Info about Canadian counties and county equivalents

Canada is not as organized as the U.S. (I mean that in the legal sense). The oldest, eastern provinces typically have named county subdivisions like most U.S. states. In Quebec, these subdivisions are called "regional county municipalities" (municipalité régionale de comté). The younger, western provinces have "regional municipalities" or "regional districts" or "census divisions", which may be named or numbered. The boundaries of these subdivisions are generally more dynamic than in the U.S., especially in the west and in the northern, sparsely populated areas of other provinces. Wikipedia has an article on the structure of each province and territory.

Unlabeled map of all Canadian counties and county equivalents. Based on this image from Wikipedia.
A large (~2M) but labeled map of counties in Eastern Canada. (originally from atlas.nrcan.gc.ca)
Municipalities, counties, and districts of Ontario.
Regional county municipalities of Quebec, unlabeled. You could look here or here to try at attach names to all the RCM's.
County map of New Brunswick.
An unlabeled map of the census divisions of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Counties of Prince Edward Island. Unlabeled, but from west to east the county names are Prince County, Queens County, and Kings County.
Counties of Nove Scotia. And a higher quality PDF file with cities and major highways.
Counties of all the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia).
Numbered census divisions of Manitoba.
Numbered census divisions of Saskatchewan.
Census divisions of Alberta.
Regional districts of British Columbia, with links to more detailed maps of each district.

Canadian fast facts

The entire territory of the Yukon is treated as a single census division.

Canada maps on thie site

County outlines imposed on Google maps are now available on this site.

Blank county outline maps for Canada.

Info about Mexican subdivision maps

Mexico has 31 states (estados) plus the Federal District (Distrito Federal), which are further subdivided into municipalities (municipios). I was able to find on-line maps showing boundaries for some of these states.

In addition, the web site of the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes has detailed PDF files for the Mexican estados that show the outlines of the municipios (hat tip to Joe Isham for the pointer and for the updated pointer).

Boroughs (delegacions) of the Federal District.
Municipios de Aguascalientes (Spanish).
Municipalities of Baja California.
Municipalities of Baja California Sur.
Municipalities of Guanajuato.
Municipalities of Jalisco (not labeled).
División Municipal de Nuevo León (Spanish).
Municipalities of Zacatecas (not labeled).

Mexican fast facts

The state of Oaxaca is divided into 570 municipalities (municipios), the most of any Mexican state.
The largest municipality by area is Ensenada in Baja California, which at over 20,000 mi² is comparable in size to San Bernardino County in California.

If you find any more links or fun facts about Canadian and Mexican subdivisions, I would appreciate if you would tell me about them at mobrule@gmail.com.

Thanks! Last modified: Thu Jan 5 18:04:54 PST 2012