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Qostanay Oblysy
Qostanay Oblysy (Kostanay Region, Қостанай облысы) is a northern Kazakhstan region established 29 July 1936, capital Kostanay city; 818,400 people, 196,000 km2, produces over 90% of Kazakhstan's iron ore and borders three Russian oblasts.
Quảng Ngãi Province
Quảng Ngãi Province (tỉnh Quảng Ngãi), central Vietnam; since 1 July 2025 the merged former Quảng Ngãi and Kon Tum provinces, 14,832.55 km², 2,161,755 people, 96 commune-level units, anchored on Dung Quất Economic Zone.
Quebec
Quebec (French: Québec) is Canada's largest province, covering about 1.7 million square kilometers in eastern Canada, with its capital at Quebec City and French as its sole official language.
Querétaro
Querétaro Arteaga is a central Mexican state, capital Santiago de Querétaro, 18 municipalities, 2.37 million people (2020). A development outlier growing over 3.8% annually since 1981, driven by automotive and aerospace industries, but facing aquifer overexploitation.
Quezon
Quezon is a first-class province in CALABARZON, Philippines, formerly Tayabas, renamed by RA 14 in 1946 for President Manuel L. Quezon. Capital Lucena City; largest coconut producer; 2.26 million people (2024).
Quindío Department
Quindío Department, a small Colombian department in the coffee-growing Andes, created from Caldas by Law 2a of 1966 with capital Armenia, 1,845 km², 12 municipalities, and a coffee-and-tourism economy.
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo, a Mexican state on the eastern Yucatán Peninsula bordering Belize and Guatemala; statehood 8 October 1974, capital Chetumal, 11 municipalities, governor Mara Lezama, Caribbean tourism and cenotes.
Qyzylorda Oblysy
Qyzylorda Oblysy (Қызылорда облысы, Kyzylorda Region) is a southern Kazakhstan region on the Syr Darya, capital Kyzylorda; 226,000 sq km, 844.5 thousand people, Kazakhstan's main rice area and a major vanadium and uranium reserve holder.
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra
Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (الرباط-سلا-القنيطرة), one of Morocco's 12 regions, formed in 2015; area 17,570 km², population 5,132,639 (2024), 15.7% of national GDP, contains capital Rabat.
Randall County
Randall County, Texas: Panhandle county created 1876 from Bexar County, named for Horace Randal, seat at Canyon, part of Amarillo MSA; 140,753 residents in 2020, home to Palo Duro Canyon State Park and West Texas A&M University.
Randolph County, North Carolina, United States
Randolph County, North Carolina: Piedmont county formed in 1779 from Guilford County, named for Peyton Randolph; county seat Asheboro; 790 sq mi; 2020 census population 144,171; home to the North Carolina Zoo and Seagrove potteries.
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.
Red Sea State (ولاية البحر الأحمر)
Red Sea State (ولاية البحر الأحمر) is a state of Sudan whose capital, Port Sudan, is the country's main seaport; the state covers Sudan's entire Red Sea coastline.
Région de Kaffrine
Région de Kaffrine, central Senegal administrative region created in 2008 from the former Kaffrine department of Kaolack; four departments (Birkelane, Kaffrine, Malem Hodar, Koungheul); agriculture-dominated economy, among Senegal's poorest regions.
Region of Murcia
Region of Murcia (Región de Murcia), a uniprovincial autonomous community in southeast Spain under Organic Law 4/1982; capital Murcia, Assembly in Cartagena; highest Spanish regional GDP growth in 2025 (3.8%), semi-arid Segura basin economy.
Region Sjælland
Region Sjælland (Region Zealand), Danish region created 1 January 2007 from Roskilde, Western Zealand, and Storstrøm counties; 17 municipalities, 858,102 residents, 7,227 km²; merges into Region Eastern Denmark in 2027.
Region Syddanmark
Region Syddanmark (Region of Southern Denmark), Danish region since 2007 covering Southern Jutland and Funen, seat Vejle, 22 municipalities, 1.2 million people; health-led, reorganized for the 2027 health reform with four health councils.
Regions of Italy
Regions of Italy (regioni): the 20 first-level administrative divisions, 15 ordinary and 5 special-statute (Sicily, Sardinia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Aosta Valley, Friuli Venezia Giulia), created under the 1948 Constitution, operating fully from 1970, with Istat area and population data.
Relizane Province
Relizane Province (غليزان), Algeria's wilaya No. 48 created in 1984 from Mostaganem, capital Relizane; 13 daïras, 38 communes; lower Chélif agro-industrial hub with Gargar and Sidi M'hamed Benaouda dams, citrus, and large tomato-processing industry; unchanged by the 2026 69-wilaya reorganization.
Republic of Crimea (Республика Крым) (Russia)
Republic of Crimea (Республика Крым), Russian federal subject created on the Crimean Peninsula after the March 2014 referendum and 18 March accession treaty; unrecognized by the UN and EU, which deem the annexation illegal, with Sevastopol a separate federal city.
Republic of Karelia (Республика Карелия)
Republic of Karelia (Республика Карелия), a federal republic of Russia on the Finnish border, capital Petrozavodsk; population about 519,000, mostly Russian, with Karelians about 5–7% and the Karelian language lacking official status.
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), a German federal state founded 30 August 1946 under French occupation, capital Mainz; Germany's top wine state with six of 13 wine regions, ~70% of German wine, GDP EUR 185.3 billion (2025), home of BASF and BioNTech.
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT), a county borough and unitary authority in the South Wales Valleys northwest of Cardiff, formed in 1996 from Rhondda, Cynon Valley and Taff Ely districts; population 237,497 (Census 2021), third largest Welsh local authority.
Riau
Riau (Riau Province, Provinsi Riau) is an Indonesian province on central-eastern Sumatra, capital Pekanbaru, established 9 August 1957, population about 6.9 million, a major oil, gas, and palm oil economy distinct from Riau Islands province.
Riau Islands
Riau Islands (Kepulauan Riau, Kepri), Indonesian province of over 2,000 islands between Sumatra and Singapore, split from Riau in 2002; capital Tanjungpinang, economic center Batam free trade zone.
Rif-dimashq Governorate
Rif Dimashq (ريف دمشق, Damascus Countryside) governorate, Syria: surrounds Damascus city, largest governorate by area over 18,000 km2, nine districts, Eastern Ghouta siege, war damage, and post-2024 transition.
Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte (RN), potiguar, a Brazilian state at the continent's northeastern corner, capital Natal; 3.3 million people (2022 census), 52,809.6 km², half of Brazil's wind farms, salt and cotton history, HDI 0.731.
River Nile
River Nile State (نهر النيل) is a northern Sudanese state on the main Nile, capital Ed Damer, six localities, 122,123 km², Meroë pyramids, top-three gold producer, hit by 2025 drone strikes on Atbara.
Rivers State
Rivers State, Nigeria (capital Port Harcourt): Niger Delta state created 27 May 1967 from the Eastern Region; 23 LGAs; produces over 60% of Nigeria's crude oil; population 5.2 million (2006); under six-month emergency rule in 2025.
Rivne Oblast
Rivne Oblast (Рівненська область), a northwestern Ukrainian oblast created 4 December 1939, capital Rivne; 20,047 km², 4 raions, 64 hromadas, borders Belarus over 234 km, forests 40.8% of area.