t James, Saint John, Saint Joseph, Saint Lucy, Saint Michael,
Saint Peter, Saint Philip, Saint Thomas; note - the city of
Bridgetown may be given parish status

Belarus:
6 voblastsi (singular - voblasts') and one municipality*
(harady, singular - horad); Brestskaya (Brest), Homyel'skaya
(Homyel'), Horad Minsk*, Hrodzyenskaya (Hrodna), Mahilyowskaya
(Mahilyow), Minskaya, Vitsyebskaya (Vitsyebsk); note - when using a
place name with the adjectival ending 'skaya' the word voblasts'
should be added to the place name

note: voblasti have the administrative center name following in
parentheses

Belgium:
10 provinces (French: provinces, singular - province;
Flemish: provincien, singular - provincie); Antwerpen, Brabant
Wallon, Hainaut, Liege, Limburg, Luxembourg, Namur, Oost-Vlaanderen,
Vlaams Brabant, West-Vlaanderen; note - the Brussels Capitol Region
is not included within the 10 provinces

Belize:
6 districts; Belize, Cayo, Corozal, Orange Walk, Stann
Creek, Toledo

Benin:
6 provinces; Atakora, Atlantique, Borgou, Mono, Oueme, Zou;
note - six additional provinces have been reported but not
confirmed; they are Alibori, Collines, Couffo, Donga, Littoral, and
Plateau; moreover, the term "province" may have been changed to
"department"

Bermuda:
9 parishes and 2 municipalities*; Devonshire, Hamilton,
Hamilton*, Paget, Pembroke, Saint George*, Saint Georges, Sandys,
Smiths, Southampton, Warwick

Bhutan:
18 districts (dzongkhag, singular and plural); Bumthang,
Chhukha, Chirang, Daga, Geylegphug, Ha, Lhuntshi, Mongar, Paro,
Pemagatsel, Punakha, Samchi, Samdrup Jongkhar, Shemgang, Tashigang,
Thimphu, Tongsa, Wangdi Phodrang

note: there may be two new districts named Gasa and Yangtse

Bolivia:
9 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento);
Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa
Cruz, Tarija

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
there are two first-order administrative
divisions - the Bosniak/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina) and the Bosnian Serb-led Republika
Srpska; note - Brcko in northeastern Bosnia is a self-governing
administrative unit under the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina;
it is not part of either the Federation or Republika Srpska

Botswana:
10 districts and four town councils*; Central, Chobe,
Francistown*, Gaborone*, Ghanzi, Kgalagadi, Kgatl