Terms used to describe oblasts in post-Soviet countries
The oblasts in other post-Soviet countries are officially called:
- Armenia: marz (see provinces of Armenia)
- Bulgaria: oblast (област) (see provinces of Bulgaria)
- Belarus: voblast (vobłaść) (see provinces of Belarus)
- Georgia: mkhare (see administrative divisions of Georgia)
- Kazakhstan: oblys (see provinces of Kazakhstan)
- Kyrgyzstan: oblast (see provinces of Kyrgyzstan)
- Tajikistan: viloyat (see provinces of Tajikistan)
- Turkmenistan: welayat (see provinces of Turkmenistan)
- Uzbekistan: viloyat (see provinces of Uzbekistan)
Viloyat and welayat are derived from the Arabic language term wilāya (ولاية)