English > province: 2 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation. |
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| Synonym | state |
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| Instances | Abkhaz, Abkhazia | An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea |
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| Adzhar, Adzharia | An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea |
| Andhra Pradesh | A state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal |
| Assam | state in northeastern India |
| Bavaria | A state in southern Germany famous for its beer |
| Bihar | A state of northeastern India |
| Bosnia | The northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Buganda | A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom |
| Campeche | A Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche |
| Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Colony | A former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded / ceded to Great Britain in 1814 |
| Cape of Good Hope | A province of western South Africa |
| Chihuahua | A state in northern Mexico |
| Coahuila | A state in northern Mexico |
| Free State, Orange Free State | A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers |
| Friesland | One of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands |
| Gansu, Kansu, Gansu province | A province in north-central China |
| Goa | A state of southwestern India |
| Guangdong, Kwangtung, Guangdong province | A province in southern China |
| Gujarat, Gujerat | A region of western India to the north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken |
| Hebei, Hopei, Hopeh, Hebei province | A populous province in northeastern China |
| Hunan, Hunan province | A province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang |
| Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan | The part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo |
| Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol | An autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911 |
| Karnataka, Mysore | state in southern India |
| Kosovo | A Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians |
| Lower Saxony | A state in northwestern Germany |
| Maharashtra | A historical area in west-central India |
| Manipur | state in northeastern India |
| Orissa | state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal |
| Quintana Roo | A Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| Sikkim | A geographical area and former kingdom in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan |
| Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province | A populous province of south central China |
| Tabasco | A Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche |
| Tamil Nadu, Madras | A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh) |
| Transvaal | A province of northeastern South Africa originally / originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu |
| Tyrol, Tirol | A picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy |
| Uttar Pradesh | A state in northern India |
| West Bengal | A state in eastern India |
| Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region | An autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan |
| Yucatan | A state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| Yunnan, Yunnan province | A province of southern China |
| Member of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Narrower | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Australian state | One of the several states constituting Australia |
| Canadian province | Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes |
| Italian region | Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes |
| Malaysian state | One of the several states constituting Malaysia |
| Soviet Socialist Republic | One of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) |
| commonwealth | The official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) |
| eparchy | A province in ancient Greece |
| Broader | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division | A district defined for administrative purposes |
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| Spanish | estado federal, estado, país, provincia, provincias |
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| Catalan | estat federal, estat, provincia, província |
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| Adjectives | provincial | characteristic of the provinces or their people |
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| provincial | of or associated with a province |
