This article is about political regions. See geologic province for geological meanings. Province is a name for a subnational entity that is a secondary level of government in most countries. In some countries an alternative term is used, such as state (in Australia, India and the United States), prefecture (in Japan), län (in Sweden), or region (in France and in Italy where provincia is a tertiary form of government, akin to a county). Various parts of the British Empire had the ...

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• Province - Current provinces
• Province - Provinces and polities translated province
• Province - Historical provinces
• Province - Ancient and medieval/feudal provinces
• Province - Modern post-feudal provinces

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Not all "second-level" polities are termed provinces. In Arab countries the secondary level of government, called a muhfazah, is usually translated as a governorate. This term is also used for the historic Russian guberniyas. Compare oblast. In Poland, the equivalent of province is województwo, often translated as voivodeship. In Peru, provinces are a tertiary unit of government, as the country is divided into twenty-five regions, ...

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Province, Province - Current provinces, Province - Provinces and polities translated province, Province - Historical provinces, Province - Ancient and medieval/feudal provinces, Province - Modern post-feudal provinces

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