Administrative division

[1][4][7] An alternative terminology is provided by the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics which terms the principal division as the second level or NUTS-2.

Administrative divisions are conceptually separate from dependent territories, with the former being an integral part of the state and the other being only under some lesser form of control.

A federated state may be referred to as a province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country.

[12] Due to variations in their use worldwide, consistency in the translation of terms from non-English to English is sometimes difficult to maintain.

In many of the following terms originating from British cultural influence, areas of relatively low mean population density might bear a title of an entity one would expect to be either larger or smaller.

For example, Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts appear to the casual traveler as one large city, while locally they each are quite culturally different and occupy different counties.