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Federated states of various types exist within many of the modern federal states (represented in green color)

A federated state (also state, province, region, canton, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. A federated state does not have sovereignty since powers are divided between the other federated states and the federal government. Federated states are different from sovereign states.

Importantly, federated states do not have standing as entities of international law. Instead, the federal union as a single entity is the sovereign state for purposes of international law. 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.

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). In other cases, federated states have been created out of the administrative divisions of previously unitary states. 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. 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).

List of constituents by federation

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 23 provinces: 1 autonomous city:
 Australia 6 states: 3 internal territories:
7 external territories:
 Austria 9 states:
 Belgium 3 regions:
3 communities:
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 entities: 1 self-governing district:
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is itself a federation of 10 cantons:
 Brazil 26 states:
1 federal district:
 Canada 10 provinces: 3 territories:
 Comoros 3 islands:
 Ethiopia 12 regions: 2 chartered cities:
 Germany 16 states:
 India 28 states: 8 union territories:
 Iraq 19 governorates: 1 autonomous region:
 Malaysia 13 states: 3 federal territories:
 Mexico 31 states:
1 autonomous city:
 Micronesia 4 states:
   Nepal 7 provinces:
 Nigeria 36 states: 1 territory:
 Pakistan 4 provinces: 2 autonomous territories:
1 federal territory:

 Islamabad Capital Territory

 Russia 48 oblasts:
24 republics:
9 krais:
4 autonomous okrugs:
3 federal cities:
1 autonomous oblast:
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1 autonomous island:
Saint Kitts:
 Somalia 5 federal member states:
 South Sudan 10 states: 3 administrative areas:
 Sudan 18 states: 1 special administrative status area:
  Switzerland 26 cantons:
 United Arab Emirates 7 emirates:
 United States 50 states: 1 federal district:
1 incorporated territory:
13 unincorporated territories:
 Venezuela 23 states: 1 capital district:
1 federal dependency:

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