province

Etymology
From, from , , from , seemingly corresponding to and. Replaced Old English.

Noun

 * 1) A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
 * 2) An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
 * 3)  An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor or prefect.
 * 4)  An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
 * 5)  An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
 * 6)  The parts of a country outside its capital city.
 * 7)  A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
 * 8) An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
 * 1)  An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor or prefect.
 * 2)  An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
 * 3)  An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
 * 4)  The parts of a country outside its capital city.
 * 5)  A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
 * 6) An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
 * 1)  The parts of a country outside its capital city.
 * 2)  A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
 * 3) An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
 * 1)  A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
 * 2) An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.

Usage notes
Province is the generic English term for such primary divisions of a country, but is not used where another official term has widespread use, such as France's regions and departments, Switzerland's cantons, or the United States of America's and Australia's states. Territories and colonies are sometimes distinguished from provinces as unorganized areas of low or foreign population, which are not considered an integral part of the country. Sovereign subdivisions of a larger whole, such as the principalities of the former Holy Roman Empire or the countries within the European Union, are likewise not usually described as provinces.

Coordinate terms

 * ; ;  ;  ;  ; voivodeship (Poland)

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic: ክፍለ ሀገር
 * Arabic:, مُقَاطَعَة
 * Aragonese: probinzia
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, əyalət
 * Bashkir: өлкә
 * Belarusian: во́бласць, праві́нцыя
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central: probinsya
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: провинци, область
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 省份,
 * Dungan: сын
 * Eastern Min: 省
 * Hakka: 省份, 省
 * Hokkien: 省份,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Wu: 省
 * Chuvash: ил
 * Coptic: ⲉⲡⲁⲣⲭⲓⲁ, ⲑⲱϣ, ⲕⲁϩ
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ޕްރޮވިންސް
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: provinco
 * Estonian:
 * Extremaduran: província
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მხარე, პროვინცია, ოლქი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐπαρχία
 * Guaraní: okára
 * Gujarati: પ્રાંત
 * Hebrew: פְּרוֹבִינְצְיָה,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: skattland, hérað
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua: provincia
 * Irish: cúige, proibhinse
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  ,  ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: lalauigan
 * Kazakh: провинция,, облыс, уәлаят
 * Khmer: ,
 * Khmu:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پارێزگای
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:, , , ылаят,
 * Lao:, ຈັງຫວັດ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: province
 * Lithuanian: provincija
 * Lombard: proìnsa
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: provincie, proveensie, pervincie, perveensie, provinzie, pervinzie, provinsie
 * German Low German: Provinz
 * Lü: ᦵᦌᦲᧃ
 * Macedonian: покраина, провинција
 * Malay:  ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡤᠣᠯᠣ
 * Maori: porowini
 * Marathi: प्रांत
 * Mongolian:
 * Classical Mongolian: ᠮᠤᠵᠢ
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠭ, ᠮᠤᠵᠢ
 * Moore: provẽnse
 * Norman: provînche, provinche
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: provins
 * Nynorsk: provins
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: anaamayi'ii-aki
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: власть
 * Old East Slavic: волость, оболость
 * Old English: boldġetæl
 * Pangasinan: luyag
 * Pashto:, ايالت
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: marka
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Sardinian: provìntzia
 * Sassarese: prubìnzia
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̏бла̄ст, прови́нција, по̀крајина
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shan:
 * Silesian: prowincyjo
 * Slovak: oblasť, kraj, provincia
 * Slovene:, pokrajina
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: probinsiya,
 * Tajik: провинтсия,, устон
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:, провинция
 * Telugu: ప్రావిన్స్
 * Tetum: provínsia
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཞིང་ཆེན
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: welaýat, oblast, prowinisiýa
 * Ukrainian:, прові́нція
 * Urdu: وِلایَت, رِیاسَت, صُوبَہ, پْرَدیش, پْرانْت
 * Uyghur: ئۆلكە, ۋىلايەت
 * Uzbek:, provintsiya,
 * Vietnamese:, tỉnh bang
 * Volapük:, plovin
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: פּראָווינץ
 * Zazaki: ıstan
 * Zhuang: swngj, sengj


 * Polish:
 * Vietnamese: giáo tỉnh


 * Polish:
 * Vietnamese: giáo tỉnh

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  the countryside; or more broadly, the rest of France (outside Paris)
 * 1)  the countryside; or more broadly, the rest of France (outside Paris)

Usage notes

 * The second sense ("France outside Paris"), used by Parisians, is sometimes perceived as pejorative by people outside Paris.

Noun

 * 1)  (subdivision of a territory)

Noun

 * 1)  subdivision of a territory

Noun

 * 1) province