designated cities, and are subdivided into wards. The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 prefectures (県, ken) proper...

historical political division of China and is a historical and modern administrative unit in Japan. The primary level of administrative division of Korea under...

national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (県, ken), two urban...

Provinces of Japan (令制国, Ryōseikoku) were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868. Provinces were established in Japan in the...

December 2014. The summary of changes on administrative divisions are shown below. This brought the top-level divisions of Taiwan (ROC) to its current...

Revised Romanization of Korean spellings are used The top tier of administrative divisions are the provincial-level divisions, of which there are several...

a system of de facto administrative divisions of Japan alongside the de jure provinces until they were abolished in the 1870s. The concept of han originated...

districts of South Korea, also pronounced gu District (Taiwan), same use of the ku in administrative divisions in the ROC Free Area "Statistical Handbook of Japan...

(Chinese: 州; pinyin: zhōu; lit. 'land') were historical administrative and political divisions of China. Formally established during the Han dynasty, zhou...

The table below indicates the types and, where known, numbers of administrative divisions used by countries and their major dependent territories. The...

The administrative divisions of China between 1912 and 1949 were established under the regime of the Republic of China government. The Republic of China...

prefectures. Administrative division Urban area Local Autonomy Law 23 special wards of Tokyo Japanese addressing system Merger and dissolution of municipalities...

township. All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China. This chart lists...

Japan is divided into eight regions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been used by government officials for statistical and...

Administrative divisions of Korea may refer to: Provinces of Korea, of the Korean Empire and of Korea under Japanese rule Eight Provinces of Korea (later...

mergers, under the government of Junichiro Koizumi. Administrative divisions of Japan Urban area Jacobs, A.J. "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy:...

This is a list of English and non-English terms for administrative divisions. Bailiwick Border Borough Canton City Commune State (constituent) County...

The administrative divisions of North Korea are organized into three hierarchical levels. These divisions were created in 2002. Many of the units have...

de jure in 1952. Administrative divisions of Taiwan by types and times. Like the administrative divisions in mainland Japan, most of them are translated...

This is a list of Japanese prefectures by population. For details of administrative divisions of Japan, see Prefectures of Japan. Figures here are according...

This is a list of Chinese administrative divisions in order of their total resident populations. It includes all provinces, autonomous regions, direct-controlled...

Administrative division Urban area Subprefecture Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. (1903). Japan in the beginning of...

A city (市, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as towns (町, machi) and villages (村, mura), with the difference...

instituted as a regular form of administrative division of China's Tang Empire, but were later adopted in Vietnam, Japan and Korea. At present, only two...

list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres. List of countries and dependencies by area List of political...

The geography and administrative subdivisions of Japan have evolved and changed during the course of its history. These were sometimes grouped according...

A village (村, mura) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (県, ken, or other equivalents), city (市, shi)...

Administrative divisions of the Tang dynasty Administrative divisions of the Liao dynasty Administrative divisions of the Yuan dynasty Administration of territory...

A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city (shi)...

list sorts first-level administrative divisions of countries according to their number of inhabitants. Only administrative units of the highest order are...