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Some administrative division names (such as departments, cantons, prefectures, counties or governorates) can be used for principal, second-level, or third-level divisions. The levels of administrative divisions and their structure largely varies by country (and sometimes within a single country).
List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions; List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population
mesoregion (division of estado) mintaqah (mintaqat) Arab countries: province, region microrregião Brazil: microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios) მხარე Georgia: region muban Thailand: village muhafazah (muhafazat) Arab countries: governorate mukim: Malay-speaking countries
An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy — self-governance — under the national government.
Region (administrative) Regional district; Regional municipality; Reichsgau; Reichskommissariat; Residency (administrative division) Residential community; Riding (division) Roman diocese; Rural district
This definition is close to the strict meaning of "city" in western countries. The choice of definition of "city" used for statistical data of Chinese cities can lead to different results. For example, Shanghai is the largest city in China by population in the urban area but is smaller than Chongqing by the population within the administration ...
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local services in the American state of New York. The state is divided into boroughs, counties, cities, towns, and villages. (The only boroughs, the five boroughs of New York City, have the same boundaries as their respective counties.)
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. [1] In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, the most politically important cantons are the Swiss cantons.