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A governorate is a subnational entity. 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 (Template:Lang-ru, tr.: guberniya).
Arab countries
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 Syria
- Governorates of Tunisia (wilayah)
- Governorates of Yemen
Imperial Russia
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.
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