| LIMOUSIN | A former administrative region of West-Central France, the capital of which was Limoges (8) |
| AUXERRE | Town in central France, the capital of the Yonne department (7) |
| TRANSKEI | A former Xhosa homeland in South Africa, the capital of which was Umtata (8) |
| LAZIO | Administrative region of west central Italy of which Rome is the capital (5) |
| WESTGERMANY | Former European republic formed in May 1949, the capital of which was Bonn (4,7) |
| SHIRE | (British) A former administrative district of England. |
| RIDING | A former administrative division of Yorkshire (6) |
| ISERE | A department of South East France, the capital of which is Grenoble (5) |
| REIMS | In France, the capital of the Grand Est region (5) |
| AUVERGNE | Former administrative region of France comprising the departments of Allier, Puy de Dome, Cantal and Haute Loire |
| POITIERS | The site of major battle in west-central France (1356) (8) |
| HONGKONG | Special Administrative Region of China which was formerly a British Crown Colony (4,4) |
| CANALZONE | Former administrative region of the U.S. on the Isthmus of Panama (5,4) |
| AYRSHIRE | Former administrative county of SW Scotland whose towns included Dalry and Beith (8) |
| PARTSOFKESTEVEN | Former administrative region of Lincolnshire from which the baronetcy created for Margaret Thatcher in 1992 is named (5,2,8) |
| GALLOWAY | Dumfries and ___, administrative region of south-west Scotland (8) |
| THESSALY | Administrative region of Greece once known as Aeolia (8) |
| TAYSIDE | Former administrative region of central eastern Scotland (7) |
| AYMARA | Indigenous people (and language) of the Altiplano region of west-central South America, once subject to the Inca empire (6) |
| TUSCANY | Region of west central Italy on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas; capital, Florence (7) |
