This is a list of country subdivisions named after people. It details the name of the country subdivision and eponym. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the administrative division.
This is a summary from List of etymologies of administrative divisions.
This is a summary of Canadian provincial name etymologies.
- Valga – from German family names de Walco or de Walko.
This is a summary of Philippine provincial name etymologies.
This is a summary from Etymological list of counties of Romania
- Anglesey – Ongull, a Scandinavian landowner
- Angus – King Oengus I of the Picts
- Bedfordshire – Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire)
- Brecknockshire – Prince Brychan
- Buckinghamshire – Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire)
- Cardigan – Ceredig, son of Cunedda
- Fife – Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruithe
- Glamorgan – Prince Morgan the Old of Gwent
- Gwynedd – Cunedda
- Hampshire – Hamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner
- Kirkcudbright – Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert")
- Lothian – Leudonus
- Merionethshire – Meirion, son of Cunedda
- Montgomery, Powys – Roger de Montgomery
- Nottinghamshire – Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire)
- Roxburghshire – Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire)
- Rutland – Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land")
Dependencies
This is a summary from List of U.S. state name etymologies.
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