Non-English
This is an alphabetical list of native non-English terms for administrative divisions; some, such as arrondissement and okrug, have become English loanwords. Terms in italics are prefixes or suffixes.
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| Name | Countries | English equivalents |
|---|---|---|
| amphoe |  Thailand | district |
| amt |  Germany | county (formerly; the modern term is kreis, which means literally "circle") |
| amt |  Denmark | county (replaced with regions in 2007) |
| amt |  Norway | county (formerly; the modern term is fylke) |
| apskritis |  Lithuania | county |
| anakhett |  Cambodia | prefecture |
| arrondissement |  Netherlands | borough, district |
 French-speaking countries | ||
| autónoma |  Spanish-speaking countries | autonomous |
| autônomo, autônoma |  Portuguese-speaking countries | |
| автоно́мный (avtonomny) |  Russia | |
| aimag |  Mongolia | province |
| baladiyah (baladiyat) |  Arab countries | municipality |
| barangay |  Philippines | village (rural) or ward |
| bairro |  Brazil | neighbourhood, district |
 Portugal | ||
 Mozambique | ||
| barrio | Spanish-speaking countries | |
| бановина (banovina) |  Yugoslavia | banate, province |
| bayan | Philippines | municipality |
| bezirk |  Austria | district |
| bezirk |  Switzerland | district |
| bezirk | Germany | district |
| bundesland | Germany (colloquial term) | federal state |
| bundesland | Austria (colloquial term) | |
| bibhag |  Bangladesh | division |
| bwrdeistref |  Wales | borough county |
| canton (French) cantone (Italian) chantun (Romansh) kanton (German) | Switzerland | canton |
| kanton (Bosnian) |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| castello |  San Marino | municipality |
| changwat | Thailand | province |
| chef-lieu |  France | chief town or city |
| comarca | Portuguese-speaking countries (judicial system) | county |
| Spanish-speaking countries | ||
| comuna |  Angola | division of município |
| comuna | Spanish-speaking countries | commune |
| comună |  Romania | rural commune |
| comune |  Italy | municipality |
| comunidad |  Spain | community |
| comunidade intermunicipal | Portugal | intermunicipal community |
| comunidade urbana | Portugal | urban community |
| concelho |  Cape Verde | municipality; synonym of município |
| Portugal | ||
| corregimiento |  Panama | subdivision of a distrito |
| daerah | Malay-speaking countries | district |
| provinsi |  Indonesia | province |
| Daerah Istimewa | Special District, all are first level (provincial level) | |
| Daerah Khusus Ibukota | Exclusive Capital District, refers to DKI Jakarta only. | |
| dào (Mandarin) |  China | circuit |
| deelgemeente |  Belgium | submunicipality |
| demos |  Greece | municipality |
| departamento | Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) | department |
| département | French-speaking countries | department |
| desa | Indonesia | village |
| district |  Suriname | district |
| distrik | Indonesia | district |
| distrito | Portugal | group of municipalities |
 São Tomé and Príncipe | municipality | |
| Philippines | district | |
| Spanish-speaking countries | ||
| distrito, distritu |  East Timor | municipality |
| distrito federal | Brazil | federal district |
| dō |  Japan | circuit |
| do |  North Korea | |
 South Korea | ||
| dombon | Cambodia | area or region |
| dzongkhag |  Bhutan | district |
| estado | Brazil | federal state |
 Mexico | ||
 Venezuela | ||
| etrap |  Turkmenistan | district |
| freguesia | Cape Verde | civil parish |
| Portugal | ||
| fylke | Norway | county |
| gemeente | Belgium (  Flanders) | municipality |
| Netherlands | ||
| gemeinde | Austria | municipality |
| gemeinde | Germany | |
| gemeinde | Italy | |
| gemeinde | Switzerland | |
| gewog | Bhutan | block |
| gmina |  Poland | commune, municipality |
| gobolka |  Somalia | administrative region |
| gouvernorat |  Guinea | governorate |
| grande área metropolitana | Portugal | greater metropolitan area |
| губе́рния (guberniya) | Russian Empire | governorate |
| hameau | France | hamlet |
| hanua |  Papua New Guinea | village |
| iduhu | Papua New Guinea | clan |
| raj |  India | empire |
| rajya | India | state |
| il or vilayet |  Turkey | province |
| ilçe | Turkey | district |
| imarah | Arab countries (formerly) | emirate |
 United Arab Emirates | ||
| jamoat |  Tajikistan | commune or municipality |
| járás |  Hungary | district |
| Jilla |  Nepal | district |
| judeţ |  Moldova (formerly) | county |
| Romania | ||
| jurydyka | Poland | village |
| kabupaten | Indonesia | regency |
| kampung or kampong | Malay-speaking countries and Cambodia | village, hamlet, neighbourhood |
| kasselrij | Netherlands | county or burgraviate |
| kecamatan | Indonesia | district |
| kelurahan | Indonesia | (urban) village or subdistrict |
| ken | Japan | prefecture |
| khan | Cambodia | district or section |
| khett | Cambodia | province |
| khoueng |  Laos | province |
| khum | Cambodia | commune |
| kilil |  Ethiopia | region |
| kommun |  Finland (Swedish speaking) | municipality |
 Sweden | ||
| kommune | Denmark | municipality |
| Norway | ||
| kota | Indonesia | chartered city |
| кожуун (kozhuun) | Russia (  Tyva Republic) | rural council |
| край (krai) | Russia | region |
| kraj |  Czech Republic | region |
 Slovakia | ||
| Kreis | Germany | district |
| krom | Cambodia | group |
| krong | Cambodia | municipality |
| kunta | Finland | municipality |
| lääni | Finland | province |
| lalawigan | Philippines | province |
| län | Sweden | county |
| land | Austria (official term) | state |
| land | Germany (official term) | state |
| lieu-dit | France | place name |
| linn |  Estonia | town or city |
| lugar | Cape Verde | division of zona in Cape Verde |
| Portugal | hamlet | |
| lungsod | Philippines | city |
| maakond | Estonia | county |
| մարզ (marz) |  Armenia | province or region |
| megye | Hungary | county |
| mahoz |  Israel | district |
| mancomunidad | Spain | association of municipalities, commonwealth |
| merindad |  Medieval Spain | county |
| mesorregião | Brazil | mesoregion (division of estado) |
| mintaqah (mintaqat) | Arab countries | province, region |
| microrregião | Brazil | microregion (division of mesorregião, group of municípios) |
| მხარე (mkhare) |  Georgia | region |
| muban | Thailand | village |
| muhafazah (muhafazat) | Arab countries | governorate |
| mukim | Malay-speaking countries | subdistrict, subdivision of subdistrict, survey district |
| municipalidad | Latin America (Spanish-speaking countries) | municipality |
| municipio | Spanish-speaking countries | municipality |
| Portuguese-speaking countries | ||
| nafa | Israel | subdistrict |
| negeri |  Malaysia | state |
| nomos | Greece | prefecture |
| novads |  Latvia | municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights) |
| NUTS |  Europe | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics |
| obec | Czech Republic | municipality |
| Slovakia | ||
| область (oblast) | Countries formerly in the  Soviet Union or Yugoslavia | province, region |
| община (obshtina) |  Bulgaria | municipality |
| okres | Czech Republic | district |
| Slovakia | ||
| okrug |  Serbia | district |
| Russia | ||
| opština |  Republika Srpska | municipality |
 Montenegro | ||
| Serbia | ||
| ostan (ostan-e) |  Iran | province |
| pagasts | Latvia | parish |
| panchayati raj | India | village council |
| paróquia | Portugal | parish (religious division) |
| Cape Verde | ||
| parroquia | Spain (  Galicia) | parish |
 Andorra | ||
| pedanía | Spain | county |
| Περιφέρειες (periféreia) | Greece | periphery |
| phum | Cambodia | village |
| phumpheak | Cambodia | zone |
| pilseta | Latvia | town/city |
| powiat | Poland | county |
| pradesh | India | state of India |
| Nepal | province of Nepal | |
| probinsya | Philippines | province |
| provinsi | Indonesia | province |
| provincia | Spanish-speaking countries | province |
| Italy | ||
| província | Portugal (formerly) | province |
| Angola | ||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | ||
| prowincja | Poland | province |
| raion | Russia | district |
| Moldova | ||
 Ukraine | ||
| rajons | Latvia | district |
| região | Brazil | group of estados; also macrorregião |
 Guinea-Bissau | region | |
| Portugal | ||
| região autónoma | Portugal | autonomous region |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | ||
| regierungsbezirk | Germany | district |
| region | Denmark | region |
| regione | Italy | region |
| şäher | Turkmenistan | capital city district |
| sangkat | Cambodia | commune or quarter |
| sector | Guinea-Bissau | sector (municipality) |
| sector autónomo | Guinea-Bissau | autonomous sector (municipality) |
| сельсовет (selsoviet) | Russia | rural council |
| շրջան (shrjan) |  Republic of Artsakh | province or region |
| hromada | Ukraine | municipality |
| srŏk | Cambodia | district |
| sum | Mongolia | district |
| subdistrito, subdistritu | East Timor | subdistrict (submunicipality) |
| subregião | Portugal | subregion |
| suco, suku | East Timor | division of submunicipality |
| -stan | Central Asian countries | land (denotes high level of autonomy) |
| sýsla |  Faroe Islands | district |
 Iceland | ||
| tambon | Thailand | subdistrict |
| thesaban | Thailand | municipality |
| tinh |  Vietnam | province |
| todōfuken | Japan | prefectural level divisions (collectively) |
| tuman |  Uzbekistan | district |
| ulus | Russia (  Sakha Republic) | district |
| upazila | Bangladesh | subdistrict |
| union parishad | Bangladesh | council or constituency |
| mouza | Bangladesh | mouza |
| gram/gaon | Bangladesh | village |
| Ward | Bangladesh | ward |
| vald | Estonia | parish, rural municipality |
| вилоят (viloyat) | Tajikistan | region |
| Uzbekistan | ||
| во́лость (volost) | Russia | district |
| wojewodztwo | Poland | voivodeship |
| waterschap | Netherlands | water board |
| welaýaty | Turkmenistan | region |
| wilayah | Arab countries | province, territory |
| Malaysia | ||
| země | Czech Republic | land (historical) |
| zona | Cape Verde | zone (division of freguesia) |
| ziemia | Poland | land |
| Zillah |  Pakistan | district |
| Bangladesh | ||
| India | ||
| župa | Slovakia | county (historical) |
| županija | Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian speaking) | county |
 Croatia | ||
| maahaanam |  Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) | province |
| maavattam | Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) | district |
| pirathesam/koattam | Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) | division |
| palaatha | Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) | province |
| dhisthrikaya | Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) | district |
| kottahsha | Sri Lanka (Sinhala speaking) | division |
