Guidelines for addressing a place?

Question

Is there an order we should observed? Like smallest to the biggest, from a house number to a Country there are state, city, county,province,area, road, streets, lanes etc.. which is bigger and which are smaller? Is a prefecture bigger than a province? Would someone list from smallest to the biggest. Thanks..

Answer 1

wikipedia has some neat things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrat...

I'm afraid your question can't be answered fully because there's no set rule to determine, in a strict order which is the biggest/smallest. The use of these terms sometimes is contrasting from country to country. What is big somewhere may not be so big elsewhere.

For example:In many countries, a province is a relatively small non-constituent level of sub-national government (similar to a county in many English-speaking countries). In others it is an autonomous level of government and constituent part of a federation or confederation, often with a large area (similar to a US state)