List of country subdivisions named after people
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This is a list of country subdivisons named after people. It details the name of the country subdivision and eponym. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the administrative division.
This is a summary from List of etymologies of country subdivision names.
Australia
Bermuda
- Devonshire Parish – William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire
- Hamilton Parish – James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton
- Paget Parish – William Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert
- Pembroke Parish – William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
- St. George's Parish – St. George
- Sandys Parish – Sir Edwin Sandys
- Smith's Parish – Sir Thomas Smith (English aristocrat)
- Southampton Parish – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
- Warwick Parish – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Brazil
- Rondônia – Marshal Cândido Rondon
- Santa Catarina – Saint Catherine
- São Paulo – Saint Paul
Canada
This is a summary of Canadian provincial name etymologies.
- Alberta – Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria
- British Columbia – Christopher Columbus (-> Columbia, an American sailing ship -> Columbia River -> Columbia Territory of Hudson's Bay Company -> British Columbia)
- Prince Edward Island – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (brother of George III of the United Kingdom), commander of British forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Chile
- Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins – Bernardo O'Higgins
- Región Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
Colombia
- Bogotá – Bacatá – an indigenous cacique (emperor)
- Bolívar Department – Simón Bolívar
- Caldas Department – Francisco José de Caldas
- Nariño – Antonio Nariño
- Norte de Santander – Francisco de Paula Santander
- Santander Department – Francisco de Paula Santander
- Sucre Department – Antonio José de Sucre
- Córdoba Department – José María Córdoba
Dominican Republic
- Duarte – Juan Pablo Duarte
- Espaillat – Ulises Francisco Espaillat (author and president)
- María Trinidad Sánchez – María Trinidad Sánchez (female soldier)
- Monseñor Nouel – Monseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (archbishop and president)
- Sánchez Ramírez – Brigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez
Estonia
- Valga – from German family names de Walco or de Walko.
France
- Adélie Land – Adélie, wife of Jules Dumont d'Urville
- Kerguelen Islands – Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec
- Lorraine (formerly Lotharingia) – Lothar
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon – St. Peter
- Wallis and Futuna – Samuel Wallis
Jamaica
- Clarendon Parish – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
- Hanover Parish – George I of Great Britain, of the House of Hanover
- Saint Ann Parish – Lady Anne Hyde (first wife of James II of England)
- Saint Elizabeth Parish – Elizabeth Modyford (wife of Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet, the first English colonial governor of Jamaica)
- Saint James Parish – James II of England
- Trelawny Parish – Sir William Trelawny, 6th Baronet
Mexico
- Guerrero – Vicente Guerrero
- Hidalgo – Miguel Hidalgo
- Morelos – José María Morelos
- Quintana Roo – Andrés Quintana Roo
- Veracruz-Llave – Ignacio de la Llave
Namibia
- Caprivi – Count Leo von Caprivi (Chancellor of the German Empire)
New Zealand/Aotearoa
- Auckland – Earl of Auckland
- Cook Islands – Captain James Cook
- D'Urville Island – Jules Dumont d'Urville
Norway
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Romania
This is a summary from Etymological list of counties of Romania
- Bessarabia – from Basarab I
Russia
- Kaliningrad Oblast – Mikhail Kalinin
- Khabarovsk Krai – Yerofey Khabarov
- Leningrad Oblast – Vladimir Lenin
- Sverdlovsk Oblast – Yakov Sverdlov
- Ulyanovsk Oblast – Vladimir Lenin
United Kingdom
- Anglesey – Ongull, a Scandinavian landowner
- Angus – King Oengus I of the Picts
- Bedfordshire – Bieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire)
- Brecknockshire – Prince Brychan
- Buckinghamshire – Bucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire)
- Cardigan – Ceredig, son of Cunedda
- Dunbartonshire – Hugh Dunbar
- Fife – Fib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruithe
- Glamorgan – Prince Morgan the Old of Gwent
- Gwynedd – Cunedda
- Hampshire – Hamo, a 6th century Saxon settler and landowner
- Kirkcudbright – Saint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert")
- Lothian – Leudonus
- Merionethshire – Meirion, son of Cunedda
- Montgomery, Powys – Roger de Montgomery
- Nottinghamshire – Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire)
- Roxburghshire – Hroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire)
- Rutland – Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land")
Dependencies
- Gibraltar – Arabic Jabal Tāriq (جبل طارق), meaning "mountain of Tariq", because Tariq ibn-Ziyad, the militar leader of the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711, landed there from Africa
United States
This is a summary from List of U.S. state name etymologies.
- Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
- District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus
- Georgia – King George I of Great Britain
- Louisiana – King Louis XIV of France
- Maryland – Henrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I
- New York – James Stuart, Duke of York (later James II of England)
- Northern Mariana Islands – Mariana of Austria, Queen of Spain
- North Carolina and South Carolina – King Charles I of England
- Pennsylvania – William Penn
- Virginia and West Virginia – Queen Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen"
- Washington – George Washington
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Uruguay
Venezuela
- Anzoátegui – José Antonio Anzoátegui
- Bolívar – Simón Bolívar
- Miranda – Francisco de Miranda
- Monagas – José Tadeo Monagas
- Sucre – Antonio José de Sucre
- Vargas – José María Vargas
