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Bas-Saint-Laurent
Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec administrative region 01 on the south shore of the St. Lawrence estuary; about 205,000 residents over 22,183 km²; main cities Rimouski and Rivière-du-Loup; seven MRCs; economy of services, maritime, agri-food, forestry.
Bashkortostan (Башҡортостан)
Bashkortostan (Башҡортостан), Republic of Bashkortostan, is a Russian federal republic between the Volga and the Ural Mountains, capital Ufa. Oil refining center, population about 4.07 million, Bashkirs, Russians, and Tatars; site of January 2024 Baymak protests.
Basilicata
Basilicata (Lucania) is a southern Italian region of 9,992 km² with provinces Potenza and Matera, about 530,000 residents, mountainous terrain, GDP per capita of 28.4 thousand euro (2024), and a stagnating, Melfi-automobile-dependent economy.
Basra Governorate
Basra Governorate (محافظة البصرة) is Iraq's southeasternmost province, bordering Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. It holds Iraq's main seaports, about 93 billion barrels of oil reserves producing roughly 70% of national crude, and suffers chronic water crises and protests.
Bataan
Bataan is a province in Central Luzon, Philippines, covering the Bataan Peninsula (1,372.98 sq km), capital Balanga City. Established 1757 from Pampanga; known for the 1942 Bataan Death March, Mount Natib, and the Freeport Area of Bataan.
Batanes
Batanes is the Philippines' northernmost and smallest province, ten volcanic islands in the Luzon Strait with six municipalities, 18,937 residents (2024), Ivatan culture, protected landscape status, and managed community-based tourism.
Batangas
Batangas is a province in CALABARZON, southwestern Luzon, Philippines, with capital Batangas City; 30 municipalities, 4 cities, land area 316,581 ha, home to Taal Volcano, GDP PhP 713.22 billion (2025).
Batha Region
Batha Region is an administrative region of Chad in the central-eastern Sahel, created in 2002 from the former Batha prefecture and named for the intermittent Batha River, which drains to Lake Fitri.
Battambang
Battambang (បាត់ដំបង) is a province in northwestern Cambodia, named after its capital city on the Sangker River and known as "the rice bowl of Cambodia" for its dominant role in rice production.
Batum Oblast
Batum Oblast (Батумская область) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire on the eastern Black Sea coast, created in 1878 from Ottoman territory after the Russo-Turkish War.
Bayelsa State
Bayelsa State is a Nigerian state in the heart of the Niger Delta, created from Rivers State in 1996, with its capital at Yenagoa and the Ijaw people as its heartland.
Beheira Governorate
Beheira Governorate (محافظة البحيرة) is a governorate of Egypt in the western Nile Delta, with its capital at Damanhur. It ranks first in agricultural production.
Bekes County
Bekes County (Békés vármegye) is a Hungarian county in the southeast on the Great Hungarian Plain, seat Békéscsaba, bordering Romania; 5,630 km², Körös rivers, chernozem farmland, Gyula's Gothic brick castle, and a GDP per capita near 57% of the national average.
Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast (Белгородская область), Russian federal subject formed 6 January 1954 from Kursk and Voronezh districts; capital Belgorod, 540 km Ukraine border, KMA iron ore, war-affected since 2022.
Belz Voivodeship
Belz Voivodeship (Polish: województwo bełskie, Ukrainian: Белзьке воєводство) was a unit of the Kingdom of Poland from 1462 to 1772, seated at Belz near the Bug River.
Bengkulu (district)
Bengkulu (Propinsi Bengkulu, Bencoolen) is a province-level (ADM1) administrative division of Indonesia on Sumatra's west coast, capital Bengkulu City; established 18 November 1968 as the 26th province, with 9 regencies plus the city, 129 districts, and a British EIC colonial past from 1685.
Bengo Province
Bengo Province (Província do Bengo), Angolan province created 26 April 1980 from Luanda, seat Caxito, area 31,371 km², 716,335 residents in the 2024 census, governed by Maria Antónia Nelumba.
Benguela Province
Benguela Province (Província de Benguela), coastal province of western Angola, capital Benguela city, founded 1617. 39,827 km², 23 municipalities, 2.6 million people (2024 census); home to Lobito port and the Benguela Railway's Lobito Corridor.
Benguet
Benguet is a landlocked province in the Cordillera Administrative Region, northern Luzon, Philippines, with capital La Trinidad. Known as the Salad Bowl of the Philippines for vegetable farming and for gold and copper mining; 13 municipalities, 473,190 people (2024).
Béni Mellal-Khénifra
Béni Mellal-Khénifra is one of Morocco's twelve regions, an inland area of about 2.5 million people created in 2015, combining the Tadla plain with mountain and phosphate-mining territory.
Beni Suweif Governorate
Beni Suweif Governorate (محافظة بني سويف), Egypt's 'Pearl of Upper Egypt', lies about 120 km south of Cairo; 10,698.5 km², ~3.98 million people, seven districts, agriculture-led economy, Meidum pyramid and Herakleopolis Magna.
Benue State
Benue State, Nigeria, is a state in the North-Central region, created in 1976, with its capital at Makurdi and the nickname "Food Basket of the Nation".
Berar Province
Berar Province, the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, was a British India province taken from the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1853 for the Hyderabad Contingent, merged into the Central Provinces in 1903, now in Maharashtra.
Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States
Berkeley County, South Carolina: Lowcountry county with county seat Moncks Corner; created 1682, reestablished 1882; 2020 population 229,861, 2025 estimate 274,666; major manufacturing and Redwood Materials investment.
Bicol Region
Bicol Region (Region V, Bicolandia) is a Philippine administrative region of six provinces in southeastern Luzon; 6.08 million people in 2020, Naga City as religious center, services-led economy, and the country's highest regional poverty rate in 2025.
Bihor
Bihor (Județul Bihor) is a northwestern Romanian county on the Hungarian border, capital Oradea, area 7,544 km², population about 616,000, known for the Apuseni karst, Băile Felix spas, and Oradea's baroque heritage.
Bình Định province
Bình Định was a south-central Vietnamese province of about 6,040 km² and 1.5 million people, capital Quy Nhơn, homeland of the Tây Sơn uprising and Emperor Quang Trung; merged into Gia Lai province on 1 July 2025.
Bình Dương province
Bình Dương was a province of Vietnam on the northern edge of Ho Chi Minh City, merged into an expanded Ho Chi Minh City in 2025.
Biobío Region
Biobío Region (Región del Biobío), Chile's eighth region, capital Concepción; 23,890.2 km², 1,613,059 people (2024 census), three provinces, 33 comunas; Ñuble split off in 2018; forestry, fishing, and manufacturing economy.
Biscay
Biscay, also known as Vizcaya, is a province of the Basque Country, Spain. It is the most populated, covering 2,217 square kilometers and bounded by the Bay of Biscay.