List of country subdivisions by population

This article contains lists of the most populous administrative country subdivisions in the world. Excluded are regions defined for convenience that do not have their own single government: e.g. Calabarzon, East China, Kantō region and Northeastern United States.

List of first-level administrative subdivisions by population

The following is a ranked list of the 62 first-level administrative subdivisions worldwide with populations that are, as of the latest government data (including projections), over 20 million, along with a country of comparable population size, the country that the subdivision belongs to, the date the population statistic is taken from, its capital, its area, population density, and its largest metro area. The latest data issued by the country's government is used, and those subdivisions which are the largest in their respective countries are shown in bold. Countries which have a high proportion of their population enumerated in the largest subdivision include the United Kingdom (80.3% in England) and Pakistan (53.7% in Punjab). England appears on this list but does not have a single government because it is a constituent country.

Former first-level subdivisions

Some large former first level subdivisions with former populations (split-off areas):

• Ukrainian SSR peak of 53 million, now is the country Ukraine (including Russian-annexed Crimea).
• Russian SFSR peak of 149 million, now is the country Russia (not including the annexed peninsula of Crimea).
• Sichuan Province peak of 114.73 million before Chongqing Municipality separated in 1997
• Huabei Area peak of 61.8 million, now split into Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia
• Dongbei Area peak of 46.8 million, now split into Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang
• Huadong Area peak of 162.6 million, now split into Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Shandong
• Zhongnan Area peak of 176.3 million, now split into Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, and Guangxi
• Xibei Area peak of 35.3 million, now split into Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang
• Xinan Area peak of 98.4 million, now split into Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Tibet
• West Java, Indonesia had Banten split off in October 2000, and had a figure over 43.8 million (Jun 2000 Census) shortly before it split off
• Rajshahi, Bangladesh had Rangpur split off in January 2010, and had a figure of 30.2 million before it split off
• Andhra Pradesh, India: peak of 84.7 million before Telangana split off
• East Bengal, a province of Pakistan is now an independent Bangladesh had 67.8 million people in 1971.

List of second-level administrative subdivisions by population

Second-level divisions are those subdivisions that are under the first level of administration (states, provinces, etc...) and they go by many names, such as counties, districts, divisions, and regions, but these names vary by country. The list below displays every single second-level subnational division in the world with a population over 10 million, as well as what they are called (a district, county, region?), area, density, the country and first-level subdivision they belong to, the date the population figure dates from, and a country of comparable population size. Only districts and divisions that have a unified administration or government of any kind are listed, so for example, non-governmental statistical regions, such as Media Markets or Combined Statistical Areas in the U.S. are excluded, but Indian Divisions, as they involve some form of administration (mostly concerning revenue), are included.

See also

• List of countries and dependencies by area
• List of country subdivisions by area
• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area
• List of country subdivisions by GDP
• List of first-level administrative country subdivisions
• List of country second level subdivisions by area
• List of country third-level subdivisions by area

External links

• City Population
• The World Gazetteer at Archive.today (archived 2012-12-04)