Governorate

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A governorate is a country subdivision. 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).

[edit] Arab countries

The term governorate is widely used in Arab countries to describe an administrative unit. Some governorates combine more than one wilayah; others closely follow traditional boundaries inherited from the Ottoman Empire's vilayet system.

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 Palestine
• Governorates of Oman
• Governorates of Saudi Arabia
• Governorates of Syria
• Governorates of Tunisia (wilayah)
• Governorates of Yemen

[edit] Imperial Russia

• History of the administrative division of Russia
• Category:Governorates of the Russian Empire

[edit] 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.