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Province of Padua
Province of Padua (Provincia di Padova), province in Veneto, Italy, capital Padua; 2,142 km², 104 comuni, about 922,000 residents (2011 census). Under Venetian rule from 1405, governed under Law 56/2014 with a two-year provincial council.
Province of Pennsylvania
Province of Pennsylvania, proprietary colony chartered by Charles II to Quaker William Penn on March 4, 1681 to settle a debt; noted for religious liberty, the 1701 Charter of Privileges, and Philadelphia, ending with the 1776 state constitution.
Province of Pisa
Province of Pisa (provincia di Pisa), a Tuscany province in central Italy with capital Pisa; 419,588 residents, 2,445 km², 37 comuni; former Maritime Republic territory, Arno river, University of Pisa, leather and yacht districts.
Province of Posen
The Province of Posen (Provinz Posen, Prowincja Poznańska) was a majority-Polish Prussian province covering most of Greater Poland, dissolved in 1920 under the Treaty of Versailles.
Province of Rome
Province of Rome (Provincia di Roma), Italian province created in 1870 covering Lazio, largest in Italy; superseded 1 January 2015 by the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital with identical territory.
Province of Salerno
Province of Salerno (Provincia di Salerno), a province of Campania, Italy, with capital Salerno; 158 municipalities, nearly 5,000 km², the largest and southernmost Campanian province, holding about 18% of the regional population.
Province of Sarangani
Sarangani (Lalawigan ng Sarangani) is a coastal province of the Philippines in the SOCCSKSARGEN region of Mindanao, created in 1992 from seven municipalities of South Cotabato, with Alabel as its capital.
Province of Sorsogon
Province of Sorsogon, Philippines: Bicol province at southeastern Luzon's tip, capital Sorsogon City; 14 municipalities, 541 barangays, 845,066 people (2024), Mt. Bulusan volcano, Donsol whale sharks, pili commodity champion.
Province of South Cotabato
South Cotabato is a Philippine province in southern Mindanao (Region XII/SOCCSKSARGEN), created by RA 4849 in 1966, capital Koronadal City, 10 municipalities plus the city, land area 3,706 sq km, population about 1.01 million (2024), and the region's largest economy.
Province of Southern Leyte
Province of Southern Leyte (Lalawigan ng Timog Leyte), a Philippine province in Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) with capital Maasin City; created from Leyte by RA 2227 in 1959, inaugurated July 1, 1960; 18 municipalities, one city, 500 barangays; site of Limasawa, the First Mass in the Philippines (1521).
Province of Surigao del Norte
Surigao del Norte: Philippine province in Caraga, northeastern Mindanao; capital Surigao City; created 1960 from Surigao; includes Siargao and Bucas Grande; 565,644 people (2024); largest Caraga economy.
Province of Surigao del Sur
Surigao del Sur, a Philippine province in Caraga, northeastern Mindanao; capital Tandag City; created 1960 by RA 2786; 17 municipalities, 2 cities; 2024 population 648,858; 2025 GDP ₱73.65 billion.
Province of Tawi-Tawi
Province of Tawi-Tawi: Philippine island province in BARMM at the southern Sulu Archipelago, created from Sulu by PD 302 in 1973; capital Bongao, 11 municipalities, seaweed-farming economy.
Province of Toledo
Province of Toledo (Provincia de Toledo), central Spanish province in northwest Castilla-La Mancha, capital the UNESCO World Heritage city of Toledo; 204 municipalities, 750,815 people (2025), Tagus valley, agriculture and record tourism.
Province of Uva
Uva Province (ඌව පළාත) is one of Sri Lanka's nine provinces, capital Badulla, two districts (Badulla and Monaragala), 1,399,892 people (2024 census). Created by the British in 1886; predominantly agricultural, tea-growing, and among the poorest provinces.
Province of Verona
Province of Verona (Provincia di Verona), a wide-area provincial authority in Veneto, Italy, seated in Verona. Known for Lake Garda, Lessinia, and wine zones Valpolicella, Soave, Bardolino, and Custoza; second Italian province for wine value.
Province of Zamboanga Sibugay
Zamboanga Sibugay, the Philippines' 79th province, created 2001 from Zamboanga del Sur's third district by RA 8973; capital Ipil, 16 municipalities, 661,498 people (2024), agriculture and fisheries economy.
Province Sud
Province Sud (South Province), one of three provinces of New Caledonia created by the 1988 Matignon Accords; covers southern Grande Terre and Île des Pins, seat Nouméa, 40-member assembly, about 75% of the population, loyalist-led.
Provinces and territories of Canada
Canada is divided into ten provinces and three territories, its first-order political divisions. Provinces hold constitutional powers, while territorial powers are delegated by the federal Parliament.
Provinces of Afghanistan
Provinces of Afghanistan (velayat, ولایت): the country's 34 first-level administrative divisions, each with a capital and a governor representing Kabul, subdivided into 401 districts; newest are Daikondi and Panjshir (2004).
Provinces of Argentina
Provinces of Argentina: the 23 federal provinces plus the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, 24 first-level jurisdictions with their own constitutions, governors, and reserved powers under Articles 121-129.
Provinces of Belgium
The provinces of Belgium are the country's ten intermediate-level territorial divisions, five in Flanders and five in Wallonia, below the regions and above the municipalities.
Provinces of Cambodia
Provinces of Cambodia: the first-tier divisions of the kingdom, 25 capital-provincial administrations including Phnom Penh, subdivided into districts, communes, and villages, governed under the 2008 Organic Law and decentralization reforms.
Provinces of China
Provinces of China (省, sheng): first-level divisions comprising 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 SARs; 31 mainland units in a five-tier hierarchy with roots in the Qin county system.
Provinces of France
Provinces of France: territorial divisions of the Kingdom of France under the Ancien Régime, governed by royal intendants in généralités, abolished in 1790 and replaced by 83 départements; their names persist as cultural regions.
Provinces of Indonesia
Provinces of Indonesia (provinsi) are the country's first-level divisions, 38 in number since Southwest Papua's inauguration on 9 December 2022 under Law 29/2022, including special-status Aceh, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and six Papua provinces.
Provinces of Iran
Provinces of Iran (ostan): the 31 first-order administrative divisions, each led by an Interior-appointed governor, subdivided into counties, districts, cities, and rural districts; created from the 1937 ten-province scheme and expanded to 31 with Alborz in 2010.
Provinces of Ireland
The provinces of Ireland (cúigí) are Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Ulster, the island's four traditional divisions of 32 counties, with no administrative role today but continuing cultural and sporting use.
Provinces of Italy
Provinces of Italy (province): intermediate territorial authorities between regions and municipalities, created by the 1859 Rattazzi law with 59 units in 1861, grown to 110, restructured by the 2014 Delrio Law into indirectly elected bodies alongside nine Metropolitan Cities.
Provinces of Japan (国)
The provinces of Japan, called kuni (国), were the principal administrative divisions created by the Taika Reforms of 646 and replaced by prefectures in the 1870s and 1880s.