List of administrative divisions by country

Administrative divisions by country

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• The "Type" column indicates a federation (which includes lower-level units that exercise some sovereignty), unitary state (where the highest-level entity is the only sovereign), or regional state (unitary with substantial delegation of power)
• Terms in italics are terms in languages other than English, in plural form (except languages that take the singular form with numbers, such as Hungarian).
• Square brackets indicate a term that has not yet been confirmed.

The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories:

Member and observer states of the United Nations

Member states of United Nations specialized agencies

Other states

See also

• ISO 3166-2, codes for country subdivisions
• Capital districts and territories
• 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.
• List of first-level administrative divisions by population
• List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), which covers the subdivisions of the members of the European Union

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