GOVERNORATE

A 'governorate' is a country subdivision. The term is mostly used to translate the Arabic '''muhafazah''' (plural '''muhafazat'''), also spelled '''mohafazah''' ('''mohafazat'''). It may also refer to the Governorates and Governor-Generalships of Imperial Russia (, tr.: ''guberniya'').

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Arab countries

Imperial Russia

Congress Kingdom of Poland

Germany

Arab countries

The term governorate is widely used in Arab countries to describe an administrative unit. Some governorates combine more than one wilayah; others closely follow traditional boundaries inherited from the Ottoman Empire's vilayet system.
With the exception of Tunisia all translations into the term governorate originate in the Arab word muhafazah.

★ Governorates of Bahrain

★ Governorates of Egypt

★ Governorates of Iraq (official translation, sometimes also translated as province)

★ Governorates of Jordan

★ Governorates of Kuwait

★ Governorates of Lebanon

★ Governorates of Palestine

★ Governorates of Oman

★ Governorates of Saudi Arabia

★ Governorates of Syria

★ Governorates of Tunisia (''wilayah'')

★ Governorates of Yemen

Imperial Russia

★ History of the administrative division of Russia

★ Guberniya and

Congress Kingdom of Poland

★ See Administrative division of Congress Poland

Germany

During the time of the Third Reich a General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German ''Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete'' existed. The German term is only rarely translated as ''General Governorate''. The term is a traditional Prussian term.