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Babil Governorate
Babil (Babylon) Governorate, central Iraq, capital Hillah on the Euphrates; area about 5,307 km², population over 2.2 million (2024 census); agriculture-dominated economy, desert climate, named for ancient Babylon.
Bac Ninh (district)
Bac Ninh (Bắc Ninh), Vietnamese administrative unit in the Red River Delta; formerly Kinh Bac, a province from 1831, merged with Bac Giang in 2025, a centrally-governed city from 20 September 2026.
Bacău (district)
Bacău (Județul Bacău) is a county of eastern Romania in Moldavia, capital Bacău city; 6,622 km², about 590,000 people, industrial center with oil refining, wood, textile and food industries.
Bács-Kiskun county
Bács-Kiskun (Bács-Kiskun vármegye), Hungary's largest county at 8,445 km² between the Danube and Tisza, seat Kecskemét; created 1950 from Bács-Bodrog and Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun, 485,336 residents, NUTS3 HU331.
Badakhshān
Badakhshān (بدخشان) is a historical Central Asian region and one of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, with its capital at Fayzabad and the world's sole supply of lapis lazuli.
Baddibu
Baddibu was a precolonial Mandinka kingdom on the north bank of the Gambia River in present-day The Gambia, seized in 1861 by the Islamic reformer Ma Bah Diakhou.
Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate (محافظة بغداد), the capital governorate of central Iraq, holds Iraq's largest population, about 8.1 to 8.8 million people, in 10 districts and 32 sub-districts, and is the country's most urbanized governorate.
Baghlan
Baghlan (بغلان) is a province of northeastern Afghanistan, capital Pul-e Khumri, created in 1964 from Qataghan; known for the Kunduz River valley, sugar production, the Surkh Kotal fire temple, and recurrent flash floods.
Bagmati Province
Bagmati Province (बागमती प्रदेश), one of Nepal's seven provinces created by the 2015 constitution, covers 13 central districts including Kathmandu, spans 20,300 km², and has Nepal's lowest multidimensional poverty rate at 7.0 percent.
Bago Region
Bago Region (ပဲခူးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး) is a central Myanmar administrative region split by the Bago Yoma into east and west; capital Bago city; rice and teak agriculture, 4.45 million people (2024 census), 39 irrigation dams, and heavy conflict displacement in its east.
Baise
Baise Shi (百色市) is a prefecture-level city in western Guangxi, China, bordering Yunnan, Guizhou, and Vietnam. Site of the 1929 Baise Uprising led by Deng Xiaoping; major aluminum and mango center; 36,206 km², 3.57 million residents (2020).
Baja California
Baja California, the 29th state of Mexico since 1952, occupies the northern Baja California peninsula with 7 municipalities, about 3.77 million people (2020), a manufacturing- and trade-driven border economy, and the binational Tijuana River sewage cleanup.
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur, Mexico's 30th state (statehood 8 October 1974, with Quintana Roo), capital La Paz, five municipalities, lowest population density, desert climate, tourism-led economy, and major protected biodiversity.
Bali
Bali (Pulau Bali, Pulau Dewata), an Indonesian province between Java and Lombok; capital Denpasar, 9 regencies, about 5,636 km2, 4.4 million people, tourism-driven economy with a 2023 foreign tourist levy.
Balochistan, Pakistan
Balochistan (بلوچستان) is Pakistan's largest province by area, 347,190 km² or about 44% of the country, but its least populated, with capital Quetta, Gwadar port, major natural gas and copper reserves, and a decades-long Baloch separatist insurgency.
Baltic Governorates
Baltic Governorates (Ostsee governorates): Estland, Livland, and Courland, the Russian Empire's three Baltic provinces, acquired 1710 and 1795, ruled through Baltic German elites, abolished with 1917 collapse.
Bamako Region
Bamako Region, officially the District de Bamako, is the capital district of Mali, containing the national capital and serving as the nerve center of the national economy.
Banadir
Banadir (Benadir, Benaadir) is a coastal region of southern Somalia: historically the Indian Ocean coast from Cadale to Kismayo with ports Mogadishu, Merka, and Brava, and administratively the Mogadishu-area region under direct federal government administration.
Banat of Temeswar
The Banat of Temeswar was a Habsburg crown domain in southeastern Hungary, existing from 1718 to 1778, with its capital at Temeswar (today Timișoara, Romania).
Banate of Croatia
The Banate of Croatia, or Banovina Hrvatska, is a territory governed by a ban, Croatia's highest official, spanning the medieval banate and the 1939–1941 autonomous unit in Yugoslavia.
Bangui Prefecture
Bangui Prefecture, the Central African Republic prefecture containing the capital Bangui (also the autonomous commune), population about 1,425,276 (2021), four sub-prefectures, 10 arrondissements since 2020.
Bankura
Bankura (বাঁকুড়া) is a district of western West Bengal, India, in the Rarh region on the Chhotanagpur Plateau edge: 6,882 sq km, 3.6 million people (2011), famed for Bishnupur's terracotta temples, the Bankura horse, and an agriculture-based, drought-prone economy.
Banteay Meanchey
Banteay Meanchey (បន្ទាយមានជ័យ), a northwestern Cambodian province bordering Thailand, ISO code KH-1, capital Sisophon. Covers 6,679 km², nine districts and municipalities, and handles the bulk of Cambodia-Thailand cross-border trade.
Baranya County
Baranya County (Baranya megye) is Hungary's southernmost county, seat Pécs, area 4,430 km², population 348,781 (2026), 301 settlements, declining population, machinery industry dominant in Pécs.
Barcelona (district)
Barcelona (district), the province of Barcelona (província de Barcelona), is one of four provinces of Catalonia, Spain, capital Barcelona city, NUTS 3, 7,719 km², about 5.98 million people, 311 municipalities in 13 comarques.
Bari (district)
Bari is a region of Somalia at the country's northeastern tip, capital Bossaso, part of Puntland since 1998; economy of frankincense, goats, and fishing; population estimates 723,755 to 1,232,231; ISS insurgency in Al Miskaad mountains.
Barisal Division
Barisal Division (বরিশাল বিভাগ), Bangladesh's southern deltaic division, established 1 January 1993, with six districts and 40 upazilas, 8.1 million people (2011), high poverty and cyclone exposure, agriculture-based economy.
Bas Uele
Bas Uele (Bas-Uélé) is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the northeast with its capital at Buta.
Bas-Congo Province
Bas-Congo Province, officially Kongo Central since 2015, is the westernmost province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, stretching from Kinshasa to the Atlantic Ocean with capital Matadi.
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin (code 67) is a French department in Grand Est, northeastern France, prefecture Strasbourg, 514 communes, 1,163,810 inhabitants (2023); since 2021 part of the Collectivité européenne d'Alsace with Haut-Rhin.