Subprefecture

Subprefecture is an administrative division of a country Examples:

that is below prefecture or province.
Aihun Ting in the late-Qing Heilongjiang.[1]

Albania

There are twelve Albanian counties or prefectures, each

of which is subdivided into several districts, sometimes
translated as subprefectures.
Examples:
Sarand

District of Kor, District of

Brazil

In Brazil the subprefectures (Portuguese: subprefeituras)

are administrative divisions of some big cities, such as So
Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The head of a subprefecture,
the subprefeito, is indicated by the municipalitys mayor 'Sous-prfecture' in Verdun, France
(in Brazil called prefeito).
In So Paulo there are 31 subprefectures. The largest in
total area, Parelheiros, covers 353.5 km, and the most
populous, Capela do Socorro, has more than 600,000 inhabitants.

A Sous-prfecture is the administrative town of an

arrondissement where an arrondissement doesn't contain the prfecture. The civil servant in charge of local
executive power is the sous-prfet.

Burkina Faso

Examples: Aix-en-Provence, Apt, Arles, Bayonne,

Boulogne-Billancourt,
Boulogne-sur-Mer,
Calais,
Cambrai,
Chalon-sur-Sane,
Chteau-Thierry,
Cherbourg, Le Havre, Narbonne, Reims, SaintGermain-en-Laye, Saint-Malo, Saint-Omer, Sedan,
Vichy.

Examples: Djibasso Subprefecture

France

Chad

Main article: Sub-prefectures of Chad

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

Guadeloupe

Examples:

China
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See also: History of the administrative divisions of China

Guinea

It was used in Qing Dynasty. Called ting ( or ) in Main article: Sub-prefectures of Guinea
Chinese, it is also on the same level as a department ( )
and a district ( ). And is below prefecture ( ).
Examples:
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Japan

Some Japanese prefectures have branch oces called

(shich) in Japanese, which are translated in English as
subprefectures, branch oces, or branches of the
prefectural government. See details in Subprefectures
of Japan and an example of Kushiro Subprefecture.

10 Taiwan
Under Qing Dynasty rule, this was translated from
tng ( ) in Chinese
Tamsui Subprefecture (
dn shu
tng) and Kavalan (Ga'malan) Subprefecture (
g m ln tng, of Yilan City)
(both in Taiwan).
Under Japanese rule, (ch) translated to prefecture, so
(shich) translated to subprefecture.

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Notes

[1] Aihun Ting map from 1911 Atlas of Heilongjiang (Chinese)

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