muhafazah

The country of Jordan is divided into 12 governorates ('muhafazah').

The most common usage is as a translation of the Arabic Muhafazah.

In Arab countries, the secondary level of government, called a muhafazah, is usually translated as a "governorate."

Iraq is divided into 18 provinces (muhafazah).

This conflicts somehow with the general translation for muhafazah (governorate) and wilāyah (province).

Kuwait is divided into 6 governorates (muhafazah).

As of February 2004, Yemen is divided into twenty governorates (muhafazah) and one municipality.

Before 28 October 2011, Oman was divided into five regions (mintaqah) and four governorates (muhafazah).

With the exception of Tunisia, all translations into the term governorate originate in the Arabic word muhafazah.

Jordan is divided into 12 governorates (muhafazah) by the administrative divisions system of the Ministry of Interior.

The governorates of Iraq (muhafazah) are sometimes translated as province, in contrast to official Iraqi documents and the general use for other Arab countries.

The administrative division of Oman contains Eleven Governorates (muhafazah):

The Governorates of Libya (muhafazah) were an administrative division of Libya from 1963 until 1983.

Nahias of Jordan: after governorate (muhafazah)-level.

Al-Dir'iyyah Governorate is a governorate (muhafazah) within Riyadh Region in Saudi Arabia.

Misrata Governorate or Misratah Governorate was one of the governorates (muhafazah) of Libya from 1963 to 1983.

Janzour became a Baladiyah that followed the Greater Tripoli Muhafazah, Janzur was part of Jafara District since 2001.

It is a district in the governorate or the muhafazah of Musandam, Sultanate of Oman, on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula.

Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state ("muhafazah" or "wilayah") of the country (alongside Tripolitania and Fezzan) in the pre-1963 administrative system.

Following a change in the constitution abolishing the federal makeup of the country in 1963 the three provinces were reorganised into ten governorates (muhafazah in Arabic) which were ruled by an appointed governor.

Initially Libya under Ottoman and Italian control was organized into three to four provinces, then into three governorates (muhafazah) and after World War II into twenty-five districts (baladiyah).

The Republic of Yemen kept the South's system of Governorates (Muhafazah), and split the North's liwa (provinces) into smaller governorates, leaving the current Governorates of Yemen.

The provinces were then replaced by the Muhafazah governorates system (muhafazah) system in the kingdom and subsequent Libyan Arab Republic, until superseded by the 1983 Baladiyat districts system.

Khums remained part of Tripolitania province until 1962 when the Federal system canceled and replaced by Muhafazah governorates system (muhafazah) system, and this system remained even after the 1969 coup d'état and through the Libyan Arab Republic, until superseded by the 1983 Baladiyat districts system.