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  2. List of administrative divisions by country - Wikipedia

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    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 List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008

  3. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    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 purok Philippines: district or zone raion Russia: district Moldova Ukraine: rajons Latvia ...

  4. Administrative division - Wikipedia

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    A federated state may be referred to as a province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Administrative units that are not federated or confederated but enjoy a greater degree of autonomy or self-government than other territories within the same country can be considered autonomous regions or de ...

  5. List of autonomous areas by country - Wikipedia

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    Countries that include autonomous areas are often federacies. [1] The autonomous areas differ from federal units and independent states in the sense that they, in relation to the majority of other sub-national territories in the same country, enjoy a special status including some legislative powers, within the state (for a detailed list of ...

  6. List of countries by system of government - Wikipedia

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  7. Province - Wikipedia

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    In many countries, a province is a relatively small non-constituent level of sub-national government, such as a county in the United Kingdom. In China, a province is a sub-national region within a unitary state; this means that a province can be created or abolished by the national people's congress.

  8. Federated state - Wikipedia

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    A federated state (also state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. [1] A federated state does not have international sovereignty since powers are divided between the other federated states and the federal government .

  9. Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) or state (a political entity).