Asubprefecture is anadministrative division of a country that is belowprefecture orprovince.
There are twelveAlbanian counties or prefectures, each of which is divided into severaldistricts, sometimes translated as subprefectures.
InBrazil the subprefectures (Portuguese:subprefeituras) are administrative divisions of some big cities, such asSão Paulo andRio de Janeiro. The head of a subprefecture, thesubprefeito, is indicated by the municipality's mayor (in Brazil calledprefeito).
In São Paulo there are 32 subprefectures. The largest in total area,Parelheiros, covers 353.5 km2, and the most populous,Capela do Socorro, has more than 600,000 inhabitants.
Example: Djibasso Subprefecture
Examples: N'Gouri Subprefecture, Massakory Subprefecture
It was used inQing dynasty. Calledting (廳 or 厅) inChinese, it is also on the same level as adepartment (州) and adistrict (縣), and is below a prefecture (府).
Example:
A separate term also translated as subprefecture wasjūnmínfǔ (t 軍民府,s 军民府), for instance atQianshan inGuangdong.
A subprefecture is the administrative town of anarrondissement where an arrondissement does not contain theprefecture. Thecivil servant in charge of localexecutive power is thesous-préfet.
Examples:Aix-en-Provence,Apt,Arles,Bayonne,Boulogne-Billancourt,Boulogne-sur-Mer,Calais,Cambrai,Chalon-sur-Saône,Château-Thierry,Cherbourg,Le Havre,Narbonne,Reims,Saint-Germain-en-Laye,Saint-Malo,Saint-Omer,Sedan,Vichy.
Asous-préfecture is an administrative division of adepartment inIvory Coast.
Examples: Anyama Subprefecture, Bingerville Subprefecture, Brofodoumé Subprefecture, Songon Subprefecture
SomeJapanese prefectures have branch offices called 支庁 (shichō) inJapanese, which are translated in English as "subprefectures", "branch offices", or "branches of the prefectural government". See details inSubprefectures of Japan and an example ofKushiro Subprefecture.
