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Archipelago vs Prefecture - What's the difference?

archipelago | prefecture |

As nouns the difference between archipelago and prefecture

is that archipelago is a group of islands while prefecture is prefecture.

archipelago

English

Noun

(wikipedia archipelago) (en-noun)
  • A group of islands.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
    • For many years past the whaleship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed.
  • Something scattered around like an archipelago.
    • The Gulag Archipelago

    Related terms

    * archipelagic English words prefixed with archi- ----

    prefecture

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The office or position of a prefect.
  • The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French and Japanese administrative divisions.
  • (historical) , a former administrative division of imperial China.

    • Derived terms

    * (adj) prefectural