Country ranking for field: administrative divisions 1990

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This entry generally gives the numbers, designatory terms, and first-order administrative divisions as approved by the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN). Changes that have been reported but not yet acted on by the BGN are noted. Geographic names conform to spellings approved by the BGN with the exception of the omission of diacritical marks and special characters.

	World	248 nations dependent areas and other entities
1	New Zealand	93
2	Philippines	73 provinces and 61 chartered cities; Abra Agusan del Norte Agusan del Sur Aklan Albay Angeles Antique Aurora Bacolod* Bago* Baguio* Bais* Basilan Basilan City* Bataan Batanes Batangas Batangas City* Benguet Bohol Bukidnon Bulacan Butuan* Cabanatuan* Cadiz* Cagayan Cagayan de Oro* Calbayog* Caloocan* Camarines Norte Camarines Sur Camiguin Canlaon* Capiz Catanduanes Cavite Cavite City* Cebu Cebu City* Cotabato* Dagupan* Danao* Dapitan* Davao City* Davao Davao del Sur Davao Oriental Dipolog* Dumaguete* Eastern Samar General Santos* Gingoog* Ifugao Iligan* Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo Iloilo City* Iriga* Isabela Kalinga-Apayao La Carlota* Laguna Lanao del Norte Lanao del Sur Laoag* Lapu-Lapu* La Union Legaspi* Leyte Lipa* Lucena* Maguindanao Mandaue* Manila* Marawi* Marinduque Masbate Mindoro Occidental Mindoro Oriental Misamis Occidental Misamis Oriental Mountain Naga* Negros Occidental Negros Oriental North Cotabato Northern Samar Nueva Ecija Nueva Vizcaya Olongapo* Ormoc* Oroquieta* Ozamis* Pagadian* Palawan Palayan* Pampanga Pangasinan Pasay* Puerto Princesa* Quezon Quezon City* Quirino Rizal Romblon Roxas* Samar San Carlos*
3	Thailand	73 provinces
4	Turkey	67 provinces
5	Bangladesh	64 districts
6	Greece	51 departments
7	United States	50 states and 1 district; Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennyslvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
8	Côte d'Ivoire	49 departments
9	Poland	49 provinces
10	United Kingdom	47 counties 7 metropolitan counties 26 districts 9 regions and 3 islands areas England--39 counties 7 metropolitan counties; Avon Bedford Berkshire Buckingham Cambridge Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall Cumbria Derby Devon Dorset Durham East Sussex Essex Gloucester Greater London Greater Manchester* Hampshire Hereford and Worcester Hertford Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicester Lincoln Merseyside* Norfolk Northampton Northumberland North Yorkshire Nottingham Oxford Shropshire Somerset South Yorkshire* Stafford Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear* Warwick West Midlands* West Sussex West Yorkshire* Wiltshire Northern Ireland--26 districts; Antrim Ards Armagh Ballymena Ballymoney Banbridge Belfast Carrickfergus Castlereagh Coleraine Cookstown Craigavon Down Dungannon Fermanagh Larne Limavady Lisburn Londonderry Magherafelt Moyle Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey North Down Omagh Strabane Scotland--9 regions 3 islands areas; Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland* Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles* Wales--8 counties; Clwyd Dyfed Gwent Gwynedd Mid Glamorgan Powys South Glamorgan West Glamorgan
11	Japan	47 prefectures
12	Libya	46 municipalities
13	Romania	40 counties
14	Vietnam	37 provinces
15	Morocco	36 provinces
16	Algeria	31 provinces
17	Mexico	31 states
18	Burkina Faso	30 provinces; Bam Bazega Bougouriba Boulgou Boulkiemde Ganzourgou Gnagna Gourma Houet Kadiogo Kenedougou Komoe Kossi Kouritenga Mouhoun Namentenga Naouri Oubritenga Oudalan Passore Poni Sanguie Sanmatenga Seno Sissili Soum Sourou Tapoa Yatenga Zoundweogo
19	Afghanistan	30 provinces
20	Dominican Republic	29 provinces
21	Guinea	29 administrative regions
22	Albania	26 districts
23	Egypt	26 governorates
24	Switzerland	26 cantons
25	Ireland	26 counties; Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow
26	Namibia	26 districts; Bethanien Boesmanland Caprivi Oos Damaraland Gobabis Grootfontein Hereroland Oos Hereroland Wes Kaokoland Karasburg Karibib Kavango Keetmanshoop Luderitz Maltahohe Mariental Namaland Okahandja Omaruru Otjiwarongo Outjo Owambo Rehoboth Swakopmund Tsumeb Windhoek
27	Tanzania	25 regions; Arusha Dar es Salaam Dodoma Iringa Kigoma Kilimanjaro Lindi Mara Mbeya Morogoro Mtwara Mwanza Pemba North Pemba South Pwani Rukwa Ruvuma Shinyanga Singida Tabora Tanga Zanzibar Central/South Zanzibar North Zanzibar Urban/West Ziwa Magharibi
28	Sri Lanka	24 districts; Amparai Anuradhapura Badulla Batticaloa Colombo Galle Gampaha Hambantota Jaffna Kalutara Kandy Kegalla Kurunegala Mannar Matale Matara Moneragala Mullativu Nuwara Eliya Polonnaruwa Puttalam Ratnapura Trincomalee Vavuniya; note--the administrative structure may now include 8 provinces
29	Indonesia	24 provinces
30	Malawi	24 districts; Blantyre Chikwawa Chiradzulu Chitipa Dedza Dowa Karonga Kasungu Kasupe Lilongwe Mangochi Mchinji Mulanje Mwanza Mzimba Ncheu Nkhata Bay Nkhota Kota Nsanje Ntchisi Rumphi Salima Thyolo Zomba
31	Sweden	24 provinces
32	Brazil	24 states
33	Peru	24 departments
34	India	24 states and 7 union territories; Andaman and Nicobar Islands Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chandigarh* Dadra and Nagar Haveli* Delhi* Goa and Daman and Diu* Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Kerala Lakshadweep* Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Orissa Pondicherry* Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh West Bengal; note--Goa may have become a state with Daman and Diu remaining a union territory
35	Iran	24 provinces
36	Iceland	23 counties
37	Colombia	23 departments
38	Tunisia	23 governorates
39	China	23 provinces
40	Argentina	22 provinces
41	Guatemala	22 departments
42	Nigeria	21 states and 1 territory; Abuja Capital Territory Akwa Ibom Anambra Bauchi Bendel Benue Borno Cross River Gongola Imo Kaduna Kano Katsina Kwara Lagos Niger Ogun Ondo Oyo Plateau Rivers Sokoto
43	Ecuador	21 provinces
44	The Bahamas	21 districts; Abaco Acklins Island Andros Island Berry Islands Biminis Cat Island Cay Lobos Crooked Island Eleuthera Exuma Grand Bahama Harbour Island Inagua Long Cay Long Island Mayaguana New Providence Ragged Island Rum Cay San Salvador Spanish Wells
45	Togo	21 circumscriptions
46	Venezuela	20 states
47	Italy	20 regions
48	Papua New Guinea	20 provinces; Central Chimbu Eastern Highlands East New Britain East Sepik Enga Gulf Madang Manus Milne Bay Morobe National Capital New Ireland Northern North Solomons Sandaun Southern Highlands Western Western Highlands West New Britain
49	Hungary	19 counties
50	Paraguay	19 departments
51	Maldives	19 district
52	Norway	19 provinces
53	Uruguay	19 departments
54	Angola	18 provinces
55	Cambodia	18 provinces
56	Iraq	18 provinces
57	Mongolia	18 provinces
58	Portugal	18 districts
59	Honduras	18 departments
60	Spain	17 autonomous communities
61	Somalia	16 regions
62	Laos	16 provinces
63	Taiwan	16 counties
64	Burundi	15 provinces; Bubanza Bujumbura Bururi Cankuzo Cibitoke Gitega Karuzi Kayanza Kirundo Makamba Muramvya Muyinga Ngozi Rutana Ruyigi
65	Saint Kitts and Nevis	14 parishs; Christ Church Nichola Town Saint Anne Sandy Point Saint George Basseterre Saint George Gingerland Saint James Windward Saint John Capisterre Saint John Figtree Saint Mary Cayon Saint Paul Capisterre Saint Paul Charlestown Saint Peter Basseterre Saint Thomas Lowland Saint Thomas Middle Island Trinity Palmetto Point
66	Central African Republic	14 prefectures
67	Chad	14 prefectures
68	El Salvador	14 departments
69	Cuba	14 provinces
70	Jamaica	14 parishes; Clarendon Hanover Kingston Manchester Portland Saint Andrew Saint Ann Saint Catherine Saint Elizabeth Saint James Saint Mary Saint Thomas Trelawny Westmoreland
71	Nauru	14 districts; Aiwo Anabar Anetan Anibare Baiti Boe Buada Denigomodu Ewa Ijuw Meneng Nibok Uaboe Yaren
72	Saudi Arabia	14 emirates
73	Syria	14 provinces
74	Ethiopia	14 administrative regions
75	Nepal	14 zones
76	Malaysia	13 states
77	Chile	13 regions
78	Liberia	13 counties; Bomi Bong Grand Bassa Grand Cape Mount Grand Jide Grand Kru Lofa Margibi Maryland Montserrado Nimba Rivercess Sino
79	Cabo Verde	12 districts
80	The Netherlands	12 provinces
81	Finland	12 provinces
82	Mauritania	12 regions
83	Cayman Islands	12 districts; Bodden Town Creek East End George Town Jacksons North Side Prospect South Town Spot Bay Stake Bay West Bay West End
84	Barbados	11 parishes; Christ Church Saint Andrew Saint George Saint James Saint John Saint Joseph Saint Lucy Saint Michael Saint Peter Saint Philip Saint Thomas; note--there may a new city of Bridgetown
85	Vanuatu	11 island councils; Ambrym Aoba/Maewo Banks/Torres Efate Epi Malakula Paama Pentecote Santo/Malo Shepherd Tafea
86	Liechtenstein	11 communes
87	Bahrain	11 municipalities
88	Western Samoa	11 districts; Aana Aiga-i-le-Tai Atua Faasaleleaga Gagaemauga Gagaifomauga Palauli Satupaitea Tuamasaga Vaa-o-Fonoti Vaisigano
89	Saint Lucia	11 parishes; Anse-la-Raye Castries Choiseul Dauphin Dennery Gros-Islet Laborie Micoud Praslin Soufriere Vieux-Fort
90	Lesotho	10 districts; Berea Butha-Buthe Leribe Mafeteng Maseru Mohales Hoek Mokhotlong Qachas Nek Quthing Thaba-Tseka
91	Botswana	10 districts; Central Chobe Ghanzi Kgalagadi Kgatleng Kweneng Ngamiland North-East South-East Southern; note--in addition there may now be 4 town councils named Francistown Gaborone Lobaste Selebi-Pikwe
92	Mozambique	10 provinces
93	Dominica	10 parishes; Saint Andrew Saint David Saint George Saint John Saint Joseph Saint Luke Saint Mark Saint Patrick Saint Paul Saint Peter
94	Cameroon	10 provinces; Adamaoua Centre Est Extreme-Nord Littoral Nord Nord-Ouest Ouest Sud Sud-Ouest
95	Ghana	10 regions; Ashanti Brong-Ahafo Central Eastern Greater Accra Northern Upper East Upper West Volta Western
96	Suriname	10 districts
97	Guyana	10 regions; Barima-Waini Cuyuni-Mazaruni Demerara-Mahaica East Berbice-Corentyne Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Mahaica-Berbice Pomeroon-Supenaam Potaro-Siparuni Upper Demerara-Berbice Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo
98	Senegal	10 regions
99	Rwanda	10 prefectures
100	Uganda	10 provinces; Busoga Central Eastern Karamoja Nile North Buganda Northern South Buganda Southern Western
101	Canada	10 provinces and 2 territories; Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Territory*
102	Zambia	9 provinces; Central Copperbelt Eastern Luapula Lusaka Northern North-Western Southern Western
103	Sudan	9 regions
104	Bolivia	9 departments
105	South Korea	9 provinces
106	Gabon	9 provinces; Estuaire Haut-Ogooue Moyen-Ogooue Ngounie Nyanga Ogooue-Ivindo Ogooue-Lolo Ogooue-Maritime Woleu-Ntem
107	Bermuda	9 parishes and 2 municipalities; Devonshire Hamilton Hamilton Paget Pembroke Saint George* Saint George's Sandys Smiths Southampton Warwick
108	Belgium	9 provinces
109	Nicaragua	9 administrative regions encompassing 17 departments
110	San Marino	9 municipalities
111	Austria	9 states
112	Guinea-Bissau	9 regions
113	North Korea	9 provinces
114	Haiti	9 departments
115	Panama	9 provinces
116	Congo	9 regions
117	Zaire	8 regions
118	Trinidad and Tobago	8 counties 3 municipalities* and 1 ward*; Arima Caroni Mayaro Nariva Port-of-Spain* Saint Andrew Saint David Saint George Saint Patrick San Fernando* Tobago** Victoria
119	Zimbabwe	8 provinces; Manicaland Mashonaland Central Mashonaland East Mashonaland West Matabeleland North Matabeleland South Midlands Victoria
120	Bulgaria	8 provinces
121	Jordan	8 governorates
122	Mali	7 regions
123	Kenya	7 provinces and 1 area; Central Coast Eastern Nairobi Area North-Eastern Nyanza Rift Valley Western
124	Costa Rica	7 provinces
125	United Arab Emirates	7 emirates
126	Niger	7 departments
127	Solomon Islands	7 provinces and 1 town; Central Guadalcanal Honiara Isabel Makira Malaita Temotu Western
128	Andorra	7 parishes
129	Myanmar	7 divisions*
130	Belize	6 districts; Belize Cayo Corozal Orange Walk Stann Creek Toledo
131	Grenada	6 parishes and 1 dependency; Carriacou and Little Martinique Saint Andrew Saint David Saint George Saint John Saint Mark Saint Patrick
132	Israel	6 districts
133	Benin	6 provinces; Atakora Atlantique Borgou Mono Oueme Zou
134	Cyprus	6 districts; Famagusta Kyrenia Larnaca Limassol Nicosia Paphos
135	Yugoslavia	6 socialist republics
136	Antigua and Barbuda	6 parishes and 2 dependencies; Barbuda Redonda* Saint George Saint John Saint Mary Saint Paul Saint Peter Saint Philip
137	Madagascar	6 provinces
138	Australia	6 states and 2 territories; Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Northern Territory* Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia
139	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6 parishes; Charlotte Grenadines Saint Andrew Saint David Saint George Saint Patrick
140	Lebanon	5 governorates
141	The Gambia	5 divisions and 1 city; Banjul Lower River MacCarthy Island North Bank Upper River Western
142	Djibouti	5 districts
143	Mauritius	5 urban councils and 3 district councils; Beau Bassin-Rose Hill Curepipe Moka-Flacq North* Port Louis Quatre Bornes South* Vacoas-Phoenix; note--there may now be 4 urban councils and 9 district councils* named Beau Bassin-Rose Hill Black River* Curepipe Flacq* Grand Port* Moka* Pamplemousses* Plaine Wilhems* Port Louis* Quartre Bornes Riviere du Rempart* Savanne* and Vacoas-Phoenix
144	Brunei	4 districts
145	Swaziland	4 districts; Hhohho Lubombo Manzini Shiselweni
146	Federated States of Micronesia	4 states; Kosrae Pohnpei Truk Yap
147	Fiji	4 divisions and 1 dependency; Central Eastern Northern Rotuma Western
148	South Africa	4 provinces; Cape Natal Orange Free State Transvaal; there are 10 homelands not recognized by the US--4 independent
149	Sierra Leone	4 provinces; Eastern Northern Southern Western
150	Monaco	4 quarters
151	Kuwait	4 governorates
152	Pakistan	4 provinces 1 tribal area* and 1 territory*; Balochistan Federally Administered Tribal Areas Islamabad Capital Territory** North-West Frontier Punjab Sindh; note--the Pakistani-administered portion of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region includes Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas
153	Luxembourg	3 districts; Diekirch Grevenmacher Luxembourg
154	Montserrat	3 parishes; Saint Anthony Saint Georges Saint Peter
155	Comoros	3 islands; Anjouan Grande Comore Moheli; note--there may also be 4 municipalities named Domoni Fomboni Moroni and Mutsamudu
156	Kiribati	3 units; Gilbert Islands Line Islands Phoenix Islands; note--a new administrative structure of 6 districts
157	Greenland	3 municipalities
158	Bhutan	3 regions and 1 division; Central Bhutan Eastern Bhutan Southern Bhutan Western Bhutan; note--there may now be 18 districts
159	São Tomé and Príncipe	2 districts
160	Equatorial Guinea	2 provinces
161	Macau	2 districts
162	Saint Helena	2 dependencies and 1 administrative area; Ascension Saint Helena Tristan da Cunha
163	Soviet Union	1 soviet federative socialist republic*
164	Aruba	none
165	Western Sahara	none
166	American Samoa	none
167	Tonga	three island groups; Haapai Tongatapu Vavau
168	Norfolk Island	none
169	Mayotte	none
170	Niue	none
171	Martinique	none
172	Anguilla	none
173	Turks and Caicos Islands	none
174	British Virgin Islands	none
175	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	none
176	Tuvalu	none
177	U.S. Virgin Islands	none
178	Wallis and Futuna	none
179	Christmas Island	none
180	New Caledonia	none
181	Netherlands Antilles	none
182	Marshall Islands	none
183	Malta	none
184	Tokelau	none
185	Guernsey	none
186	Cocos Islands	none
187	Singapore	none
188	Réunion	none
189	Guadeloupe	none
190	Qatar	none
191	Puerto Rico	none
192	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	none
193	Gibraltar	none
194	French Polynesia	none
195	Seychelles	none; note--there may be 21 administrative districts named Anse Boileau Anse Etoile Anse Louis Anse Royale Baie Lazare Baie St	. Anne Beau Vallon Bel Air Bel Ombre Cascade Glacis Grand Anse
196	Hong Kong	none
197	French Guiana	none
198	Northern Mariana Islands	none
199	Isle of Man	none
200	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	none
201	France	metropolitan France--22 regions
202	Pitcairn Islands	none
203	Jersey	none
204	Faroe Islands	none
205	Falkland Islands	none
206	Denmark	metropolitan Denmark--14 counties
207	Guam	none
208	Cook Islands	none
209	Oman	none

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