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Provincia di Reggio Calabria

Provincia di Reggio Calabria, Italian province established 1860 with capital Reggio di Calabria; succeeded 2 February 2017 by the Città Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria under the Delrio law, covering 97 municipalities and about 513,000 residents.

Provincia di Reggio Emilia

Provincia di Reggio Emilia, an Italian province in Emilia-Romagna with capital Reggio nell'Emilia. Established 1859-1860, 532,504 residents on 2,291.25 km², third-largest province of the region after Bologna and Modena.

Provincia di Taranto

Provincia di Taranto, Italian province in Apulia with capital Taranto; established 1923 as Provincia del Jonio, renamed 1951; 29 comuni, 2,467.7 km², 550,046 residents, steel-based economy in just-transition program.

Provincia di Varese

Provincia di Varese, Italian province in Lombardy (capital Varese), established 2 January 1927; 1,198 km2, 138 comuni, about 882,000-885,000 residents, manufacturing-heavy economy with 24.8% industry share of value added.

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.

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.

Provinsi Kalimantan Barat

Provinsi Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan Province) is an Indonesian province on the western side of Borneo, with its capital at Pontianak and about 5.7 million people in 2024.

Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan

Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan (South Kalimantan), Indonesian province on southern Borneo, area 38,744.23 km2, capital Banjarbaru since 2022, largest city Banjarmasin; former Banjar Sultanate heartland, coal and rice economy, population 4.32 million (2025).

Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah

Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah (Central Kalimantan) is an Indonesian province on Borneo, capital Palangka Raya, formed 23 May 1957; 13 regencies and 1 city, about 2.9 million people on 153,565 km².

Provinsi Kalimantan Timur

Provinsi Kalimantan Timur (East Kalimantan, Kaltim), Indonesian province on eastern Borneo, capital Samarinda, created 1956-1957, North Kalimantan split off 2012; coal-rich (35% of GDP), hosts planned national capital Nusantara (IKN), population about 3.9 million (2023).

Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan

Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan (South Sulawesi Province), Indonesian province on southern Sulawesi, capital Makassar; 21 regencies, 3 cities; 9.07 million people (2020); economy grew 5.43% in 2025, TFR 2.17, HDI 75.92.

Provinsi Sumatera Barat

Provinsi Sumatera Barat (West Sumatra), Indonesian province on western Sumatra, capital Padang, homeland of the Minangkabau; 5.92 million people, nagari-based local government, high seismic risk from the Sunda megathrust and Sumatran fault.

Pskov Oblast

Pskov Oblast (Псковская область), a Russian federal subject formed 23 August 1944 with center Pskov; the only Russian region bordering Estonia, Latvia, and Belarus; 55.3 thousand km², population 613,356 (2022).

Puebla

Puebla, a south-central Mexican state with capital Puebla de Zaragoza, 217 municipalities, 6.58 million people (2020), statehood from the 1824 Acta Constitutiva, and an economy concentrated on Puebla City and auto assembly.

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 Province (British India)

Punjab Province (British India), 1849–1947: province annexed after the Anglo-Sikh wars, named for the five rivers, governed under a non-regulation system, transformed by canal colonies, and divided by the 1947 Radcliffe Line.

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.

Pursat

Pursat (ពោធិ៍សាត់) is Cambodia's fourth largest province, 12,692 km², on the Tonle Sap and Cardamom Mountains; capital Pursat town, known for marble carving, Kampong Luong floating village, and agriculture.

Qalyubia Governorate

Qalyubia Governorate is a governorate of Egypt at the head of the Nile Delta, immediately north of Cairo, with its capital at Benha and largest city Shubra Al-Kheima.

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.

Qazvin Province

Qazvin Province (Persian: استان قزوین, sometimes Ghazvin) is one of Iran's 31 provinces, northwest of Tehran, with its capital at the historic city of Qazvin.

Qena Governorate

Qena Governorate (محافظة قنا), Egypt: Upper Egypt governorate on the Nile south of Sohag, capital Qena City, 3.16 million people (2017), major sugar producer, home to Dendera Temple.

Qinghai (青海)

Qinghai (青海) is a Chinese province on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, established 1 January 1929, source of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lancang rivers, known as the Water Tower of China, with major national parks and wind resources.

Qom Province

Qom Province (استان قم), central Iran; capital Qom city. 11,237 km², ~1.2 million people (2016), formed 1995 from Tehran Province. Iran's second pilgrimage center after Mashhad, shrine of Fatima Masoumeh, severe groundwater deficit of 2 billion m³.