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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume
County
| Translation | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section | English 303 |
Arabic 303 |
Czech 303 |
German 303 |
Spanish 303 |
French 303 |
Italian 303 |
Japanese 303 |
Portuguese 303 |
Russian 303 |
Chinese 303 |
| 303-1 | township —parish |
ناحية—عمادة—بلدية | Gemeinde | commune | comune | 町 —教区 |
municípios —paróquias |
Пункты населенные —Населенные пункты |
镇 —教区 | ||
| 303-2 | state —province |
محافظة—ولاية—عمالة—إمارة—لواء | Bundesland —Bundesstaat —Provinz |
province | provincia | 州 | estados —províncias |
Штаты —Провинции |
州 —省 | ||
| 303-3 | قضاء—معتمدية—دائرة—مقاطعة—منطقة | Departement | département | dipartimento | |||||||
| 303-4 | مديرية | Kanton | canton | cantone | |||||||
| 303-5 | county | إقليم | County —Grafschaft |
canton | cantoni | 郡 | condados | Графства | 县 | ||
| 303-6 | district | دائرة | Bezirk | arrondissement | arrondissements | 地区 | distritos | Округа | 区 | ||
| 303-7 | منطقة | Distrikt | district | distretti | |||||||
| 303-8 | township | بلديات | municipalité | municipalità | 町 | município | 镇 | ||||
| 303-9 | county | أقضية | comté | la contea | 郡 | condado | 县 | ||||
| 303-10 | province | محافظة | province | provincia | 州 | províncias | 省 | ||||
Administrative units differ from country to country and over time in the same country, so that the same word may cover different situations. Minor civil divisions include townships 1 and parishes 1; major civil divisions receive names such as states 2 or provinces 2, and intermediary units are often called counties 5 and districts 6. In Canada, for example the main administrative divisions, by increasing order of size, are the township 8, the county 9 and the province 10. As another example, the main administrative division in France are now the regions 2 which correspond to the province and the departements 3★ which correspond to the cantons 4★ in Switzerland where districts 7★ and circles 11★ are minor civil divisions. In the United States, parishes are equivalent to counties which are the unit above townships and cities but below states.
- 1. Villages, boroughs and cities are other names sometimes given to the smaller administrative units. Municipality is a general descriptive term for minor civil division.
