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Provincia Duarte

Provincia Duarte (Duarte Province) is a Dominican Republic province in the Cibao Nordeste region, capital San Francisco de Macorís, seven municipalities, 289,574 people (2010), named for independence leader Juan Pablo Duarte, known for cacao, coffee, and rice.

Provincia Granma

Provincia Granma, a Cuban province created in 1976 with capital Bayamo, named for the 1956 yacht Granma expedition; 8,362 km², 13 municipalities, Sierra Maestra, Río Cauto, and 42% of Cuba's historic sites.

Provincia Murillo

Provincia Murillo (Pedro Domingo Murillo) is a province of La Paz department, Bolivia, containing La Paz city and El Alto. Five municipalities, 1,731,619 inhabitants (2024 census), 3,825 km2, renamed from Cercado Province by the law of 17 October 1912.

Provincia Oropeza

Provincia Oropeza (also Provincia Samuel Oropeza), a province of Chuquisaca department, Bolivia, with municipalities Sucre, Yotala, and Poroma; 319,651 inhabitants (2024 census), 3,943 km2, section capital Yotala.

Oct 20, 2026

Provincia Quillacollo

Provincia Quillacollo, a province of the Cochabamba department, Bolivia; capital Quillacollo; created 1905 from Tapacarí; five sections (Quillacollo, Sipe Sipe, Tiquipaya, Vinto, Colcapirhua); 1,637 km², 405,039 inhabitants (2024 census).

Provincia Tomás Frías

Provincia Tomás Frías (Provincia Frías) is a province of Potosí department, Bolivia, containing the capital city Potosí. 263,018 inhabitants in the 2024 census; four municipalities: Potosí, Tinguipaya, Yocalla, Urmiri; named for President Tomás Frías in 1895.

Provincial Administration of Unified Silla

The provincial administration of Unified Silla was the local government system dividing the kingdom into nine provinces, counties, and districts, completed under King Sinmun in 685.

Provincial and Local Councils Law (1907)

The Provincial and Local Councils Law (قانون انجمن‌های ایالتی و ولایتی) was a 122-article statute approved by Iran's Majles in 1907, establishing elected provincial and district councils.

Provincial and territorial adoption regimes in Canada

Provincial and territorial adoption regimes in Canada are the thirteen separate sets of provincial and territorial statutes governing adoption, because Canada has no federal adoption law.

Provincial and territorial tribunals of Canada

Provincial and territorial tribunals of Canada are administrative decision-makers created by provincial or territorial legislation that resolve legal disputes in specialized areas such as tenancy, labor relations, and human rights.

Oct 22, 2026

Provincial Anecdotes

Provincial Anecdotes (Провинциальные анекдоты) is a 1968 diptych of two tragicomic one-act plays by the Soviet Russian playwright Alexander Vampilov, set in a provincial hotel.

Provincial Assembly of Sindh (صوبائی اسمبلی سندھ)

Provincial Assembly of Sindh (صوبائی اسمبلی سندھ), unicameral 168-member provincial legislature in Karachi: 130 general, 29 women's, 9 non-Muslim seats; FPTP plus party-list reserved seats; five-year term under the 1973 Constitution.

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab

The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is Pakistan Punjab's unicameral provincial legislature in Lahore, descended from the 1937 Punjab Legislative Assembly of 175 members; today a 371-member body legislating under Article 142 of the 1973 Constitution.

Provincial Councils of Mexico

The Provincial Councils of Mexico (Concilios provinciales mexicanos) were ecclesiastical councils held in 1555, 1565, and 1585 that adapted the Council of Trent's reforms to the church of New Spain.

Oct 15, 2026

Provincial Electricity Authority

The Provincial Electricity Authority (การไฟฟ้าส่วนภูมิภาค; PEA) is a Thai state enterprise, established in 1960, that buys bulk electricity and distributes it to over 20 million customers across 74 of Thailand's 77 provinces.

Provincial family law in Canada

Provincial family law in Canada: provincial and territorial statutes, courts, and services governing separation, parenting, property, and support, shared with the federal Divorce Act; Quebec's civil code, superior court jurisdiction, and the March 2021 parenting-terminology reforms distinguish it.

Provincial Garrison System

The Provincial Garrison System (驻防八旗) was the Qing dynasty's network of permanent Eight Banner garrisons in provincial cities, begun in 1644 and destroyed in the 1911 Revolution.

Sep 25, 2026

Provincial Inspectors (Thirteen Circuits)

The Provincial Inspectors (十三州刺史部) were the Han empire's thirteen regional supervisory circuits, each headed by a low-ranked inspector sent out annually to tour the commanderies and impeach misbehaving officials.

Provincial parks of Canada

Provincial parks of Canada are protected natural areas established by each provincial or territorial government under its own statute, with separate park acts, class systems, and managing agencies in each jurisdiction.

Provincial Reform of 1775

The Provincial Reform of 1775 (Учреждения для управления губерний) was a law issued by Empress Catherine II in November 1775 that reorganized local government across the Russian Empire.

Sep 19, 2026

Provincial step pyramid of Hierakonpolis

The Provincial step pyramid of Hierakonpolis, usually called the el-Kula pyramid, is a small ruined step pyramid at el-Kula, about 6 km north of Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt.

Provincial Surveillance Commission (Anchasi)

The Provincial Surveillance Commission (按察使司) was the judicial organ of each Qing dynasty province, headed by a third-rank surveillance commissioner who reviewed criminal cases and supervised official conduct.

Provincie Antwerpen

Provincie Antwerpen, or Antwerp Province, is a province of the Flemish Region in Belgium, with the city of Antwerp as its capital. It is Belgium's most populous province.

Oct 20, 2026

Provincie Drenthe

Drenthe, northeastern Dutch province with capital Assen, population about 508,000, density 192/km², province since 1814, known for 52 prehistoric hunebeds, care-dominated economy of ~244,000 jobs, and high broad well-being.

Provincie Friesland

Provincie Friesland (officially Fryslân) is a northern Dutch province with capital Leeuwarden, 18 municipalities, about 665,000 inhabitants, four Wadden Islands, official Frisian language status, and a water-dominated landscape including UNESCO Wadden Sea.

Provincie Groningen

Provincie Groningen, northeastern Dutch province with capital Groningen city; home of the Slochteren gas field (discovered 1959, extraction ended October 2023), 363 billion euros in state revenue, induced earthquakes, and Nij Begun recovery funding.

Provincie Limburg

Provincie Limburg: two provinces, Dutch Limburg (capital Maastricht) and Belgian Limburg (capital Hasselt, 38 municipalities), split from one 1815 province by the 1839 Treaty of London; coal and Ford Genk shaped their economy.

Provincie Overijssel

Provincie Overijssel, Dutch province in the east (Oversticht), seat Zwolle, 1,202,375 inhabitants end-2025, GDP €53,172 million (2022), 25 municipalities, governed under the 2023 'Schouder aan schouder' coalition agreement.

Provincie Utrecht

Provincie Utrecht (Province of Utrecht) is one of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands, its oldest and smallest, with 1.36 million inhabitants across 26 municipalities.