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Panchagarh District
Panchagarh District (পঞ্চগড়), Bangladesh's northernmost district in Rangpur division, formed 1 February 1984 from five upazilas; area 1,404.62 km², India on three sides over 286.87 km, smallholder tea economy, named for five historic forts.
Panjshir Province
Panjshir Province (پنجشیر), Afghanistan's smallest province, a Tajik-majority valley northeast of Kabul carved from Parwan in 2004; Massoud's anti-Soviet stronghold, last province to resist the Taliban in 2021, and home to major emerald mines.
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.
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 Nepal
Provinces of Nepal: the seven first-level federal units created by the 2015 Constitution, operating since 2017 between the federal government and 753 local governments, with exclusive and concurrent powers and heavy fiscal dependence on federal grants.
Provinces of Sri Lanka
Provinces of Sri Lanka: the island's nine first-level divisions (Western, Central, Southern, Northern, Eastern, North Western, North Central, Uva, Sabaragamuwa), 25 districts, provincial councils under the 1987 13th Amendment, and stalled elections since 2014.
Punjab Province
Punjab Province (پنجاب), Pakistan's most populous province, capital Lahore; 127.69 million people (2023 census, 52.87% of national total) on 205,344 km² of five-river alluvial plain, an agriculture-led economy and historic center of the region's Mughal, Sikh, British, and partition history.
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (پنجاب) is Pakistan's most populous and easternmost province, with its capital at Lahore; it holds roughly half the country's population on about a quarter of its land.
Qamber Shahdadkot District
Qamber Shahdadkot District (Sindhi: قمبر شهدادڪوٽ) is an agrarian district in northwest Sindh, Pakistan, at the edge of the Kirthar range, where about 95% of the population depends on agriculture.
Rangpur Division
Rangpur Division (রংপুর বিভাগ), Bangladesh's northernmost division, created 9 March 2010 from eight districts of Rajshahi Division; 58 upazilas, 17.6 million people (2022 census), agriculture-based economy with persistent poverty and Monga seasonal hunger.
Sabaragamuwa Province
Sabaragamuwa Province, a province of Sri Lanka (Ratnapura and Kegalle districts), capital Ratnapura; 4,968 km2, 2,015,899 people (2024), known for gem mining, tea, and Sinharaja Forest Reserve.
Sindh (سنڌ)
Sindh (سنڌ) is a province of southeastern Pakistan on the lower Indus, home to the Indus Valley Civilization; 55.69 million people (2023), annexed by Britain in 1843, hit hardest by the 2022 floods.
Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Southern Province (දකුණු පළාත) is a Sri Lankan province on the island's south coast, capital Galle, with districts Galle, Matara, and Hambantota; 5,544 km², about 2.6 million people (2024), known for beaches, Galle Fort, cinnamon, and tea.
Sudurpashchim Pradesh
Sudurpashchim Pradesh (सुदूरपश्चिम प्रदेश, "Far-West Province") is one of the seven provinces of Nepal, established by the 2015 constitution and initially known as Province No. 7.
Sylhet Division
Sylhet Division (সিলেট বিভাগ) is Bangladesh's sixth administrative division, declared 1 August 1995, in the northeast: four districts (Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj), 11.03 million people (2022 census), haor wetlands, tea country, lowest income poverty but highest multidimensional poverty.
Takhar
Takhar (Dari: تخار) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the northeast along the Amu Darya river on the border with Tajikistan, created in 1964 with its capital at Taloqan.
West Pakistan
West Pakistan was a single Pakistani province (1955–1970) formed under the One Unit policy by merging Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, Balochistan, Karachi, and princely states, with capital Lahore, to counterbalance East Pakistan; dissolved July 1, 1970.
West Punjab
West Punjab: Pakistani province 1947–1955, capital Lahore, area 160,622 km², four divisions (Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha), created by the 1947 Radcliffe Award and dissolved in the 1955 One Unit reorganization.
Western Province, Sri Lanka
Western Province (බස්නාහිර පළාත; மேல் மாகாணம்) is Sri Lanka's most populous province, 6,117,341 people or 28.1% of the national total in the 2024 census, comprising Colombo, Gampaha, and Kalutara districts and the capital Colombo.