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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> 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id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Province</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 142 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-142" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">142 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ace mw-list-item"><a href="https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinsi" title="Propinsi – Acehnese" lang="ace" hreflang="ace" data-title="Propinsi" data-language-autonym="Acèh" data-language-local-name="Acehnese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Acèh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsie" title="Provinsie – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Provinsie" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Afrikaans</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinz" title="Provinz – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Provinz" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85" title="إقليم – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="إقليم" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A6" title="Մարզ – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Մարզ" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet%C3%A3mini" title="Tetãmini – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Tetãmini" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jisk%27a_suyu" title="Jisk'a suyu – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Jisk'a suyu" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aymar aru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilay%C9%99t" title="Vilayət – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Vilayət" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="اوستان – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="اوستان" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinsi" title="Propinsi – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Propinsi" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B6" title="প্রদেশ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="প্রদেশ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paropinsi" title="Paropinsi – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Paropinsi" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinsi" title="Propinsi – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Propinsi" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Провинция – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Провинция" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Правінцыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Правінцыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Правінцыя – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Правінцыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF_(%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4)" title="राज्य (प्रांत) – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="राज्य (प्रांत)" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probinsya" title="Probinsya – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Probinsya" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Провинция – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Провинция" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%9E%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%93" title="ཞིང་ཆེན – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཞིང་ཆེན" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrajina" title="Pokrajina – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Pokrajina" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provi%C3%B1s" title="Proviñs – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Proviñs" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prov%C3%ADncia" title="Província – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Província" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BB" title="Ил – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ил" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalawigan" title="Lalawigan – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Lalawigan" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincie" title="Provincie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Provincie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chavacano de Zamboanga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhu" title="Dunhu – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Dunhu" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruvincia" title="Pruvincia – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Pruvincia" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provins" title="Provins – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Provins" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85" title="إقليم – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="إقليم" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinz" title="Provinz – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Provinz" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provints" title="Provints – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Provints" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%86%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1" title="Περιφέρεια – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Περιφέρεια" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinco" title="Provinco – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Provinco" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probintzia" title="Probintzia – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Probintzia" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="استان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="استان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province" title="Province – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Province" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsje" title="Provinsje – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Provinsje" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queiggey" title="Queiggey – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Queiggey" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AA%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%A4" title="પ્રાંત – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="પ્રાંત" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9n" title="Sén – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Sén" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%EB%B9%88%EC%8A%A4" title="프로빈스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="프로빈스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%AB%D5%B6%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Պրովինցիա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Պրովինցիա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4" title="प्रांत – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="प्रांत" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrajina" title="Pokrajina – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Pokrajina" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gor mw-list-item"><a href="https://gor.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsi" title="Provinsi – Gorontalo" lang="gor" hreflang="gor" data-title="Provinsi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Hulontalo" data-language-local-name="Gorontalo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Hulontalo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probinsia" title="Probinsia – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Probinsia" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsi" title="Provinsi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Provinsi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%94" title="פרובינציה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="פרובינציה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsi" title="Provinsi – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Provinsi" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A4" title="ಪ್ರಾಂತ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಪ್ರಾಂತ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="პროვინცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="პროვინცია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Провинция – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Провинция" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo" title="Jimbo – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Jimbo" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%AAzgeh" title="Parêzgeh – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Parêzgeh" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Провинция – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Провинция" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsia" title="Provinsia – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Provinsia" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladino</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province" title="Province – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Province" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincija" title="Provincija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Provincija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsa" title="Provinsa – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Provinsa" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincie" title="Provincie – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Provincie" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C9%94l%C9%94v%C9%9B%CC%81si" title="Pɔlɔvɛ́si – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Pɔlɔvɛ́si" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartom%C3%A1ny" title="Tartomány – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Tartomány" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Покраина – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Покраина" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faritany" title="Faritany – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Faritany" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4" title="प्रांत – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="प्रांत" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9E%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="პროვინცია – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="პროვინცია" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="استان – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="استان" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsi" title="Provinsi – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Provinsi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsi" title="Provinsi – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Provinsi" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%93ng" title="Sēng – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Sēng" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porb%C3%ADncia" title="Porbíncia – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Porbíncia" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F%D1%81%D1%8C" title="Провинциясь – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Провинциясь" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%83%D0%B6" title="Муж – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Муж" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA" title="ပြည်နယ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ပြည်နယ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueyaltepetl" title="Hueyaltepetl – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="Hueyaltepetl" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincie" title="Provincie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Provincie" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervincie" title="Pervincie – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="Pervincie" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nedersaksies</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6" title="प्रदेश – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="प्रदेश" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4" title="प्रान्त – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="प्रान्त" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9" title="プロヴィンス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="プロヴィンス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruvincia" title="Pruvincia – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="Pruvincia" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Провинци – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Провинци" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provins" title="Provins – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Provins" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provins" title="Provins – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Provins" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinche" title="Provinche – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="Provinche" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsiya" title="Provinsiya – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Provinsiya" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%A4" title="ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%81" title="صوبہ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="صوبہ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinsia" title="Provinsia – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Provinsia" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA" title="ولايت – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ولايت" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%81%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%8F%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%8F" title="ខេត្ត – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="ខេត្ត" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia" title="Provincia – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Provincia" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prowincja_(podzia%C5%82_administracyjny)" title="Prowincja (podział administracyjny) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Prowincja (podział administracyjny)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prov%C3%ADncia" title="Província – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Província" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincie" title="Provincie – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Provincie" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puruwinsiya" title="Puruwinsiya – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Puruwinsiya" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Провинция – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Провинция" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%81" title="صوبہ – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="صوبہ" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سرائیکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prov%C3%ACntzia" title="Provìntzia – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Provìntzia" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porofense" title="Porofense – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="Porofense" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tn mw-list-item"><a href="https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porofinsi" title="Porofinsi – Tswana" lang="tn" hreflang="tn" data-title="Porofinsi" data-language-autonym="Setswana" data-language-local-name="Tswana" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Setswana</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinca" title="Provinca – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Provinca" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruvincia" title="Pruvincia – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Pruvincia" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province" title="Province – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Province" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88" title="صوبو – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="صوبو" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrajina" title="Pokrajina – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Pokrajina" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prowincyjo" title="Prowincyjo – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Prowincyjo" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8E%D8%B2%DA%AF%D8%A7" title="پارێزگا – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="پارێزگا" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Покрајина – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Покрајина" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrajina" title="Pokrajina – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Pokrajina" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propinsi" title="Propinsi – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Propinsi" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maakunta" title="Maakunta – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Maakunta" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provins" title="Provins – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Provins" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalawigan" title="Lalawigan – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Lalawigan" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" title="மாகாணம் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="மாகாணம்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Провинция – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Провинция" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94" title="จังหวัด – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="จังหวัด" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Устон – Tajik" 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The term derives from the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Roman">ancient Roman</a> <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">provincia</a></i></span>, which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire's</a> territorial possessions outside <a href="/wiki/Roman_Italy" title="Roman Italy">Italy</a>. The term <i>province</i> has since been adopted by many countries. In some countries with no actual provinces, "the provinces" is a metaphorical term meaning "outside the <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital city</a>". </p><p>While some provinces were produced artificially by <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">colonial powers</a>, others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities. Many have their own powers independent of central or <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federal</a> authority, especially <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Canada">in Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. In other countries, like <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">China</a> or <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_France" title="Administrative divisions of France">France</a>, provinces are the creation of central government, with very little autonomy. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> word <i>province</i> is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century <a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a> <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">province</i></span>, which itself comes from the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> word <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">provincia</i></span>, which referred to the sphere of authority of a <a href="/wiki/Magistrate" title="Magistrate">magistrate</a>, in particular, to a foreign territory. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Popular_etymology" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular etymology">popular etymology</a> is from <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">pro-</i></span> ("on behalf of") and <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">vincere</i></span> ("to triumph" or "to take control of"). Thus a "province" would be a territory or function that a <a href="/wiki/Roman_magistrate" title="Roman magistrate">Roman magistrate</a> held control of on behalf of his government. In fact, the word <i>province</i> is an ancient term from public law, which means: "office belonging to a magistrate". This agrees with the Latin term's earlier usage as a generic term for a jurisdiction under <a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Roman law</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_and_culture">History and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png/220px-The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png/330px-The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png/440px-The_Roman_Empire_ca_400_AD.png 2x" data-file-width="4339" data-file-height="2689" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">administrative divisions</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 395</span></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, the expression <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">en province</i></span> still means "outside the <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> region". Equivalent expressions are used in <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> (<span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">en provincias</i></span>, "outside the city of <a href="/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a>"), <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> (<span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">la provincia</i></span>, "lands outside <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>"), <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> (<span title="Romanian-language text"><i lang="ro">în provincie</i></span>, "outside the <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a> region"), <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> (<span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">prowincjonalny</i></span>, "provincial"), <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> (<span title="Bulgarian-language text"><span lang="bg">в провинцията</span></span>, <span title="Bulgarian-language romanization"><i lang="bg-Latn">v provincijata</i></span>, "in the provinces" and <span title="Bulgarian-language text"><span lang="bg">провинциален</span></span>, <span title="Bulgarian-language romanization"><i lang="bg-Latn">provincialen</i></span>, "provincial") and the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> (<span title="Filipino-language text"><i lang="fil">taga-probinsiya</i></span>, "from outside <a href="/wiki/Metro_Manila" title="Metro Manila">Metro Manila</a>", <span title="Filipino-language text"><i lang="fil">sa probinsiya</i></span>, "in the provinces", or "in the countryside"). </p><p>Before the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, France comprised a variety of jurisdictions (built around the early <a href="/wiki/House_of_Capet" title="House of Capet">Capetian</a> royal <a href="/wiki/Demesne" title="Demesne">demesne</a>), some being considered "provinces", though the term was also used colloquially for territories as small as a <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manor</a> (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A2tellenie" class="mw-redirect" title="Châtellenie">châtellenie</a></i></span>). Most commonly referred to as "provinces", however, were the <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Grands Gouvernements</i></span>, generally former medieval feudal principalities, or agglomerations of such. Today the expression <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">en province</i></span> is regularly replaced in the media by the more politically correct <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">en région</i></span>, <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">région</i></span> now being the term officially used for the secondary level of government. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">in provincia</i></span> generally means "outside the biggest regional capitals" (like <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a>, etc.). </p><p>For the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> use of the word is often pejorative, assuming a <a href="/wiki/Stereotype" title="Stereotype">stereotype</a> of the denizens of the provinces to be less culturally aware than those in the capital.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The historic European provinces—built up of many small regions, called <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">pays</i></span> by the French and "<a href="/wiki/Swiss_canton" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss canton">cantons</a>" by the Swiss, each with a local cultural identity and focused upon a <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a>—have been depicted by <a href="/wiki/Fernand_Braudel" title="Fernand Braudel">Fernand Braudel</a> as the optimum-size political unit in pre-industrial <a href="/wiki/Early_Modern_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Modern Europe">Early Modern Europe</a>. He asks, "Was the province not its inhabitants' true '<a href="/wiki/Fatherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatherland">fatherland</a>'?"<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even centrally-organized France, an early <a href="/wiki/Nation-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation-state">nation-state</a>, could collapse into autonomous provincial worlds under pressure, as during the sustained crisis of the <a href="/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" title="French Wars of Religion">French Wars of Religion</a> (1562–98). </p><p>The British colonies in North America were often named provinces. Most (but not all) of the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> that eventually formed the United States were called provinces.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All declared themselves "states" when they became independent. The <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Colony" title="Connecticut Colony">Connecticut Colony</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Delaware_Colony" title="Delaware Colony">Delaware Colony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Rhode_Island_and_Providence_Plantations" title="Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations">Rhode Island</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Colony of Virginia</a> never used the title "province". The British colonies further north, which remained loyal to Britain and later <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Confederation" title="Canadian Confederation">confederated</a> to form the original <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, retained the title of "province" and are still known as such to the present day. </p><p>To 19th- and 20th-century historians, in Europe, <a href="/wiki/Centralized_government" title="Centralized government">centralized government</a> was a sign of modernity and political maturity. In the late 20th century, as the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> drew <a href="/wiki/Nation-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation-state">nation-states</a> closer together, centripetal forces seemed simultaneously to move countries toward more flexible systems of more localized, provincial governing entities under the overall European Union umbrella. <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> after <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a> has been a "State of Autonomies", formally unitary but in fact functioning as a federation of <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Communities_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous Communities of Spain">Autonomous Communities</a>, each exercising different powers. (See <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Spain" title="Politics of Spain">Politics of Spain</a>.) </p><p>While <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>, the rump of former <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, fought the separatists in the province of <a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, under the political principle of "<a href="/wiki/Devolution" title="Devolution">devolution</a>", produced (1998) local <a href="/wiki/Parliament" title="Parliament">parliaments</a> in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient India">ancient India</a>, unlike the <a href="/wiki/Maurya_Empire" title="Maurya Empire">Mauryas</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Gupta_Empire" title="Gupta Empire">Gupta Empire</a> gave local areas a great deal of independence and divided the empire into 26 large provinces, styled as Bhukti, Pradesha and Bhoga. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_aspects">Legal aspects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legal aspects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In many <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federations</a> and <a href="/wiki/Confederation" title="Confederation">confederations</a>, the province or state is not clearly subordinate to the national or central government. Rather, it is considered to be <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereign</a> in regard to its particular set of constitutional functions. The central- and provincial-government functions, or areas of jurisdiction, are identified in a <a href="/wiki/Constitution" title="Constitution">constitution</a>. Those that are not specifically identified are called "residual powers". In a decentralized federal system (such as the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>) these residual powers lie at the provincial or state level, whereas in a centralized federal system (such as <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>) they are retained at the federal level. </p><p>Some of the <a href="/wiki/Enumerated_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Enumerated power">enumerated powers</a> can be quite important. For example, <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">Canadian provinces</a> are sovereign in regard to such important matters as <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a>, <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a>, <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Social welfare">social welfare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Medical_services" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical services">medical services</a>. The growth of the modern <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state" title="Welfare state">welfare state</a> has resulted in these functions, <a href="/wiki/Section_92_of_the_Constitution_Act,_1867" title="Section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867">assigned to the provinces</a>, becoming more important compared to those <a href="/wiki/Section_91_of_the_Constitution_Act,_1867" title="Section 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867">assigned to the federal government</a> and thus provincial governments have become more important than the <a href="/wiki/Fathers_of_Confederation" title="Fathers of Confederation">Fathers of Confederation</a> originally intended.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="needs to refer to a source that explains that provincial governments have become more important than the fathers of confederation originally intended (September 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Canada's status as a federation of provinces under the <a href="/wiki/Dominion" title="Dominion">Dominion</a> of the British Empire rather than an independent country also had certain legal implications. <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_Canada" title="History of the Supreme Court of Canada">Provinces could appeal court rulings</a> over the heads of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Canada" title="Supreme Court of Canada">Supreme Court of Canada</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Judicial_Committee_of_the_Privy_Council" title="Judicial Committee of the Privy Council">Judicial Committee of the Privy Council</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>. As well, provinces could bypass the Supreme Court and go directly to London from any <a href="/wiki/Provincial_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Provincial Court">Provincial Court</a>. The Canadian Supreme Court tended to support the view that the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Constitution">Canadian Constitution</a> was intended to create a powerful central government, but the Privy Council in London held the distinctly opposite view that the Constitution provided for stronger provincial powers. This provided an opportunity for <a href="/wiki/Forum_shopping" title="Forum shopping">forum shopping</a> for provinces who opposed federal laws. Until appeals from Canada to the Privy Council were abolished in 1949, in legal disputes the provincial governments tended to win powers at the expense of the federal government. </p><p>In addition, while the Canadian federal government has unlimited taxing power while province governments are restricted to imposing <a href="/wiki/Direct_taxes" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct taxes">direct taxes</a>, the Canadian government introduced an <a href="/wiki/Income_tax" title="Income tax">income tax</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, and since it is a direct tax it also became a major revenue generator for provinces. In most provinces, the federal government now collects income tax for both levels of government and transfers to the provincial governments whatever surcharge they ask for. The <a href="/wiki/Sales_tax" title="Sales tax">sales tax</a> also become a major revenue generator for provinces, so in 1991 the Canadian government introduced a <a href="/wiki/Goods_and_Services_Tax_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Goods and Services Tax (Canada)">Goods and Services Tax</a> (GST) to share the revenues, which proved unpopular both with provincial governments and taxpayers. The Canadian government has tried to harmonize the two levels of sales taxes, but three provinces continue to impose a separate sales tax (British Columbia after harmonizing it, and shortly thereafter de-harmonizing it after it was struck down by a referendum), while the province of Alberta still does not impose a provincial sales tax. </p><p>The evolution of federations has created an inevitable tug-of-war between concepts of federal supremacy versus states' and provinces' rights. The historic division of responsibility in federal constitutions is inevitably subject to multiple overlaps. For example, when central governments, responsible for <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy" title="Foreign policy">foreign policy</a>, enter into international agreements in areas where the state or province is sovereign, such as the environment or health standards, agreements made at the national level can create jurisdictional overlap and conflicting laws. This overlap creates the potential for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Internal_dispute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Internal dispute (page does not exist)">internal disputes</a> that lead to <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_amendment" title="Constitutional amendment">constitutional amendments</a> and judicial decisions that alter the balance of powers. </p><p>Though foreign affairs do not usually fall under a province's or a federal state's competency, some states allow them to legally conduct international relations on their own in matters of their constitutional prerogative and essential interest. Sub-national authorities have a growing interest in <a href="/wiki/Paradiplomacy" title="Paradiplomacy">paradiplomacy</a>, be it performed under a legal framework or as a trend informally admitted as legitimate by the central authorities. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">unitary states</a> such as <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, provinces are subordinate to the national, central government. In theory, the central government can create or abolish provinces within its jurisdiction. On the other hand, although Canada is now considered a <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federal state</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and not a <a href="/wiki/Confederation" title="Confederation">confederation</a>, in practice it is among the world's more <a href="/wiki/Decentralization" title="Decentralization">decentralized</a> federations.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Confederation" title="Canadian Confederation">Canadian Confederation</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Act,_1867" title="Constitution Act, 1867">Constitution Act, 1867</a> conferred considerable power on the provincial governments which they often use to pursue their own goals independently of the federal government. </p><p>In Canada, local governments have been called "creatures of the province" because the authority of a local government derives solely from the provincial government. Provinces can create, merge, and dissolve local governments without the consent of the federal government or the people in the affected locality.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alberta in particular dissolved and merged <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipal_districts_in_Alberta" title="List of municipal districts in Alberta">hundreds of local governments</a> during the 1940s and 1950s as a consequence of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>. Other provinces have arbitrarily merged and annexed independent suburbs to major Canadian cities such as <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> or <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> without the approval of local voters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_provinces">Current provinces</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Current provinces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions">Administrative divisions</a></div> <p>Not all first-level political entities are termed "provinces." In <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> countries, the first administrative level of government—called a <i>muhafazah</i>—is usually translated as a "<a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">governorate</a>." In <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, the equivalent of "province" is "<i><a href="/wiki/Voivodeships_of_Poland" title="Voivodeships of Poland">województwo</a></i>," sometimes rendered in English as "<a href="/wiki/Voivodeship" title="Voivodeship">voivodeship</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historically, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> was divided into <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_New_Zealand" title="Provinces of New Zealand">provinces</a>, each with its own Superintendent and Provincial Council, and with considerable responsibilities conferred on them. However, the colony (as it then was) never developed into a federation; instead, the provinces were abolished in 1876. The old provincial boundaries continue to be used to determine the application of certain <a href="/wiki/Public_holiday" title="Public holiday">public holidays</a>. Over the years, when the central Government has created special-purpose agencies at a sub-national level, these have often tended to follow or approximate the old provincial boundaries. Current examples include the 16 <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_New_Zealand" title="Regions of New Zealand">Regions</a> into which New Zealand is divided, and also the 21 District Health Boards. Sometimes the term <i>the provinces</i> is used to refer collectively to rural and regional parts of New Zealand, that is, those parts of the country lying outside some or all of the "main centres"—<a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christchurch" title="Christchurch">Christchurch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamilton,_New_Zealand" title="Hamilton, New Zealand">Hamilton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dunedin" title="Dunedin">Dunedin</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_provinces">Modern provinces</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Modern provinces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pirkanmaa_Map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Pirkanmaa_Map.png/220px-Pirkanmaa_Map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Pirkanmaa_Map.png/330px-Pirkanmaa_Map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Pirkanmaa_Map.png/440px-Pirkanmaa_Map.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>A map of the <a href="/wiki/Pirkanmaa" title="Pirkanmaa">Pirkanmaa</a>, the regional province (<i><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Finland" title="Regions of Finland">maakunta</a></i>) in <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>, with the different colored <a href="/wiki/Sub-region" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-region">sub-regions</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In many countries, a province is a relatively small non-constituent level of sub-national government, such as a <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Counties of the United Kingdom">county in the United Kingdom</a>. In China, a province is a sub-national region within a unitary state; this means that a province can be created or abolished by the national people's congress. </p><p>In some nations, a province (or its equivalent) is a first-level administrative unit of sub-national government—as in the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands#Administrative_divisions" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>—and a large constituent autonomous area, as in <a href="/wiki/Argentina#Provinces" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="#Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa#Administrative_divisions" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Provinces" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>. It can also be a constituent element of a <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confederation" title="Confederation">confederation</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republic</a>. For example, in the <a href="/wiki/United_States#Political_divisions" title="United States">United States</a>, no <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> may <a href="/wiki/United_States#Civil_War_and_Reconstruction_Era" title="United States">secede</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Federal_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal union">federal Union</a> without the permission of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">federal government</a>. </p><p>In other nations—such as <a href="/wiki/Belgium#Communities_and_regions" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chile#Administrative_divisions" title="Chile">Chile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy#Administrative_divisions" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Philippines#Administrative_divisions" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Spain#Administrative_divisions" title="Spain">Spain</a>—a province is a second-level administrative sub-division of a <a href="/wiki/Region#Political_regions" title="Region">region</a> (which is the first-order administrative sub-division of the nation). <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> provinces are mainly named after their principal town and comprise several administrative sub-divisions called <i><a href="/wiki/Comune" title="Comune">comuni</a></i> (communes). In Chile, they are referred to as <i><a href="/wiki/Comuna" class="mw-redirect" title="Comuna">comunas</a></i>. Chile has <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Chile" title="Regions of Chile">15 regions</a>, subdivided into 53 provinces, of which each is run by a governor appointed by the president. Italy has <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Italy" title="Regions of Italy">20 regions</a>, subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_cities_of_Italy" title="Metropolitan cities of Italy">14 metropolitan cities</a> and <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Italy" title="Provinces of Italy">96 provinces</a>. Peru has <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Peru" title="Regions of Peru">25 regions</a>, subdivided into 194 provinces. Spain has <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">17 autonomous communities</a> and 2 autonomous cities, subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Spain" title="Provinces of Spain">50 provinces</a>. </p><p>The island of <a href="/wiki/Ireland#Politics" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> is divided into four historic provinces (see <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">Provinces of Ireland</a>), each of which is sub-divided into <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">counties</a>. These provinces are <a href="/wiki/Connacht" title="Connacht">Connacht</a> (in the west), <a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster</a> (in the east), <a href="/wiki/Munster" title="Munster">Munster</a> (in the south) and, <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> (in the north). Nowadays these provinces have little or no administrative function, though they do have <a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Ireland" title="Sport in Ireland">sporting</a> significance. </p><p>From the 19th century, the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" title="Portuguese Empire">Portuguese colonies</a> were considered overseas provinces of <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>. </p><p>Similarly, some overseas parts of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> bore the colonial title of "province" (in a more Roman sense), such as the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a> and the <a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">Province of South Australia</a> (the latter, to distinguish it from the penal "colonies" elsewhere in <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>). Likewise, prior to the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>, most of the original <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> in <a href="/wiki/British_America" title="British America">British America</a> were provinces as well, such as the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Georgia" title="Province of Georgia">Province of Georgia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_Hampshire" title="Province of New Hampshire">Province of New Hampshire</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The constituent entities of <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> are known as <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">provinces</a>. Prior to confederation, the term province was used in reference to several British colonies situated in Canada; such as the colonial <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Quebec_(1763%E2%80%931791)" title="Province of Quebec (1763–1791)">Province of Quebec</a>. In 1791, Quebec split into two separate colonies, the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada">Lower Canada</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a>. The two colonies were later merged in 1841 to form the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a>. From its separation from Nova Scotia in the 18th century, <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">New Brunswick</a> was known as His/Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. After <a href="/wiki/Canadian_confederation" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian confederation">Canadian confederation</a> in 1867, the term <i>provinces</i> continued to be used, in reference to the <a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">sub-national governments of Canada</a>. </p><p>Because Canada is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">second-largest country in the world by area</a>, but has only 10 provinces, most Canadian provinces are very large—<a href="/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_area" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Canadian provinces and territories by area">six of its ten provinces</a> are <a href="/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_area" title="List of European countries by area">larger than any country in Europe</a> except <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, and its largest province <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>—1,542,056 km<sup>2</sup> (595,391 sq mi)—is almost two and a half times as large as <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>—640,679 km<sup>2</sup> (247,368 sq mi). Six provinces, including five of the oldest Canadian provinces—<a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">New Brunswick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a>—have "counties" as administrative sub-divisions. The actual local government form can vary widely. In New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and in 9 of the 18 counties of Nova Scotia, county government has been abolished and has been superseded by another form of local government. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island also have parishes within counties. Since the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Act,_1867" title="Constitution Act, 1867">Canadian Constitution</a> assigns local government to provincial jurisdiction, the various provinces can create, dissolve, and reorganize local governments freely and they have been described as "creatures of the province". </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Western_provinces" class="mw-redirect" title="Western provinces">Western provinces</a> have more varied types of administrative sub-divisions than the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Canada" title="Eastern Canada">Eastern provinces</a>. The province of <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> has "regional districts" which function as county-equivalents. <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a> are divided into rural municipalities. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a> is also divided into counties, albeit they are officially classified as "municipal districts" by the province, though in regular everyday parlance these entities are referred to as a "county". The province of Alberta has some unique local governance schemes formed in response to local conditions. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Park" title="Sherwood Park">Sherwood Park</a> is an unincorporated "urban service area" of 72,017 within <a href="/wiki/Strathcona_County" title="Strathcona County">Strathcona County</a>, which has most of the oil refining capacity in Western Canada; <a href="/wiki/Fort_McMurray" title="Fort McMurray">Fort McMurray</a> was once a city but dissolved itself and became an "urban service area" of 70,964 people within the <a href="/wiki/Regional_Municipality_of_Wood_Buffalo" title="Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo">Regional Municipality (R.M.) of Wood Buffalo</a>, which has several multibillion-dollar <a href="/wiki/Oil_sands" title="Oil sands">oil sands</a> plants; and <a href="/wiki/Lloydminster" title="Lloydminster">Lloydminster</a>, a city of 31,483 which sits directly astride the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. Unlike most such cases, Lloydminster is not a pair of twin cities on opposite sides of a border, but is actually incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administration. The residents objected to the federal government splitting the city in two when it created the two provinces, so the two provinces reunified it by declaring it to be a single city in two provinces, thereby bypassing the limitations of federal boundaries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistan">Pakistan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Pakistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Pakistan">Provinces of Pakistan</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> is administratively divided into four provinces, which are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Punjab" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistani Punjab">Punjab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindh" title="Sindh">Sindh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balochistan" title="Balochistan">Balochistan</a></li></ul> <p>It also has two autonomous territories: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azad_Jammu_and_Kashmir" class="mw-redirect" title="Azad Jammu and Kashmir">Azad Jammu and Kashmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilgit_Baltistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilgit Baltistan">Gilgit Baltistan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia">Russia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term "province" is sometimes used to refer to the historic governorates (<i><a href="/wiki/Guberniya" class="mw-redirect" title="Guberniya">guberniyas</a></i>) of <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. This terms also refers to the <i>provinces</i> (<span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">провинции</span></span>), which were introduced as the subdivisions of the governorates in 1719 and existed until 1775. In modern parlance, the term is commonly used to refer to the <a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">oblasts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Krai" title="Krai">krais</a> of Russia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Polities_translated">Polities translated</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Polities translated"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Local name(s) </th> <th>Language </th> <th>Number of entities </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Afghanistan" title="Provinces of Afghanistan">Provinces of Afghanistan</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wilayat" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilayat">wilayat</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Pashto, Dari</a> </td> <td>34 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Algeria" title="Provinces of Algeria">Provinces of Algeria</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wilaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilaya">wilaya</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> </td> <td>48 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Angola" title="Provinces of Angola">Provinces of Angola</a> </td> <td><i>província</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> </td> <td>18 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Argentina" title="Provinces of Argentina">Provinces of Argentina</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>23 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Armenia">Provinces of Armenia</a> </td> <td><i>marz</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a> </td> <td>11 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Belarus" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Belarus">Provinces of Belarus</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Voblast" class="mw-redirect" title="Voblast">voblast</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_language" title="Belarusian language">Belarusian</a> </td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Belgium" title="Provinces of Belgium">Provinces of Belgium</a> (<a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Belgium#Provinces_of_the_Flemish_Region" title="Provinces of Belgium">Flemish Region</a>) </td> <td><i>provincie</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> </td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Belgium" title="Provinces of Belgium">Provinces of Belgium</a> (<a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Belgium#Provinces_of_the_Walloon_Region" title="Provinces of Belgium">Walloon Region</a>) </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Bolivia" title="Provinces of Bolivia">Provinces of Bolivia</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>100 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Bulgaria" title="Provinces of Bulgaria">Provinces of Bulgaria</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Oblast" title="Oblast">oblast</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a> </td> <td>28 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Burkina_Faso" title="Provinces of Burkina Faso">Provinces of Burkina Faso</a> </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>45 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Burundi" title="Provinces of Burundi">Provinces of Burundi</a> </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>17 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Cambodia" title="Provinces of Cambodia">Provinces of Cambodia</a> </td> <td><i>khaet</i> (ខេត្ត) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khmer_language" title="Khmer language">Khmer</a> </td> <td>24 + 1<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada" title="Provinces and territories of Canada">Provinces of Canada</a> </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Chile" title="Provinces of Chile">Provinces of Chile</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>54 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">Provinces of China</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">shěng</a></i> (省) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Chinese</a> </td> <td>23 + 35<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Costa_Rica" title="Provinces of Costa Rica">Provinces of Costa Rica</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Cuba" title="Provinces of Cuba">Provinces of Cuba</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>15 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo</a> </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>25 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Dominican_Republic" title="Provinces of the Dominican Republic">Provinces of the Dominican Republic</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>33 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ecuador" title="Provinces of Ecuador">Provinces of Ecuador</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>24 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Equatorial_Guinea" title="Provinces of Equatorial Guinea">Provinces of Equatorial Guinea</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Fiji" title="Provinces of Fiji">Provinces of Fiji</a> </td> <td><i>yasana</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fijian_language" title="Fijian language">Fijian</a> </td> <td>14 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Finland" title="Provinces of Finland">Provinces of Finland</a> </td> <td><i>läänit</i> or <i>län</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a> </td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Gabon" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Gabon">Provinces of Gabon</a> </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Georgia_(country)" title="Administrative divisions of Georgia (country)">Provinces of Georgia</a> </td> <td><i>mkhare</i> (მხარე) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgian Language">Georgian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abkhaz_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Abkhaz Language">Abkhazian</a> </td> <td>12 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Greece" title="Provinces of Greece">Provinces of Greece</a> </td> <td><i>επαρχία</i> (eparchia) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> </td> <td>73 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Indonesia" title="Provinces of Indonesia">Provinces of Indonesia</a> </td> <td><i>provinsi</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a> </td> <td>38 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Iran" title="Provinces of Iran">Provinces of Iran</a> </td> <td><i>ostan</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> </td> <td>31 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">Provinces of Ireland</a> </td> <td><i>cúige</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a> </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Italy" title="Provinces of Italy">Provinces of Italy</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> </td> <td>110 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Kazakhstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Kazakhstan">Provinces of Kazakhstan</a> </td> <td><i>oblys</i> (облыс) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kazakh_language" title="Kazakh language">Kazakh</a> </td> <td>14 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Kenya" title="Provinces of Kenya">Provinces of Kenya</a> </td> <td><i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>8 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Kyrgyzstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Kyrgyzstan">Provinces of Kyrgyzstan</a> </td> <td><i>oblus</i> (облус) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyz_language" title="Kyrgyz language">Kyrgyz</a> </td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Laos" title="Provinces of Laos">Provinces of Laos</a> </td> <td><i>khoueng</i> (ແຂວງ) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lao_language" title="Lao language">Lao</a> </td> <td>16 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Madagascar" title="Provinces of Madagascar">Provinces of Madagascar</a> </td> <td><i>faritany</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_language" title="Malagasy language">Malagasy</a> </td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Mongolia" title="Provinces of Mongolia">Provinces of Mongolia</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Aimag_(country_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aimag (country subdivision)">aimag</a></i> or <i>aymag</i> (Аймаг) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_language" title="Mongolian language">Mongolian</a> </td> <td>21 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Mozambique" title="Provinces of Mozambique">Provinces of Mozambique</a> </td> <td><i>província</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> </td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Nepal" title="Provinces of Nepal">Provinces of Nepal</a> </td> <td><i>pradesh</i> or <i>pranta</i> (प्रदेश/प्रान्त) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nepali_language" title="Nepali language">Nepali</a> </td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Netherlands" title="Provinces of the Netherlands">Provinces of the Netherlands</a> </td> <td><i>provincie</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> </td> <td>12 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_North_Korea" title="Provinces of North Korea">Provinces of North Korea</a> </td> <td><i>do</i> or <i>to</i> (도) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> </td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Norway" title="Administrative divisions of Norway">Administrative divisions of Norway</a> </td> <td><i>provins</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a> </td> <td>18 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Oman" title="Provinces of Oman">Provinces of Oman</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Wilaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilaya">wilaya</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> </td> <td>62 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Pakistan">Provinces of Pakistan</a> </td> <td><i>sûba</i>(صوبہ); plural: <i>sûbé</i> (صوبے) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Urdu_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Urdu language">Urdu</a> </td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Panama" title="Provinces of Panama">Provinces of Panama</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Papua_New_Guinea" title="Provinces of Papua New Guinea">Provinces of Papua New Guinea</a> </td> <td>province </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>19 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Peru" title="Provinces of Peru">Provinces of Peru</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>195 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">Provinces of the Philippines</a> </td> <td><i>lalawigan</i> or <i>probinsya</i>, <i>provincia</i>, <i>province</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Filipino_language" title="Filipino language">Filipino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>82 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Voivodeships_of_Poland" title="Voivodeships of Poland">Provinces of Poland</a> </td> <td><i>województwa</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a> </td> <td>16 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Romania" title="Counties of Romania">Provinces of Romania</a> </td> <td><i>provincii</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a> </td> <td>41 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Rwanda" title="Provinces of Rwanda">Provinces of Rwanda</a> </td> <td><i>intara</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kinyarwanda_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinyarwanda language">Kinyarwanda</a> </td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Provinces of Saudi Arabia">Provinces of Saudi Arabia</a> </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mintaqah" title="Mintaqah">mintaqah</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> </td> <td>13 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sierra_Leone" title="Provinces of Sierra Leone">Provinces of Sierra Leone</a> </td> <td>province </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Solomon_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of the Solomon Islands">Provinces of the Solomon Islands</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_South_Africa" title="Provinces of South Africa">Provinces of South Africa</a> </td> <td>province </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_South_Korea" title="Provinces of South Korea">Provinces of South Korea</a> </td> <td><i>do</i> or <i>to</i> (도/道) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> </td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Spain" title="Provinces of Spain">Provinces of Spain</a> </td> <td><i>provincia</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>50 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Provinces of Sri Lanka">Provinces of Sri Lanka</a> </td> <td>පළාත/palaatha,மாகாணம்/maahaanam & province </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Suriname" title="Districts of Suriname">Provinces of Suriname</a> </td> <td><i>provincie</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> </td> <td>10 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Tajikistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Tajikistan">Provinces of Tajikistan</a> </td> <td><i>viloyat</i> (вилоят), from <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Wilaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilaya">wilaya</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tajik_language" title="Tajik language">Tajik</a> </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Thailand" title="Provinces of Thailand">Provinces of Thailand</a> </td> <td><i>changwat</i> (จังหวัด) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a> </td> <td>76 + 1<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Tonga" title="Administrative divisions of Tonga">Provinces of Tonga</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Turkey" title="Provinces of Turkey">Provinces of Turkey</a> </td> <td><i>il</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> </td> <td>81 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Turkmenistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Turkmenistan">Provinces of Turkmenistan</a> </td> <td><i>welayat</i> (plural: <i>welayatlar</i>) from <i><a href="/wiki/Wilaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilaya">wilaya</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkmen_language" title="Turkmen language">Turkmen</a> </td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Ukraine">Provinces of Ukraine</a> </td> <td><i>oblast</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a> </td> <td>24 + 3<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Uzbekistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of Uzbekistan">Provinces of Uzbekistan</a> </td> <td><i>viloyat</i> (plural: <i>viloyatlar</i>) </td> <td>from <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Wilaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilaya">wilaya</a></i> </td> <td>12 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Vanuatu" title="Provinces of Vanuatu">Provinces of Vanuatu</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Vietnam" title="Provinces of Vietnam">Provinces of Vietnam</a> </td> <td><i>tỉnh</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a> </td> <td>58 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Zambia" title="Provinces of Zambia">Provinces of Zambia</a> </td> <td>province </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Zimbabwe" title="Provinces of Zimbabwe">Provinces of Zimbabwe</a> </td> <td>province </td> <td><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td>8 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historic_provinces">Historic provinces</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Historic provinces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient,_medieval_and_feudal"><span id="Ancient.2C_medieval_and_feudal"></span>Ancient, medieval and feudal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Ancient, medieval and feudal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> was divided into provinces (<i><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">provinciae</a></i>); this is from which the term originated. <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Later Eastern Half</a>: see <a href="/wiki/Exarchate" title="Exarchate">Exarchate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theme_(Byzantine_district)" title="Theme (Byzantine district)">thema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Caliphate</a> and subsequent <a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">sultanates</a>: see <a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khanate" title="Khanate">Khanate</a> can also mean a province as well as an independent state, as either can be headed by a Khan</li> <li>Pharaonic <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>: see <a href="/wiki/Nome_(Egypt)" title="Nome (Egypt)">nome (Egypt)</a></li> <li>Frankish (Carolingian) 're-founded' <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>: see <a href="/wiki/Gau_(country_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gau (country subdivision)">gau</a> and <a href="/wiki/County" title="County">county</a></li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Habsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Habsburg">Habsburg</a> territories, the traditional provinces are partly expressed in the <i>Länder</i> of 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal Empire</a>: <a href="/wiki/Subah_(province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Subah (province)">subah</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire">provinces of the Ottoman Empire</a> had various types of governors (generally a <a href="/wiki/Pasha" title="Pasha">pasha</a>), but mostly styled <a href="/wiki/Wali_(administrative_title)" title="Wali (administrative title)">vali</a>, hence the predominant term <i><a href="/wiki/Vilayet" title="Vilayet">vilayet</a></i>, generally subdivided (often in <a href="/wiki/Bey" title="Bey">beyliks</a> or <a href="/wiki/Sanjak" title="Sanjak">sanjaks</a>), sometimes grouped under a governor-general (styled <a href="/wiki/Beylerbey" title="Beylerbey">beylerbey</a>).</li> <li>Achaemenid <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a> (and probably before in Media, again after conquest and further extension by Alexander the Great, and in the larger Hellenistic <a href="/wiki/Successor_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Successor state">successor states</a>: see <a href="/wiki/Satrapy" class="mw-redirect" title="Satrapy">satrapy</a></li> <li>In the Tartar <a href="/wiki/Khanate_of_Kazan" title="Khanate of Kazan">Khanate of Kazan</a>: the five daruğa ('direction')</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colonial_and_early_modern">Colonial and early modern</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Colonial and early modern"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish empire">Spanish empire</a>, at several echelons: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty" title="Viceroyalty">viceroyalty</a> above</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intendencia" class="mw-redirect" title="Intendencia">intendencia</a></li></ul></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_the_Seven_United_Provinces" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of the Seven United Provinces">Republic of the Seven United Provinces</a> (<a href="/wiki/The_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="The Netherlands">The Netherlands</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British colonies</a>: <ul><li>American <a href="/wiki/Southern_Colonies" title="Southern Colonies">Southern Colonies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Carolina" title="Province of Carolina">Province of Carolina</a> (1629–1712)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_North_Carolina" title="Province of North Carolina">Province of North Carolina</a> (1712–1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_South_Carolina" title="Province of South Carolina">Province of South Carolina</a> (1712–1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Province of Maryland</a> (1632–1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Georgia" title="Province of Georgia">Province of Georgia</a> (1732–1777)</li></ul></li> <li>American <a href="/wiki/Middle_Colonies" title="Middle Colonies">Middle Colonies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_Jersey" title="Province of New Jersey">Province of New Jersey</a> (1664–1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">Province of New York</a> (1664–1783)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania" title="Province of Pennsylvania">Province of Pennsylvania</a> (1681–1783)</li></ul></li> <li>American <a href="/wiki/New_England_Colonies" title="New England Colonies">New England Colonies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_Hampshire" title="Province of New Hampshire">Province of New Hampshire</a> (1680–1686, 1692–1783)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay" title="Province of Massachusetts Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a> (1692–1776)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maine" title="Province of Maine">Province of Maine</a> (various dates)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada_(New_France)" title="Canada (New France)">Canada (New France)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Quebec_(1763%E2%80%931791)" title="Province of Quebec (1763–1791)">Province of Quebec (1763–1791)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Lower_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Lower Canada">Province of Lower Canada</a> (1791–1841)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Upper_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Province of Upper Canada">Province of Upper Canada</a> (1791–1841)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Province_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="United Province of Canada">United Province of Canada</a> (1841–1867)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Philippines" title="Provinces of the Philippines">Provinces of the Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_New_Zealand" title="Provinces of New Zealand">Provinces of New Zealand</a> (1841–1876)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Nigeria" title="Provinces of Nigeria">Provinces of Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Australia" title="South Australia">Province of South Australia</a> (<a href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia">Australian state</a> since 1901)</li></ul></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Brazil" title="Provinces of Brazil">provinces of Brazil</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_France" title="Provinces of France">provinces of France</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Provinces of India">provinces of India</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">provinces of Ireland</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Japan" title="Provinces of Japan">provinces of Japan</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Portugal" title="Provinces of Portugal">provinces of Portugal</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Prussia" title="Provinces of Prussia">provinces of Prussia</a>, a former <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">kingdom</a>/<a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republic</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Republic_of_New_Granada" title="Provinces of the Republic of New Granada">provinces of the Republic of New Granada</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">provinces of Sweden</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/United_Provinces_of_Central_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United Provinces of Central America">United Provinces of Central America</a></li> <li>The former <a href="/wiki/United_Provinces_of_South_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United Provinces of South America">United Provinces of the Río de la Plata</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governor" title="Governor">Governor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Region" title="Region">Region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provincialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Provincialism">Provincialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regionalism_(politics)" title="Regionalism (politics)">Regionalism (politics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rise:_The_Vieneo_Province" title="Rise: The Vieneo Province">Rise: The Vieneo Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pradesh" title="Pradesh">Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/-stan" title="-stan">-stan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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.id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190807184758/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/province">"Definition of the word Province including the British English derivation"</a>. Lexico. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/province">the original</a> on August 7, 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 7,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Definition+of+the+word+Province+including+the+British+English+derivation&rft.pub=Lexico&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexico.com%2Fen%2Fdefinition%2Fprovince&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvince" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Perspective of the World</i>, 1984, p. 284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3800.ar107003/">"A chorographical map of the Province of New-York in North America, divided into counties, manors, patents and townships; exhibiting likewise all the private grants of land made and located in that Province"</a>. Library of Congress<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 4,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+chorographical+map+of+the+Province+of+New-York+in+North+America%2C+divided+into+counties%2C+manors%2C+patents+and+townships%3B+exhibiting+likewise+all+the+private+grants+of+land+made+and+located+in+that+Province&rft.pub=Library+of+Congress&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fresource%2Fg3800.ar107003%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvince" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110405194326/http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/AboutParliament/Forsey/fed_state_01-e.asp">"How Canadians Govern Themselves,. 7th ed"</a>. .parl.gc.ca. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.parl.gc.ca/sites/lop/aboutparliament/forsey/fed_state_01-e.asp">the original</a> on April 5, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 8,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=How+Canadians+Govern+Themselves%2C.+7th+ed&rft.pub=.parl.gc.ca&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.parl.gc.ca%2Fsites%2Flop%2Faboutparliament%2Fforsey%2Ffed_state_01-e.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvince" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120315135026/http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/aia/index.asp?lang=eng&Page=archive&Sub=speeches-discours&Doc=19990422-eng.htm">"Collaborative Federalism in an era of globalization"</a>. Pco-bcp.gc.ca. April 22, 1999. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/aia/index.asp?lang=eng&Page=archive&Sub=speeches-discours&Doc=19990422-eng.htm">the original</a> on March 15, 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 8,</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Collaborative+Federalism+in+an+era+of+globalization&rft.pub=Pco-bcp.gc.ca&rft.date=1999-04-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pco-bcp.gc.ca%2Faia%2Findex.asp%3Flang%3Deng%26Page%3Darchive%26Sub%3Dspeeches-discours%26Doc%3D19990422-eng.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvince" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180915090718/http://portal.publicpolicy.utoronto.ca/EN/CONCEPTSANDTERMS/KLM/MUNICIPALITIESASCREATURESOFPROVINCES/Pages/default.aspx">"Municipalities as creatures of the provinces"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://portal.publicpolicy.utoronto.ca/EN/CONCEPTSANDTERMS/KLM/MUNICIPALITIESASCREATURESOFPROVINCES/Pages/default.aspx">the original</a> on September 15, 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Municipalities+as+creatures+of+the+provinces&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fportal.publicpolicy.utoronto.ca%2FEN%2FCONCEPTSANDTERMS%2FKLM%2FMUNICIPALITIESASCREATURESOFPROVINCES%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AProvince" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Also spelled "voivodship," "voi<i><b>e</b></i>vodship," "voi<i><b>e</b></i>vod<i><b>e</b></i>ship".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">76 provinces + 1 special governed district (Phnom Penh). However, Cambodian usually presume Phnom Penh as another province for convenience.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a> (PRC) claims it has 23 provinces, one of them being <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, which the PRC does not have control. The <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Republic of China</a> (frequently referred to as "Taiwan" or ROC) claims all 35 provinces but it only controls all of <a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Province" title="Taiwan Province">Taiwan Province</a> and several small islands of <a href="/wiki/Fujian_Province,_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Fujian Province, Republic of China">Fujian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hainan" title="Hainan">Hainan</a> Province.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">76 provinces + 1 special governed district (Bangkok). However, Thai people usually presume Bangkok as another province for convenience.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">24 oblasts, one autonomous republic, and two "cities with special status".</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Province&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=province&searchmode=none">Etymology Online</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrazer1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_George_Frazer" title="James George Frazer">Frazer, James George</a> (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Province"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Province">"Province" </a></span>. In <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 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title="Emirate">Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave" title="Enclave and exclave">Enclave and exclave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">Federal dependency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">Hamlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">Manor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_manor" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal manor">Royal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muftiate" title="Muftiate">Muftiate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neighbourhood" title="Neighbourhood">Neighbourhood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">Precinct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">Principality</a></li> <li><a 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