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A Governorate is an administrative division
Administrative division

|align="right"| |}Administrative divisions are divisions of a political division. In other words, they are designated portions of a country....
 of a country. It is headed by a governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or colonies, the term governorate is sometimes used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations.

The most common usage is as a translation of the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 Muhafazah
Muhafazah

The Arabic word muhafazah is usually translated to governorate in English, occasionally to province.*Governorates of Bahrain*Governorates of Egypt...
 or Wilayah
Wilayah

A wilayah or vil?yet is an administrative division, usually translated as "province" or "governorate". The word comes from Arabic w-l-y 'to govern': a wali 'governor' governs a wilayah 'that which is governed'....
. It may also refer to the guberniya
Guberniya

Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor or , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek ....
 and general-gubernatorstvo
Governor-General

The term governor general or governor-general refers to a Viceroy representative of a Monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription....
 of Imperial Russia or the 34 of Imperial Spain
Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
.

term governorate
Governorate

A Governorate is an administrative division of a country. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or colonies, the term governorate is sometimes used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations....
 is widely used in Arab countries to describe an administrative unit.






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A Governorate is an administrative division
Administrative division

|align="right"| |}Administrative divisions are divisions of a political division. In other words, they are designated portions of a country....
 of a country. It is headed by a governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or colonies, the term governorate is sometimes used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations.

The most common usage is as a translation of the Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
 Muhafazah
Muhafazah

The Arabic word muhafazah is usually translated to governorate in English, occasionally to province.*Governorates of Bahrain*Governorates of Egypt...
 or Wilayah
Wilayah

A wilayah or vil?yet is an administrative division, usually translated as "province" or "governorate". The word comes from Arabic w-l-y 'to govern': a wali 'governor' governs a wilayah 'that which is governed'....
. It may also refer to the guberniya
Guberniya

Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor or , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek ....
 and general-gubernatorstvo
Governor-General

The term governor general or governor-general refers to a Viceroy representative of a Monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription....
 of Imperial Russia or the 34 of Imperial Spain
Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
.

Arab countries

The term governorate
Governorate

A Governorate is an administrative division of a country. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or colonies, the term governorate is sometimes used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations....
 is widely used in Arab countries to describe an administrative unit. Some governorates combine more than one wilayah
Wilayah

A wilayah or vil?yet is an administrative division, usually translated as "province" or "governorate". The word comes from Arabic w-l-y 'to govern': a wali 'governor' governs a wilayah 'that which is governed'....
; others closely follow traditional boundaries inherited from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
's vilayet system.

With the exception of Tunisia, all translations into the term governorate originate in the Arab word muhafazah
Muhafazah

The Arabic word muhafazah is usually translated to governorate in English, occasionally to province.*Governorates of Bahrain*Governorates of Egypt...
.

  • Governorates of Bahrain
    Governorates of Bahrain

    Bahrain is split into five governorates. These governorates are:...
  • Governorates of Egypt
    Governorates of Egypt

    Egypt is divided into 29 governorates and 1 self-governing city. This designation replaces that of "province" . Egyptian governorates are the top tier of the five-tier jurisdiction hierarchy....
  • Governorates of Iraq
    Governorates of Iraq

    |||}Iraq is divided into 18 governorates :The current set of governorates was established in 1976.The governorates are divided into Qadaa ....
     (official translation, sometimes also translated as province)
  • Governorates of Jordan
    Governorates of Jordan

    |||}The country of Jordan is divided into 12 governorates ....
  • Governorates of Kuwait
    Governorates of Kuwait

    Kuwait is divided into 6 governorates .The governorates are further subdivided into districts.See also*ISO 3166-2:KW...
  • Governorates of Lebanon
    Governorates of Lebanon

    |||}Lebanon is divided into six governorates , listed with their capitals in parentheses:#Beirut Governorate #Mount Lebanon Governorate #North Governorate ...
  • Governorates of Palestine
  • Governorates of Oman
  • Governorates of Saudi Arabia
    Governorates of Saudi Arabia

    |||}Governorates are the second level of regional administration within Saudi Arabia. Each of Saudi Arabia's 13 Emirates of Saudi Arabia is sub-divided into governorates....
  • Governorates of Syria
    Governorates of Syria

    Syria has fourteen governorates, or muhafazat . The governorates are divided into sixty districts, or manatiq , which are further divided into subdistricts, or nawahi ....
  • Governorates of Tunisia
    Governorates of Tunisia

    |||}Tunisia is divided into 24 governorates:The governorates are divided into 264 "Delegations of Tunisia" or "districts" , and further subdivided into municipality , and sectors ....
     (wilayah
    Wilayah

    A wilayah or vil?yet is an administrative division, usually translated as "province" or "governorate". The word comes from Arabic w-l-y 'to govern': a wali 'governor' governs a wilayah 'that which is governed'....
    )
  • Governorates of Yemen
    Governorates of Yemen

    ||}Yemen is divided into 21 governorates :The governorates are subdivided into 333 districts , which are subdivided into 2,210 sub-districts, and then into 38,284 villages ....


Imperial Russia

  • History of the administrative division of Russia
    History of the administrative division of Russia

    This article covers the history of the administrative division of Russia from 1708 to 1744....
  • Guberniya
    Guberniya

    Guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually translated as government, governorate, or province. A guberniya was ruled by a governor or , a word borrowed from Latin , in turn from Greek ....
     and :Category:Governorates of the Russian Empire


Imperial Spain

In the Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
, the gobernaciones were an administrative division, roughly analogous to a province
Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
 directly beneath the level of the audiencia
Audiencia

For the modern court, see Audiencia Nacional of Spain.The Royal Audiencia and Chanciller?a was a court that functioned as an appellate court in Spain and its empire....
 or captaincy general
Captaincy

A captaincy is a historical administrative division of the former Spain and Portugal colonial empires. Each was governed by a captain general....
, and the viceroy
Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king....
 in areas directly under the viceroy's administration. The powers and duties of a governor were identical to a corregidor
Corregidor (position)

A corregidor was a local, administrative and judicial position in Spain and its Spanish Empire. They began to be appointed in fourteenth century Kingdom of Castile and the institution was definitively abolished in 1833....
 but a governor managed a larger or more prosperous area than the former.

Congress Kingdom of Poland

  • See Administrative division of Congress Poland
    Administrative division of Congress Poland

    The administrative division of Congress Poland changed several times. Immediately after its creation, 1815-1816, the Congress Kingdom of Poland was divided into Department , Administrative division of Duchy of Warsaw from the times of the French-dominated Duchy of Warsaw....


Germany

During the time of the Third Reich
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
, a "General Government
General Government

The General Government refers to a part of the territories of Poland under German military occupation during World War II by Nazi Germany and was an autonomous part of "Greater Germany"....
 for the Occupied Polish Areas" (German: Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) existed. The German (based on a traditional Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
n term) is sometimes translated as General Governorate.

Vatican City

Under the Fundamental Law for the Vatican City State, the pope
Pope

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
's executive authority for the Vatican City
Vatican City

Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a Landlocked country sovereignty city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the Capital of Italy....
 is exercised by the Governorate for the Vatican City State. The President
President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

The President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State is the leader of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, the legislative body of Vatican City....
 of the Vatican City's legislative body is ex officio the President of the Governorate. The other key officers of the Governorate are the General Secretary and the Vice General Secretary. All three officers are appointed by the pope for five year terms.