Governorate

A governorate is a subnational entity. The term is mostly used to translate the Arabic muhafazah (plural muhafazat), also spelled mohafazah (mohafazat). It may also refer to the Governorates and Governor-Generalships of Imperial Russia (Russian: губерния, tr.: guberniya).

Arab countries

With the exception of Tunisia all translations into the term governorate originate in the arab word muhafazah.

Governorates of Bahrain
Governorates of Egypt
Governorates of Iraq (official translation, sometimes also translated as province)
Governorates of Jordan
Governorates of Kuwait
Governorates of Lebanon
Governorates of Oman
Governorates of Syria
Governorates of Tunisia (wilayah)
Governorates of Yemen

Imperial Russia

History of the administrative division of Russia

Germany

During the time of the Third Reich a General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete existed. The German term is only rarely translated as General Governorate. The term is a traditional Prussian term.

Subnational entity
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Autonomous:	banner \| city \| community \| county \| prefecture \| province \| region \| republic \| ward
Capital:	district \| territory
Civil:	parish \| township
County:	borough
Federal:	capital \| dependencies \| district \| capital district \| capital territory
local:	council
Metropolitan:	borough \| county
National:	capital district \| capital territory
Rural:	council \| district \| municipality
Residential:	community
Urban:	area (US: Urbanized Area) \| district
edit	See also: List of terms for subnational entities, List of subnational entities, Matrix of subnational entities

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