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Dashtīārī
Dashtiari (دشتیاری) is a county in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran's far southeast, created from Chabahar County in 2019. Centered on Negur, it has 85 km of Oman Sea coast, a 132 km Pakistan border, the Rimdan crossing, gando crocodiles, and tropical fruit and tuna fisheries.
Daşoguz Welaýaty
Daşoguz Welaýaty (Daşoguz welaýaty), also Dashoguz velayat, is Turkmenistan's northernmost province, capital Daşoguz city. Area 73,400 km², population about 1.55 million, leading national cattle breeding and milk production, lower Amu Darya irrigation, ancient Khorezm heritage.
Davao de Oro
Davao de Oro, formerly Compostela Valley, is a Philippine province in Davao Region, Mindanao; created 1998 (RA 8470), renamed 2019 (RA 11297); capital Nabunturan, 11 municipalities, gold-mining economy.
Davao del Norte
Davao del Norte is a Philippine province in Davao Region, Mindanao, created May 8, 1967 from the old Davao Province by RA 4867. Capital-area city Tagum; largest regional population (1,143,931 in 2024); banana plantations and Samal island beaches; Compostela Valley (Davao de Oro) split from it in 1998.
Davao Region
Davao Region (Region XI, formerly Southern Mindanao; Cebuano: Rehiyon sa Davao) is a Philippine administrative region in southeastern Mindanao with five provinces, regional center Davao City, 5,389,422 people (2024), and Mindanao's lowest poverty incidence.
Debub Region
Debub Region, also called Southern Region (Zoba Debub), is one of Eritrea's six regions. Its capital is Mendefera, and with about 1.5 million people it is Eritrea's most populous region.
Dehong Daizu Jingpozu Zizhizhou
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture (德宏傣族景颇族自治州), western Yunnan, China; seat Mangshi; borders Myanmar 503.8 km; 11,526 km²; 1.32 million people, about 46% minorities; key China–Myanmar trade corridor.
Delta State
Delta State is a state in southern Nigeria created in 1991 from Bendel State, with its capital at Asaba and oil and gas as its economic mainstay.
Demerara-Mahaica Region
Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) is Guyana's most populous administrative region, containing the capital Georgetown. Created in 1980, it spans the Demerara to Mahaica rivers, with 347,759 people (39.58% of Guyana) at the 2022 census.
Denizli Province
Denizli Province (Denizli ili), southwestern Turkey province, capital Denizli city; 19 districts, 1,060,975 people (2025), 24th of 81 provinces; graben geology, Laodikeia and Pamukkale heritage.
Departamento de Ahuachapán
Departamento de Ahuachapán, westernmost of El Salvador's 14 departments, capital Ahuachapán city; created 9 February 1869 under Francisco Dueñas; 1,240 km², 12 municipalities, coffee-growing border region with Guatemala.
Departamento de Alta Verapaz
Alta Verapaz, a department of north-central Guatemala with capital Cobán, 8,686 km², 17 municipalities, a mostly Q'eqchi' Maya population, and Guatemala's highest poverty rate; economy based on cardamom, coffee, and cacao.
Departamento de Arauca
Departamento de Arauca, Colombian Orinoquía department bordering Venezuela, capital Arauca city; 23,818 km², 317,398 people (DANE 2024), seven municipalities, oil and cattle economy, Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, ELN conflict.
Departamento de Atlántida
Departamento de Atlántida (Atlántida), a Caribbean-coast department of Honduras created in 1902, capital La Ceiba, eight municipalities, Pico Bonito 2,453 m, tropical rainforest climate.
Departamento de Baja Verapaz
Baja Verapaz, a department of central Guatemala created in 1877 from the split of Verapaz, capital Salamá, 3,124 km², eight municipalities, predominantly indigenous Achi' population, home of the UNESCO-recognized Rabinal Achí dance-drama.
Departamento de Bolívar
Departamento de Bolívar, Colombian Caribbean department, capital Cartagena de Indias, DANE code 13, 25,978 km², named 1857 after Simón Bolívar; lost Atlántico, San Andrés, Córdoba, and Sucre territories in the 20th century.
Departamento de Boyacá
Boyacá, a Colombian Andean department in the country's center-east, capital Tunja; 23,189 km² (2.03% of Colombia), crossed by the Cordillera Oriental, created by the 1821 Constitution of Cúcuta and site of the 1819 Battle of Boyacá.
Departamento de Casanare
Departamento de Casanare: Colombian department in the Orinoquía region, capital Yopal, erected from the Intendencia de Casanare by Decree 2274 of 1991; 44,490 km², 19 municipalities, largest oil producer with about 20% of national output.
Departamento de Chimaltenango
Departamento de Chimaltenango, a department of Guatemala in the Central region, capital Chimaltenango city, created 12 September 1839; 16 municipalities, 1,979 km², predominantly Kaqchikel Maya, agricultural economy.
Departamento de Chinandega
Chinandega Department (Departamento de Chinandega), northwestern Nicaraguan department on the Pacific and Honduran border, capital Chinandega city, 13 municipalities, 378,970 people (2005), sugarcane-peanut agriculture, Corinto port, San Cristóbal volcano.
Departamento de Chiquimula
Departamento de Chiquimula, La Perla de Oriente, one of Guatemala's 22 eastern-highland departments, capital Chiquimula city; created 1825, divided from Zacapa in 1871, 11 municipalities, Dry Corridor, Ch'orti' heritage.
Departamento de Choluteca
Departamento de Choluteca, Honduras's southernmost department, created 28 June 1825 as one of seven original departments; capital Choluteca city, 16 municipalities, about 497,000 people, agroindustry economy of sugar cane, melons, and shrimp.
Departamento de Chuquisaca
Departamento de Chuquisaca, Bolivian department in the southeast with capital Sucre, constitutional capital of Bolivia; 51,524 km2, 600,132 people (2024), created 1826, seat of government lost to La Paz after 1898-1899 Guerra Federal.
Departamento de Colón, Honduras
Departamento de Colón (Honduras): Caribbean-coast department created December 1881 from Yoro and La Mosquitia, capital Trujillo, 10 municipalities including Tocoa, 4 congressional deputies.
Departamento de Comayagua
Departamento de Comayagua, one of Honduras's 18 departments and one of the original seven created 28 June 1825; seat Comayagua city, former national capital until 1880; 21 municipalities, 604,311 people (2024), Palmerola airport.
Departamento de Copán
Departamento de Copán is a department of western Honduras, created in 1869 with its capital at Santa Rosa de Copán, and named for the Maya ruins of Copán.
Departamento de Córdoba
Córdoba is a department of Colombia located in the northwestern part of the Caribbean region, with Montería as its capital. It was created in 1951 by separating from Bolívar.
Departamento de Cortés
Departamento de Cortés, Honduran department (code 05) created 4 July 1893 by President Domingo Vásquez, named for Hernán Cortés; capital San Pedro Sula, industrial hub with Puerto Cortés port, 12 municipalities, about 1.9 million people (2024).
Departamento de El Paraíso
El Paraíso is a department of southeastern Honduras created in 1869 with its capital at Yuscarán; it borders Nicaragua and is divided into 19 municipalities.
Departamento de Escuintla
Departamento de Escuintla, a Pacific-side department of Guatemala with capital Escuintla city; 623,009 people (2018 census), 14 municipalities, Puerto Quetzal port, second-highest GDP per capita nationally.