province

Noun
  1. The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (synset 108671935)
    "his state is in the deep south"
    is a type of: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    • italian region - Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes
    • canadian province - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes
    • australian state - one of the several states constituting Australia
    • 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)
    specific instances:
    • guangdong, guangdong province, kwangtung - a province in southern China
    • gansu, gansu province, kansu - a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia
    • hebei, hebei province, hopeh, hopei - a populous province in northeastern China
    • hunan, hunan province - a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources
    • sichuan, szechuan, szechwan, szechwan province - a populous province of south central China
    • yunnan, yunnan province - a province of southern China
    • sinkiang, xinjiang, xinjiang uighur autonomous region - an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people
    • 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
    • yucatan - a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
    • campeche - a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche
    • chihuahua - a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau
    • coahuila - a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau
    • quintana roo - a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula
    • tabasco - a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche
    • lower saxony - a state in northwestern Germany
    • bavaria - a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory
    • kosovo - a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians
    • bosnia - the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • tirol, tyrol - a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy
    • assam - state in northeastern India
    • karnataka, mysore - state in southern India; formerly Mysore
    • manipur - state in northeastern India
    • sikkim - a state in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan
    • andhra pradesh - a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal
    • bihar - a state of northeastern India
    • goa - a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony
    • gujarat, gujerat - an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay
    • madras, tamil nadu - a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras
    • uttar pradesh - a state in northern India
    • maharashtra - a state in west-central India
    • orissa - state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal
    • west bengal - a state in eastern India
    • indonesian borneo, kalimantan - the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo
    • friesland - one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands
    • free state, orange free state - a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997
    • transvaal - a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers
    • cape colony, cape of good hope province, cape province - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
    • cape of good hope - a province of western South Africa
    • abkhaz, abkhazia - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability
    • adzhar, adzharia - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea
    • buganda - a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom
    belongs to: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    same as: state
  2. The proper sphere or extent of your activities (synset 114539235)
    "it was his province to take care of himself"
    is a type of: area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere - a particular environment or walk of life
    subtypes: ecclesiastical province - the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order
    same as: responsibility

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