The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories.
(Row colors are for visual differentiation only.)
Country | Type | Administrative divisions | |||
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First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level+ | ||
Kosovo | Unitary | 7 districts | 38 municipalities |
Country | Type | Administrative divisions | |||
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First-level | Second-level | Third-level | Fourth-level+ | ||
Abkhazia | Unitary | 7 districts (araion) | Cities and towns[quantify] | ||
South Ossetia | Unitary | 4 districts (raions) | |||
Taiwan (Republic of China) | Regional | 6 special municipalities (zhíxiáshì) 2 (streamlined) provinces (shěng)[93] |
13 counties (xiàn) 3 provincial cities (shì) |
170 districts (qū) 12 county-administered cities (xiànxiáshì) 40 urban townships (zhèn) 146 rural townships (xiāng) |
Urban villages (lǐ) Rural villages (cūn) |
Somaliland | Unitary | 6 regions (gobolada) | 18 districts | ||
Northern Cyprus | Unitary | 5 ilçe | subdistricts | components, quarters | |
Transnistria | Unitary | 5 raions
1 municipality, Tiraspol |
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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (notional, mostly occupied by of Morocco) | Unitary | 4 provinces (wilayat) | 25 districts (daïras) |