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What Countries Have States?
What Countries Have States?: compare 15 countries on 1 metric.
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15 countries
 Australia | 6 states and 10 territories, including one capital territory |
 Austria | 9 states (Bundesländer) |
 Brazil | 26 states (estados) and 1 federal/capital district |
 Germany | 16 states (Bundesländer), including 3 Stadtstaaten (city-states) and 13 Flächenländer (area states) |
 India | 28 states (pradesh), 8 union territories, and 25 autonomous administrative divisions |
 Malaysia | 13 states (Negeri) and 3 federal territories |
 Mexico | 31 states (estados) and 1 federal capital district |
 Micronesia | 4 states |
 Myanmar | 7 states, 7 regions, 5 self-administered zones, 1 union territory, 1 self-adminstered region |
 New Zealand | 2 states "in free association" alongside several territories and regions |
 Nigeria | 36 states and 1 capital territory |
 Palau | 16 states |
 South Sudan | 10 states, with as many as 32 in the past |
 Sudan | 18 states (wilayat) |
 United States | 50 states and 1 capital territory |
Quick answers
- Where does this what countries have states? data come from?
- Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Administrative Divisions Within Nations Around the World - ThoughtCo; Federated states - Wiki; List of administrative divisions by country - Wiki; Unitary and federal systems - Britannica.