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The table below lists 'autonomous areas by country'.

Country	''Native term'' Translation or equivalent	Instances
	''ciudad autonoma'' autonomous city	Buenos Aires
[1]	''muxtar respublika'' autonomous republic	Nakhichevan
	''krong'' autonomous municipality	Phnom Penh Sihanoukville Pailin Kep
CAR[2]	''commune autonome'' autonomous commune	Bangui
	''zìzhìqū'' autonomous region	Guangxi Inner Mongolia Ningxia Xinjiang Tibet
	''tèbié xíngzhèngqū'' Special administrative region	Hong Kong Macau
	''zìzhìzhōu'' autonomous prefecture	Linxia Hui Gannan Qiandongnan Qiannan Qianxinan Enshi Xiangxi Yanbian Haibei Hainan Huangnan Golog Gyêgu Haixi Ngawa Garzê Liangshan Kizilsu Bortala Changji Bayin'gholin Ili Dehong Nujiang Dêqên Dali Chuxiong Honghe Wenshan Xishuangbanna
	''zìzhìxiàn'' autonomous county	over 110[3]
	''zìzhìqí'' autonomous banner	Oroqin Evenki Morin
	autonomous island	Grande Comore Mohéli Anjouan
	autonomous region	Faroe Islands Greenland[4]
	''itsehallinnollinen maakunta'' autonomous province	Åland
	''avtonomiuri respublika'' autonomous republic	Abkhazia Adjara
	autonomous region	Mount Athos
	''sector autónomo'' autonomous sector	Bissau Region
	''daerah istimewa'' special region	Aceh Yogyakarta Papua Jakarta[5]
	''regione autonoma'' autonomous region	Aosta Valley Friuli-Venezia Giulia Sardinia Sicily Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
	''teukbyeol jachido'' autonomous province	Jeju-do
	''faritany mizakatena'' autonomous province	All six provinces are characterized as autonomous (''mizakatena'').
	autonomous province	Rodrigues
	''unitate teritorială autonomă'' autonomous territorial unit	Găgăuzia Transnistria[6]
	''regione autónoma'' autonomous region	Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur
	''Islami-Jamhouriyat-e-Kashmir'' autonomous region	Azad Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir
	autonomous province	Bougainville
	autonomous region	Muslim Mindanao
	''região autónoma'' autonomous region	Azores Madeira
	''respublika'' republic	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Komi Mari El Mordovia Sakha (Yakutia) North Ossetia-Alania Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia Khakassia Chechnya Chuvashia
	''avtonomnaya oblast'' autonomous province[7]	Jewish Autonomous Oblast
	''avtonomny okrug'' autonomous subject-level district[8]	Agin-Buryat Chukotka Khanty-Mansi Nenets Ust-Orda Yamalo-Nenets
São Tomé & Príncipe	''concelho'' province	(Príncipe[9])
	autonomous province	Kosovo and Metohija Vojvodina
	''comunidad autónoma'' autonomous community	Andalusia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Basque Country Canary Islands Cantabria Castile-La Mancha Castile and León Catalonia Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Madrid Murcia Navarre Valencia
	''ciudad autónoma'' autonomous city	Ceuta Melilla
		Southern Sudan
	''viloyat mukhtor'' autonomous province	Gorno-Badakhshan
		(Zanzibar[10])
	autonomous community	Atafu Fakaofo Nukunonu
	''avtonomna respublika'' autonomous republic	Crimea
	''respublika'' republic	Karakalpakstan
	''shahar'' autonomous city	Tashkent

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Footnotes

1. The Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan is ''de facto'' independent but not internationally recognized.
2. Central African Republic.
3. see Autonomous counties of China.
4. also described as a "self-governing territory".
5. Indonesia's capital, described as a ''daerah khusus ibukota'' (special district).
6. Transnistria is de facto administered by an internationally non-recognized breakaway government that claims independence from Moldova. Moldovan government proposed to give Transnistria a similar or larger degree of autonomy as that granted to Găgăuzia. However negociations have been stalled, and de jure Transnistria does not yet have any autonomy.
7. "autonomous oblast" sometimes used instead of "autonomous province".
8. "autonomous okrug" sometimes used instead of "autonomous (subject-level) district".
9. may be regarded as autonomous as it has been self-governed since 1995.
10. may be considered autonomous as it elects its own president and representation (a House of Representatives).

See also

★ Autonomous area

★ List of sovereign states

★ List of dependent territories

★ List of capitals serving as administrative divisions by country

★ Table of administrative country subdivisions by country

External links

★ ''Atoll Communities of Tokelau'' at Statoids.com.

★ ''Territorial autonomy as a means of minority protection and conflict solution in the European experience...'' (at the Society for Threatened Peoples website)