Administrative units of countries and their codes
(2020-09-27)
The following links will provide listings, based on KNAB, of administrative units of various countries. Search results will open in a new window. The listings also indicate the codes used in KNAB for the units; these are presented in the ADM1 or ADM2 columns.
The terms used to denote the appropriate administrative units are given in English and in the language(s) of the country concerned, the latter is written in italics, in parentheses and accompanied by a designation code (usually a1, etc.). The terms are preceded by a status indication: ADM1 = 1st-order administrative units (usually the largest), ADM2 = 2nd-order administrative units, REG = regions (not viewed as administrative units but applied, for example, in grouping the administrative units). In general, ISO 3166-2 codes are used, or names are written out in full. If KNAB codes are used (in some cases), these can be recognized by the use of both capital and small letters in code names.
- AFGHANISTAN
- ALBANIA
- ALGERIA
- ANDORRA
- ANGOLA
- ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
- ARGENTINA
- ARMENIA
- AUSTRALIA
- AUSTRIA
- AZERBAIJAN
- REG: autonomous republic (muxtar respublika, a1re) – code NX and the former autonomous region (r5ao) – code Qa (Qa denotes Nagorno-Karabakh area as it was in 1991, Ar (Artsakh) denotes area that was de facto under control of Nagorno-Karabakh in August 2020)
- ADM1: rayons (rayon, a1) and cities (şəhər, a11) districts located in the autonomous republic or in the former autonomous region, contain the code in parentheses
- BAHAMAS
- BAHRAIN
- BANGLADESH
- BARBADOS
- BELARUS
- BELGIUM
- BELIZE
- BENIN
- Bermuda (Br.)
- BHUTAN
- BOLIVIA
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Dutch)
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- BOTSWANA
- BRAZIL
- BRUNEI
- BULGARIA
- BURKINA FASO
- BURUNDI
- CAMBODIA
- CAMEROON
- CANADA
- CAPE VERDE
- Cayman Islands (Br.)
- CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
- CHAD
- CHILE
- CHINA
- ADM1: provinces (sheng, a1), autonomous regions (zizhiqu, a1zz), municipalities (shi, a1sh) and special administrative regions (tebie xingzhengqu, a1sr)
- ADM2: prefectures (diqu, a2), autonomous prefectures (zizhizhou, a2zz), prefecture-level cities (shi, a2sh), leagues (in Inner Mongolia, meng, aimag, a2meng) without codes
- ADM3: counties (xian, a3), autonomous counties (zizhixian, a3zz), county-level cities (shi, a3sh), districts (qu, a3qu), banners (in Inner Mongolia, qi, hoxu, a3qi), autonomous banners (zizhiqi, a3zz) grouped by administrative units:
Anhui |
Beijing |
Chongqing |
Fujian |
Gansu |
Guangdong |
Guangxi |
Guizhou |
Hainan |
Hebei |
Heilongjiang |
Henan |
Hubei |
Hunan |
Inner Mongolia |
Jiangsu |
Jiangxi |
Jilin |
Liaoning |
Ningxia |
Qinghai |
Shaanxi |
Shandong |
Shanghai |
Shanxi |
Sichuan |
Tianjin |
Tibet |
Xinjiang |
Yunnan |
Zhejiang
2007 data
- ADM4: townships (xiang, a4), towns (zhen, a41):
Tibet
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- ADM2: counties (xian, a2), municipalities (shi, a21) and special (centrally administered) municipalities (shi, a21x)
- ADM3: rural townships (xiang, a3), cities (shi, a31), districts (qu, a3qu) and urban townships (zhen, a3zh) without codes
- COLOMBIA
- COMOROS
- CONGO
- CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
- COSTA RICA
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE (IVORY COAST)
- CROATIA
- CUBA
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- DJIBOUTI
- DOMINICA
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
- EAST TIMOR
- ECUADOR
- EGYPT
- EL SALVADOR
- EQUATORIAL GUINEA
- ERITREA
- ESTONIA
- ESWATINI (SWAZILAND)
- ETHIOPIA
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- FIJI
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- GABON
- GAMBIA
- GEORGIA
- GERMANY
- GHANA
- GREECE
- Greenland (Denmark)
- GRENADA
- Guadeloupe (Fr.)
- Guam (USA)
- GUATEMALA
- GUINEA
- GUINEA-BISSAU
- GUYANA
- HAITI
- HONDURAS
- HUNGARY
- ICELAND
- INDIA
- INDONESIA
- IRAN
- IRAQ
- IRELAND
- ISRAEL
- ITALY
- JAMAICA
- JAPAN
- JORDAN
- KAZAKHSTAN
- KENYA
- KIRIBATI
- KOSOVO
- KUWAIT
- KYRGYZSTAN
- LAOS
- LATVIA
- LEBANON
- LESOTHO
- LIBERIA
- LIBYA
- LIECHTENSTEIN
- LITHUANIA
- LUXEMBOURG
- MADAGASCAR
- MALAWI
- MALAYSIA
- MALDIVES
- MALI
- MARSHALL ISLANDS
- Martinique (Fr.)
- MAURITANIA
- MAURITIUS
- Mayotte (Fr.)
- MEXICO
- MICRONESIA
- MOLDOVA
- MONACO
- MONGOLIA
- MONTENEGRO
- Montserrat (Br.)
- MOROCCO
- MOZAMBIQUE
- MYANMAR (BURMA)
- NAMIBIA
- NAURU
- NEPAL
- NETHERLANDS
- New Caledonia (Fr.)
- NEW ZEALAND
- NICARAGUA
- NIGER
- NIGERIA
- NORTH KOREA
- NORTH MACEDONIA
- NORWAY
- OMAN
- PAKISTAN
- PALAU
- Palestine
- PANAMA
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- PARAGUAY
- PERU
- PHILIPPINES
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- Puerto Rico (USA)
- QATAR
- Réunion (Fr.)
- ROMANIA
- RUSSIA
- ADM1: republics (respublika, a1re), administrative territories and regions (kraj, oblast', a1), autonomous cities (gorod, a1go), an autonomous region (avtonomnaja oblast', a1ao) and autonomous districts (avtonomnyj okrug, a1ok)
- ADM2: rayons (rajon, a2) and rayon-level towns (a21) grouped by administrative units:
Adygea |
Altai, Rep. of |
Bashkortostan |
Buryatia |
Chechnya |
Chuvashia |
Dagestan |
Khakasia |
Ingushetia |
Kabardino-Balkaria |
Kalmykia |
Karachay-Cherkessia |
Karelia |
Komi |
Mariy El |
Mordovia |
North Ossetia |
Sakha (Yakutia) |
Tatarstan |
Tyva |
Udmurtia |
Altayskiy Kray |
Amurskaya Oblast |
Arkhangel'skaya O. |
Astrakhanskaya O. |
Belgorodskaya O. |
Bryanskaya O. |
Chelyabinskaya O. |
Irkutskaya O. |
Ivanovskaya O. |
Kaliningradskaya O. |
Kaluzhskaya O. |
Kamchatskaya O. |
Kemerovskaya O. |
Khabarovskiy Kray |
Kirovskaya O. |
Kostromskaya O. |
Krasnodarskiy Kray |
Krasnoyarskiy Kray |
Kurganskaya O. |
Kurskaya O. |
Leningradskaya O. |
Lipetskaya O. |
Magadanskaya O. |
Moskovskaya O. |
Murmanskaya O. |
Nizhegorodskaya O. |
Novgorodskaya O. |
Novosibirskaya O. |
Omskaya O. |
Orenburgskaya O. |
Orlovskaya O. |
Penzenskaya O. |
Permskiy Kray |
Primorskiy Kray |
Pskovskaya O. |
Ryazanskaya O. |
Rostovskaya O. |
Sakhalinskaya O. |
Samarskaya O. |
Saratovskaya O. |
Smolenskaya O. |
Stavropol'skiy Kray |
Sverdlovskaya O. |
Tambovskaya O. |
Tomskaya O. |
Tyumenskaya O. |
Tul'skaya O. |
Tverskaya O. |
Ul'yanovskaya O. |
Vladimirskaya O. |
Volgogradskaya O. |
Vologodskaya O. |
Voronezhskaya O. |
Yaroslavskaya O. |
Zabaykal'skiy Kray |
Jewish Aut. O. |
Chukotskiy A.D. |
Khanty-Mansiyskiy A.D. |
Yamalo-Nenetskiy A.D.
KNAB codes. In some republics the ADM2 units have other terms, e.g. Ulus
in Sakha, Kozhun in Tyva
- ADM3: rural municipalities (sel'sovet, a3) grouped by administrative units:
Chuvashia
1974 data |
Leningradskaya Oblast
1990 data |
Pskovskaya O.
1988 data
- RWANDA
- Saint Helena (Br.)
- SAINT KITTS-NEVIS
- SAINT LUCIA
- SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
- SAMOA
- SAN MARINO
- SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
- SAUDI ARABIA
- SENEGAL
- SERBIA
- SEYCHELLES
- SIERRA LEONE
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SOLOMON ISLANDS
- SOMALIA
- SOUTH AFRICA
- SOUTH KOREA
- SOUTH SUDAN
- SPAIN
- SRI LANKA
- SUDAN
- SURINAME
- SWEDEN
- SWITZERLAND
- SYRIA
- TAJIKISTAN
- TANZANIA
- THAILAND
- TOGO
- TONGA
- TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
- TUNISIA
- TURKEY
- TURKMENISTAN
- TUVALU
- UGANDA
- UKRAINE
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- UNITED KINGDOM
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- URUGUAY
- UZBEKISTAN
- VANUATU
- VENEZUELA
- VIETNAM
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- YEMEN
- ZAMBIA
- ZIMBABWE