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Essaouira (district)
Essaouira (district), or Province of Essaouira (إقليم الصويرة), is a Moroccan province in Marrakech-Safi region on the Atlantic coast: 6,335 km², 57 communes, capital Essaouira (Mogador).
Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo
Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexican federal state, one of 17 founding states of the 1824 federal republic; 2020 population 4,748,846; capital-region history, 1825 constitution, agriculture-led economy.
Estado de Oaxaca
Estado de Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), a southeastern Mexican state; 570 municipalities, 4,132,148 people (2020), 31.2% indigenous-language speakers, and among the country's highest poverty rates.
Estado de Puebla
Estado de Puebla, Mexican state in east-central Mexico, capital Puebla city. 6,583,278 inhabitants (2020), fifth of 32 states; auto-manufacturing-heavy economy, 70.9% labor informality, fourth most visited state.
Estado de Querétaro
Estado de Querétaro (Querétaro de Arteaga) is a small central Mexico state known for its UNESCO-listed colonial core, which was crucial to Mexico's independence and its political evolution.
Estado de Sinaloa
Sinaloa, Mexican Pacific state created 13 October 1830 from Estado de Occidente; capital Culiacán; 3.03 million people (2020); agriculture-led economy, top exporter of tomatoes and beef, in security crisis since 2024.
Estado de Sonora
Sonora, a northwestern Mexican state bordering Arizona with capital Hermosillo, 72 municipalities, 2.94 million people (2020); economy led by manufacturing (29% of GDP), mining (national leader, 33%), and agriculture.
Estado de Tabasco
Tabasco, Mexican federal entity in the southeast, capital Villahermosa; constituted 29 January 1824; 17 municipalities; 2.4 million people; oil and gas about 43% of state GDP, second national crude producer.
Estado de Yucatán
Estado de Yucatán (Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán), Mexican state on the northern Yucatán Peninsula, capital Mérida; 2,320,898 inhabitants (2020), service-based economy, 1.55% unemployment, lowest score in the 2026 Mexico Peace Index.
Estado de Zacatecas
Zacatecas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas), is one of Mexico's 31 federal states, located in north-central Mexico with its capital at the city of Zacatecas.
Estado Trujillo
Estado Trujillo is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, in the Andean region of the west; its capital is Trujillo and its largest city is Valera.
Estado Yaracuy
Estado Yaracuy, one of Venezuela's 23 federal states, capital San Felipe, area 7,100 km2, 600,852 residents (2011 census). Created as a province on 15 March 1855; governed since June 2025 by Leonardo Intoci.
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the Estonian SSR, was the Soviet union republic occupying Estonia from 1940 until independence was restored in 1991.
Estuaire
Estuaire, Gabon's northwestern province around the Komo estuary, chef-lieu Libreville (Akanda since 2022), area 20,740 km2, holds over half of Gabon's population; named from Portuguese gabao.
Eure
Eure (27) is a Normandy department in northwestern France, prefecture Évreux, bordering Île-de-France; about 602,700 inhabitants in 2023, 6,040 km², the most wooded Normandy department.
Faiyum Governorate
Faiyum Governorate (محافظة الفيوم), a governorate of northern Upper Egypt, Egypt, centered on the Faiyum Oasis depression fed by the Bahr Yussef canal; capital Fayoum city, area 6,068.70 km², population about 4 million, internally drained to Lake Qarun.
Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосточная республика)
The Far Eastern Republic (Дальневосточная республика) was a nominally democratic buffer state between Soviet Russia and Japan, April 1920 to November 1922, with capital at Chita, about 3,000,000 sq km, absorbed by Soviet Russia in 1922.
Fars
Fars (Fārs) is a province of southern Iran with capital Shiraz; homeland of the ancient Persians (Persis), fourth most populous province at 6.1% of Iran, second in agricultural production, facing water scarcity.
Faryab Province
Faryab Province (ولایت فاریاب), northwestern Afghan province, capital Maimana; created 1965 from the Maymana high governorate; 21,141 km2, borders Turkmenistan; agro-pastoral economy, carpets, natural gas; Norwegian PRT 2008-2012.
Federal regions of Iraq
Federal regions of Iraq are self-governing units under the 2005 constitution; the Kurdistan Region (KRG) is the only one, with other governorates empowered but never forming regions by referendum.
Federal states of Austria
Federal states of Austria (Bundesländer): the nine autonomous provinces named in Art. 2 B-VG, each with a Landtag, provincial government and Landeshauptmann, sharing legislative and executive power with the federation.
Federal subjects of Russia
Federal subjects of Russia are the constituent units of the Russian Federation: 89 per its constitution (83 widely recognized), in six types including 22 republics, formally equal but asymmetric in practice and centralized since 2000.
Federative units of Brazil
Federative units of Brazil (unidades federativas): the 26 states plus the Federal District, 27 autonomous first-level divisions under Article 18 of the 1988 Constitution, created from the former provinces when the federative republic was proclaimed in 1889.
Fejér megye
Fejér megye (Fejér County, Fejér vármegye) is a central Hungarian county in Central Transdanubia, seat Székesfehérvár, first recorded 1009; 4,359 km², 108 settlements, about 417,000 residents in 2026.
Ferrazzano
Ferrazzano is a hilltop comune in the province of Campobasso, Molise, Italy, about 4 km from Campobasso at roughly 870-900 m elevation, a fortified Samnite site with polygonal walls, Carafa Castle, and the 1005 Church of Santa Maria Assunta.
Fines Africae et Cyrenensium
Fines Africae et Cyrenensium (Arae Philaenorum, Altars of the Philaeni) was the Carthaginian-Cyrenaican frontier at the Greater Syrtis, modern Ras al-A'ali, Libya, later the Africa-Cyrenaica provincial boundary, shown on the Peutinger Map.
Finnmark
Finnmark (Finnmárku, Finmarkku) is Norway's northernmost county, re-established 1 January 2024 with number 56, covering 45,755 km² with about 75,000 people, 18 municipalities, administrative center Vadsø, and borders with Russia and Finland.
Flemish Region
Flemish Region (Vlaams Gewest), one of Belgium's three federal regions, established in 1980; covers Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, West Flanders, East Flanders, Limburg; institutions merged with the Flemish Community.
Flevoland
Flevoland is the youngest, twelfth province of the Netherlands, reclaimed from the former Zuiderzee in three polders (Northeast Polder 1939, Eastern 1957, Southern 1968) and established as a province on 1 January 1986, the world's largest land reclamation project.
Fquih Ben Salah Province
Fquih Ben Salah Province (إقليم الفقيه بن صالح), Morocco, created 2009 from Beni Mellal Province in Béni Mellal-Khénifra region; capital Fquih Ben Salah city; 502,827 people (2014), leading regional milk producer.