>He calls his country's states provinces
He calls his country's states provinces
There are regions, departements, cantons, arrondissements, historical provinces etc
This is how France was divided during the ancient regime
Provinces is the best word, states is confusing because it can also mean sovereign states.
Departments is bad because it can mean a government agency. Regions is bad because it is too generic, the word doesn't just mean an area controlled by a subnational government.
What the UK does is just nonsense and is worse than anything else though.
>Region of Limousin
>Automobile not invented yet
we have regions
Constituent Countries > Regions > Counties > Cities/Shire Districts > Wards > Post Code areas
Special city > gu > dong
Not to the three most populated in the world. Us, Brazil and India do it so it's fairly understandable to locals
problem, uncultured muttoi*d
6 (six) designations for a country smaller than California is a bit much
Satanchecked
>Dong
I assume Brazil and India are following the USA's precedent. Same reason President became the universal term for a republican head of state.
Still confusing.
we have regions, provinces and communes.
>he calls his country's provinces states
We call them counties
>Orleanis
My ancestor :)
That's what our states' smaller districts are called. It makes sense for a countrylet like Ireland
Here its called parishes
counties here are only used to group parishes but have no admirative use
>lands
We're kindred spirits, Jamaicanon
Why do German land get translated into English as 'states'?
>comunidades autónomas
>We're kindred spirits
how?
I live in the Greater London prefecture.
In my hometown the districts within the states are called parishes
Normally it goes State-County but for us it's State-Parish. Louisiana has beaten the eternal Angloid culturally
I only learned today that Oblast basically just means State. Or at the very least is more or less its administrative equivalent.