Types of geographical division

thumb|upright|Sápmi|Lapland is a sparsely populated territory in [[Northern Europe. A view from Saana in Finnish Lapland]]

coastal waters that are part of a nation-state's sovereign territory

form of subnational government in which multiple sovereign powers share sovereignty over a territory

thumb|400px|right|The United Nations geoscheme, created by the [[United Nations Statistics Division. For statistical consistency and convenience, each country or area is shown in one continental subregion only. For example, Russia (a transcontinental country in both Eastern Europe and Northern Asia) has been included in Eastern Europe only.]]

first-level administrative regions in NUTS classification

administrative territorial entity