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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.
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]
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
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.
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
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.
A county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state, while Louisiana and Alaska have county-equivalent subdivisions called parishes and boroughs, respectively. The specific governmental powers of counties vary widely between the states, with those in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and some parts of Alaska and Massachusetts having ...
Subnational political parties (20 C, 4 P) Politicians by first-level administrative country subdivision (33 C) * Cabinets of country subdivisions (16 C, 7 P)