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This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
The world known to its population before contact with the "New World" (the Americas). Afro-Eurasia: 84,211,532: Largest contiguous landmass. Holarctic: 77,000,000: Biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world. Atlantic Ocean excluding adjacent seas: 76,762,000: Second ...
Municipality of Romania. Bucharest is the smallest first level subdivision of Romania, and the only non-county subdivision. Yerevan: 227: City with provincial status in Armenia. Yerevan is the smallest first level subdivision of Armenia. Miyako Islands: 226.2: Archipelago part of Japan. Kamishima Island: 225.32: Island part of Japan. Elba: 224
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.
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
Geographic entity: Area (km 2): Notes: Ouaka: 49,900: Prefecture of the Central African Republic. Smolensk Oblast 49,800: Federal subject of Russia. Bago Region: 49,787: Second largest region of Myanmar, fourth largest administrative entity (Myanmar has certain administrative divisions titled as Regions, and others titled as States).
Number of country subdivisions Russia: 85 United States: 55 China: 26 Brazil: 20 Argentina: 19 Kazakhstan: 17 India: 16 Congo-Kinshasa: 15 Mexico and Mongolia: 12 Algeria and Canada: 11 Saudi Arabia: 10 Indonesia, Iran and Libya: 9 Mali and South Africa: 8 Angola, Australia, Somalia, Sudan and Zambia: 7 Chad and Mozambique: 6
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.