Subprefecture

Subprefecture is an administrative division of a countrythat is below prefecture or province.

1 AlbaniaThere are twelve Albanian counties or prefectures, eachof which is subdivided into several districts, sometimestranslated as subprefectures.

Examples: District of Kor, District ofSarand

2 BrazilIn Brazil the subprefectures (Portuguese: subprefeituras)are administrative divisions of some big cities, such as SoPaulo and Rio de Janeiro. The head of a subprefecture,the subprefeito, is indicated by the municipalitys mayor(in Brazil called prefeito).In So Paulo there are 31 subprefectures. The largest intotal area, Parelheiros, covers 353.5 km, and the mostpopulous, Capela do Socorro, has more than 600,000 in-habitants.

3 Burkina FasoExamples: Djibasso Subprefecture

4 ChadMain article: Sub-prefectures of Chad

Examples: N'Gouri Subprefecture, Chari-Baguirmi Pre-fecture, and Massakory Subprefecture.

5 ChinaSee also: History of the administrative divisions of China

It was used in Qing Dynasty. Called ting ( or ) inChinese, it is also on the same level as a department ()and a district (). And is below prefecture ().

Examples:

Aihun Ting in the late-Qing Heilongjiang.[1]

'Sous-prfecture' in Verdun, France

6 FranceA Sous-prfecture is the administrative town of anarrondissement where an arrondissement doesn't con-tain the prfecture. The civil servant in charge of localexecutive power is the sous-prfet.Examples: Aix-en-Provence, Apt, Arles, Bayonne,Boulogne-Billancourt, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais,Cambrai, Chalon-sur-Sane, Chteau-Thierry,Cherbourg, Le Havre, Narbonne, Reims, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Malo, Saint-Omer, Sedan,Vichy.

7 GuadeloupeExamples:

8 GuineaMain article: Sub-prefectures of Guinea

Examples:

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2 11 NOTES

9 JapanSome Japanese prefectures have branch oces called (shich) in Japanese, which are translated in English assubprefectures, branch oces, or branches of theprefectural government. See details in Subprefecturesof Japan and an example of Kushiro Subprefecture.

10 Taiwan Under Qing Dynasty rule, this was translated from

tng () in Chinese

Tamsui Subprefecture ( dn shutng) and Kavalan (Ga'malan) Subprefec-ture ( g m ln tng, of Yilan City)(both in Taiwan).

Under Japanese rule, (ch) translated to prefec-ture, so (shich) translated to subprefecture.

11 Notes[1] Aihun Ting map from 1911 Atlas of Heilongjiang (Chi-

nese)

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