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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prefectural

1807, from prefecture + -al (1).

Wiktionary
prefectural

a. Of, pertaining to or at the level of a prefecture

WordNet
prefectural

adj. of or relating to a prefecture; "a prefectural museum"

Usage examples of "prefectural".

The great audience chamber of the Prefectural Palace was literally packed with people.

Before becoming a monk, he had distinguished himself as a licentiate in the Chuzhou prefectural school.

At each prefectural or county town he came to, he stayed several months.

It was one afternoon during the spring, about a year after the end of the war, while I was on my way back from picking up medicine for little Juntaro at the Kamigyo Prefectural Hospital.

During the final two years before Gion closed, there was a man named Sato who used to go to parties as a guest of the Prefectural Governor.