First-order subdivisions

Hatay Province

Hatay Province, Turkey's 63rd province (Law 3711, 7 July 1939), capital Antakya, formerly the Hatay State (1938–1939); known for ancient Antioch, ethnoreligious diversity, UNESCO gastronomy status, and severe 2023 earthquake damage.

Haut Uele

Haut Uele (Haut-Uélé) is a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its capital at Isiro, bordering South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

Haut-Katanga

Haut-Katanga, a DRC province created in 2015 from former Katanga, capital Lubumbashi. Copper-cobalt Copperbelt province, 132,425 km2, 5.66 million people (2022), mining about 75% of budget revenue.

Haute Matsiatra Region

Haute Matsiatra, a region of Madagascar's central highlands around Fianarantsoa: 23,034.6 km², 7 districts, 82 communes, 1,444,587 people (2018), rice output 167,860 t/year, 83% poverty rate.

Hauts-Bassins Region

Hauts-Bassins, a region of western Burkina Faso created in 2001, capital Bobo-Dioulasso; provinces Houet, Kenedougou, Tuy; 25,479 km2, 9.4% of the country, strong agriculture and water resources.

Hauts-de-France

Hauts-de-France, northern French region created 1 January 2016 from Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie, capital Lille, about 6 million inhabitants, leading French logistics region with persistent automobile, metallurgy and textile specialties.

Hauts-de-Seine

Hauts-de-Seine (92), French department in Île-de-France west of Paris; 36 communes, prefecture Nanterre; created 1964, effective 1 January 1968 from Seine and Seine-et-Oise; 1.65 million inhabitants, La Défense business district.

Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Hawke's Bay, also known as Te Matau-a-Māui, is a region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, known for farming, wine, and the 1931 earthquake.

Hebei (河北)

Hebei (河北) is a northern Chinese province surrounding Beijing and Tianjin, capital Shijiazhuang, area 188,000 km², population about 74 million; a major grain producer, half of global steel output, and part of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development region.

Heilongjiang (黑龙江省)

Heilongjiang (黑龙江省), abbreviated Hei, is China's northernmost and easternmost province, capital Harbin, area 473,000 km². Top grain producer (82.0 million tons in 2025, 16 straight years first) on black soil plains, and leader in ice and snow tourism.

Helmand Province

Helmand Province (هلمند) is a province of southern Afghanistan with its capital at Lashkargah, organized around the Helmand River, and long the center of Afghanistan's opium economy.

Hendricks County

Hendricks County, Indiana, a county directly west of Indianapolis in the Indianapolis metro area, named for Governor William Hendricks, county seat Danville, population 174,788 (2020) growing to an estimated 190,629 (2024).

Hidalgo (state)

Hidalgo (Estado de Hidalgo), a Mexican state created 15 January 1869 from the State of México, named for Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla; capital Pachuca de Soto, 84 municipalities, 84 municipalities, 3.08 million people (2020), 20,813 km².

Highland Papua

Highland Papua (Papua Pegunungan), Indonesian province created by Law 16/2022, capital Wamena (Jayawijaya), landlocked central highlands of New Guinea; eight regencies, extreme isolation, special autonomy, ongoing separatist conflict.

Hiiraan

Hiiraan (هيران), also spelled Hiran, is a river-agricultural region of central Somalia with its capital at Beledweyne on the Wabi Shabelle River, prone to flooding.

Himachal Pradesh (हिमाचल प्रदेश)

Himachal Pradesh (हिमाचल प्रदेश) is a Himalayan state of northern India, capital Shimla, formed 15 April 1948 from 30 princely states and granted full statehood 25 January 1971 as India's 18th state; 12 districts, 55,673 sq km, glacier-fed rivers, hydropower, and apple horticulture.

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Hirshabelle

Hirshabelle is a federal member state of Somalia, formed in 2016 by the merger of Hiran and Middle Shabelle under the provisional constitution, with its capital at Jowhar.

Hispania Baetica

Hispania Baetica, also called Baetica, was the senatorial Roman province of southern Spain created in 27 BCE with capital Corduba and four conventus (Gades, Corduba, Astigi, Hispalis); its Guadalquivir valley produced the olive oil shipped empire-wide in Dressel 20 amphorae.

Hispania Tarraconensis

Hispania Tarraconensis, also Hispania Citerior, was the largest imperial Roman province of Hispania after Augustus's 27 BC reorganization, governed from Tarraco (Tarragona) in seven conventus and divided under Caracalla and Diocletian.

Hodh ech Chargui

Hodh ech Chargui (ولاية الحوض الشرقي), easternmost wilaya of Mauritania, capital Néma, 182,700 km², 625,643 people (2023). Hot desert region bordering Mali, hosting Mbera camp and 260,000 Malian refugees, with 73.8% multidimensional poverty and an agro-pastoral economy.

Hokkaido

Hokkaido (北海道), Japan's northernmost main island and largest prefecture, capital Sapporo. Area 83,424 km2, population 5.22 million, lowest prefectural density at 67 persons/km2, aging population, record southern tourism.

Homa Bay

Homa Bay County, Kenya (Dholuo 'Homa Abaye'); devolved county since 2013 on Lake Victoria's southeastern shore, headquarters Homa Bay town, 8 sub-counties, 40 wards, economy based on agriculture and fisheries.

Homyel’ Voblasc’

Homyel’ Voblasc’ (Гомельская вобласць), or Gomel Region, is a southeastern Belarusian voblast bordering Ukraine and Russia, centered on Gomel city, with 21 districts, about 40,400 km², and heavy Chernobyl contamination.

Hormozgan

Hormozgan (هرمزگان), a southern Iranian province on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz with capital Bandar Abbas; ranks at or near the bottom of Iranian provinces in social health, health-sector, and development indices.

Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County (新竹縣) is a county in northwestern Taiwan with its seat at Zhubei City that surrounds, but does not include, Hsinchu City and hosts part of Hsinchu Science Park.

Huambo Province

Huambo Province, central Angola, capital Huambo city (former Nova Lisboa). Third most populous province: 2,691,902 people (2024 census), 33,290 km², Ovimbundu/Umbundu, agricultural highland economy on the Benguela Railway.

Hubei (湖北)

Hubei (湖北), a central Chinese province on the middle Yangtze, capital Wuhan; 185,900 km², 58.11 million people (2025), GDP 6.27 trillion yuan, home of the Three Gorges Dam at Yichang.

Huíla Province

Huíla Province (Huíla) is Angola's second most populous province, capital Lubango, 79,022 km², 3.3 million people in the 2024 census, an agricultural and livestock economy with the Cassinga iron mine.

Hung Yen

Hung Yen (Hưng Yên) is a Red River Delta province of Vietnam formed 1 July 2025 by merging Hung Yen and Thai Binh; 2,514.81 km², 3.57 million people, 104 communes and wards, capital region location, Pho Hien heritage.