Tag:boundary=administrative

+/- boundary=administrative Description An administrative boundary Used on these elements Useful combination name=* admin_level=* Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) See also Relation:boundary Status Undefined

An administrative boundary. Subdivisions of areas/territories/jurisdictions recognised by governments or other organisations for administrative purposes.

The boundary=administrative tag is used on ways . It may also (or instead) be used on a relation grouping several ways. This works rather like coastline. Because ways have a maximum number of nodes, you are not required to loop around a whole administration with a single way to form a closed area (although this is a good idea for very small administrative areas)

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note : a trans-national administration is not a super-national organisation and should not be tagged admin_level=1.

Contents 1 Super National Administrations 2 National 3 Subnational 4 admin_level 4.1 10 admin_level values for specific countries 4.2 11 admin_level values for specific countries 4.3 Statistics 4.4 References 5 See also

Super National Administrations

• European Union

National

boundary=administrative
+ admin_level=2 

marks country borders, such as the border between Austria and Germany. The names of the countries is specified through the tags left:country=*, right:country=*, if used on a linear way rather than an enclosed/area way.

There is some controversy about what is the exact meaning of country. For the sake of clarity, only political entities listed on the ISO 3166 standard are to be considered countries.

Country names in the table below are written in English.

Subnational

boundary=administrative 
+ admin_level=3 to 10

marks subnational borders. The names of the subnational entities involved is specified as with national borders, with "parish", "district", "region", "province", "state"

admin_level

admin_level=1 to 10 has been introduced in order that different borders can be rendered consistently among countries (doing this based on border_type would require knowledge of their hierarchy in each country).

10 admin_level values for specific countries

If your country is undocumented, please use the talk page or your local mailing list for discussion, and add it below.

If your country uses more than 10 administrative levels, see the next table.

This wiki table can be edited here

	admin_level=
Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Albania (proposed)	N/A	national border	N/A	N/A	N/A	counties(Qark) [1]	districts (Rreth) [2]	municipalities (Kommuna/Bashkia) [3]	Njësi Bashkiake/Subdistricts [4]	N/A
Algeria (proposed)	N/A	border around Algeria	N/A	Wilaya borders (departement)	N/A	Daïra borders (group of municipalities)	Communes borders (Municipalities)	N/A	N/A
Argentina (proposed)	N/A	Border	N/A	Province / Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires	Departamento / partido	Distrito (Mendoza Province, Entre Ríos Province), Pedanías (Córdoba Province)	Municipio (except for Buenos Aires Province, Mendoza, La Rioja and San Juan, where municipio is the same as departmento or partido)	Villages, City, town	Barrio
Aruba (proposed)	N/A	Same as island coastline	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Districts (Municipalities) known as GAC regions	N/A
Australia (proposed)	N/A	border around Australia	N/A	State and Territory border	N/A	Shire/Council Border	Region Border (eg Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast)	Postcode border (used for GIS and census)	Suburb and Locality border (If larger than ABS boundary)	Suburb and Locality border (ABS boundaries)
Austria (proposed)	N/A	national border	N/A	Bundesland NUTS2	Region NUTS3	Politischer Bezirk Gemeindekennzahl: xxx	N/A	Gemeinde Gemeindekennzahl: xxxyy	Wiener Gemeindebezirk	Ortschaften mit eigener Kennzahl lt. Statistk Austria
Bolivia (proposed)	N/A	Frontera nacional	N/A	Departamentos	N/A	Provincias	Mancomunidad de municipios	Municipios (entre ellos los Municipios indígenas originarios campesinos)	N/A (Comunas en Cochabamba)	Barrios / Comunidades rurales
Bosnia and Herzegovina (proposed)	N/A	granica države граница државе national border	entiteta eнтитета entity	N/A	Kanton (FBiH) Кантон (ФБиХ)	N/A	Općina Opština Општина muncipality	Mjesne zajednice Мјесне заједнице locality combinations	Naselje Насење locality	katasterske granice катастерске границе kataster boundaries
Belarus (proposed)	N/A	Border around Belarus	N/A	Region (область) border	N/A	Region (район) border	Soviet of settlement (cельсовет) border	Municipal (населённый пункт) border	Suburb (район города) border	Suburb (микрорайон и т.п.) border
Belgium (proposed)	N/A	national border	N/A	regions	communities/provinces	provinces	administrative arrondissements	municipality	deelgemeenten / sections	N/A
Brazil (proposed / in use)	N/A	national border fronteira nacional	regions Fronteira de Regiões (Sul, Sudeste...)	state border fronteira de estado	Mesorregiões	Metropolitan areas Regiões Metropolitanas	Microrregiões	municipality border divisa municipal	district borders Fronteira de Distritos	suburb borders Fronteira de Bairros
Bulgaria	N/A	National Borders	N/A	Regions (Райони за планиране)	N/A	Provinces (Области)	N/A	Мunicipalitiesmits (Общини)	N/A	Borders of city, town, village (Кметства / землища)
Burundi (proposed by Arie Scheffer)(see also: Boundaries	N/A	National border	N/A	Provinces	N/A	Communes	N/A	Collines	N/A	N/A
Canada (proposed) (See also: subdivisions)	First Nation / Indian Reserve (not approved! see discussion page). Consider using the boundary=aboriginal_lands	national border	N/A	provinces	administrative regions (Quebec)	regional municipalities (Ontario's York Region, Peel, Quebec's MRCs, etc.) and counties	N/A	townships, cities, villages, etc. (Montreal)	arrondissements (Plateau Mont-Royal)	neighborhoods (Mile-end)
Colombia	N/A	Frontera Nacional	Región[1]	Departamento	Provincia	Municipio	Urbano: ciudad Rural: corregimiento	Urbano: localidad/comuna Rural: vereda	Urbano: barrio Rural: N/A	N/A
Chile	N/A	Fronteras	N/A	Regiones	N/A	Provincias	N/A	Comunas	N/A	N/A
Croatia (see Upravna podjela)	N/A	national border (HR: državna granica)	N/A	county borders - (HR: županije)	borders of statistical regions (HR: statističke regije) (Slavonija, Dalmacija,...)	N/A	municipality borders (Hr: općine)	borders of city, town, village (Hr: gradovi, manji gradovi, sela)	borders of suburbs (Hr: granice pregrađa, gradskih četvrti)	borders of suburb parts (Hr: granice kvartova)
China (proposed by User:Esperanza	N/A	national border	N/A	Provinces / 省级行政区	Prefectures / 地级行政区	County / 县级行政区	N/A	Township / 乡级行政区	N/A	Village / 村级自治组织
Cyprus / Κύπρος / Kıbrıs (first draft proposal) Cyprus is divided into 4 defacto partitions: Republic of Cyprus Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus UK Sovereign base area UN buffer zone	N/A	TRNC border with all others (not technically a country border but has passport control, barriers, soldiers etc.) left:state=Republic of Cyprus left:state=UN buffer zone left:state=UK Sovereign base area right:state=Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus UN border with all others (UN area should also be marked military=danger_area where applicable)	N/A	SBA border with RoC	N/A	the borders of the 6 districts left district (el:)Λάρνακα, en:Larnaca right district (el:)Λεμεσός, en:Limassol	N/A	municipalities	N/A	N/A
Czech Republic	N/A	NUTS 1 Stát (Groups of states)	N/A	NUTS 2 Region (Groups of Regions)	N/A	NUTS 3 Kraj (Region)	LAU 1 Okres (District)	LAU 2 Obec (Town/Village)	N/A	Katastrální území (Cadastral place)
Denmark (proposed)	N/A	Landegrænser (National Borders)	N/A	Regioner (Regions - Administrative unit)	N/A	N/A	Kommune (Muncipiality)	By (Town)	Bydel (Suburb)	Sogn (Parish)
Dominican Republic (proposed)	N/A	National Borders	Region	Geographic Region	Sub-Region	Province	-	Municipality	District	-
Ecuador (proposed by Temporalista)	N/A	Límite Nacional (National Borders)	N/A	Provincia	N/A	Cantón	Límite Urbano (ciudades)	Parroquia Urbana	Barrio (Urbano), Comunidad (Rural)	N/A (¿sectores censales?)
Egypt (proposed by Metehyi)	N/A	National Borders (حدود مصر الدولية)	Governorate (Mouhafazah محافظة)	fixme	fixme	fixme	fixme	fixme	fixme	fixme
Estonia (proposal by imapi)	N/A	National Borders	N/A	N/A	N/A	Countys (Maakond)	N/A	municipalities (Omavalitsused vallad/linnad)	villages (Külad)	suburbs (Linnaosad)
Ethiopia (proposal by alexm)	N/A	National Borders	N/A	Administrative States (9)	N/A	Zones (68+2)	N/A	Woreda (550+6)	Subcities	Kebele
Finland (proposal by Boozeman, augmented by Skela)	N/A	National Borders	Main areas (Pääalueet, NUTS 1): Manner-Suomi	Provinces (AVIn toimialueet (ent. läänit), NUTS 2): Etelä-Suomi	N/A	Regions (Maakunnat, NUTS 3): Uusimaa	Sub-regions (Seutukunnat, LAU 1): Helsingin seutukunta	municipalities (Kunnat/Kaupungit, LAU 2, for ref=*, see Väestörekisterikeskus, kuntaluettelo): Helsinki	villages (kylät)	suburbs (Kaupunginosat): Kulosaari
France see also Tracer les limites administratives	N/A	border around France	N/A	boundary of the "Regions" like Auvergne (similar to NUTS2)	N/A	boundaries of the "Départements" like Aude (similar to NUTS3)	boundary of "arrondissements" : subdivision of departements around a "sous-préfecture. (Note: previously used for EPCI, which are now outside the admin_level scheme)	boundary of communes like Paris, Montpellier, Perpignan. Use name=* to indicate the name of the commune, and ref:INSEE=* to indicate the unique identifier given by INSEE (COG).	boundary of "Arrondissement municipal" (in Paris, Lyon, Marseille only)	Used for the local democracy : quartiers
Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Georgia see also Administrative Divisions of Georgia	N/A	National Borders	Disputed territories (Abkhazia and South Ossetia	regions (მხარე) including the Ajaran Autonomous Republic (ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა)	N/A	districts (რაიონი)	N/A	N/A	City Raions in Tbilisi and Batumi	N/A
Germany see also Grenzen in Deutschland	N/A	national border Deutsche Außengrenze	N/A	federal states border Bundesland NUTS 1	state-district border Regierungsbezirk NUTS 2	county borders Landkreis / Kreis / kreisfreie Stadt / Stadtkreis NUTS 3	amt Amtsgemeinde, Verwaltungs- gemeinschaft LAU 1 (aka NUTS 4)	Towns, Municipalities / City-districts Stadt, Gemeinde LAU 2 (aka NUTS 5)	Parts of a municipality with parish councils / self government Stadtbezirk / Gemeindeteil mit Selbstverwaltung	Parts of a municipality without ... Stadtteil / Gemeindeteil ohne Selbstverwaltung
Germany:	Umgestellt Dez. 2008 / levels changed Dec. 2008 (siehe Diskussionsseite / see discussion page), see also the proposal with 11 values in next table below
Guatemala (Proposed) --Esteban Ortiz 21 June 2009 (UTC)	N/A	National border (Frontera nacional)	N/A	State border (Departamentos)	N/A	Municipal border (Municipios)	N/A	City and town border (Zonas)	N/A	N/A
Haiti (Proposed) Vsandre 16:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)	N/A	National border	N/A	State border (Départements) Layer 1	Districts (Arrondissements)	Search-And-Rescue sectors (temporary)	N/A	City and town border (communes) Layer 2	N/A	Suburbs (sections) Layer 3
Hungary (proposed)	N/A	Országhatár (national border)	N/A	Országrészek (Groups of Regions, NUTS 1)	Régiók (Regions, NUTS 2)	Megyék / főváros (Counties / capital city, NUTS 3)	Kistérségek (LAU 1)	Települések (LAU 2)	Kerületek (Districts)	N/A
Iceland	Efnahags- lögsaga - Exclusive Economic Zone	Landhelgi - Territorial waters	N/A	Kjördæmi - Constituencies	N/A	Sveitarfélög - Municipalities	N/A	Borgar- og bæjarmörk - City and town borders	N/A	Hverfi (Suburb)
India (proposal by Planemad, see also administrative divisions)	N/A	National Border	Division	State	District List	Subdistrict (Tehsil / Mandal / Taluk)	Metropolitan Area	Municipal Corporation / Municipality / City Council	Civic Zone	Village/Civic Ward
Indonesia	N/A	National Border	N/A	Province	City / Regency (Kotamadya / Kabupaten)	Subdistrict (Kecamatan)	Village (Kelurahan / Desa)	Community Group (Rukun Warga)	Neighborhood Unit (Rukun Tetangga)
Iran	N/A	National Border	N/A	Province (استان/Ostan)	N/A	Counties (شهرستان/Sharestan)	District (بخش/Bakhsh)	City (شهر/Shahr), municipality or rural agglomeration (دهستان/Dehestan)	Village	Neighborhood Unit
Ireland	N/A	Republic/NI Border	N/A	Reserved for compatability with UK states (eg Northern Ireland)	Province	County	Adminstrative County, County City	Borough & Town council, Dublin Postal Districts		Townland
Flag of Isle of Man Isle of Man	N/A	Limits of Manx territorial waters	N/A	N/A	N/A	Sheedings	N/A	Parishes/Villages/Town	N/A	N/A
Israel	N/A	National border	N/A	מחוז (en: district)	נפה (en: sub-district)	אזור טבעי (en: natural region)	מטרופולין (en: metropolitan area)	עיריות ,מועצות אזוריות,מועצות מקומיות (cities/regional councils/local councils)	N/A	שכונות
Italy (as discussed on the Italian Mailing list Vol 16, Issue 27, Dieterdreist)	N/A	per i confini nazionali (en: national borders)	N/A	per i confini regionali (en: boundary of regions)	N/A	per i confini provinciali (en: boundary of provinces)	N/A	per i confini comunali (en: boundary of municipalities)	N/A	per le circoscrizioni (dove sono rimaste) o per le località (en: boundary of districts)
Japan (copied from Japan tagging#Boundary)	N/A	border around Japan (Not really applicable)	N/A	Region border (or reserved for state border - 道州制)	N/A	Prefecture border	N/A	Municipal border (Cities, Towns, Villages, Special wards of Tokyo, Wards of cities designated by government ordinance 政令指定都市 , Wards designated by local ordinance - 地域自治区 )	N/A	Suburb and Hamlet border - 町名・街区
Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Latvia (proposal by lafriks)	N/A	National Borders	N/A	N/A	Cities (Republikas nozīmes pilsētas)	Countys (Novadi)	Towns (Pilsētas)	Parish (Pagasti)	Villages (Ciemi)	Suburbs (Priekšpilsētas)
Lebanon (proposal by Metehyi source [5])	N/A	National Borders	Governorate (Mouhafazah محافظة)	Qadaa (also known as Caza قضاء ج. أقضية)	Federation of Municiplalities (إتحاد بلديات)	Municipality (بلدية)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lesotho (proposal by Adrian Frith)	N/A	National border	N/A	Districts	N/A	Constitutencies	N/A	Community councils	N/A	N/A
Libya (proposal by Jano John Akim Franke)	N/A	National border	N/A	district (Shabiya)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lithuania	N/A	National Borders	N/A	Counties (Apskritys)	Municipalities (Savivaldybės/Rajonai)	Elderships (Seniūnijos)	N/A	Miestai	Sub-Elderships (seniūnaitijos)	Suburbs (Miesto dalys) (In 5 biggest Lithuanian cities)
Luxembourg (proposal by User:Loll78)	N/A	National Borders	N/A	Districts (state)	Cantons (region)	Communes (county)	N/A	Cities/Villages (city/town/village)	Quarters of City (suburb)
Madagascar (as proposed in project page)	N/A	border around Madagascar (Not really applicable)	N/A	Faritra (regions)	N/A	Distrika (districts)	N/A	Kaominina (communes)	N/A	Fokontany (no translation)
Malaysia	N/A	sempadan negara (national border)	N/A	negeri (states)	bahagian (divisions) *Sabah & Sarawak only	daerah (districts)	N/A	mukim (counties)	N/A	PBT, kampung, taman, dll (municipalities, including townships, cities, villages, etc.)
Mexico	N/A	national border	N/A	state borders	N/A	municipal border	N/A	city/town limit	district limits / delegaciones	city sectors / colonias
Moldova (Moldova Republic of) (proposal by Golovco Anatolie) N/A	N/A	the country border	N/A	region (ro:Raion ru:Район), municipality (ro: Municipiu) Administrative borders	N/A	N/A	N/A	townships, cities, villages, etc.	N/A	borders of suburbs, localities, city sectors
New Zealand (Proposed) --JoeRichards 16 June 2009 (UTC)	N/A	foo	N/A	Provinces like Otago, Canterbury	N/A	Councils, such as Timaru District Council	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Norway (proposed)	N/A	National borders	N/A	County (Fylke) (19) (1) Example: Rogaland, Hordaland	N/A	N/A	Muncipiality (Kommue) (430) Example: Stavanger, Sandnes etc	N/A	Bydel Example: Røa, Våland, Minde etc	N/A
Paraguay	N/A	national border frontera nacional	natural regions regiones naturales	states departamentos	N/A	N/A	N/A	municipal, city limits municipalidades / distritos	N/A	suburb and locality barrios y compañias rurales
Peru	N/A	National border Frontera nacional	N/A	States, Departments Departamentos	N/A	Regions, Provinces Provincias	N/A	Counties, Districts Distritos	N/A	suburb and locality Centros Poblados, Caserío, Anexo, Comunidad Nativa, etc
the Philippines (first proposed by Ianlopez1115, revised by Seav, now in use)	N/A	National Border	Regions	Provinces	Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Council) districts (if any)	Cities and Municipalities / Towns	Sangguniang Panlungsod / Bayan (City/Town Council) districts (if any)	Other administrative districts (if any)	Zones (if any)	Barangays
Poland Poland has its own system of administrative divisions. This may change in the future if the usage of NUTS in OSM is accepted. Steelman 18:42, 15 December 2007 (UTC)	N/A	The Republic of Poland	N/A	województwa (voivodships, priovinces, regions)	N/A	powiaty (counties) and for cities with county status (urban counties)	N/A	gminy (municipalities) and cities as above	N/A	Towns in urban-rural communes if a town boundary is not a boundary of a coummune. Villages and hamlets if an official boundary exists.
Portugal see also Traçar os limites administrativos	N/A	Fronteira Portuguesa	N/A	"Regiões"	N/A	Distritos	Concelho	Freguesias	Aldeias	Bairro
Romania (România) (proposal) In theory there exists another intermediary level between county and country, the regions created because "the european union demands it" by arbitrarily grouping some conties, but neither the government nor the people are using these regions	N/A	the country border	the boundaries of historical provinces (Transylvania, Moldavia ...), but I don't think they will ever be drawn, as these are not administrative boundaries any more.	Counties (Judeţe) and the Municipality of Bucharest	N/A	Municipalities (Comune), which includes the surrounding area around the city / town / village, see example	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Russia (Russian Federation) See RU:Key:boundary for details.	N/A	National border	Federal districts	Federal subjects	Groups of municipal districts / urban okrugs, administrative okrugs/districts of federal cities	Municipal districts of federal subjects, municipal urban okrugs	N/A	Urban and rural municipalities, municipal intra-city territories of federal cities	Administrative districts of urban okrugs and municipalities	(Under discussion: all hamlets / suburbs or only suburbs with local government offices)
		Государственная граница	Федеральные округа	Субъекты федерации	Объединения муниципальных районов / городских округов, административные округа / районы городов федерального значения	Муниципальные районы субъектов федерации, муниципальные городские округа		Городские и сельские муниципальные образования, внутригородские муниципальные территории городов федерального значения	Административные районы городских округов и поселений	(Обсуждается: все населённые пункты либо только микрорайоны с территориальными управлениями администрации)
Serbia (proposed) see Administrative division (or Statistical regions for possible future division)	N/A	national border државна граница	reserved	provinces покрајине (future NUTS1?)	reserved (NUTS2?)	districts окрузи (NUTS3?)	municipalities општине (LAU1?)	settlements насеља (LAU2?)	N/A	N/A
Slovakia	N/A	national border (SK: štátna hranica)	NUTS 2 Region (Groups of Regions): (SK: oblasti: Bratislavský kraj, západné Slovensko, stredné Slovensko, východné Slovensko)	region borders (SK: hranica kraju, vyššieho územného celku)	N/A	borders of Bratislava and Košice (SK: hranice miest Bratislava a Košice)	N/A	district borders (SK: hranica okresu)	LAU 2 Obec (Town/Village)	Katastrálne územie (Cadastral place) (SK: katastrálne územie obce)
Slovenia (see Upravna delitev Slovenije)	N/A	national border (SL: državna meja)	NUTS 2 (West-East)	reserved for regional borders - if they are ever finalized (SL: pokrajine)	borders of statistical regions (SL: statistične regije)	N/A	... borders (SL: upravne enote)	Municipal borders (SL: občine)	N/A	Suburbs, hamlets (SL: meje naselij)
South Africa	N/A	the national border	N/A	provincial borders	N/A	district borders (borders of district municipalities and metropolitan municipalities)	N/A	municipal borders (borders of local municipalities within districts)	N/A	the official borders of suburbs
Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Spain (proposal by Ivansanchez)	N/A	National Border / Frontera nacional	(Unused) Groups of Spanish autonomous communities, equal to NUTS 1 / (No usado) Grupos de comunidades autónomas, equivale a NUTS 1	Autonomous communities / Comunidades autónomas	N/A	Provinces / Provincias	Counties / Comarcas	Municipalities, equivalent to townships / communes / Municipios, equivalente a ayuntamientos / concejos	Districts (e.g. of Madrid), equivalent to parishes / Distritos (p. ej, en Madrid), equivalentes a parroquias civiles	Wards / Barrios
Swaziland (proposal by Adrian Frith)	N/A	National borders	N/A	Tifundza (regions)	N/A	Tinkhundla (constituencies)	N/A	Imiphakatsi (chiefdoms)	N/A	N/A
Switzerland (proposal by studerap, extened by t-i)	N/A	national borders	N/A	Cantons (de: Kantone) Example: Zurich, Berne	Administrative region or other who isn't a district (de: Verwaltungs- regionen, fr: Régions administratives).	Districts (de: Bezirke, Ämter, Zusammenschluss von Gemeinden, fr: districts) e.g. Entlebuch (Luzern), Visp - Viège (Valais). Schaffhausen and Geneva doesn't have districts.	Circle or something other between districts and municipalities.	Municipalities (de: Gemeinde, Stadt) Example: Thun (Berne), Visp - Viège (Valais), Steckborn (Thurgau)	? (de: Stadtkreis) e.g. Kreis 7 (Zürich)	Neighbourhood (de: Stadtteil, fr: quartier) e.g. Witikon (Zürich)
Sweden	N/A	National borders	Landsdel (Region) Example: Norrland, Svealand och Götaland	Län (County / NUTS3) (21) Example: Västra Götalands län, Örebro län etc	N/A	N/A	Kommun (Muncipiality / LAU2) (290) Example: Göteborg, Alingsås etc	N/A	Stadsdelsområde / Stadsdelsnämdsområde (Stockholm / Göteborg) Example: Frölunda, Skarpnäck etc	Stadsdel / Primärområde Example: Masthugget, Södermalm etc
Tanzania (Proposal)	N/A	National borders	N/A	Region (e.g. Arusha)	District (e.g. Arumeru)	N/A	Ward (e.g. Usa River)	N/A	Village (e.g. Usa River (urban area))	N/A
Thailand Table in Thai language	N/A	Kingdom of Thailand	N/A	Province / Bangkok	N/A	District / Bangkok: Khet	N/A	Subdistrict / Bangkok: Kwaeng	N/A	Village place=village
							Municipality City place=city Municipality Town place=town Municipality Township place=? Tambon Administrative Organization (TAO) place=?			Community place=hamlet
Togo	N/A	National borders	N/A	Région	N/A	Préfecture	Commune de Lomé
Tunisia	N/A	National Borders	N/A	Borders of the 24 Governorates of Tunisia	Delegations (Districts) Borders	Imadats Borders	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Turkey See NUTS as well	N/A	the (land) border around Turkey	the Census-defined geographical regions of Turkey (which are used for administrative purposes and are well-known in the country) NUTS 1	Borders of the 81 provinces of Turkey (NUTS 3)	N/A NUTS 2	the boundary of districts (turkish ilçe)	N/A LAU 1 (aka NUTS 4)	N/A LAU 2 (aka NUTS 5) (inofficially: boundaries of villages)	N/A
United Kingdom	N/A	the Northern Ireland / Republic of Ireland border	N/A	the England / Scotland / Wales border	regions of England	counties / unitary authorities. (Includes the City of London as an enclave of Greater London)	N/A	(England only) districts / London boroughs / metropolitan boroughs.	N/A	parishes / communities
the United States	Indian Reserve (not approved! see discussion page)	national border	N/A	states	New York City	counties, parishes (Louisiana), boroughs (Alaska, New York City), Independent cities (Virginia; Baltimore, MD; Carson City, NV; St. Louis, MO)	unincorporated townships	municipalities, including cities, villages, etc. Also incorporated townships (New Jersey, Pennsylvania.)	N/A	N/A
Uruguay (proposed by Zeroth)	N/A	national border	N/A	department borders	N/A	local board limits (municipios)	N/A	city/town limit	N/A	barrios
Vietnam (proposed by Ninomax) See this page	N/A	national border	province border	district / township border	commune / town / ward border	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
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11 admin_level values for specific countries

This wiki table can be edited here

	admin_level=
Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Brazil (proposal to accommodate subdistricts)	N/A	national border fronteira nacional	regions Fronteira de Regiões (Sul, Sudeste...)	state border fronteira de estado	Mesorregiões	Metropolitan areas Regiões Metropolitanas	Microrregiões	municipality border divisa municipal	district borders Fronteira de Distritos	subdistrict borders Fronteira de Subdistritos	suburb borders Fronteira de Bairros
Germany:	Umstellung auf: / changed to: (siehe Diskussionsseite / see discussion page), see also the original list with 10 values in table above
new levels:  Germany see also Grenzen in Deutschland	N/A	national border Deutsche Außengrenze	N/A	federal states border Bundesland NUTS 1	state-district border Regierungsbezirk NUTS 2	county borders Landkreis / Kreis / kreisfreie Stadt NUTS 3	amt [6] Samtgemeinde, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft LAU 1 (aka NUTS 4)	Towns, Municipalities / City-districts Stadt, Gemeinde LAU 2 (aka NUTS 5)	Parts of a municipality with parish councils /self_government Stadtbezirk / Gemeindeteil mit Selbstverwaltung	Parts of a municipality without ... Stadtteil / Gemeindeteil ohne Selbstverwaltung	Neighbourhoods statistical or historical Stadtviertel etc.
Netherlands Updated as proposed in this thread.	border around the Kingdom of the Netherlands (koninkrijksgrens)	border around The Netherlands.	N/A	Provinces like Zeeland, Noord-Holland etc. (provincie) NUTS 2	Water board boundary (waterschap)	plusregio urban regions in some parts of NL	N/A	boundary for municipality (gemeente) (like Amsterdam , Schiermonnikoog)	boundaries for autonomous city districts in Amsterdam (stadsdelen) en Rotterdam (deelgemeenten)	boundaries for settlements (woonplaatsen) (non-autonomous municipal subdivisions)	boundaries for neighborhoods (wijken)

Statistics

I have created some statistics to estimate the size of the objects at the different levels. For details see the Statistics.

References

See also

• border_type=* may be used to give the actual name of the boundary's type.
• capital=*
• United States admin_level for a more complete listing of admin_levels, some per-state.
• Relation:boundary for tagging complex borders