Federated state

A federated state (often referred to simply as a state or as a province) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federal union.[1] Such states differ from sovereign states, in that they have transferred a portion of their sovereign powers to a federal government.[2] A federated state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory and is a form of regional government.

In some cases, a federation is created from a union of political entities, which are either independent, or dependent territories of another sovereign entity (most commonly a colonial power). In other cases, federated states have been created by a previously unitary government in a devolution of powers in order to allow for a federal constitution. Once a federal constitution is formed, the rules governing the relationship between federal and regional powers become part of the country's municipal law and not international law.

In countries with federal constitutions, sovereignty is shared between the federal government and its component states. These states are partially self-governing and are usually afforded a considerable degree of autonomy. In most cases, within its own territory, a federated state's administrative rights and powers cannot be over-ruled or vetoed by the federal government. However, the laws governing the relationship between federal and regional powers can be amended through the federal constitution and state constitutions.

List of constituents by federation

The "federated units" in the table below have inherent governmental authority in the federation's constitutional system, while the "other units" are delegated authority by the federal government or are administered directly by it.

Federation Federated units Other units
 Argentina[3] 23 provinces:
 Buenos Aires
 Catamarca
 Chaco
 Chubut
 Córdoba
 Corrientes
 Entre Ríos
 Formosa
 Jujuy
 La Pampa
 La Rioja
 Mendoza
 Misiones
 Neuquén
 Río Negro
 Salta
 San Juan
 San Luis
 Santa Cruz
 Santa Fe
 Santiago del Estero
 Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur
 Tucumán
1 autonomous city:
 Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
 Australia[4] 6 states:
 New South Wales
 Queensland
 South Australia  
 Tasmania
 Victoria
 Western Australia
10 territories:
 Australian Capital Territory
 Northern Territory
 Christmas Island
 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
 Norfolk Island[5]
 Jervis Bay Territory
 Ashmore and Cartier Islands
 Australian Antarctic Territory
 Coral Sea Islands Territory
 Heard Island and McDonald Islands
 Austria[6] 9 states:
 Vienna
 Lower Austria
 Upper Austria  
 Styria
 Tyrol
 Carinthia
 Salzburg
 Vorarlberg
 Burgenland
 Belgium[7] 3 regions:
Flemish Region
Walloon Region
Brussels-Capital Region
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 entities:[5]
 Republika Srpska
 Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 self-governing district:
Brčko (officially codominium of both constituents)
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is itself a federation with 10 cantons:
Una-Sana • Posavina • Tuzla • Zenica-Doboj • Bosnian Podrinje • Central Bosnia • Herzegovina-Neretva • West Herzegovina • Sarajevo • West Bosnia
 Brazil[8] 26 states:
Acre
Amapá
Amazonas
Pará
Rondônia
Roraima
Tocantins
Alagoas
Bahia
Ceará
Maranhão
Paraíba
Pernambuco
Piauí
Rio Grande do Norte
Sergipe
Goiás
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso do Sul
Espírito Santo
Minas Gerais
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Paraná
Rio Grande do Sul
Santa Catarina
1 federal district:
Distrito Federal (Brasília)[Federated states 1]
5,564 municipalities[9]
 Canada[10] 10 provinces:
 Alberta
 British Columbia
 Manitoba
 New Brunswick
 Newfoundland and Labrador  
 Nova Scotia
 Ontario
 Prince Edward Island
 Quebec
 Saskatchewan
3 territories:
 Northwest Territories
 Nunavut
 Yukon
 Comoros 3 islands:[5]
 Anjouan
Grande Comore
Mohéli
 Ethiopia[11] 9 regions:
Afar • Amhara • Benishangul-Gumuz • Gambela • Harari • Oromiya • Somali • Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region • Tigray
2 chartered cities:
Addis Ababa • Dire Dawa
 Germany[12] 16 states:
 Baden-Württemberg
 Bavaria
 Berlin
 Brandenburg
 Bremen
 Hamburg
 Hesse
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
 Lower Saxony
 North Rhine-Westphalia
 Rhineland-Palatinate
 Saarland
 Saxony
 Saxony-Anhalt
 Schleswig-Holstein
 Thuringia
 India[13] 28 states:
Andhra Pradesh • Arunachal Pradesh • Assam • Bihar • Chhattisgarh • Goa • Gujarat • Haryana • Himachal Pradesh • Jammu and Kashmir • Jharkhand • Karnataka • Kerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Meghalaya • Mizoram • Nagaland • Orissa • Punjab • Rajasthan • Sikkim • Tamil Nadu • Tripura • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarakhand • West Bengal
7 union territories:
Andaman and Nicobar Islands • Chandigarh • Dadra and Nagar Haveli • Daman and Diu • Lakshadweep • National Capital Territory • Pondicherry
 Iraq[14] 18 governorates:
Baghdād • Salāh ad-Dīn • Diyālā • Wāsit • Maysān • Al-Basrah • Dhī Qār • Al-Muthannā • Al-Qādisiyyah • Bābil • Karbalā' • An-Najaf • Al-Anbar • Nīnawā • Duhok • Arbīl • Kirkuk (or At-Ta'mim) • As-Sulaymāniyyah
Autonomous region:
 Iraqi Kurdistan[5]
(The region overlaps the area of the governorates)
 Malaysia[15] 13 states:
 Johor
 Kedah
 Kelantan
 Malacca
 Negeri Sembilan  
 Pahang
 Penang
 Perak
 Perlis
 Sabah
 Sarawak
 Selangor
 Terengganu
3 federal territories:
Putrajaya
 Kuala Lumpur
 Labuan
 Mexico[16] 31 states:
 Aguascalientes
 Baja California
 Baja California Sur
 Campeche
 Chiapas
 Chihuahua
 Coahuila
 Colima
 Durango
 Guanajuato
 Guerrero
 Hidalgo
 Jalisco
México State
 Michoacán
 Morelos
 Nayarit
 Nuevo León
 Oaxaca
 Puebla
 Querétaro
 Quintana Roo
 San Luis Potosí
 Sinaloa
 Sonora
 Tabasco
 Tamaulipas
 Tlaxcala
 Veracruz
 Yucatán
 Zacatecas
1 federal district:
Distrito Federal (Ciudad de México)
 Micronesia, Federated States of[17] 4 states:
 Chuuk
 Kosrae
 Pohnpei
 Yap
 Nepal 14 zones:
Bagmati • Bheri • Dhawalagiri • Gandaki • Janakpur • Karnali • Koshi • Lumbini • Mahakali • Mechi • Narayani • Rapti • Sagarmatha • Seti
 Nigeria[18] 36 states:
Anambra • Enugu • Akwa Ibom • Adamawa • Abia • Bauchi • Bayelsa • Benue • Borno • Cross River • Delta • Ebonyi • Edo • Ekiti • Gombe • Imo • Jigawa • Kaduna • Kano • Katsina • Kebbi • Kogi • Kwara • Lagos • Nasarawa • Niger State • Ogun • Ondo • Osun • Oyo • Plateau • Rivers • Sokoto • Taraba • Yobe • Zamfara
1 capital territory:
Abuja
 Pakistan[19] 4 provinces:
Balochistan • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa • Punjab • Sindh
2 autonomous areas:[5]
Azad Kashmir
 Gilgit-Baltistan
2 territories:
Islamabad Capital Territory • Federally Administered Tribal Areas
 Russian Federation[20][21] 21 republics:[5]
 Adygea
 Altai Republic
 Bashkortostan
 Buryatia
 Chechnya
 Chuvashia
 Dagestan
 Ingushetia
 Kabardino-Balkaria
 Kalmykia
 Karachay-Cherkessia  
 Karelia
 Khakassia
 Komi
 Mari El
 Mordovia
 North Ossetia-Alania
 Sakha
 Tatarstan
 Tuva
 Udmurtia
46 oblasts:
Amur
Arkhangelsk
Astrakhan
Belgorod
Bryansk
Chelyabinsk
Irkutsk
Ivanovo
Kaliningrad
Kaluga
Kemerovo
Kirov
Kostroma
Kurgan
Kursk
Leningrad
Lipetsk
Magadan
Moscow Oblast
Murmansk
Nizhny Novgorod
Novgorod
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Orenburg
Oryol
Penza
Pskov
Rostov
Ryazan
Sakhalin
Samara
Saratov
Smolensk
Sverdlovsk
Tambov
Tomsk
Tver
Tula
Tyumen
Ulyanovsk
Vladimir
Volgograd
Vologda
Voronezh
Yaroslavl
9 krais:
Altai
Kamchatka
Khabarovsk
Krasnodar
Krasnoyarsk
Perm
Primorsky
Stavropol
Zabaykalsky
1 autonomous oblast:[5]
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
4 autonomous okrugs:[5]
Chukotka
Khanty-Mansi
Nenets
Yamalo-Nenets
2 federal-level cities:
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 2 states:
Saint Kitts[Federated states 2]
 Nevis
 Sudan[22] 15 states:

Al Jazirah • Blue Nile  • Sennar  • White Nile  • North Darfur • South Darfur  • West Darfur  • Kassala • Al Qadarif • Red Sea  • Khartoum  • Kurdufan • North Kurdufan • South Kurdufan  • Northern • River Nile

 Switzerland[23] 26 cantons:
 Zürich
 Bern
 Lucerne
 Uri
 Schwyz
 Obwalden
 Nidwalden
 Glarus
 Zug
 Fribourg
 Solothurn
 Basel-Stadt
 Basel-Landschaft
 Schaffhausen
 Appenzell Ausserrhoden
 Appenzell Innerrhoden  
 St. Gallen
 Graubünden
 Aargau
 Thurgau
 Ticino
 Vaud
 Valais
 Neuchâtel
 Geneva
 Jura
 United Arab Emirates[24] 7 emirates:
 Abu Dhabi
 Ajman
 Dubai
 Fujairah
 Ras al-Khaimah
 Sharjah
 Umm al-Quwain
 United States[25] 50 states:
 Alabama
 Alaska
 Arizona
 Arkansas
 California
 Colorado
 Connecticut
 Delaware
 Florida
Georgia
 Hawaii
 Idaho
 Illinois
 Indiana
 Iowa
 Kansas
 Kentucky
 Louisiana
 Maine
 Maryland
 Massachusetts
 Michigan
 Minnesota
 Mississippi
 Missouri
 Montana
 Nebraska
 Nevada
 New Hampshire
 New Jersey
 New Mexico
 New York
 North Carolina
 North Dakota
 Ohio
 Oklahoma
 Oregon
 Pennsylvania
 Rhode Island
 South Carolina
 South Dakota
 Tennessee
 Texas
 Utah
 Vermont
 Virginia
 Washington
 West Virginia
 Wisconsin
 Wyoming
Unincorporated territories:
 American Samoa
 Guam
 Northern Mariana Islands
 Puerto Rico
 U.S. Virgin Islands
Baker Island  • Howland Island  • Jarvis Island  • Johnston Atoll  • Kingman Reef  • Midway Atoll  • Navassa Island  • Wake Island
(The United States also claims Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank).
1 federal district:
District of Columbia (Washington)
1 incorporated territory:
Palmyra Atoll
 Venezuela[26] 23 states:
Amazonas
Anzoátegui
Apure
Aragua
Barinas
Bolívar
Carabobo
Cojedes
Delta Amacuro
Falcón
Guárico
Lara
Mérida
Miranda
Monagas
Nueva Esparta
Portuguesa
Sucre
Táchira
Trujillo
Vargas
Yaracuy
Zulia
1 federal district:
Capital District (Caracas)
1 federal dependency:
Venezuelan Federal Dependencies
Notes
  1. ^ The federal city has a level of self-ruling equal to the other main federal units.
  2. ^ Saint Kitts is governed directly by the federal government.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Australian National Dictionary: Fourth Edition, pg 1395. (2004) Canberra. ISBN 978-0-19-551771-2.
  2. ^ Constitution of the United States of America: Tenth Amendment, Reserved Powers
  3. ^ Daniel, Kate; Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (2008). SBS World Guide: The Complete Fact File on Every Country, 16th ed.. Prahran, Victoria, Australia: Hardie Grant Books. p. 827. ISBN 978-1-74066-648-0. p26. http://books.google.com/books?id=wU1LMAAACAAJ&dq=SBS+World+Guide:+The+Complete+Fact+File+On+Every+Country. 
  4. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p38
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Autonomous region. See more at List of autonomous areas by country
  6. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p46
  7. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p74
  8. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p101
  9. ^ The 1988 Brazilian Constitution treats the municipalities as parts of the Federation and not simply dependent subdivisions of the states.Article 18
  10. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p132
  11. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p239
  12. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p275
  13. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p328
  14. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p346
  15. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p460
  16. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p481
  17. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p486
  18. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p537
  19. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p549
  20. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p600
  21. ^ Federal structure of Russia, Article 65 of Russian Constitution.
  22. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p687
  23. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p700
  24. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p760
  25. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p774
  26. ^ SBS World Guide 2008, p798