generis): | |||||||
| New Caledonia | 3 provinces | 30+ communes | |||||
| 1 overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer): | |||||||
| French Southern and Antarctic Lands | 5 districts | ||||||
| Gabon | Unitary | 9 provinces | 49 departments (départements) | ||||
| Gambia | Unitary | 5 regions 1 city | 8 Local Government Areas | 43 districts | |||
| Georgia | Regional | 10 regions (mkhare) (portions administered as the partially recognized country of South Ossetia) Adjara, autonomous republic Abkhazia, an autonomous republic administered as a partially recognized country | 5 cities (k'alak'i) 67 communities (temi) | ||||
| Germany | Federal | 16 states (Länder)[38] | |||||
| Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Hesse North Rhine-Westphalia | 19 administrative districts (Regierungsbezirke) | 3 special regional associations (Kommunalverbände besonderer Art)[39] ----294 rural districts (Landkreise or Kreise) | 1281 municipal associations (Gemeindeverbände)[40] ----10907 municipalities (Gemeinden), including 1951 towns (Städte) 386 market towns (Märkte) (only in Bavaria) | ||||
| Brandenburg Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia | |||||||
| 103 cities (urban districts) (Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise) | |||||||
| Bremen | 2 cities (Städte): Bremen (city) | 7 boroughs (Stadtbezirke) | 32 quarters (Stadtteile) | 113 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile) | |||
| Berlin | 12 boroughs (Bezirke) | 97 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile) | |||||
| Hamburg | 7 boroughs (Bezirke) | 104 quarters (Stadtteile) | 181 neighbourhoods (Ortsteile) | ||||
| Ghana | Unitary | 16 regions | 216 districts | Communities tema | |||
| 8 municipal districts | zones | ||||||
| 3 metropolitan districts | submetropolitan districts | ||||||
| Greece | Regional | 7 decentralized administrations (apokentroménes dioikíseis) | 13 administrative regions (peripheries) | 74 regional units (perifereiakés enótites) | 332 municipalities (dímoi) | ||
| 1 autonomous monastic state (aftonomi monastiki politeia): Agio Oros | |||||||
| Grenada | Unitary | 6 parishes 1 dependency | |||||
| Guatemala | Unitary | 22 departments (departamentos) | 332 municipalities (municipios) | ||||
| Guinea | Unitary | 8 regions (régions) | 33 prefectures (préfectures) | 330+ sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | [districts] [sectors] | ||
| 5 communes | |||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | Unitary | 8 regions (regiões) 1 autonomous sector (sector autónomo) | 39 sectors (setores) | ||||
| Guyana | Unitary | 10 regions | 64 neighborhood councils | ||||
| Haiti | Unitary | 10 departments (départements) | 42 arrondissements | 144 communes | 571 communal sections (sections communales) | ||
| Honduras | Unitary | 18 departments (departamentos) | 298 municipalities (municipios) | 3,731 aldeas | |||
| Hungary | Unitary | 19 counties (vármegye) | 174 districts (járás) | 3,154 cities and towns (városok) | |||
| 1 autonomous city | 23 boroughs (kerület) 1 non-borough | ||||||
| Iceland | Unitary | 8 regions(svæði) | 64 municipalities (sveitarfélög) | ||||
| India | Federal | 28 states 8 union territories | 766 districts (zile)[41] | 5924 subdistricts (tahsīl or mandal) | |||
| Local governments:Urban local governance;Single tier system of government.Rural local governance;3 tier system of government. | Urban Local Bodies:
| Rural Local Bodies (Panchayati Raj Institutions):
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| Indonesia | Regional | 38 provinces (provinsi) including 9 special regions (daerah istimewa) | 416 regencies (kabupaten) 98 cities (kota, formerly kotamadya) | 7,266 districts (kecamatan, distrik, kapanewon, kemantren) | 83,467 villages (kelurahan, desa) | ||
| Iran | Unitary | 31 provinces (ostanha) | 467 counties (shahrestan) | districts (bakhsh) | rural districts (dehestan) cities (shahr) | ||
| Federal | 19 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt), including 4 governorates in the autonomous Kurdistan Region (counting Halabja) | 120 districts (aqḍyat) | 300+ subdistricts (naḥiyat) | villages (qaryat) | |||
| Ireland | Unitary | 26 counties (contaetha) 3 cities (cathracha) | 2 metropolitan districts (ceantair cathracha) 4 borough districts (ceantair buirge) 89 municipal districts (ceantair bardasacha) | 3,440 electoral divisions (toghroinn ceantair) | 18,641 small areas (ceantair beaga) 51,430 townlands (bailte) | ||
| Israel | Regional | 6 districts (meḥozot)[42] Judea and Samaria Area | 15 sub-districts (nafot) | 52 natural regions | 77 cities (arim)[43] 124 local councils (moaṣot mekomiot)[44] 54 regional councils (moaṣot azoriot)[45] | ||
| Italy | Regional | 15 regions (regioni)5 autonomous regions with special statute (regioni autonome a statuto speciale) | 80 provinces (province) 2 autonomous provinces (province autonome) | 7,998 communes (comuni) | 37,000+ fractions (frazioni) and circumscriptions (circoscrizioni) | ||
| Ivory Coast | Unitary | 14 autonomous districts (districts autonomes) | 31 regions (régions) | 108 departments (départements) 1 unincorporated area | 510 sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) | ||
| Jamaica | Unitary | 14 parishes | |||||
| Japan | Regional | 47 prefectural divisions (todōfuken) 1 metropolis (to, viz. Tokyo) 1 territory (dō, viz. Hokkaidō) 2 urban prefectures (fu, viz. Kyoto and Osaka) 43 prefectures (ken) | 792 Cities (shi) 307 districts (gun) 18 subprefectures (shichō) 23 special wards (tokubetsu-ku) | 1,700+ municipalities (shichōsonku) cities (shi) towns (chō) villages (son) wards (ku) | ōaza, aza, chō, chōme | ||
| Jordan | Unitary | 12 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 52 Districts (Alwia'a) | 89 Subdistricts (Nahiya) | qurah | ||
| Kazakhstan | Regional | 17 regions (oblys) 3 cities with region rights (qala) Baikonur[46] | 319 raions (awdan) oblıstıq qala | kent | awıl aymaq | ||
| Kenya | Regional | 47 counties (kaunti) | 262 sub-counties (kaunti ndogo) | 2,400+ locations (mtaa) | Cities, Municipalities and Towns villages (vijiji) | ||
| Kiribati | Unitary | None | |||||
| Kuwait | Unitary | 6 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 132 areas (manāṭiq) | ||||
| Kyrgyzstan | Unitary | 7 regions (oblus) 2 independent cities (šaar (keneš)) | 44 districts (rayon) 14 towns (gorkeneš) | rural communities or rural districts (ayyl aymagy) | |||
| Laos | Unitary | 17 provinces (khoueng) 1 prefecture | 140+ districts (muang or muong) | villages (baan) | |||
| Latvia | Unitary | 36 municipalities (novadi) 7 republic cities (Republikas pilsētas) | 71 cities/towns (pilsētas) 512 parishes (pagasti) | ||||
| Lebanon | Unitary | 9 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt)[47] | 26 districts (qaḍya) | ||||
| Lesotho | Unitary | 10 districts | 80+ constituencies | 120+ community councils | |||
| Liberia | Unitary | 15 counties | 60+ districts | ||||
| Libya | Unitary | 22 districts (sha'biyat) | 99 baladiyat | ||||
| Liechtenstein | Unitary | 11 municipalities (Gemeinden) | |||||
| Lithuania | Unitary | 10 counties (apskritys) | 60 municipalities (savivaldybės) | 500+ elderships (seniūnijos) | sub-eldership (seniūnaitija) | ||
| Luxembourg | Unitary | 12 cantons[48] | 102 communes[49] [50] | 24 quarters[51] | |||
| Madagascar | Unitary | 22 regions (faritra) | 114 districts | 1,579 communes (kaominina) and 17,485 villages (fokontany) | |||
| Malawi | Unitary | 3 regions | 28 districts | 130+ traditional authorities | 60+ subchiefdoms | ||
| Malaysia | Federal | 13 states (negeri) 3 federal territories (wilayah persekutuan) | 17 divisions (bahagian) (Only in Sabah and Sarawak) 160 districts (daerah/jajahan) | 1,000+ subdistricts (mukim) 8,000+ villages (kampung) 21 presint | |||
| Maldives | Unitary | 17 atolls 4 cities | 189 islands | ||||
| Mali | Unitary | 10 régions 1 capital district | 40+ cercles (circles) | 1,400+ arrondissements | 700+ communes | ||
| Malta | Unitary | 5 regions (reġjuni) | 68 local councils (kunsilli lokali) | ||||
| Marshall Islands | Unitary | 24 municipalities | |||||
| Mauritania | Regional | 15 regions ; capital city of Nouakchott spans 3 regions | 44 departments[52] or moughataas | 216 communes (some of which are consolidated with departments) | |||
| Mauritius | Unitary | Rodrigues | 14 zones | 120+ villages, 4 Towns 173 localities | |||
| Mauritius | 9 districts | ||||||
| 2 outer islands with no government (+2 claimed) | |||||||
| Mexico | Federal | 31 states (estados) | 2,458 municipalities (municipios) | A few municipalities are further divided into boroughs, some incompletely. | |||
| 1 autonomous city, Mexico City (Ciudad de México) | 16 boroughs (Spanish; Castilian: demarcaciones territoriales) | ||||||
| Federated States of Micronesia | Federal | 4 states | 70+ municipalities | ||||
| Moldova | Regional | 32 districts or raions (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: raioane) 3 municipalities (municipii): Chișinău, Bălți, and Tighina 2 autonomous territorial units: Gagauzia and Left Bank of the Dniester (claimed but administered as the unrecognized independent country of Transnistria) | 10 municipalities (municipii)50 cities 60+ city localities 660+ villages (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: sate) 880+ village localities | ||||
| Monaco | Unitary | 1 municipality | 3 quarters | 10 wards | |||
| Mongolia | Unitary | 21 provinces (aimags) | 331 districts (sum) | 1,538 bags | |||
| 1 capital city, Ulaanbaatar | 9 districts (düüregs) | 173 subdistricts (khoroos) | |||||
| Montenegro | Unitary | 25 municipalities (opštine) | 1,256 naselja | ||||
| Morocco | Unitary | 12 regions (3 containing parts of occupied Western Sahara) | 13 prefectures 62 provinces | circles | rural communes | ||
| communes urbaines arrondissements | |||||||
| Mozambique | Unitary | 11 provinces (provincias) | 128 districts (distritos) | 405 administrative posts (postos) | [urban districts] localities (localidades) | ||
| Myanmar | Unitary | 7 States | 67 Districts | 330 Townships | 70,838 Villages | ||
| 7 Regions | |||||||
| 1 Union Territory | |||||||
| 5 Self-Administered Zones | |||||||
| 1 Self-Administered Division | |||||||
| Namibia | Unitary | 14 regions[53] | 121 constituencies | cities towns villages settlements | |||
| Nauru | Unitary | 14 districts | |||||
| Federal | 7 provinces (Pradesh) | 77 districts (jilla) | 6 metropolitan cities (mahānagarpālikā) 11 sub-metropolitan cities (upa-mahānagarpālikā) 276 municipalities (nagarpālikā)486 rural municipalities (gāunpālikā) | 6743 wards (wadā) | |||
| Netherlands, Kingdom of the | Regional | 4 constituent countries (landen): | |||||
| Netherlands | 12 provinces (provincies) | 344 municipalities (gemeenten) | urban districts (deelgemeenten) | ||||
| 3 public bodies (openbare lichamen)(Caribbean Netherlands region) | Bonaire | 2 towns, neighbourhoods[54] | |||||
| Sint Eustatius | neighbourhoods[55] | ||||||
| Saba | 4 villages[56] | ||||||
| Aruba | 8 regions[57] | ||||||
| Curaçao | 2 districts and 1 special city[58] | 10 areas[59] | 4 town quarters | ||||
| Sint Maarten | 8 administrative units[60] | ||||||
| New Zealand | Regional | Realm of New Zealand | |||||
| New Zealand | 11 non-unitary regions | 13 cities 53 districts | wards (electoral unit) | suburbs [urban] and localities [rural] | |||
| 1 special territorial authority | |||||||
| 5 unitary authorities | |||||||
| 3 outlying islands | |||||||
| Ross Dependency | |||||||
| 1 self-administering territory | |||||||
| Tokelau | 3 island councils | ||||||
| 2 states in free-association | |||||||
| Cook Islands | 10 island councils | districts | tapere | ||||
| Niue | 14 villages | ||||||
| Nicaragua | Regional | 15 departments (departamentos) 2 autonomous regions (regiones autónomas) | 153 municipalities (municipios) | ||||
| Niger | Unitary | 7 régions Capital district, Niamey Urban Community | 63 départements | communes, cantons, and groupements | |||
| Nigeria | Federal | 36 states 1 Federal Capital Territory | 774 Local Government Areas | 8813 Wards | |||
| North Korea | Unitary | 9 provinces (do) 4 special cities | 150+ cities, counties, workers' districts (in some counties), districts, and wards | towns (in counties), neighborhoods (in cities), villages (rural) | |||
| North Macedonia | Unitary | 8 statistical regions | 80 municipalities (opštini) | ||||
| Norway | Regional | 14 counties (fylker) 14 county municipalities (fylkeskommuner) | 354 primary municipalities (kommuner) 3 hundreds (herader) | ||||
| Capital city of Oslo | 15 boroughs (bydeler) 2 non-boroughs (Marka and Sentrum) | ||||||
| 2 integral overseas areas | |||||||
| 3 dependencies | |||||||
| Oman | Unitary | 11 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 61 provinces | ||||
| Pakistan | Federal | 4 provinces 2 autonomous territories | 38 divisions | 168 districts | 596 Tehsils | Almost 6,000 Union Councils | |
| 1 federal capital territory | 5 zones | 27 union councils | |||||
| Palau | Unitary | 16 states | town council(s)[61] village hall(s)[62] [63] traditional villages[64] | ||||
| Palestine | Unitary | 16 governorates | 121 municipal councils[65] 355 village councils | local councils (East Jerusalem) | |||
| Panama | Unitary | 10 provinces (provincias) | 68 districts (distritos) | 587 corregimientos (corregimientos) 2 corregimiento-level indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas) | |||
| 4 indigenous regions (comarcas indígenas) | 11 districts | 79 corregimientos | |||||
| Papua New Guinea | Regional | 20 provinces 1 autonomous region 1 National Capital District | districts | Local-Level Government areas | |||
| Paraguay | Unitary | 17 departments (departamentos) Asunción, the capital district (distrito capital) | 262 districts (distritos) | ||||
| Peru | Regional | 26 regional level circumscriptions (gobiernos regionales) (provisional, de facto)
| 196 provinces (provincias)[66] | 1,869 districts (distritos) | 2,645 populated centers | ||
| Philippines | Regional | 15 regions (rehiyong pampangasiwaan) Bangsamoro, an autonomous region (awtonomong rehiyon) | 82 provinces (Filipino; Pilipino: lalawigan or Filipino; Pilipino: probinsya) | 107 component cities (bahaging lungsod) 1,488 municipalities (Filipino; Pilipino: bayan or Filipino; Pilipino: munisipalidad) | 42,027 barangays (formerly barrios), some grouped into districts | ||
| 22 independent cities (17 Highly Urbanized Cities and 5 Independent Component Cities) | |||||||
| Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (pambansang punong rehiyon) | 16 Highly Urbanized Cities Pateros, an independent municipality | ||||||
| Poland | Unitary | 16 voivodeships (provinces) | 314 land counties (powiat ziemski) | 2,478 municipalities (gminy of 3 types) | 40,740 sołectwa (rural) dzielnice or osiedla (urban) | ||
| 66 city counties (powiat grodzki) | |||||||
| Portugal | Regional | 18 districts (distritos) 2 autonomous regions (regiões autónomas) | 308 municipalities (Portuguese: [[concelhos]] or Portuguese: municípios) | 3,091 parishes (Portuguese: freguesias) | localities (Portuguese: localidades) | ||
| Qatar | Unitary | 8 municipalities (baladiya'at) | 98 Zones | ||||
| Romania | Unitary | 41 counties (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: județe) | 320 cities and towns (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: orașe (including 103 major cities, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: municipii) 2,856 communes (divided into 12,955 villages, sate) | ||||
| 1 autonomous municipality | 6 sectors | ||||||
| Russia | Federal | 89 federal subjects:[67] [68] | |||||
| 48 oblasts[69] 24 republics[70] 4 autonomous okrugs 9 krais (territories) 1 autonomous oblast | 2,027 districts 561 cities and towns of federal subject significance | 416 Towns of district significance 767 urban-type settlements of district significance 15,002 selsoviets and equivalents | |||||
| 3 federal cities[71] | |||||||
| Moscow | 12 administrative okrugs | 125 districts (raions) | Settlements (poseleniy) | ||||
| St. Petersburg | 18 districts (raions) | 81 okrugs | |||||
| Sevastopol[72] | 4 districts (raions) | 9 municipal okrugs and the Town of Inkerman | |||||
| Rwanda | Unitary | 5 provinces (intara) | 30 districts (uturere, singular akarere) municipalities (umujyi) | 410+ sectors (imirenge) | 9,100+ cells (utugari, singular akagali) | 14,000+ villages (imidugudu, singular umuduguduakagari) | |
| Federal | Saint Kitts | 14 parishes | |||||
| Nevis | |||||||
| Saint Lucia | Unitary | 10 districts (formerly 12 quarters) | |||||
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Unitary | 6 parishes | |||||
| Samoa | Unitary | 11 districts (Samoan: itūmālō) | |||||
| San Marino | Unitary | 9 castelli ("castles") | |||||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Regional | 6 districts Autonomous Region of Príncipe | |||||
| Saudi Arabia | Unitary | 13 regions (manaṭiq) | 150 governorates (muḥafaẓat) | 1541 subdistricts (marakiz) | |||
| Senegal | Unitary | 14 regions | 46 departments | 133 arrondissements | communes | ||
| Serbia | Regional |
| 150 municipalities (opština) 24 cities (grada) | ||||
| Seychelles | Unitary | 26 districts | |||||
| Sierra Leone | Unitary | 4 provinces 1 area | 14 districts | 149 chiefdoms | |||
| Singapore | Unitary | 5 districts | 31 constituencies | 93 wards | |||
| 1 Central Business District | |||||||
| Slovakia | Unitary | 8 regions (kraje) | 79 districts (okresy) | 2,891 municipalities (obcí) of which 141 are cities or towns (mestá)[73] | cadastraal areas (katastrálne územia) | ||
| Slovenia | Unitary | 212 municipalities (občine) | |||||
| Solomon Islands | Regional | 9 provinces Honiara, the capital territory | |||||
| Somalia | Federal | 6 states | 18 regions (gobolada) | 75 districts | |||
| South Africa | Regional | 9 provinces | 44 district municipalities | 205 local municipalities | 4,468 wards | ||
| 8 metropolitan municipalities | |||||||
| South Korea | Regional | 6 provinces (do) | 75 cities (si) 77 counties (gun) | Districts (gu) | Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) Townships (myeon) | Rural villages (ri, fifth level)Hamlets (ban, sixth level) | |
| 6 Metropolitan Cities (gwangyeoksi) | Autonomous districts (gu, jachigu) 5 counties | Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) Townships (myeon) | Rural villages (ri) | ||||
| 3 Special Self-Governing Provinces (teukbyeol jachido) | 2 si | Neighborhoods (dong) Towns (eup) Townships (myeon) | |||||
| 1 Special Self-Governing City (teukbyeol jachisi) | |||||||
| 1 Special City (teukbyeolsi) | 25 districts (gu) | Neighborhoods (dong) | |||||
| South Sudan | Federal | 10 States 2 Administrative Areas 1 Area with Special Administrative Status | 183 counties | 540 Payams | 2,500 Bomas | ||
| Spain | Regional | 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) | 50 provinces (provincias) | 477 comarcas | 8,129 municipalities (municipios) | ||
| 2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast | |||||||
| 3 places of sovereignty (Spanish; Castilian: [[plazas de soberanía]]) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka | Regional | 9 provinces | 25 districts | 320+ divisions | |||
| Sudan | Federal | 18 states | 86 districts | ||||
| Suriname | Unitary | 10 districts (districten) | 62 resorts (ressorten) | ||||
| Sweden | Unitary | 21 counties (län) 20 county councils (landsting) | 290 municipalities (kommuner) | 2,523 registration districts | |||
| Federal | 26 cantons[74] | 137 districts (not in all cantons, names vary) | 2,131 municipalities or communes[75] (varies by canton) | ||||
| Syria | Unitary | 14 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) | 60 districts (mintaqah) | subdistricts (nawaḥi) | villages | ||
| Tajikistan | Regional | 3 regions (viloyatho) Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Dushanbe, capital city | 60+ 60+ districts (nohiya, formerly raion) 18 cities 2 city councils (hukumati) | 368 village communes (jamoats)[76] | 65 towns 4223 villages | ||
| Tanzania | Regional | 31 regions (mikoa),[77] including Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region spanning five regions | 120+ districts | divisions | [wards] | [villages] | |
| Thailand | Unitary | 76 provinces (changwat) | 878 districts (amphoe) | 7,255 subdistricts (tambons) | 74,944 villages (muban) Community associations (chum-chon) | ||
| Municipalities (thesaban) of 3 types take some responsibilities of districts and subdistricts Pattaya special administrative area | |||||||
| Bangkok special administrative area | 50 districts (khet) | 180 subdistricts (kwaeng) | |||||
| Togo | Unitary | 5 régions | 30 préfectures | ||||
| Tonga | Unitary | 5 provinces | 23 districts | ||||
| Regional | 7 regions 5 boroughs 2 cities 1 ward (Tobago) | ||||||
| Tunisia | Unitary | 24 governorates | 264 delegations or districts (mutamadiyat) | municipalities (shaykhats)[78] | 2073 sectors (imadats)[79] | ||
| Turkey | Unitary | 81 provinces (il) | 403 districts (ilçe) | 403 district capitals 388 towns (belde) 18,260 villages (köy) | 32,244 neighborhoods (mahalle) (not in villages) | ||
| 30 metropolitan municipalities (consolidated province-municipalities) | 519 consolidated district-municipalities | ||||||
| Turkmenistan | Unitary | 5 regions (welaýatlar) (also known as provinces) | 37 districts (etraplar) 7 cities with district status | ? | |||
| Ashgabat, the capital city-region | 4 boroughs or districts (uly etraplar) (as of 2018) | ||||||
| Tuvalu | Unitary | 9 districts | |||||
| Uganda | Unitary | 135 districts 1 city | 167 counties 31 municipalities 25 city divisions | 1,496 subcounties 580 town councils 89 municipal divisions/boroughs | 10,717 parishes 71,213 villages[80] | ||
| Ukraine | Regional | 24 oblasts (regions)[81] 2 cities with special status[82] 1 autonomous republic[83] | 136 raions (districts) | 1469 hromadas (communities)[84] | 7567 starosta okruhs (elderships)[85] | ||
| United Arab Emirates | Federal | 7 emirates (imarat) | Regions, sectors, and municipalities | Local districts | Local communities | ||
| United Kingdom | Regional | 4 constituent countries | |||||
| 1 constituent country without devolution: | |||||||
| England | Greater London | 25 wards | |||||
| 32 London boroughs (including 1 city) | areas | ||||||
| 10,449 parishes[86] with some unparished areas | |||||||
| 6 metropolitan counties (covered by combined authorities) | 36 metropolitan boroughs (a.k.a. metropolitan districts) | ||||||
| 21 two-tier non-metropolitan counties | 164 non-metropolitan districts | ||||||
| Berkshire (non-governing, non-metropolitan) | 6 non-metropolitan districts (de facto unitary authorities) | ||||||
| 56 unitary authorities Isles of Scilly (sui generis) | |||||||
| 3 constituent countries with devolution: | |||||||
| Northern Ireland | 11 districts | ||||||
| Scotland | 32 council areas | 1,369 communities | |||||
| Wales | 22 principal areas | 878 communities | |||||
| 3 crown dependencies | |||||||
| Bailiwick of Guernsey | 3 jurisdictions | ||||||
| (contiguous with non-administrative parish of St Anne) | |||||||
| Guernsey | 10 parishes | Parish of Saint Peter Port is divided into four cantons, excluding Herm and Jethou | |||||
| Sark | (contiguous with non-administrative parish of St Peter) | ||||||
| Isle of Man | 6 sheadings | 15 parishes, 9 towns and villages | |||||
| Jersey | 12 parishes | 48 vingtaines | |||||
| 6 cueillettes | |||||||
| 14 British Overseas Territories | |||||||
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia | |||||||
| Anguilla | 14 districts | ||||||
| Bermuda | 9 parishes 2 municipalities | ||||||
| British Antarctic Territory | |||||||
| British Indian Ocean Territory | 2 island groups | ||||||
| British Virgin Islands | 5 districts | ||||||
| Cayman Islands | 7 districts | ||||||
| Falkland Islands | 2 constituencies | ||||||
| Gibraltar | 7 major residential areas | 70 enumeration areas[87] | |||||
| Montserrat | 3 parishes | ||||||
| Pitcairn Islands | 4 islands | ||||||
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | 3 constituent parts | ||||||
| Ascension Island | |||||||
| Saint Helena | 8 districts | ||||||
| Tristan da Cunha | |||||||
| South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | 2 island groups | ||||||
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 6 districts | ||||||
| United States | Federal | 50 states | 3,142 counties and county-equivalents (19 boroughs and 11 census areas in Alaska, 64 Louisiana parishes, 41 independent cities). | Local government in the United States varies widely by state; some entities cross county and other boundaries. The US Census in 2012 counted 19,522 municipalities, 16,364 townships, 37,203 special districts, and 12,884 independent school districts which have active governments.[88] Many states use township as a governmental level between county and municipality. Most states have counties with unincorporated areas (no municipal government). Municipal governments are called cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and townships, and can form 1-3 layers of government. Many municipalities are administratively divided into boroughs, wards, districts, neighborhoods, or villages, which may or may not have an active government. The US Census defines minor civil divisions and census county divisions for top-level county divisions, many only for statistical purposes. | |||
| 326 Indian reservations | |||||||
| 1 federal district: | |||||||
| Washington, D.C. | |||||||
| 4 unincorporated organized territories | |||||||
| Guam | 19 villages[89] | ||||||
| Northern Mariana Islands | 4 municipalities | ||||||
| Puerto Rico | 78 municipalities | 902 barrios[90] | |||||
| United States Virgin Islands | 3 districts | 20 subdistricts | |||||
| 1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory | |||||||
| American Samoa | 3 districts | 15 counties | 76 villages | ||||
| 2 unorganized atolls | |||||||
| United States Minor Outlying Islands | |||||||
| Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Palmyra Atoll (incorporated), Wake Island, Navassa Island (disputed), Bajo Nuevo Bank (disputed), and Serranilla Bank (disputed) | |||||||
| Uruguay | Unitary | 19 departments (departamentos) | 125 municipalities (municipios) | ||||
| Regional | 12 regions (viloyatlar) | 144 districts (tumanlar)[91] [92] | Citizen assembly of villages Urban-type settlements Cities of district subordination | ||||
| Cities of regional subordination | Cities Citizen assembly of villages Urban-type settlement | ||||||
| Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic | Cities of republican subordination | Urban-type settlements | |||||
| 16 districts | Village citizen assemblies Urban-type settlements Cities of district subordination | ||||||
| Tashkent, an independent city | 15 districts | Urban-type settlements | |||||
| Vanuatu | Unitary | 6 provinces | municipalities, local councils | ||||
| Vatican City | Unitary | None | |||||
| Venezuela | Federal | 23 states (estados) | 335 municipalities (municipios) | 1,136 parroquias | |||
| 1 capital district, Caracas | |||||||
| Federal dependencies of 12 island groups | Francisco de Miranda Insular Territory, directly administered remainder | ||||||
| Vietnam | Unitary | 58 provinces (tỉnh) | 82 provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh) 53 district level towns (thị xã) 523 districts (huyện) 11 đảo | 619 commune-level towns (thị trấn) 1,203 wards (phường) 8,198 rural communes (xã) | |||
| 5 municipalities (thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) | 46 boroughs (quận)1 city within municipality (thành phố thuộc thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) | 577 wards (phường) | |||||
| Yemen | Unitary | 21 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 1 municipality | 333 districts | 2,210+ [subdistricts] | 38,284 [villages] | ||
| Zambia | Unitary | 10 provinces | 89 districts | ||||
| Zimbabwe | Unitary | 10 provinces | 59 districts | 1,200 municipalities | |||
| Country | Type | Administrative divisions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level+ | |||
| Abkhazia | Unitary | 7 districts (araion) | 123 municipalities | |||
| South Ossetia | Unitary | 4 districts (raions) | ||||
| Taiwan (Republic of China) | Regional | 6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) (+12 claimed) 2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng)[93] (+33 claimed)1 claimed special administrative region2 claimed regions | 13 counties (xiàn) 3 provincial cities (shì) | 170 districts (qū) 12 county-administered cities (xiànxiáshì) 40 urban townships (zhèn) 146 rural townships (xiāng) | Urban villages (lǐ) Rural villages (cūn) | |
| Unitary | 6 regions (gobolada) | 18 districts | ||||
| Northern Cyprus | Unitary | 5 ilçe | subdistricts | components, quarters | ||
| Transnistria | Unitary | 5 raions1 municipality, Tiraspol | ||||
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (notional, mostly occupied by Morocco) | Unitary | 4 provinces | 25 districts | |||