Self-administered zone

Self-administered zone is a designation for a country subdivision in Burma. There are five Self-Administered Zones and one Self-Administered Division.

Self-Administered Zones and Self-Administered Divisions

Self-Administered Zones and Self-Administered Division

Name	Burmese	Capital	Region	Type
Danu Self-Administered Zone	ဓနုကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Pindaya	East	Self-Administered Zone
Kokang Self-Administered Zone	ကိုးကန့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Laukkai	East	Self-Administered Zone
Naga Self-Administered Zone	နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Lahe	Northern	Self-Administered Zone
Pa-O Self-Administered Zone	ပအိုဝ့်ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Hopong	East	Self-Administered Zone
Pa Laung Self-Administered Zone	ပလောင်းကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ	Namhsan	East	Self-Administered Zone
Wa Self-Administered Division	ဝကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရတိုင်း	Hopang	East	Self-Administered Division

Other English terms

Current	Alpine resort Bailiwick Banner Autonomous Block Cadastre Canton Circle Circuit Colony Commune Condominium Constituency Department Overseas department Division Police division Subdivision Duchy Eldership Federal dependency Governorate Hamlet Manor Royal Neighbourhood Parish Periphery Precinct Principality Protectorate Quarter Regency Autonomous republic Reservation Reserve Riding Sector Autonomous Shire Suzerainty Townland Village Administrative Summer Ward

Historical	Agency Barony Burgh Exarchate Hide Hundred Imperial Circle March Monthon Presidency Residency Roman diocese Seat Tenth Tithing

Non-English or loanwords

Current

Historical

Arabic terms for country subdivisions

First-level	Muhafazah (محافظة governorate) Wilayah (ولاية province) Mintaqah (منطقة region) Mudiriyah (مديرية directorate) Imarah (إمارة emirate) Baladiyah (بلدية municipality) Shabiyah (شعبية "popularate")

Second / third-level	Mintaqah (منطقة region) Qadaa (قضاء district) Nahiyah (ناحية subdistrict) Markaz (مركز district) Mutamadiyah (معتمدية "delegation") Daerah/Daïra (دائرة circle) Liwa (لواء banner / sanjak)

City / township-level	Amanah (أمانة municipality) Baladiyah (بلدية municipality) Ḥai (حي neighborhood / quarter) Mahallah (محلة) Sheyakhah (شياخة "neighborhood subdivision")

English translations given are those most commonly used.

French terms for country subdivisions

arrondissement département préfecture subprefectures

Greek terms for country subdivisions

Modern	apokentroménes dioikíseis / genike dioikesis^§ / diamerisma^§ / periphereia nomos^§ / peripheriake enoteta demos / eparchia^§ / koinoteta^§

Historical	archontia/archontaton bandon demos despotaton dioikesis doukaton droungos eparchia exarchaton katepanikion kephalatikion kleisoura meris naukrareia satrapeia strategis thema toparchia tourma

^§ signifies a defunct institution

Portuguese terms for country subdivisions

Regional subdivisions	Estado Distrito federal Província Região Distrito Comarca Capitania

Local subdivisions	Município Concelho Freguesia Comuna Circunscrição

Setlements	Cidade Vila Aldeia Bairro Lugar

Historical subdivisions in italics.

Slavic terms for country subdivisions

Current	dzielnica gmina krai kraj krajina / pokrajina městys obec oblast / oblast' / oblasti / oblys / obwód / voblast' okręg okres okrug opština / općina / občina / obshtina osiedle powiat / povit raion selsoviet / silrada sołectwo voivodeship / vojvodina županija

Historical	darugha gromada guberniya / gubernia jurydyka khutor obshchina okolia opole pogost prowincja sorok starostwo / starostva uyezd volost ziemia župa

Spanish terms for country subdivisions

National, Federal	Comunidad autónoma Departamento Distrito federal Estado Provincia Región

Regional, Metropolitan	Cantón Comarca Comuna Corregimiento Delegación Distrito Mancomunidad Merindad Municipalidad Municipio Parroquia Ecuador Spain

Urban, Rural	Aldea Alquería Anteiglesia Asentamiento Asentamiento informal Pueblos jóvenes Barrio Campamento Caserío Ciudad Ciudad autónoma Colonia Lugar Masía Población Ranchería Sitio Vereda Villa Village (Pueblito/Pueblo)

Historical subdivisions in italics.

Turkish terms for country subdivisions

Modern	il (province) ilçe (district) belediye (municipality) belde (town) köy (village) mahalle (neighbourhood/quarter)

Historical	ağalık (feudal district) bucak (subdistrict) beylerbeylik (province) eyalet (province) kadılık (sub-province) kaza (sub-province) hidivlik (viceroyalty) mutasarrıflık (sub-province) bucak/nahiye (sub-district) paşalık (province) reya (Romanian principalities) sancak (prefecture) vilayet (sub-province) voyvodalık (sub-province)

¹ Used by ten or more countries. Historical derivations in italics.

Self-administered zone

Self-Administered Zones and Self-Administered Divisions

See also