Municipalities of the states of Europe

This article lists the Wikipedia articles for all countries in Europe that deal with cities and municipalities , i.e. the smallest administrative units in the administrative structure of the state. A small explanation of the administrative structure is given for each state.

Key figures per country and municipality

country	Area in km²	Residents	Number of municipalities ¹	Ø inhabitants per municipality	Ø size in km² per municipality
Albania	28,748	2,800,138 (2011)	61	45.904	471.28
Andorra	468	78,014 (2015)	7th	11,145	66.86
Azerbaijan	86,600	9,593,000 (2015)	70	137.043	1,237.14
Belgium	30,528	11,267,910 (2016)	589	19,331	51.83
Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.197	3,531,159 (2013)	142	24,867	360.54
Bulgaria	110.994	7,153,784 (2016)	264	27,098	420.43
Denmark ²	42,921	5,707,251 (2016)	98	58,237	437.97
Germany	353.376	82,175,684 (2016)	11,054	7,434	32.33
Estonia	45,339	1,315,944 (2016)	213	6.178	212.86
Finland	338,432	5,502,284 (2016)	313	17,579	1,081.25
France ³	632.834	63,254,122 (2016)	35,287	1,793	17.93
Georgia ⁴	57,215	3,729,635 (2015)	73	51.091	783.77
Greece	131,957	10,995,000 (2015)	325	33,831	406.02
Ireland	70.273	4,757,976 (2016)	31	153,483	2,266.87
Iceland	103.125	388,450 (2017)	74	5,249	1,393.58
Italy	301,338	60,665,551 (2017)	7,981	7,601	37.76
Kazakhstan ⁴	2,724,900	17,753,200 (2016)	170	104,431	16,028.82
Kosovo ⁵	10,887	1,859,203 (2014)	38	48,926	286.50
Croatia	56,594	4,285,316 (2015)	546	7,849	103.65
Latvia	64,589	1,959,900 (2016)	119	16,470	542.76
Liechtenstein	160	37,468 (2015)	11	3,406	14.55
Lithuania	65,300	2,849,000 (2017)	60	47,483	1,088.33
Luxembourg	2,586	576,249 (2016)	105	5,488	24.63
Malta	316	433,300 (2015)	68	6,372	4.65
Moldova ⁶	33,843	3,153,731 (2013)	34	92,757	995.38
Monaco	2	38,400 (2015)	1	38,400	2.00
Montenegro	13,812	623,000 (2016)	23	27,087	600.52
Netherlands ³	41,548	16,979,120 (2016)	388	43,761	107.08
North Macedonia	25,713	2,065,769 (2013)	84	24,592	306.11
Norway ⁷	323,802	5,252,166 (2016)	429	12,243	754.78
Austria	83,879	8,699,730 (2016)	2,100	4.143	39.94
Poland	312,679	38,562,000 (2015)	2,478	15,562	126.18
Portugal	92,212	10,341,330 (2015)	3,091	3,346	29.83
Romania	238.391	19,870,000 (2016)	41	484,634	5,814.41
Russia ⁴	17,075,400	146,500,000 (2015)
San Marino	61	32,789 (2014)	9	3,643	6.78
Sweden	447,435	9,875,378 (2016)	290	34,053	1,542.88
Switzerland	41,285	8,544,527 (2019)	2,202	3,880	18.75
Serbia ⁸	77,474	7,120,666 (2011)	108	65,932	717.35
Slovakia	49.034	5,421,349 (2015)	2,883	1,880	17.01
Slovenia	20,273	2,064,241 (2016)	212	9,737	95.63
Spain	505.970	46,438,422 (2016)	8,118	5,720	62.33
Czech Republic	78,866	10,553,445 (2015)	6.253	1,688	12.61
Turkey ⁴	783,562	79,814,871 (2016)	957	83,401	818.77
Ukraine ⁹	576.756	42,854,106 (2015)	476	90.030	1,211.67
Hungary	93,036	9,830,485 (2016)	3,154	3.117	29.50
Vatican city	0.4	1,000 (2015)	1	1,000	0.40
United Kingdom ¹⁰	248,528	65,110,000 (2015)	358	181,872	694.21
Belarus	207,595	9,498,364 (2016)	118	80,495	1,759.28

¹ Although in many countries the lowest administrative level is not a municipality, the term municipalities is still used here

² Heartland excluding Greenland and the Faroe Islands

³ Without overseas regions

^4th Whole area because the border between Europe and Asia is not clearly regulated

⁵ 111 of the 193 member states of the United Nations recognize the Republic of Kosovo as independent

^6th With the autonomous regions of Gagauzia and Transnistria

^7th With Spitzbergen and Jan Mayen

^8th Without Kosovo

⁹ Without the Crimea and the city of Sevastopol

¹⁰ England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Parishes of the states

Albania

Albania is divided into 61 municipalities ( bashkie ) . Three to seven communities are each grouped together in a Qark . There are 12 qarqe in total.

As of the summer of 2015, there were 373 parishes, divided into rural-type parishes ( komuna ) and urban-type parishes (bashkie) .

Andorra

Andorra consists of seven parròqies (Sg. Parròqia ; literally "parishes"), ie seven parishes. They are all mentioned under List of Parròquies in Andorra .

Belgium

Belgium consists of the regions of Flanders , Wallonia and Brussels and the three (linguistic) communities located in the same area but not congruent with the regions Flemish Community , French Community of Belgium and German-speaking Community of Belgium . Regions and communities have completely different roles and responsibilities. The two regions of Flanders and Wallonia are each divided into five provinces . These are divided into a total of 570 municipalities (Flemish: gemeenden ; French: communes ). The capital region of Brussels, where there are no provinces, is divided into 19 municipalities, so that there are a total of 589 municipalities in Belgium.

List of cities in Belgium (contains, among other things, all 589 municipalities in alphabetical order)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska as well as the Brčko district , which has a special status and basically consists of only one municipality. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into 10 cantons, which are subdivided into municipalities (Bosnian / Croatian: općine ). The municipalities usually include not only the named place but also its surrounding area. The Republika Srpska is divided into 63 (until 1996 80) municipalities (Serbian: opštine / oпштине).

The capital Sarajevo does not form a unitary municipality, but consists of the four municipalities Centar , Novi Grad , Novo Sarajevo and Stari Grad in the Sarajevo canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Istočno Sarajevo ("East Sarajevo"), which forms its own city in the Republika Srpska consisting of the municipalities of Istočno Novo Sarajevo , Istočna Ilidža , Istočni Stari Grad , Pale , Trnovo and Sokolac .

The list of municipalities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the list of municipalities of the Republika Srpska contain all 79 and 63 municipalities of the two entities, respectively.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria is divided into 28 administrative districts (Bulgarian: oblasti - oбласт). These are divided into a total of 264 communities (obstinas), which in turn consist of several places. So far there is only the article List of Districts in Bulgaria on the German-language Wikipedia . The individual municipalities are only listed on the Bulgarian Wikipedia in the respective articles of the districts.

Denmark

The Danish motherland was divided into 13 offices (Danish: amter ), two cities without office (Copenhagen and Frederiksberg) and the regional municipality Bornhorm until 2007 . The 13 offices were again divided into 271 municipalities (Danish: kommuner ).

Danish municipalities in alphabetical order : contains all former 270 municipalities in Denmark as of December 31, 2006 in alphabetical order.

From 2007 a new municipal structure was introduced. Denmark is then divided into a total of five regions. These are divided into a total of 98 municipalities.

Germany

Germany is divided into 16 federal states . The three city states Berlin , Hamburg and Bremen consist of only one or, in the case of Bremen, two (independent) cities. The 13 territorial states are divided into (rural) districts and urban districts (or urban districts). In some federal states there are still administrative districts above the administrative districts and cities . The (rural) districts are divided into cities and municipalities.

All independent cities in Germany can be found in the article List of independent cities in Germany .

Estonia

Estonia is divided into 15 districts (Estonian maakonnad , singular maakond ). Since the administrative reform in 2017, these have been divided into 15 cities (Estonian: linnad , singular linn ) and 64 rural communities ( vallad , singular vald ). The municipalities are further subdivided into districts ( alevid , singular alev ), small districts ( alevikud , alevik ) and villages ( külad , küla ) without any administrative significance. Some cities are divided into districts ( linnaosad , linnaosa ).

Municipalities can be found in the German language Wikipedia under the category: Estonia by municipality . In the Estonian Wikipedia there are the cities and municipalities only in the individual articles of the 15 districts.

Faroe Islands

There have been a total of 34 municipalities in the Faroe Islands since January 1, 2005 (previously there were 48). Since January 1st, 2009 there are only 30.

List of municipalities in the Faroe Islands (lists municipalities by size after 2009)

Finland

Until 2009 Finland was divided into six (until 1997 there were twelve) provinces ( Finnish Lääni ), which were divided into 20 regions (Finnish maakunnat ). In 2005 there were 433 municipalities (Finnish kunta ) below the landscapes . This number decreased continuously through mergers, in 2017 there are only 313 municipalities. The municipalities usually consist of several towns and cities, which, however, do not have their own administration. The communities therefore often cover a very large area. This can already be seen in the number of parishes across the country. (for comparison: in Baden-Württemberg there were 1,101 municipalities on January 1, 2009)

List of cities and municipalities in Finland and list of former municipalities in Finland

France

A reform of the existing administrative structure took place in France in 2015 and 2016, in which mainly existing administrative units were merged. As a result, France has been divided into only 18 regions since 2016, 13 of which are in Europe and 5 overseas. Since the Métropole de Lyon was spun off from the Rhône department , the regions have been subdivided into 101 departments , including the five overseas departments (French: Départements et régions d'outre-mer DROM), which are both regions and departments. These are Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, La Réunion and Mayotte. The departments are divided into 333 arrondissements (including 12 overseas; see list of French arrondissements ). The departments are further subdivided into currently 2054 cantons (French: cantons ), which serve as constituencies for electing the department council and which often house branches of state or departmental authorities. The cantons have not been subdivided into the arrondissements since 2015, so they can now be located in different arrondissements. They are made up of several municipalities, although larger cities can be divided into several cantons.

Since there has not yet been any comprehensive territorial reform in France, the municipalities today exist almost unchanged since the time of the French Revolution. After the unsuccessful introduction of Communes associées in 1971, another attempt was made in 2010 to encourage the communities, which usually only have a few 100 inhabitants, to merge. Since 2012, around 800 communities with the statute of a Commune nouvelle have been created from around 2,500 former communities . Nevertheless, as of January 1, 2019, there are still 34,970 municipalities in France (including 129 in the overseas territories). Individual municipalities in France can be found under the category: France by municipality .

Greece

Since the municipal reform of 2011, Greece has only been divided into 13 administrative regions (Greek περιφέρειες / perifériës , singular περιφέρεια / periféria ). The prefectures (Greek νομοί / nomí , singular νομός / nomós ) were abolished with the reform and replaced by regional districts (Greek Περιφερειακή Ενότητα / Periferiakí Enótita ), which are only relevant for regional election purposes . The regions are subdivided into 325 municipalities ( δήμοι / dími , singular δήμος / dímos ); up to 2010 there were 1,033. Outside this administrative structure, Mount Athos (Άγιον Όρος / Ájion Óros - Holy Mountain) is to be seen, which forms an autonomous monastic republic under Greek sovereignty.

List of municipalities in Greece

Ireland

Ireland consists of four (historical) provinces that are no longer administratively important. The provinces are divided into 32 (historical) counties , six of which are in Northern Ireland and thus belong to the United Kingdom.

The local government of the Republic of Ireland is thus initially carried out by 26 counties. Three larger cities (the capital Dublin as well as Cork and Galway ) have been separated from the counties as so-called City Councils and in this respect are treated equally with the counties. In addition, the county of Dublin (excluding the city of Dublin) is divided into the three sub-counties Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown , Fingal and South Dublin . There have been no self-governing bodies below the county level since 2014.

Administrative divisions of Ireland (contains the current and historical breakdown into counties)

Iceland

Iceland is divided into eight landsvæði (regions). These are further divided into 20 independent municipalities and 22 Syssel . The Syssel are divided into communities. The number of parishes has steadily decreased, especially since the 1980s, due to parish mergers in the sparsely populated areas outside the capital region and the Reykjanes peninsula and has been 74 since 2013. The article List of parishes in Iceland names among other things the 78 parishes that were still in existence in 2010 .

Italy

Italy is divided into 20 regions (Italian: regioni, Sg. Regione), 5 of which are autonomous regions with special statutes. The regions are divided into a total of 110 provinces. These are in turn divided into approx. 8,100 cities and municipalities (comuni, Sg. Comune), while large cities (“città metropolitane”), similar to the German independent cities, can be “province-free” and take on the tasks of the provinces themselves.

Italian provinces (names the 20 regions with their respective provinces; there is still no complete list for the individual municipalities; the associated municipalities are only partially named on the articles of individual provinces)

On the Italian Wikipedia, however, all municipalities are categorized according to the associated province.

Croatia

Croatia is divided into 20 counties (Croatian: županija, Pl. Županije). The capital Zagreb also has the powers of a county. The counties are divided into 556 municipalities (Croatian općina , Pl. Općine), of which 124 have the status of a city (Croatian: grad).

Administrative division of Croatia (lists the 20 counties; with links to the individual articles)
List of places in Croatia (in the 2nd part of the article names cities and towns in Croatia in alphabetical order with number of inhabitants)

Latvia

With the municipal reform in 2009, the 26 districts (Latvian: rajoni, Sg. Rajons) were abolished and the 474 municipalities (pagasti, Sg. Pagasts) and cities were converted into 110 districts (novadi, Sg. Novads) and nine republic cities.

Administrative divisions of Latvia (contains a list of districts and republic cities)

List of cities in Latvia (names the largest cities and municipalities in the country over 5,000 inhabitants)

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein is divided into eleven municipalities, five of which belong to the Unterland constituency and six to the Oberland constituency.

Administrative structure of Liechtenstein (lists all municipalities with number of inhabitants, area and associated places)

Lithuania

Lithuania is divided into ten districts (Lithuanian: apskritys, Sg. Apskritis), which have only been used for statistical purposes since 2010. The districts are divided into 60 parishes (Lithuanian: savivaldybės, Sg. Savivaldybė), including rajon parishes (rajonas) and urban parishes (miestas). The Rajonggeminden usually consist of several localities without their own administration. The Rajongemeinden and municipalities are listed on the respective articles of the districts: District Alytus , Kaunas district , Klaipėda district , district Marijampolė , Panevėžys , Šiauliai County , tauragė county , district Telšiai , Utena , Vilnius district .

Luxembourg

Luxembourg is divided into twelve cantons and these then into 105 communes.

List of communes in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Malta

Malta has been divided into 68 local administrative units (cities and municipalities) since 1993. These are grouped into six districts for statistical purposes (Gozo and Comino, Northern, Northern Harbor, Southern, Southern Harbor and Western). These are in turn combined into three regions (Gozo and Comino, Malta Majjistral and Malta Xlokk), with the region and district of Gozo and Comino being identical.

Malta (lists all 68 cities and municipalities in the administrative division section)

Moldova

In Moldova there have been 32 rajons (Romanian: raioane) and three municipalities in the heartland since 2003. There is also the autonomous region of Gagauzia and the breakaway region of Transnistria, in which there are two other municipalities. These administrative subjects consist of a total of 982 municipalities, of which 66 are cities.

Monaco

Monaco consists of only one city. This is administratively divided into six quarters: Monte Carlo, La Condamine, Fontvieille, Le Larvotto, Les Moneghetti and Monaco-Ville.

Montenegro

After the separation from the international community of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, there were 21 large municipalities in the Montenegrin part. In 2013 and 2014 one municipality was spun off from a larger one, so that since then there have been 23 municipalities in Montenegro, which often cover a large area and consist of a large number of settlements.

List of municipalities in Montenegro

Netherlands

The Netherlands are divided into twelve provinces (Dutch: provincies). In 2019 these are subdivided into 355 municipalities (gemeenten). Similar to Switzerland, there is a steady merger process in the Netherlands, which has reduced the number of municipalities by more than 80 in the last 10 years.

List of Dutch municipalities : lists all 355 independent municipalities that existed on January 1, 2019 in alphabetical order. There are also three special municipalities in the Caribbean Netherlands .

North Macedonia

There have been several municipal reforms in North Macedonia since independence in 1992. After the youngest, there have been 80 parishes since 2013 (Macedonian: opštini). Ten of them alone make up the city of Skopje, which has a special status. The remaining 70 parishes usually consist of a larger city and several localities in the area or are made up of many smaller villages.

List of Opštini in North Macedonia (lists all municipalities alphabetically)

Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative districts ( Fylke or Fylker), which before 2007 were subdivided into a total of 434 municipalities (Norwegian: commune, plural: communer ) . For their part, the municipalities usually consist of several localities and cities, which, however, do not have their own administrations. The communities therefore often have a very large area. This can already be seen in the number of parishes across the country. (for comparison: in Baden-Württemberg there were 1,101 municipalities on January 1, 2009)

List of Norwegian municipalities : lists all 434 Norwegian municipalities prior to 2007 in alphabetical order, the state had 431 municipalities as of January 1, 2007. By January 1, 2013 another three municipalities were dissolved.

Austria

Austria is divided into nine federal states (including the city-state of Vienna ). The eight territorial states are subdivided into districts and some statutory cities (sometimes referred to as free cities). The districts are in turn divided into cities and municipalities. For each federal state there is an article in the German-language Wikipedia according to the scheme "List of municipalities in ..." The names of the districts and statutory cities are listed in the respective article of the federal state in the section "Administrative structure". The structure of Austria in detail:

Burgenland : 7 districts and 2 statutory cities (free cities), 171 municipalities
Carinthia : 8 districts and 2 statutory cities, 132 municipalities
Lower Austria : 21 districts and 4 statutory cities, 573 municipalities
Upper Austria : 15 districts and 3 statutory cities, 445 municipalities
Salzburg : 5 districts and a statutory city, 119 municipalities
Styria : 12 districts and a statutory city, 287 municipalities
Tyrol : 8 districts and a statutory city, 279 municipalities
Vorarlberg : 4 districts, 96 municipalities
Vienna : 1 city consisting of 23 districts

Poland

Since 1999 Poland has been divided into 16 voivodships (or voivodeship, Polish: województwo, which means something like "duchy"). These are divided into 380 districts (Polish: powiaty, Sg. Powiat), of which 314 districts and 66 independent cities. The Powiaty (also Powiatu) are in turn divided into 2478 municipalities (Polish: gminy, Sg. Gmina), which can represent cities, towns with their surrounding area or a purely rural area. A powiat usually consists of 5 to 15 gminas.

There is no complete church list in Wikipedia. Individual communities can be found through the voivodships and then in the powiats. The structure of the individual voivodships:

Lower Silesian Voivodeship (W. Dolnośląskie): 26 powiaty, 4 independent towns, 169 municipalities
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (W. Kujawsko-Pomorskie): 19 powiaty, 4 independent cities, 144 municipalities
Lublin Voivodeship (W. Lubelskie): 20 powiaty, 4 independent cities, 213 municipalities
Lubusz Voivodeship (W. Lubuskie): 12 powiaty, 2 independent cities, 82 municipalities
Łódź Voivodeship (W. Łódzkie): 21 powiaty, 3 independent cities, 177 municipalities
Lesser Poland Voivodeship (W. Małopolskie): 19 powiaty, 3 independent cities, 182 municipalities
Masovian Voivodeship (W. Mazowieckie): 37 powiaty, 5 independent cities, 314 municipalities
Opole Voivodeship (W. Opolskie): 11 powiaty, 1 urban district, 71 municipalities
Subcarpathian Voivodeship (W. Podkarpackie): 21 powiaty, 4 independent cities, 160 municipalities
Podlaskie Voivodeship (W. Podlaskie): 14 powiaty, 3 independent cities, 118 municipalities
Pomeranian Voivodeship (W. Pomorskie): 16 powiaty, 4 independent cities, 123 municipalities
Silesian Voivodeship (W. Śląskie): 17 powiaty, 19 independent cities, 167 municipalities
Świętokrzyskie (W. Świętokrzyskie): 13 Powiaty, 1 county-level city, 102 municipalities
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (W. Warmińsko-Mazurskie): 19 powiaty, 2 independent cities, 116 municipalities
Greater Poland Voivodeship (W. Wielkopolskie): 31 powiaty, 4 independent cities, 226 municipalities
West Pomeranian Voivodeship (W. Zachodniopomorskie): 18 powiaty, 3 independent cities, 114 municipalities

Portugal

Portugal has a very complicated administrative structure. The basis is represented by a total of 308 municípios or concelhos , which can be compared to the cities and municipalities of Germany in terms of the task, even though they sometimes cover a very large area. They mostly consist of the eponymous settlement, which is usually referred to as a "city" (mostly for historical reasons) and the often rural surrounding area. Further small towns (Portuguese: vilas ) can be located below this . The term “city” in Portugal therefore only refers to a closed settlement without any administrative significance and cannot be compared with the term used in German.

After an administrative reorganization in 2013, the municípios are divided into 3091 freguesias (from the word meaning actually "parish"), but these have only a very subordinate task fulfillment. The municípios can either consist of a municipality or a large number of municipalities. It can even happen that the main town or the eponymous town of the district itself consists of several municipalities, none of which bears the name of the main town. Example: The main town of the Municípios Abrantes is the "city" Abrantes, which consists of the freguesias Rossio ao Sul do Tejo, São João and São Vicente. The Município Abrantes also includes 16 other municipalities, including a small town ( vila ).

The higher level of the Municípios are 18 districts on the mainland, which in turn are combined into five regions. Then there are the autonomous regions of the Azores (with three districts) and Madeira (with one district).

In the meantime, so-called Áreas Urbanas ("Urban Areas") have been formed from several Municípios or Concelhos. A distinction is made between Grandes Áreas Metropolitanas - GAM (with more than 350,000 inhabitants), Comunidades Urbanas - ComUrb (with 150,000 to 350,000 inhabitants) and Comunidades Intermunicipais - ComInter (with fewer than 150,000 inhabitants).

List of municípios in Portugal (lists all 308 municípios or concelhos in alphabetical order; with the individual articles of the municípios, all associated municipalities / freguesias are listed)

Romania

Romania is divided into 41 districts (Romanian: județ, plural județe) and the capital Bucharest. The districts are divided into almost 3,200 cities and communities.

Russia

The Russian Federation is divided into 89 subjects with different levels of autonomy: 21 autonomous republics, 6 regions (Krajs), 49 oblasts, 2 cities with subject status, 1 autonomous oblast and 10 autonomous counties.

The individual subjects have very different further subdivisions. There are z. B. Districts (rayons), district-free cities, urban districts, rural districts, etc. a. Due to the great diversity of the individual subjects and the size of the State of Russia, a complete list of the parishes is not possible. Individual subjects can be found in cities and municipalities with the respective articles. There are more detailed lists on this in the English Wikipedia.

List of cities in Russia (lists about 90 largest cities and other cities alphabetically)

San Marino

San Marino is divided into nine Castelli, which are also independent municipalities. They are all described in more detail in the main article San Marino.

Sweden

Sweden is divided into 21 administrative units ( Län ), which are divided into a total of 290 municipalities (Swedish: commun ) . For their part, the municipalities usually consist of several localities and cities, which, however, do not have their own administrations. The Swedish municipalities differ from the German municipalities in terms of composition and responsibilities. The communities therefore often have a very large area. This can already be seen in the number of parishes across the country. (for comparison: there are 1,101 municipalities in Baden-Württemberg)

List of municipalities in Sweden (names the 290 Swedish municipalities in alphabetical order)

Switzerland

Switzerland consists of 26 cantons. Most of the cantons are divided into districts. They are called constituencies (canton Lucerne and St. Gallen), administrative districts (canton Bern), regions (canton Graubünden) or district (French-speaking Switzerland) or distretto (canton Ticino and Italian confederations). Eight of the 26 cantons do without the district level for various reasons: Uri, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Glarus, Zug, Basel-Stadt, Neuchâtel and Geneva. Here there are only cities and municipalities as a subdivision of the canton, as in the other cantons below the districts. In the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Schaffhausen, the districts have also been abolished, but are still used for statistical purposes. The canton of Ticino divides the districts into districts.

District (Switzerland) (lists, among other things, all districts by canton)
Municipality (Switzerland)
List of Swiss municipalities (lists all Swiss municipalities), by cantons: AG - AI - AR - BE - BL - BS - FR - GE - GL - GR - JU - LU - NE - NW - OW - SG - SH - SO - SZ - TG - TI - UR - VD - VS - ZG - ZH

Serbia

Serbia consists of the heartland ("Central Serbia") and the autonomous provinces (Serbian autonomne pokrajine ) Vojvodina and Kosovo. The Kosovo stands since June 1999 under UN administration (UNMIK) and has declared 2008 for independently without this will be recognized by Serbia.

The state of Serbia (including Vojvodina and Kosovo) is divided into 30 districts (Serbian: Okrug), including the city of Belgrade. 18 districts are in closer Serbia, 7 in Vojvodina and 5 in Kosovo. The 30 districts are divided into municipalities ( opštine , singular: opština ), which often cover a large area and consist of a large number of settlements. In the closer Serbia there are 108 municipalities, in Vojvodina 54 and in Kosovo 30 municipalities. (for comparison: there are 1,101 municipalities in Baden-Württemberg)

Slovakia

Slovakia is divided into eight landscape associations (Slovak: kraje), which are translated as Gau, area, country, landscape or region. These are divided into a total of 79 districts or districts (okresy) (see: Administrative divisions of Slovakia ). Below the districts there are over 2,800 communities (obce).

List of cities and municipalities in Slovakia (lists all municipalities on several sub-pages in alphabetical order with associated district and regional association as well as the German and Hungarian names.)

Slovenia

Slovenia is divided into 193 municipalities (Slovene občine, singular: občina), including eleven municipalities. The municipalities are grouped into twelve regions.

List of municipalities in Slovenia (lists, among other things, all 193 municipalities in alphabetical order, in 2014 there were 211 municipalities)

Spain

Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions or communities (Spanish: Comunidades Autónomas) and two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla. The autonomous regions themselves are divided into a total of 50 (with Ceuta and Melilla 52) provinces (provincias). Below the provinces there are cities and municipalities, in some communities there are still districts. In total there are over 8,000 municipalities in Spain.

There is no complete community list in the German-language Wikipedia. The respective provinces are named under the articles of the 17 communities. Sometimes at the end of the article there is a wikilink according to the scheme "List of municipalities in the province ...".

The 17 autonomous communities: Andalusia , Aragon , Asturias , Balearic Islands , Basque Country , Extremadura , Galicia , Canary Islands , Cantabria , Castile-La Mancha , Castile-León , Catalonia , La Rioja , Madrid , Murcia , Navarra , València

Czech Republic

Since 2000, the Czech Republic has been divided into 14 administrative units (including the city of Prague), which are known as an area, district, regional association or region (Czech: kraj, plural: kraje). The Kraje are further divided into districts or circles (okresy, singular okres). Below the districts there are a large number of cities (Města) and municipalities (obcí, singular: obec): In total there are over 6,200 municipalities, of which almost 6,000 have fewer than 5,000 inhabitants. Thus, the Czech Republic is the European country with the highest percentage of municipalities of this size, namely approx. 96%.

Individual municipalities can be found under the category: Municipality in the Czech Republic . In the individual articles of the regions, only the number of municipalities in the respective districts is mentioned.

Here is an overview of the 14 regions: City of Prague , Středočeský kraj (Central Bohemian region), Jihočeský kraj (South Bohemian region), Plzeňský kraj (Pilsen region), Karlovarský kraj (Karlsbad region), Ústecký kraj (Aussig region), | Liberecký kraj (Reichenberg region), Královéhradecký kraj (Hradec Kralove), | Pardubický kraj (Pardubice Region), Kraj Vysočina (Highlands Region), | Jihomoravský kraj (South Moravian region), Olomoucký kraj (Olomouc region), Zlínský kraj (Zlín region) and Moravskoslezský kraj (Moravian-Silesian region).

Turkey

Turkey is divided into 81 provinces (Turkish İl ), which in turn are divided into rural districts (Turkish İlçe ). The İl is headed by a governor, called Vali, who is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. This Vali is not elected but appointed by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Interior Minister with the consent of the President. The Vali is the representative of the government and all ministries in its administrative territory. Exceptions are the military and the judiciary. It is assisted by an elected council ( il meclisi ), which meets once a year with the permission of the Ministry of the Interior and whose main task is to approve the budget of the province and make related decisions. 4 members are elected from this state parliament, who have to control the annual budget and inform the council about it. According to Art. 126 [2] of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, the boundaries of an IL are determined by geographical, economic and administrative necessities.

List of provinces of Turkey

Ukraine

Ukraine is divided into 24 districts (areas, oblasts, Ukrainian: область / oblast, plural: області / oblasti), the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and two cities with special status.

The districts are divided into several rajons (districts), cities, urban districts and urban settlements and villages. The cities can be divided into rajons. Due to the large number of administrative units, there is no complete list. The list of cities in Ukraine names some important cities by size as well as by district.

Hungary

Hungary is divided into 19 counties (Hungarian: megyék, singular: megye) and 24 cities with county law (including the capital Budapest) (see list of counties in Hungary ). In 1999 these were summarized in seven statistical planning regions. The counties are subdivided into towns (Városok, singular: Város) and municipalities or large municipalities (Községek, nagyközségek; singular Község, nagyközség). Including the cities with county law, there are 3,156 cities and municipalities in Hungary. In the Hungarian Wikipedia, the respective cities and municipalities are named for each county article. The corresponding articles on the German-language Wikipedia only name the most important cities in the county.

Vatican city

As the smallest state in the world, Vatican City is not particularly subdivided.

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is divided into the parts of England , Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales . Each part of the country has a different municipal structure.

England

England is divided into Greater London (Greater London), which consists of the City of London and 32 Boroughs (London city districts) as well as 8 further regions, which are divided into 27 non-metropolitan counties , 6 metropolitan counties and 56 unitary authorities (single-level administrative districts) ) subdivide. The 27 non-metropolitan counties are divided into 201 districts and the 6 metropolitan counties are divided into 36 metropolitan boroughs .

At the borough, district and unitary authority level, there are 326 administrative districts in England , which form the local or municipal administration of England.

Administrative division of England (lists the 9 regions with their 27 counties and 56 unitary authorities)
List of districts in England (lists all 326 districts or unitary authorities alphabetically)

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has been divided into eleven districts since April 1, 2015 . (see administrative divisions of Northern Ireland )

Scotland

Since 1996, Scotland has been divided into 32 Council Areas , including three island districts. (see administrative structure of Scotland )

Wales

Wales has been divided into 22 Principal Areas since 1996 (see administrative structure of Wales )

Belarus

Belarus, also called Belarus, is divided into six administrative districts (woblasts) and the capital Minsk, which does not belong to any woblast. The woblasts are subdivided into 118 circles (raions). These in turn in cities, urban settlements and numerous so-called village soviets. Due to the large number of administrative units, there is no complete list. The list of cities in Belarus names only the largest cities in the country.

Municipalities of the states of Europe

Key figures per country and municipality

Parishes of the states

Faroe Islands

See also