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31 provinces (provincias) 158 municipalities (municipios) 40+ municipal districts (distritos municipales) 1 National District (Distrito Nacional): Distrito Nacional: Ecuador: Unitary 24 provinces (provincias) 221 cantons (cantones) 1,000+ parishes (parroquias) Egypt: Unitary 27 governorates (muḥāfaẓāt) 351 municipal divisions: 177 kism
Each governorate is administered by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Egypt and serves at the president's discretion. Most governorates have a population density of more than one thousand per km 2, while the three largest have a population density of less than two per km 2. [20] The governorates of Egypt are:
The 137 most populous country subdivisions in 2012. The following list sorts first-level administrative divisions of countries according to their number of inhabitants. Only administrative units of the highest order are listed.
Rank Subnational flag Coat of arms/seal Common name [note 1] Capital Largest city Sovereign state Area Population Rank within sovereign state Population density
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
Because Canada is the second-largest country in the world by area, but has only 10 provinces, most Canadian provinces are very large—six of its ten provinces are larger than any country in Europe except Russia, and its largest province Quebec—1,542,056 km 2 (595,391 sq mi)—is almost two and a half times as large as France—640,679 km 2 ...
Egypt borders Libya to the west, Palestine and Israel to the east and Sudan to the south (with a current dispute over the halaib triangle). Egypt has an area of 1,010,408 km 2 (390,121 sq mi) [1] [2]. The longest straight-line distance in Egypt from north to south is 1,420 km (880 mi), while that from east to west measures 1,275 km (792 mi).
Nonetheless, Spain is now a decentralized country with a structure unlike any other, similar but not equal to a federation, [26] even though in many respects the country can be compared to countries which are undeniably federal. [44] The unique resulting system is referred to as "Autonomous state", or more precisely "State of Autonomies". [19]