Epstein Files Full PDF

A federated state (also known as state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation.^[1] A federated state does not have international sovereignty since powers are divided between the other federated states and the federal government. Unlike international sovereign states, which have what is often referred to as Westphalian sovereignty (such as exercised by their federal government), federated states operate under their domestic or federal law with relation to the rest of the world.

Federated states do not have automatic standing as entities of international law. Instead, the federal union (federation) as a single entity is the sovereign state for purposes of international law.^[2] Depending on the constitutional structure of a particular federation, a federated state can hold various degrees of legislative, judicial, and administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory and is a form of regional government. A federated state may nonetheless establish offices internationally, for example, to promote trade or tourism, while still operating only within the trade policy or other applicable law of their federation, and their host country. They also may enter into international regional agreements under the laws of their federation and state, such as to protect a cross-border resource like water or other shared matters.

In some cases, a federation is created from the union of political entities that are either independent or dependent territories of another sovereign entity (most commonly a colonial power).^[A] In other cases, federated states have been created out of the administrative divisions of previously unitary states.^[B] Once a federal constitution is formed, the rules governing the relationship between federal and regional powers become part of the country's constitutional law and not international law.

In countries with federal constitutions, there is a division of power between the central government and the component states. These entities – states, provinces, counties, cantons, Länder, etc. – are partially self-governing and are afforded a degree of constitutionally guaranteed autonomy that varies substantially from one federation to another.^[C] Depending on the form the decentralization of powers takes, a federated state's legislative powers may or may not be overruled or vetoed by the federal government. Laws governing the relationship between federal and regional powers can be amended through the national or federal constitution, and, if they exist, state constitutions as well.

In terms of internal politics, federated states can have republican or monarchical forms of government. Those of republican form (federated republics) are usually called states (like states of the US) or republics (like republics in the former USSR).

The federated units in the table below have inherent governmental authority in the federation's constitutional system, while the "other units" are delegated authority by the federal government or are administered directly by it. ^{[citation needed]}

Federation	Federated units	Other units
Argentina[3]	23 provinces:  Buenos Aires Catamarca Chaco Chubut Córdoba Corrientes Entre Ríos Formosa Jujuy La Pampa  La Rioja Mendoza Misiones Neuquén  Río Negro Salta San Juan San Luis Santa Cruz Santa Fe Santiago del Estero Tierra del Fuego Tucumán	1 autonomous city: Buenos Aires[D]
Australia[4]	6 states: New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia	3 internal territories: Australian Capital Territory[D] Jervis Bay Territory Northern Territory
		7 external territories: Ashmore and Cartier Islands Australian Antarctic Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands Territory Heard Island and McDonald Islands Norfolk Island
Austria[5]	9 states: Vienna[D] Lower Austria Upper Austria Styria Tyrol Carinthia Salzburg Vorarlberg Burgenland
Belgium[6]	3 regions:[E] Flanders Wallonia Brussels[D]
	3 communities:[F] Flemish French German-speaking
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2 entities:[G] Republika Srpska   Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina	1 self-governing district: Brčko (officially condominium of both constituents)
	The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is itself a federation of 10 cantons: Una-Sana Posavina Tuzla Zenica-Doboj Bosnian Podrinje Central Bosnia Herzegovina-Neretva  West Herzegovina Sarajevo[D]  Canton 10[7]
Brazil[8]	26 states: Acre Alagoas Amapá Amazonas Bahia Ceará Espírito Santo Goiás Maranhão Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Minas Gerais Pará Paraíba Paraná Pernambuco Piauí Rio de Janeiro Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Sul Rondônia Roraima Santa Catarina São Paulo Sergipe Tocantins
	1 federal district:  Distrito Federal[D][H]
Canada[9]	10 provinces: Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan	3 territories: Northwest Territories Nunavut Yukon
Comoros[10]	3 autonomous islands: Anjouan Grande Comore Mohéli
Ethiopia[11]	12 regions: Afar Amhara Benishangul-Gumuz Central Ethiopia Gambela Harari Oromia Sidama Somali South Ethiopia Southwest Tigray	2 chartered cities: Addis Ababa[D] Dire Dawa
Germany[12]	16 states: Baden-Württemberg Bavaria Berlin[D] Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia
India[13]	28 states: Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Tamil Nadu Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand West Bengal	8 union territories: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu National Capital Territory of Delhi[D] Jammu and Kashmir[I] Ladakh[I] Lakshadweep Puducherry
Iraq[14]	19 governorates: Al Anbar Erbil Babylon Baghdad[D] Basra Dhi Qar Diyala Duhok Halabja Karbala Kirkuk Maysan Muthanna Najaf Nineveh Al-Qādisiyyah Saladin Sulaymaniyah Wasit	1 federal region: Kurdistan Region[J] (overlaps the area of Duhok, Erbil, and Sulaymaniyah—including Halabja—governorates)
Malaysia[15]	13 states: Johor Kedah Kelantan Malacca Negeri Sembilan Pahang Penang Perak Perlis Sabah Sarawak Selangor Terengganu	3 federal territories: Putrajaya Kuala Lumpur[D] Labuan
Mexico[16]	31 states: Aguascalientes Baja California Baja California Sur Campeche Chiapas Chihuahua Coahuila Colima Durango Guanajuato Guerrero Hidalgo Jalisco State of Mexico Michoacán Morelos Nayarit Nuevo León Oaxaca Puebla Querétaro Quintana Roo San Luis Potosí Sinaloa Sonora Tabasco Tamaulipas Tlaxcala Veracruz Yucatán Zacatecas
	1 autonomous city: Mexico City[D]
Micronesia[17]	4 states: Chuuk Kosrae Pohnpei Yap
Nepal	7 provinces: Bagmati Gandaki Karnali Koshi Lumbini Madhesh Sudurpashchim
Nigeria[18]	36 states: Abia Adamawa Akwa Ibom Anambra Bauchi Bayelsa Benue Borno Cross River Delta Ebonyi Edo Ekiti Enugu Gombe Imo Jigawa Kaduna Kano Katsina Kebbi Kogi Kwara Lagos Nasarawa Niger Ogun Ondo Osun Oyo Plateau Rivers Sokoto Taraba Yobe Zamfara	1 territory: Federal Capital Territory[D]
Pakistan[19]	4 provinces: Balochistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Punjab Sindh	2 autonomous territories:[G] Azad Jammu and Kashmir[I] Gilgit-Baltistan[I]
		1 federal territory: Islamabad Capital Territory[D]
Russia[20][21]	48 oblasts: Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga Kemerovo Kirov  Kherson[K] Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Magadan Moscow Oblast Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orenburg Oryol Penza Pskov Rostov Ryazan Sakhalin Samara Saratov Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tomsk Tver Tula Tyumen Ulyanovsk Vladimir Volgograd Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl  Zaporozhye[K]
	24 republics:[G] Adygea Altai Republic Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea[K] Dagestan Donetsk[K] Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Luhansk[K] Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia-Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia
	9 krais: Altai Krai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky
	4 autonomous okrugs:[G] Chukotka Khanty–Mansi Nenets Yamalo-Nenets
	3 federal cities: Moscow[D] Saint Petersburg Sevastopol[K]
	1 autonomous oblast:[G] Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1 autonomous island: Nevis	Saint Kitts: Saint Kitts
Somalia[22][23]	7 federal member states:[L] Galmudug Hirshabelle Jubaland Khatumo Puntland Somaliland[M] South West[G]
South Sudan	10 states:[24] Central Equatoria Eastern Equatoria Jonglei Lakes Northern Bahr el Ghazal Unity Upper Nile Warrap Western Bahr el Ghazal Western Equatoria	3 administrative areas:[24] Abyei[I] Greater Pibor Ruweng
Sudan[25]	18 states: Blue Nile Central Darfur East Darfur Gezira Kassala Khartoum[D] North Darfur North Kordofan Northern Al Qadarif Red Sea Sennar South Darfur South Kordofan River Nile West Darfur West Kordofan White Nile	1 special administrative status area:[26] Abyei[I]
Switzerland[27]	26 cantons: Aargau Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden Basel-Landschaft Basel-Stadt Bern Fribourg Geneva Glarus Grisons Jura Lucerne Neuchâtel Nidwalden Obwalden Schaffhausen Schwyz Solothurn St. Gallen Thurgau Ticino Uri Valais Vaud Zug Zürich
United Arab Emirates[28]	7 emirates: Abu Dhabi Ajman Dubai Fujairah Ras Al Khaimah Sharjah Umm al-Quwain
United States[29]	50 states: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida  Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia  Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming	1 federal district: District of Columbia[D]
		1 incorporated territory: Palmyra Atoll
		13 unincorporated territories: American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands Minor outlying islands: Baker Island Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Atoll Navassa Island Wake Island Bajo Nuevo Bank[I] Serranilla Bank[I]
Venezuela[30]	23 states: Amazonas Anzoátegui Apure Aragua Barinas Bolívar Carabobo Cojedes Delta Amacuro Falcón Guárico Lara Mérida Miranda Monagas Nueva Esparta Portuguesa Sucre Táchira Trujillo Vargas Yaracuy Zulia	1 capital district: Distrito Capital[D]
		1 federal dependency: Federal Dependencies of Venezuela

• Associated state
• Constituent country
• Federal district
• Federal territory
• Federation
• List of countries by federal system
• List of administrative divisions by country
• List of autonomous areas by country
• List of sovereign states
• Supranational union