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List of terms for country subdivisions; 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.
Administrative divisions [1] (also administrative units, [2] [3] [4] administrative regions, [5] #-level subdivisions, subnational entities, or constituent states, as well as many similar generic terms) are geographical areas into which a particular independent sovereign state is divided. Such a unit usually has an administrative authority with ...
Countries where significant powers delegated to federal units or to devolved governments and where the political system is multi-party democracy are more likely to have articles on the politics of their subdivisions. Entities listed in the article List of countries are shows in the article Politics of present-day nations and states.
The territory of the United States may be divided into three classes of non-overlapping top-level political divisions: the 50 States, the federal district, District of Columbia, and a variety of insular areas. There are other political divisions overlapping with or subordinate to the above, for example: counties.
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. [3]
County of Alaska; largest county in the United States, and largest organized political subdivision that is not a state. East Kalimantan: 245,238: Province of Indonesia. Chihuahua: 244,938: Largest state of Mexico. Great Lakes: 244,100: Lake system in North America, predominately between Canada and the United States. Santa Cruz: 243,943
Camptown (country subdivision) Canton (administrative division) Capital city; Capital region; Captaincy; Castellan; Census division; Circle (administrative division) Circuit (administrative division) City district; City proper; Colony; Community (administrative division) Comuna; Comune; Concelho; Congressional district; Corregimiento; County ...
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area; List of first-level administrative divisions by population; Lists of country subdivisions by GDP. List of the largest administrative divisions by GRDP; List of first-level administrative country subdivisions by nominal GDP per capita