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"urban prefecture" 府 fu: 2 Kyoto Prefecture (京都府 Kyōto-fu) and Osaka Prefecture (大阪府 Ōsaka-fu) Prefecture 県 ken: 43 Prefectures except Tokyo, Hokkaido, Kyoto Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture Subprefectural Subprefecture 支庁 shichō: 158 District 郡 gun: 374 Municipal "designated city" 政令指定都市 seirei shitei toshi: 20
2 Administrative Areas 1 Area with Special Administrative Status: 183 counties: 540 Payams: 2,500 Bomas: Spain: Regional 17 autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) 50 provinces (provincias) 477 comarcas: 8,129 municipalities (municipios) 2 autonomous municipalities, Ceuta and Melilla, North African coast 3 places of sovereignty (plazas ...
As for prefectural populations before 1945, figures are only given for prefectures that officially constituted Japan Proper or Mainland Japan. Karafuto Prefecture (Southern Sakhalin ) was officially incorporated into Japan Proper from March 26, 1943 until the end of the World War II , while Taiwan , the Kwantung Leased Territory , Korea and the ...
The Provinces of Japan were replaced with the current prefecture system in the Fuhanken sanchisei during the Meiji Restoration from 1868 to 1871, except for Hokkaido, which was divided into provinces from 1869 to 1882. No order has ever been issued explicitly abolishing the provinces, but they are considered obsolete as administrative units ...
Further note: This category's subcategories are indexed according to country, but its directly included articles are not: they are indexed by type of subdivision (provinces, counties, etc). Articles with non-English subdivision terms in their titles either have their redirects indexed instead, or are indexed by the common English translation ...
Some other prefectures also have branch offices that carry out prefectural administrative functions outside the capital. Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is a merged city-prefecture; a metropolis, it has features of both cities and prefectures. Each prefecture has its own mon for identification, the equivalent of a coat of arms in the West.
One common division, preferred by the English Wikipedia, groups the prefectures into eight regions. In that division, of the four main islands of Japan, Hokkaidō , Shikoku , and Kyūshū make up one region each, the latter also containing the Satsunan Islands , while the largest island Honshū is divided into five regions.
In Morocco, the 75 second-level administrative subdivisions are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces.They are subdivisions of the 12 regions of Morocco. [1] Each prefecture or province is subdivided into arrondissements (only in prefectures of some metropolitan areas), municipalities (communes, sing.