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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
The District's role is more supervisory as the 330 townships are the basic administrative unit of local governance and are the only type of administrative division that covers the entirety of Myanmar. A District is led by a District Administrator and a Township is administered by a Township Administrator.
administrative post subregião Portugal: subregion suco, suku Timor-Leste: division of administrative post-stan: Central Asian countries: land (denotes high level of autonomy) sýsla Faroe Islands: district Iceland: tambon Thailand: subdistrict thesaban Thailand: municipality tỉnh Vietnam: province todōfuken Japan
The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 prefectures (県, ken) proper, two urban prefectures (府, fu, Osaka and Kyōto), one "circuit" (道, dō, Hokkaidō), and one "metropolis" (都, to, Tokyo Metropolis). Although different in name, they are functionally the same.
A department (French: département, Spanish: departamento) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa.
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish , the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division:
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term municipality may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. [1]