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Providence College
Providence College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 1917. It is the only U.S. college founded and administered by the Dominican friars.
Providence County
Providence County, Rhode Island: the state's most populous county (678,179 est. 2025, 60.8% of Rhode Island), created 1703 as Providence Plantations, county seat Providence, land area 409.48 sq mi.
Providence Debt
Providence Debt is a private-debt fund platform managed by Benefit Street Partners, the credit affiliate of private equity firm Providence, whose Fund III raised over $1.1 billion from 47 investors by 2014.
Providence Friars men's basketball
Providence Friars men's basketball: Providence College's NCAA Division I team in the BIG EAST. Two Final Fours (1973, 1987), two NIT titles (1961, 1963), Hall of Famers Gavitt, Thompson, Pitino, Wilkens; coached since 2026 by Bryan Hodgson.
Providence Grays
Providence Grays, National League baseball club of Providence, Rhode Island, 1878-1885; pennants 1879 and 1884; won the first World Series in 1884 behind Old Hoss Radbourn's 59 wins; disbanded after 1885.
Providence Hospital
Providence Hospital is a Catholic hospital in Washington, D.C., founded in 1861 by the Sisters of Charity and closed by Ascension, urgent care closing in July 2023.
Providence Island colony
The Providence Island colony was an English puritan settlement off Nicaragua founded in 1630, the first English colony where enslaved people were the majority, destroyed by Spain in 1641.
Providence Island Sign Language
Providence Island Sign Language (PISL, Providencia Sign Language, prz) is an indigenous sign language of Providencia, Colombia, used by deaf and hearing islanders, first described in 1978, with east-west dialect variation and contested language status.
Providence Park
Providence Park (formerly Civic Stadium, PGE Park, Jeld-Wen Field) is Portland's 1926 city-owned soccer stadium, home of the MLS Timbers and NWSL Thorns, capacity 25,218 after a 2019 expansion, operated by Peregrine Sports through 2035.
Providence Stadium
Providence Stadium (Guyana National Stadium), Providence, East Bank Demerara, Guyana; 15,000-capacity cricket ground built 2005–2006 for the 2007 World Cup with Indian funding; spin-friendly home of the Guyana Amazon Warriors and 2024 T20 World Cup semi-final venue.
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island, is the capital and largest city of Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams in 1636 on principles of religious freedom, with 190,934 residents at the 2020 census.
Providencia Rupes
Providencia Rupes is a 310 km lobate scarp on Mercury near the equator (1.94°N, 233.57°W), IAU-approved January 11, 2023, named after the Colombian research vessel Providencia; it records thrust faulting from Mercury's global contraction.
Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas
Providing urban amenities to rural areas: a development strategy delivering health, education, water, power, and communications to villages, documented mainly through the Millennium Villages Project in Africa and its contested evaluations.
Province
Province: a first-level administrative division of a country, comparable to a state or county, from Latin provencia. Covers hierarchy differences (China, Chile, Canada), Canadian provinces versus territories, and boundary-change tracking.
Province de la Comoé
Province de la Comoé (Comoé Province, also Province de la Komoé) is a province of Burkina Faso in the Tannounyan region, capital Banfora, population 632,695 (2019), 15,826 km², nine departments, source of the Comoé River.
Province de Namur
Province de Namur: one of Belgium's ten provinces, in the Walloon Region, chief city Namur. Covers 38 communes; 495,832 inhabitants in 2019; governed by a council of 43, governor Denis Mathen since 2007.
Province du Bam
Province du Bam (Bam Province), Burkina Faso: a province in the Centre-Nord (Kuilsé) region, capital Kongoussi, area 4,041 km², nine communes, 473,955 inhabitants at the 2019 census.
Province du Boulgou
Province du Boulgou (Boulgou Province) is a province of Burkina Faso in the Centre-Est region, chef-lieu Tenkodogo, created 1983, population about 736,559, bordering Ghana and Togo.
Province du Boulkiemdé
Province du Boulkiemdé: a province of Burkina Faso in the Centre-Ouest (Nando) region, capital Koudougou; named from Mooré BUL-KIONGO, "great well", with ten traditional cantons and a semi-arid climate.
Province du Ganzourgou
Province du Ganzourgou: province of Burkina Faso in the Plateau-Central region, chief town Zorgho (since 1983), eight departments including Boudry and Mogtédo; about 545,000 residents (2024), gold mining and cereal farming.
Province du Gobnangou
Province du Gobnangou, also the former Tapoa Province, is a province of Burkina Faso created 2 July 2025 in the new Tapoa region, chef-lieu Diapaga, departments including Diapaga, Logobou, Namounou, Partiaga, and Tansarga.
Province du Gourma
Province du Gourma (Gourma Province) is a province of Burkina Faso in the Est region, capital Fada N'Gourma, created in 1984, population about 437,242, covering 23.89% of the Est region.
Province du Hainaut
Province du Hainaut (Dutch Henegouwen), Belgium's most populous Walloon province, capital Mons, 69 communes, 1,368,562 inhabitants on 1 January 2026, largest commune Charleroi, major agricultural and former industrial economy.
Province du Houet
Province du Houet is a province of western Burkina Faso whose capital is Bobo-Dioulasso, the country's second-largest city. It had 1.5 million inhabitants in 2019.
Province du Namentenga
Province du Namentenga: province of Burkina Faso in the Centre-Nord region, chef-lieu Boulsa, area 7,643 km², eight communes, projected 2019 population 476,262.
Province du Nord-Kivu
Province du Nord-Kivu (North Kivu), eastern DRC province, capital Goma, bordering Uganda and Rwanda; 59,483 km2, about 9 million people; agriculture and coltan, cassiterite, gold mining; M23 conflict and mass displacement since 2022.
Province du Nord-Ubangi
Nord-Ubangi (North Ubangi), a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in 2015 from Équateur, capital Gbadolite, on the Ubangi River bordering the Central African Republic; agricultural economy, four territories, governor Jean Bosco Kotongo Anfio.
Province du Passoré
Province du Passoré: province of Burkina Faso with chief town Yako, in the Yaadga (formerly Nord) region; nine communes, semi-arid climate, Bouboulou gold mine authorized 2026.
Province du Sud-Ubangi
Sud-Ubangi (South-Ubangi) is a northwestern DRC province created in 2015 from Équateur, capital Gemena, 51,648 km², agricultural economy on the Ubangi River bordering the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville; hit by the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.
Province du Yatenga
Province du Yatenga (Yatenga Province) is a province of Burkina Faso's Nord Region, capital Ouahigouya, 181 km from Ouagadougou. 825,975 residents (2019 census), 6,987 km², 13 communes, on the historic Mossi Kingdom of Yatenga.