The Soviet Union had several kinds of country subdivisions:

+Administrative divisions of the Soviet Union by republicRepublicAutonomous republicsOblastsKraisAutonomous oblastsAutonomous okrugsArmenian SSR Azerbaijan SSR1 1Byelorussian SSR 6 Estonian SSR Georgian SSR2 1Karelo-Finnish SSR Kazakh SSR 19 Kirghiz SSR 4–7 Latvian SSR Lithuanian SSR Moldavian SSR 7 Russian SFSR16496510Tajik SSR 2–3 1Transcaucasian SFSR3 Turkmen SSR 5 Ukrainian SSR 25 Uzbek SSR112