World Largest 1st Level Administrative Divisions By Country
DirectionsName the largest 1st level division in each country with first level administrative divisions (or an equivalent type of largest division). Population, country and type of division shown. All countries except Vatican included.
Quiz Takers 
russia should use federal subjects not federal districts, romania should use counties instead of development regions, and republic srpska should be allowed for bosnia’s largest division
Yeah i wanted to make the divisions kinda match between countries, so they are basically the largest divisions of each, in a few cases they may technically not be an administrative first-level division, but I didn’t want countries to have larger divisions than the ones shown in this quiz.
romanias development regions are purely statistical
yes I realize that, some others are not ‘official’ as well but wanted to have the ‘largest’ regions for each country.
there is actually a standard list of these divisions, ISO 3166-2
yes, but I’m not going by that 🙂 didn’t want any with tons of divisions – some first-level are well over 100.
I was robbed of the answer for Uzbekistan because it didn’t accept a K instead of a Q. The K is much more common in English.
will add that as an answer