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Misamis Oriental
Misamis Oriental is a province on northern Mindanao, Philippines, in Northern Mindanao (Region X), created by Act No. 3537 in 1929. Its capital, Cagayan de Oro, is an independent highly urbanized city; the province has 23 municipalities, two cities, and a 2024 population of 988,065.
Misiones Province
Misiones Province, Argentina's northeastern province with capital Posadas, bordered almost entirely by the Iguazú, Paraná, and Uruguay rivers with Brazil and Paraguay; 29,801 km², 1,278,873 people (2022), provincialized in 1953, home to Iguazú Falls and yerba mate production.
Missouri
Missouri, the 24th state (August 10, 1821), capital Jefferson City, 18th largest by area at 68,746.4 square miles, population 6,154,913 in 2020, admitted via the Missouri Compromise as a slave state.
Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県)
Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県) is a Pacific-coast prefecture in Japan's Tohoku region, capital Sendai, population 2,225,414 (2025 census), area 7,282 km², Tohoku's economic center, struck by the 2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.
Mizoram
Mizoram, a mountainous state in northeastern India with capital Aizawl, became India's 23rd state on 20 February 1987 after the 30 June 1986 Mizoram Peace Accord ended two decades of MNF insurgency; 21,081 km², 722 km international border, 40 assembly seats.
Mogilev Governorate
Mogilev Governorate (Могилёвская губерния) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire centered at Mogilev on the Dnieper, created from Polish–Lithuanian territory in the 1772 partition and abolished in 1919.
Mohafazat Béqaa
Mohafazat Béqaa (Bekaa Governorate) is a Lebanese governorate on the Bekaa Valley plain, centered on Zahleh, with districts West Bekaa, Rashaya, and Zahleh; Lebanon's main agricultural region, distinct from the Baalbeck-Hermel governorate.
Mohafazat Liban-Sud
Mohafazat Liban-Sud (South Lebanon Governorate, محافظة الجنوب) is one of Lebanon's eight governorates, centered on Saida with Jezzine, Saida, and Tyr districts; an agricultural coastal region of about 934 km2 with ports at Saida and Tyre.
Mohafazat Mont-Liban
Mohafazat Mont-Liban (Mount Lebanon Governorate, محافظة جبل لبنان) is one of Lebanon's eight governorates, centered on Baabda, with districts Matn, Baabda, Aaley, and Chouf, 1,939 km2, and Lebanon's highest concentration of industrial firms.
Mon State (မွန်ပြည်နယ်)
Mon State (မွန်ပြည်နယ်) is a southeastern Myanmar state, capital Mawlamyine, 12,296 km2, 10 townships, 1.95 million people, created in 1974, a major rubber producer, and affected by conflict and displacement since 2021.
Mongala
Mongala (Mongala Province) is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, capital Lisala, effective since 30 June 2015, with three territories (Bongandanga, Bumba, Lisala), a river-based economy, and the Mongala River as its namesake.
Montana
Montana, the Treasure State and Big Sky Country, is the 41st U.S. state (1889), fourth-largest by area at 145,550 sq mi with only 7.4 people per square mile; capital Helena, population about 1.14 million in 2025.
Montserrado County
Montserrado County is a county in northwestern Liberia that contains the national capital, Monrovia, and holds over a third of Liberia's population on its smallest land area of any county.
Monufia Governorate
Monufia Governorate (محافظة المنوفية), Egyptian governorate in the southern Nile Delta between the Rosetta and Damietta branches, capital Shibin el-Kom; area 2,499 km², 4.3 million people (2017), national day 13 June for the 1906 Denshway incident.
Morava Banovina
Morava Banovina, or Moravska banovina, was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia created in 1929, with its seat at Niš, until the Axis invasion divided it in 1941.
Moravskoslezský kraj
Moravskoslezský kraj (Moravian-Silesian Region), Czech Republic's north-eastern region, capital Ostrava; 1,176,380 residents (2025), industrial coal region in transition, most air-polluted Czech region, major Beskydy tourism.
Mordovia (Мордовия)
Mordovia, officially the Republic of Mordovia (Мордовия), is a republic and federal subject of Russia, in the Volga Federal District between the Oka and Sura rivers, with its capital at Saransk.
Møre og Romsdal fylke
Møre og Romsdal (county 15), western Norway, seat Molde; 27 municipalities, 273,169 inhabitants (2026); districts Sunnmøre, Romsdal, Nordmøre; fisheries, aquaculture, industry, tourism; formerly Romsdals amt.
Morelos
Morelos is a small Mexican state founded 17 April 1869 by Benito Juárez, capital Cuernavaca, named for independence leader José María Morelos y Pavón, home of Zapata's revolution and 36 or 37 municipalities.
Morobe Province
Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, and its most populous with 997,545 people at the 2024 census; its capital is Lae.
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (Московская область), informally Podmoskovye, is a Russian federal subject, an oblast surrounding but administratively separate from Moscow; founded in 1929, it is Russia's second-most-populous oblast.
Mostaganem Province
Mostaganem Province (ولاية مستغانم), a coastal wilaya of northwest Algeria on the Mediterranean, capital Mostaganem city; 2,269 km², 124 km coast, 10 daïras, 32 communes, agriculture, fishing, and tourism economy.
Mount Kumgang Tourist Region
Mount Kumgang Tourist Region (금강산관광지구), a North Korean special tourism zone on Diamond Mountain developed by Hyundai Asan from 1998 for South Korean tourists; about 2 million visitors before the 2008 shooting closure, with South Korean-built facilities demolished 2022-2025.
Moxico Province
Moxico Province (Província do Moxico), eastern Angola, capital Luena; founded 1917, 12 municipalities, 574,253 people, Benguela Railway link, Luena peace accord 2002, split to create Moxico Leste in 2024.
Moyen-Chari Region
Moyen-Chari, a region of southern Chad with capital Sarh, named for the middle Chari River; former prefecture until 2002, agricultural producer (91,067 tons of grain in 2016–17), hosts Central African refugee camp at Bélom.
Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga, South Africa's easternmost province (capital Mbombela), created in 1994 from the Eastern Transvaal; coal mining and power generation hub, home to Kruger National Park and the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains UNESCO site.
Mstislavl Voivodeship
Mstislavl Voivodeship (Województwo mścisławskie) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, created in the 16th century and named after the town of Mścisław.
Muchinga Province
Muchinga Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces, in the northeast, created in 2011 from Northern Province. Smallest provincial population (918,296 in 2022); capital Chinsali; known for maize growth and the TRALARD 2 climate program.
Mudug
Mudug (Mudug) is a north-central Somali region of 72,933 km2 between the Indian Ocean and Ethiopia, split between Puntland (north) and Galmudug (south), population about 1.53 million, marked by clan conflict, Al-Shabaab insurgency, and drought-driven displacement.
Muğla
Muğla, southwestern Turkish province on the Aegean and Mediterranean, ancient Caria (Mobolla), 13 districts, 1,081,867 people (2024), 1,480 km coastline, Turkey's third most visited province after Antalya and Istanbul.