Canton (administrative division)

In specific countries

Cantons exist or previously existed in the following countries:

• Cantons of Belgium
• Cantonal Government of Bohol
• Cantons of Bolivia
• Cantons of Bosnia and Herzegovina: federal units of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Canada: Canadian French equivalent for the English word "township", since the translation municipalité is already used for a different level of government (see township).
  • Cantons of Quebec
• Cantons of Costa Rica: national second order subdivision of the first order Provinces. Cantons are further subdivided into the third order Districts. Each canton has its own municipality, or local government.
• Cantons of Ecuador: subdivisions below the provinces of Ecuador.
• Cantons of El Salvador: divisions of a municipality outside the more urban caserios, which border the town or city. Cantones can be thought as the more rural parts of a city or town, generally far from the actual urban population.
• Cantons of France: a subdivision of arrondissements and départements, grouping several communes.
• Cantons of Lebanon: unofficial militias and factions during the Lebanese Civil War and afterwards. Most areas have been returned to Lebanese government control.
• Cantons of Luxembourg: first order administrative subdivisions
• Cantonal Government of Negros: short-lived provisional government in the Visayas during the Filipino-American Wars in the 19th–20th centuries Republic of Negros.
• Cantons of Rojava (Western Kurdistan, Syria)
• Cantons of Switzerland: each a semi-sovereign state within Switzerland.
• Cantons of Togo: Subdivisions of Togo's prefectures, and further divided into villages.
• subdivisions of vingtaines in Jersey
• subdivisions of the parishes of Guernsey

In former countries

• Cantons of Prussia: military enrollment districts between 1733 and 1813
• Cantons of Eastern Rumelia, the subdivisions below the departments.
• Cantons of the Soviet Union, subdivisions of several autonomous regions of the country before 1941.
• In the Republic of New Granada, cantons were subdivisions below the provinces.
• In the First Spanish Republic in 1873, "Cantonalists" took over the city of Cartagena, Spain, a major Spanish Navy base, and declared the city independent (see Cantonal Rebellion).

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