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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
	Banner | Borough | Burgh | Canton | Circuit | City | Commune | Community | County | Council | Croft | Department | District | Division | Duchy | Governorate | Hamlet | Municipality | Neighbourhood | Parish | Prefecture | Province | Region | Republic | State | Subdistrict | Territory | Town | Township | Village | Voivodship | Ward
Autonomous:	banner | city | community | county | prefecture | province | region | republic | ward
Civil:	parish | township
Federal:	capital | 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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