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 subnational name etymologies.

[edit] Australia

[edit] 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

[edit] Brazil

[edit] 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 Hudsons 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

[edit] Chile

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Namibia

Caprivi - Count Leo von Caprivi (Chancellor of the German Empire)

[edit] New Zealand/Aotearoa

Auckland - Earl of Auckland
Cook Islands - Captain James Cook
D'Urville Island - Jules Dumont d'Urville

[edit] Norway

Queen Maud Land - Queen Maud of Norway

[edit] Papua New Guinea

Bougainville – Louis Antoine de Bougainville

[edit] Paraguay

Presidente Hayes - Rutherford B. Hayes

[edit] Romania

This is a summary from Etymological list of counties of Romania

Bessarabia - from Basarab I

[edit] Russia

[edit] 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 at,-T,a-riq (??? ??????), meaning "mountain of Tariq", because Tariq ibn-Ziyad, the militar leader of the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711, landed there from Africa