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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.

Wikipedia categories edit

List of countries edit

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Abhkazia edit

Afghanistan edit

Albania edit

Algeria edit

Andorra edit

  • 7 parishes (parròquies)
  • Some parishes are subdivided into quarters (quarts)
  • One parish (Canillo) subdivided into 10 veïnats

Angola edit

Antigua and Barbuda edit

  • Divided into six parishes and two dependencies

Argentina edit

Armenia edit

Australia edit

  • 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).

Azerbaijan edit

Bahamas edit

Bahrain edit

Bangladesh edit

Barbados edit

Belarus edit

Belgium edit

Belize edit

  • 6 districts
  • Districts subdivided into constituencies

Benin edit

Bhutan edit

  • Divided into 20 dzongkhags, or districts
  • Each district is subdivided into gewogs, or groups of villages
  • Gewogs are subdivided into chewogs for elections and thromdes "municipalities" for administration

Bolivia edit

Bosnia and Herzegovina edit

Botswana edit

Brazil edit

 
The 26 states + the Federal District of Brazil.

Current categories:

Brunei edit

Bulgaria edit

Burkina Faso edit

Burundi edit

Cambodia edit

Cameroon edit

Canada edit

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
  • Manitoba: 97 rural municipalities, 10 cities, 25 towns and 2 villages

Cape Verde edit

Central African Republic edit

Chad edit

Chile edit

China edit

Colombia edit

Comoros edit

Democratic Republic of the Congo edit

Republic of the Congo edit

Costa Rica edit

Croatia edit

Cuba edit

  • Formerly six large historical provinces (provincias)
  • Currently 15 provinces and one special municipality (Isla de la Juventud)
  • Provinces subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Cyprus edit

Czech Republic edit

Denmark edit

Djibouti edit

Dominica edit

Dominican Republic edit

East Timor edit

Ecuador edit

Egypt edit

El Salvador edit

Equatorial Guinea edit

Eritrea edit

Estonia edit

Eswatini edit

Ethiopia edit

Fiji edit

Finland edit

Finland has, according to a Wikipedia article,

See also

France edit

  • 19 regions (région): 13 are in Metropolitan France and 6 are overseas
  • 96 departments (département)
  • The departments are subdivided into:
    • 320 arrondissements (non-governing)
    • 1,995 cantons (non-governing)
    • 34,826 communes, either cities, towns or villages

Gabon edit

Gambia edit

Georgia edit

Germany edit

  • 16 states (Land)
  • The area states are further subdivided into districts (Kreis)
    • Some states divide districts into Ämte, which are then divided into municipalities
  • Districts are further subdivided into municipalities (Gemeinde)

Ghana edit

Greece edit

Grenada edit

  • Divided into 6 parishes

Guatemala edit

Guinea edit

Guinea-Bissau edit

Guyana edit

Haiti edit

Honduras edit

Hungary edit

Iceland edit

India edit

Indonesia edit

Iran edit

Iraq edit

Republic of Ireland edit

Israel edit

Italy edit

Ivory Coast edit

Jamaica edit

Japan edit

  • 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:

Jordan edit

Kazakhstan edit

Kenya edit

  • 8 provinces (Swahili: mkoa)
  • 47 counties (Swahili: kaunti)
  • 497 divisions (Swahili: taarafa)
  • 2,427 locations (Swahili: mtaa)

North Korea edit

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)).

South Korea edit

Kuwait edit

Kyrgyzstan edit

Laos edit

Latvia edit

Lebanon edit

Lesotho edit

Liberia edit

Libya edit

Liechtenstein edit

Lithuania edit

Luxembourg edit

Macedonia edit

Madagascar edit

  • There were formerly 6 administrative provinces subdivided into 22 regions
  • The provinces were dissolved, now the 22 regions are the highest subdivision
  • Regions are subdivided into districts
  • Districts are subdivided into communes
  • Communes are subdivided into fokontany

Malawi edit

  • Three regions: Central, Northern, Southern
  • Regions are subdivided into districts

Malaysia edit

Maldives edit

Mali edit

Malta edit

Marshall Islands edit

Mauritania edit

Mauritius edit

Mexico edit

  • 31 states (estados)
  • States subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
  • Mexico City is not a state or municipality, but is divided into 16 boroughs (delegaciones)

Federated States of Micronesia edit

  • Divided into 4 states
  • Each state is subdivided into municipalities

Moldova edit

Mongolia edit

Montenegro edit

Morocco edit

Mozambique edit

Myanmar edit

Namibia edit

Nauru edit

  • 14 administrative districts grouped into 8 electoral constituencies
  • Districts are subdivided into villages

Nepal edit

Netherlands edit

  • 12 provinces (provincie)
  • 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).

New Zealand edit

  • 16 regions (Maori: ngā tākiwa)
  • 13 regions and 53 districts and the Chatham Islands

Nicaragua edit

  • 15 departments (departamentos) and 2 autonomous communities
  • Departments subdivided into municipalities (municipios)

Niger edit

Nigeria edit

  • 36 states and one federal territory around Abuja
  • 774 local government areas (LGAs)

Norway edit

Oman edit

Pakistan edit

Palau edit

Palestine edit

  • 2 regions (West Bank and Gaza Strip)
  • 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.

Panama edit

Papua New Guinea edit

Paraguay edit

Peru edit

Philippines edit

  • 17 regions (rehiyon): 16 are administrative, and 1 (Bangsamoro) is autonomous
  • 81 provinces (lalawigan or probinsiya)
  • 145 cities (lungsod or siyudad) and 1,489 municipalities (bayan or munisipalidad)
  • Certain cities are further divided into administrative districts (distrito). These divisions are non-governing, geographical units used in addresses.
    • Manila, Davao City, Iloilo City and Samal have their districts defined by law.
    • 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.
  • 42,029 barangays

Poland edit

Portugal edit

Qatar edit

Romania edit

Russia edit

Rwanda edit

Saint Kitts and Lewis edit

Saint Lucia edit

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines edit

Samoa edit

San Marino edit

  • 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 edit

Saudi Arabia edit

  • 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 edit

  • 14 regions
  • Regions subdivided into departments
  • Departments subdivided into arrondissements

Serbia edit

Seychelles edit

Sierra Leone edit

Singapore edit

Slovakia edit

Slovenia edit

Solomon Islands edit

Somalia edit

South Africa edit

  • 9 provinces

South Sudan edit

Spain edit

Sri Lanka edit

Sudan edit

Suriname edit

Sweden edit

Switzerland edit

Syria edit

Taiwan edit

Tajikistan edit

Tanzania edit

Thailand edit

  • 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))

Togo edit

Tonga edit

Trinidad and Tobago edit

Tunisia edit

Turkey edit

  • 81 provinces (il)
  • 973 districts (ilçe)
  • Districts are further subdivided into:

Turkmenistan edit

Tuvalu edit

  • 9 islands, with villages on each (no further subdivision)

Uganda edit

Ukraine edit

United Arab Emirates edit

  • Divided into 7 emirates

United States edit

  • 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.

Uruguay edit

Uzbekistan edit

Vanuatu edit

Venezuela edit

  • 9 administrative regions (regiones administrativas)
  • Regions subdivided into 23 states (estados), a capital district (distrito capital), and the federal dependencies (Dependencias Federales)
  • States subdivided into municipalities (municipios)
  • Municipalities subdivided into parishes (parroquias)

Vietnam edit

Yemen edit

Zambia edit

Zimbabwe edit

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