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Västernorrland County
Västernorrland County (Västernorrlands län), Sweden: county in central Norrland covering Medelpad and southern Ångermanland; seat Härnösand, largest city Sundsvall; 7 municipalities, about 241,000 inhabitants, forest-industry economy.
Västmanland County
Västmanland County (Västmanlands län), county code 19, one of Sweden's 21 counties in central Sweden, seat Västerås. Formed 1634; 10 municipalities, about 281,000 inhabitants; Heby municipality transferred to Uppsala County in 2007.
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götalands län (Västra Götaland County), southwestern Sweden county formed 1 January 1998 from Göteborgs och Bohus, Älvsborg, and Skaraborg counties; capital Göteborg, 49 municipalities, about 1.77 million inhabitants, governed by Region Västra Götaland.
Vaucluse
Vaucluse (department 84), a department of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in southeastern France, prefecture Avignon, created 12 August 1792; 572,056 inhabitants (2023), 3,567 km², Mont Ventoux 1,912 m, major fruit, wine, and lavender producer.
Vaud
Vaud, also known as Waadt, is a French-speaking Swiss canton on the northern shore of Lake Geneva, with Lausanne as its capital and 864,200 residents in 2025.
Venda kingdom
Venda, also known as the Republic of Venda, was a South African Bantustan homeland for Venda-speaking people, created in 1962, nominally independent from 1979, and dissolved in 1994.
Veneto
Veneto is an ordinary-statute region of north-eastern Italy with capital Venice and seven provinces; 4.85 million residents (2023), GDP per capita about 42.4 thousand euros, and an ongoing differentiated-autonomy process under Article 116 of the Constitution.
Veracruz
Veracruz (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), a Gulf-coast Mexican state, capital Xalapa; 71,826 km², 8.06 million people (2020), statehood 1824, founded by Cortés 1519, major ports and agriculture.
Vestfold
Vestfold (county 39) is a Norwegian county on the west side of the Oslofjord, re-established 1 January 2024 after the Vestfold og Telemark merger. 6 municipalities, 259,332 inhabitants, administrative center Tønsberg, smallest county by area except Oslo.
Vestland
Vestland (county no. 46) is a Norwegian county formed 1 January 2020 from Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane, with 43 municipalities, about 658,000 residents, Bergen as the dominant city, and Leikanger and Bergen as administrative centers.
Veszprém megye
Veszprém megye (Veszprém County) is a Hungarian county in central Transdanubia, seat Veszprém city. 4,463 km², 330,401 residents (2026); site of Hungary's first bishopric (1001–1002), the 'city of Queens', Bakony hills and Lake Balaton's northern shore.
Vienne
Vienne: name of a French department (86, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, prefecture Poitiers, 438,897 inhabitants in 2023) and of a Rhône city in Isère, 30 km south of Lyon, a former Roman capital of the Allobroges.
Vientiane Prefecture
Vientiane Prefecture (Lao: Nakhônlouang ViangChan), also called Vientiane Capital, is the single prefecture of Laos, containing the national capital on a curve of the Mekong River bordering Thailand.
Vientiane Province
Vientiane Province is a province of Laos in the country's center, about 70 kilometers north of Vientiane Capital, a separate unit, with 11 districts and Viengkham as its capital.
Vihiga
Vihiga County, western Kenya, headquarters Mbale; one of 47 devolved counties, formerly Vihiga District (carved from Kakamega, 1989/1990). Small, densely populated (563.8 km², 590,013 people in 2019), agro-based economy with tea, MSMEs, and over 100 cooperatives.
Vilna Governorate
Vilna Governorate (Виленская губерния) was a province of the Russian Empire centered on Vilna, now Vilnius, established in 1795 after the Third Partition of Poland.
Vilnius County
Vilnius County (Vilniaus apskritis), a county of southeastern Lithuania around the capital Vilnius; 8 municipalities, 876,450 residents (2025), 9,731 km², NUTS 3, GDP per capita 133% of EU average.
Vindhya Pradesh
Vindhya Pradesh was a former Indian state formed 4 April 1948 from 35 Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand princely states, capital Rewa, head Maharaja Martand Singh Judeo; a Part C state from 1950, merged into Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956.
Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast (Вінницька область), an oblast of central Right-Bank Ukraine created 27 February 1932, capital Vinnytsia; 26,513 km², borders 7 oblasts and Moldova, leads Ukraine in agricultural output.
Vitebsk Governorate
Vitebsk Governorate (Витебская губерния) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and later the Belorussian SSR from 1802 to 1924, with its center at Vitebsk and its largest city at Dvinsk.
Vitebsk Oblast
This administrative region is located in northern Belarus, bordering Lithuania, Latvia, and Russia; it was formed on January 15, 1938, and covers about 40.1 thousand km².
Vojvodina (Војводина)
Vojvodina (Војводина), the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is one of Serbia's two autonomous provinces. Formed in 1945 from Banat, Bačka, and Srem, its autonomy is defined by the 2006 Constitution, the 2002 Omnibus Law, and the 2009 and 2014 statutes.
Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (Волгоградская область), a federal subject of Russia in the Southern Federal District on the lower Volga; capital Volgograd, area 112.9 thousand km², population about 2.43 million, borders Kazakhstan.
Volhynia Governorate
Volhynia Governorate (Волынская губерния; Волинська губернія) was a governorate of the Russian Empire in Right-Bank Ukraine, existing from 1797 to 1925 with its center at Zhytomyr from 1804.
Volhynian Voivodeship
Volhynian Voivodeship (Województwo wołyńskie) was a province of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with its capital at Lutsk, existing from 1566 to 1793.
Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast (Вологодская область), a federal subject of Russia formed 23 September 1937, capital Vologda, largest city Cherepovets; 145,700 km², population 1,115,371 (2025), industrial economy led by Severstal metallurgy.
Volyn Oblast
Volyn Oblast (Волинська область), also Volhynia, a northwestern Ukrainian oblast with capital Lutsk; borders Poland and Belarus, area 20.1 thousand km², forested Polesia landscapes, Prypiat and Western Bug river basins.
Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg, Austria's westernmost federal state, capital Bregenz, lies between Lake Constance and the Alps. Alemannic-speaking, independent since 3 November 1918, governed by an OeVP-FPOe coalition under Markus Wallner, export-heavy economy.
Voronezh Oblast
Voronezh Oblast (Воронежская область), a federal subject in southern Central Russia on the middle Don, capital Voronezh; 52,200 km², population 2.26 million (2025), industrial-agrarian economy with GRP over 1 trillion rubles.
Vrancea
Vrancea, a region and county in eastern Romania at the Carpathian bend: medieval autonomous land first attested 1431, and a famous intermediate-depth seismic zone (60–200 km) driving Romanian hazard.