This is a list of country subdivisions named after people. It details the name of the country subdivision and eponym. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the administrative division.
This is a summary from List of etymologies of administrative divisions.
Argentina Colón Department, CórdobaChristopher Columbus Colón Department, Entre RíosChristopher Columbus
Australia Jervis Bay TerritoryJohn Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent QueenslandQueen Victoria TasmaniaAbel Tasman VictoriaQueen Victoria
Bermuda Devonshire ParishWilliam Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire Hamilton ParishJames Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton Paget ParishWilliam Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert Pembroke ParishWilliam Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke St. George's ParishSt. George Sandys ParishSir Edwin Sandys Smith's ParishSir Thomas Smith (English aristocrat) Southampton ParishHenry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton Warwick ParishRobert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Brazil RondôniaMarshal Cândido Rondon Santa CatarinaSaint Catherine São PauloSaint Paul
Cameroon Adamaoua RegionModibbo Adama
Canada
AlbertaPrincess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria British ColumbiaChristopher Columbus (→ Columbia, an American sailing ship → Columbia River → Columbia Territory of Hudson's Bay Company → British Columbia) Prince Edward IslandPrince George, Duke of Kent (son of George III of the United Kingdom), commander of British forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Chile Santiago Metropolitan RegionSaint James the Greater O'Higgins RegionBernardo O'Higgins Aisén (region)Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (officially, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region) Magallanes RegionFerdinand Magellan Magallanes ProvinceFerdinand Magellan
Colombia BogotáBacatáan indigenous cacique (emperor) Bolívar DepartmentSimón Bolívar Caldas DepartmentFrancisco José de Caldas Nariño DepartmentAntonio Nariño Norte de Santander DepartmentFrancisco de Paula Santander Santander DepartmentFrancisco de Paula Santander Sucre DepartmentAntonio José de Sucre Córdoba DepartmentJosé María Córdoba
Dominican Republic DuarteJuan Pablo Duarte EspaillatUlises Francisco Espaillat (author and president) María Trinidad SánchezMaría Trinidad Sánchez (female soldier) Monseñor NouelMonseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (archbishop and president) Sánchez RamírezBrigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez
Ecuador Bolívar ProvinceSimón Bolívar Orellana ProvinceFrancisco de Orellana
Estonia Valga Countyfrom German family names de Walco or de Walko.
France Adélie LandAdèle Dumont d'Urville, wife of Jules Dumont d'Urville Bassas da IndiaFernão de Loronha Crozet IslandsJulien-Marie Crozet Juan de Nova IslandJoão da Nova Kerguelen IslandsYves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec Saint Paul IslandSaint Paul Tromelin IslandJacques Marie Boudin de Tromelin, Chevalier de La Nuguy
Guatemala Santa Rosa DepartmentRose of Lima
Honduras Colón DepartmentChristopher Columbus Francisco Morazán DepartmentFrancisco Morazán
India YSR Kadapa districtY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Ireland County KilkennyCainnech of Aghaboe County OffalyFailge Berraide County RoscommonComan mac Faelchon County TyroneEógan mac Néill
Italy Aosta ValleyAugustus Emilia-RomagnaMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 BC) Friuli-Venezia GiuliaJulius Caesar
Jamaica Clarendon ParishEdward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Hanover ParishGeorge I of Great Britain, of the House of Hanover Saint Ann ParishLady Anne Hyde (first wife of James II of England) Saint Elizabeth ParishElizabeth Modyford (wife of Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet, the first English colonial governor of Jamaica) Saint James ParishJames II of England Trelawny ParishSir William Trelawny, 6th Baronet
Kazakhstan Abai RegionAbai Qunanbaiuly Jambyl RegionZhambyl Zhabayuly Pavlodar RegionGrand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Malaysia PutrajayaTunku Abdul Rahman
Mexico GuerreroVicente Guerrero HidalgoMiguel Hidalgo MorelosJosé María Morelos Quintana RooAndrés Quintana Roo Veracruz-LlaveIgnacio de la Llave
New Zealand Auckland RegionEarl of Auckland Cook IslandsCaptain James Cook Gisborne DistrictWilliam Gisborne Hawke's BayEdward Hawke Marlborough DistrictDuke of Marlborough Nelson CityHoratio Nelson Tasman DistrictAbel Tasman Wellington RegionDuke of Wellington
Nigeria Adamawa StateModibbo Adama
Norway Jan MayenJan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout Queen Maud LandQueen Maud of Norway
Panama Colón ProvinceChristopher Columbus Colón DistrictChristopher Columbus
Papua New Guinea Bougainville ProvinceLouis Antoine de Bougainville
Paraguay Presidente HayesPresident Rutherford B. Hayes of the United States
Perù Department of San MartínJosé de San Martín
Philippines
AuroraAurora Aragon Quezon IsabelaQueen Isabella II of Spain QuezonManuel Luis Quezon QuirinoElpidio Quirino RizalJosé Rizal Sultan KudaratMuhammad Kudarat
Portugal Santarémfrom Saint Irene of Tomar
Romania
BessarabiaBasarab I
Russia
Arkhangelsk OblastArchangel Michael Kaliningrad OblastMikhail Kalinin Khabarovsk KraiYerofey Khabarov Kirov OblastSergei Kirov Leningrad OblastVladimir Lenin Saint PetersburgSaint Peter Sverdlovsk OblastYakov Sverdlov Ulyanovsk OblastVladimir Lenin Vladimir OblastVladimir the Great Yaroslavl OblastYaroslav the Wise
Turkmenistan ArkadagGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk OblastGrigory Petrovsky Ivano-Frankivsk OblastIvan Franko Khmelnytskyi OblastBohdan Khmelnytsky Kirovohrad OblastSergei Kirov KyivKyi Kyiv OblastKyi Lviv OblastLeo I of Galicia Mykolaiv OblastSaint Nicholas
United Kingdom AngleseyOngull, a Scandinavian landowner AngusKing Oengus I of the Picts BedfordshireBieda, a Saxon landowner ("Bieda's ford" + shire) BrecknockshirePrince Brychan BuckinghamshireBucca, a Saxon landowner ("Bucca's home" + shire) CardiganCeredig, son of Cunedda FifeFib of the Picts, one of the seven sons of Cruithe GlamorganPrince Morgan the Old of Gwent GwyneddCunedda HampshireHamo, a 6th-century Saxon settler and landowner KirkcudbrightSaint Cuthbert ("church of Cuthbert") LothianLeudonus MerionethshireMeirion, son of Cunedda Montgomery, PowysRoger de Montgomery NottinghamshireSnot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire) RoxburghshireHroc, an ancient landowner ("Hroc's fortress" + shire) RutlandRota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land")
Dependencies BermudaJuan de Bermúdez (see the paragraph Bermuda above for its subdivisions) Falkland IslandsAnthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland GibraltarArabic Jabal Tāriq (جبل طارق), meaning "mountain of Tariq", because Tariq ibn-Ziyad, the militar leader of the Muslim invasion of Spain in 711, landed there from Africa Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da CunhaHelena of Constantinople, and Tristão da Cunha South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsGeorge III and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, respectively.
United States This is a summary from List of U.S. state name etymologies. DelawareThomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr District of ColumbiaChristopher Columbus GeorgiaKing George II of Great Britain LouisianaKing Louis XIV of France MarylandHenrietta Maria of France, wife of Charles I New YorkJames Stuart, Duke of York (later James II of England) Northern Mariana IslandsMariana of Austria, Queen of Spain North Carolina and South CarolinaKing Charles I of England PennsylvaniaAdmiral Sir William Penn Virginia and West VirginiaQueen Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen" WashingtonGeorge Washington
Related lists: List of U.S. counties named after women Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
Uruguay Artigas DepartmentJosé Artigas Flores DepartmentVenancio Flores Rivera DepartmentJosé Eustasio Rivera Treinta y Tres DepartmentThirty-Three Orientals
Venezuela AnzoáteguiJosé Antonio Anzoátegui BolívarSimón Bolívar FalcónJuan Crisóstomo Falcón LaraJacinto Lara MirandaFrancisco de Miranda MonagasJosé Tadeo Monagas SucreAntonio José de Sucre Vargas (former)José María Vargas
See also List of etymologies of administrative divisions List of eponyms List of places named after people