All articles starting with D

Departamento del Quiché

Departamento del Quiché (Quiché Department), a department of northwestern Guatemala, capital Santa Cruz del Quiché; created 12 August 1872 from Sololá and Totonicapán, third largest, over 80% Maya, heartland of the pre-Columbian K'iche' kingdom.

Departamento del Valle del Cauca

Valle del Cauca, a Colombian department created in 1910 with capital Cali, covers 22,140 km² with 42 municipalities, 4.48 million people, and about 10% of national GDP.

Departamento Nacional de Trânsito

The Departamento Nacional de Trânsito (Denatran) was Brazil's highest federal traffic authority, enforcing traffic law and managing the RENAVAM vehicle registry until replaced by Senatran in 2021.

Oct 20, 2026

Département de l'Artibonite

Artibonite Department, Haiti's central agricultural department with chief town Gonaïves; created 1801, named for the Artibonite River; produces 80% of national rice and faces severe gang-driven displacement.

Département de l'Ouest

Département de l'Ouest (West Department), Haiti: department containing Port-au-Prince, the capital. Most populous of Haiti's ten departments, 4,038,816 people in 2024, density 811/km², 5 arrondissements, 20 communes, IHSI code 1.

Département de Nippes

Département de Nippes (Département des Nippes), Haiti's tenth and smallest department, created 2003 from Grand'Anse; capital Miragoâne; 3 arrondissements, 11 communes; 403,045 inhabitants, 1,267.77 km² (2024 IHSI estimates).

Oct 20, 2026

Département du Nord-Est

Département du Nord-Est (HT-NE), Haiti's northeastern border department created in 1971 from the Grand Nord, capital Fort-Liberté, four arrondissements, about 431,000 residents in 2024, highest recorded departmental poverty rate (80.3%), and comparatively high stability scores.

Oct 22, 2026

Départements of French Algeria

The départements of French Algeria were the territorial divisions through which France administered Algeria as part of France itself, from 1848 until Algerian independence in 1962.

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) is a UK government department responsible for energy security, protecting billpayers, and delivering the transition to net zero emissions.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is the UK Government ministerial department for environment, food, farming, fishing and rural affairs in England, led by Secretary of State Dame Angela Eagle, with about 10,250 staff and 36 agencies and public bodies.

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (government research fund, 2023–2026)

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) was a UK government department, formed in February 2023, that funded science, research, and digital infrastructure before its dissolution in 2026.

Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the UK government department responsible for transport policy in England, delivered through bodies like National Highways and the DVLA.

Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions is a UK government department responsible for welfare and pensions. Established in 2001, it delivers benefits to roughly 20 million claimants.

Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (South Africa)

Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South African national department (2009–2019) covering agriculture, forestry and fisheries; disestablished 2019, functions split to DALRRD and DFFE.

Department of Amazonas (Peru)

The Department of Amazonas, also known as Amazonas Department, Peru, is one of Peru's 25 departments in the north-east, with its capital at Chachapoyas and the fortress of Kuélap.

Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD), Indian government department under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, founded 1991; runs NADCP, LHDCP, livestock census, and dairy development schemes from Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi.

Sep 24, 2026

Department of Appanages

The Department of Appanages (Департамент уделов) was the office of the Russian Empire that administered the estates and revenues assigned to the imperial family, from 1797 to 1917.

Department of Atomic Energy (परमाणु ऊर्जा विभाग)

The Department of Atomic Energy (परमाणु ऊर्जा विभाग) is a Government of India department, established in 1954 under the Prime Minister, responsible for nuclear power, isotope technologies, and research.

Department of Communications and the Arts (Australia)

The Department of Communications and the Arts was an Australian Government department advising on communications and arts policy, existing from September 2015 to February 2020.

Department of Conservation

Department of Conservation (DOC, Te Papa Atawhai), New Zealand's central conservation agency, established 1 April 1987 under the Conservation Act 1987 by merging five agencies' conservation functions; manages a third of NZ's land, 53 marine reserves, and regulates public conservation land.

Department of Defense Space Shuttle missions

The Department of Defense Space Shuttle missions were 11 classified military and intelligence flights of NASA's Shuttle between 1982 and 1992, from STS-4 to the final dedicated mission, STS-53.

Department of Education (Philippines)

Department of Education (DepEd), the Philippine executive department governing basic education under RA 9155 (2001); runs the K to 12 system, MATATAG curriculum reform, and Strengthened SHS program.

Department of Energy Loan Programs Office

The Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) provides federal loans and loan guarantees to innovative energy ventures, renamed the Office of Energy Dominance Financing in 2025.

Department of Finance (Tamil Nadu)

The Department of Finance of Tamil Nadu is the nodal department for the state's public finances, preparing the annual budget and managing debt, expenditure, and fiscal policy.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans, also known as Fisheries and Oceans Canada, is a federal department of the Government of Canada. It manages fisheries and marine sciences.

Department of forests herbarium

Department of Forests herbarium, also called the Alevkaya or North Cyprus Herbarium, a pressed-plant collection in the Kyrenia Mountains founded with botanist Deryck Viney and opened 9 November 1989 as North Cyprus's first herbarium, with about 450 species at opening.

Department of Government Efficiency

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), US DOGE Service: Trump cost-cutting initiative created by Executive Order 14158 (January 20, 2025), not a cabinet department, led by Elon Musk; savings claims of $110-214 billion were largely unsupported per GAO.