Andalusia in the 1833 territorial division of Spain. Each of the Andalusian provinces bears the same name as its capital: Andalusia is traditionally divided into two historical subregions: Upper Andalusia" or "Eastern Andalusia ("Andalucía Oriental"), consisting of the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén, and Málaga, and Lower Andalusia" or "Western Andalusia ("Andalucía Occidental"), consisting of the provinces of Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva and Seville. Within the various autonomous communities of Spain, "comarcas" are comparable to shires (or, in some countries, counties) in the English-speaking world. Unlike in some of Spain's other autonomous communities, under the original 1981 Statute of Autonomy, the "comarcas"
Four Kingdoms of Andalusia almost exactly the same territory as the present day Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. The name was used in some contexts at least since the middle of the 18th century. Some works and documents that use the designation are the "Juzgados militares de España y sus Indias" (1792), the "Prontuario de las leyes y decretos del Rey nuestro Señor Don José Napoleon I" (1810), and "Breves tratados de esfera y geografía universal" (1833), among many others. Four Kingdoms of Andalusia The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia (Spanish: "cuatro reinos de Andalucía" or, in 18th-century orthography, "quatro reynos del Andaluzia") was a