This is a list of country subdivisions named after people. It details the name of the country subdivision and eponym. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the administrative division. This is a summary from List of etymologies of country subdivision names. Australia Jervis Bay TerritoryJohn Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent QueenslandQueen Victoria TasmaniaAbel Tasman VictoriaQueen Victoria Bermuda Devonshire ParishWilliam Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire Hamilton ParishJames Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton Paget ParishWilliam Paget, 4th Baron Paget de Beaudesert Pembroke ParishWilliam Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke St. George's ParishSt. George Sandys ParishSir Edwin Sandys Smith's ParishSir Thomas Smith (English aristocrat) Southampton ParishHenry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton Warwick ParishRobert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick Brazil RondôniaMarshal Cândido Rondon Santa CatarinaSaint Catherine São PauloSaint Paul Canada This is a summary of Canadian provincial name etymologies. AlbertaPrincess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria British ColumbiaChristopher Columbus (-> Columbia, an American sailing ship -> Columbia River -> Columbia Territory of Hudson's Bay Company -> British Columbia) Prince Edward IslandPrince Edward, Duke of Kent (brother of George III of the United Kingdom), commander of British forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia Chile Santiago Metropolitan RegionSaint James the Greater O'Higgins RegionBernardo O'Higgins Aisén (region)Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (officially, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region) Magallanes RegionFerdinand Magellan Colombia BogotáBacatáan indigenous cacique (emperor) Bolívar DepartmentSimón Bolívar Caldas DepartmentFrancisco José de Caldas Nariño DepartmentAntonio Nariño Norte de Santander DepartmentFrancisco de Paula Santander Santander DepartmentFrancisco de Paula Santander Sucre DepartmentAntonio José de Sucre Córdoba DepartmentJosé María Córdoba Dominican Republic DuarteJuan Pablo Duarte EspaillatUlises Francisco Espaillat (author and president) María Trinidad SánchezMaría Trinidad Sánchez (female soldier) Monseñor NouelMonseñor Dr. Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (archbishop and president) Sánchez RamírezBrigadier Juan Sánchez Ramírez Ecuador BolívarSimón Bolívar Estonia Valgafrom German family names de Walco or de Walko. France Adélie LandAdélie, wife of Jules Dumont d'Urville Kerguelen IslandsYves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec Lorraine (formerly Lotharingia)Lothar Saint-Pierre and MiquelonSt. Peter Wallis and FutunaSamuel Wallis Ireland County KilkennyCainnech of Aghaboe County OffalyFailge Berraide County RoscommonComan mac Faelchon County TyroneEógan mac Néill Italy Aosta ValleyAugustus Emilia-RomagnaMarcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 BC) Friuli Venezia GiuliaJulius Caesar Jamaica Clarendon ParishEdward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Hanover ParishGeorge I of Great Britain, of the House of Hanover Saint Ann ParishLady Anne Hyde (first wife of James II of England) Saint Elizabeth ParishElizabeth Modyford (wife of Sir Thomas Modyford, 1st Baronet,