All provincial capitals are, by organic law, cities and do not need to meet the requirement of having a population of at least 100,000.

[6] In practice this means that—like a province—it has a provincial government with an elected governor and an Assembly, but—like a city—it is divided into communes led by burgomasters.

[2] Due to the lack of reliable and comparable population figures, electoral districts are allocated seats in proportion to their voter registration numbers.

[11] In mid-2018, just before the general election of that year, the government upheld the 2013 granting of city status to a large number of populated places, including 65 not listed above.

[13] Since then the following ones have had their first mayor appointed and take office without being National Assembly districts : Download coordinates as: