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Svay Rieng
Svay Rieng (ស្វាយរៀង) is a province of far south-east Cambodia, bordered by Vietnam on three sides in the Parrot's Beak salient; it was created in 1922.
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast (Свердловская область) is a federal subject of Russia in the Ural region, straddling the Ural Mountains, with Yekaterinburg as its administrative center and a metallurgy-heavy economy.
Swedish Livonia
Swedish Livonia (Svenska Livland) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1629 to 1721, comprising parts of present-day southern Estonia and northern Latvia, including the city of Riga.
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (województwo świętokrzyskie) is one of the 16 provinces of Poland, located in the south-central part of the country with its capital at Kielce.
Sylhet Division
Sylhet Division (সিলেট বিভাগ) is Bangladesh's sixth administrative division, declared 1 August 1995, in the northeast: four districts (Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Habiganj), 11.03 million people (2022 census), haor wetlands, tea country, lowest income poverty but highest multidimensional poverty.
Syria Palaestina
Syria Palaestina, Roman province renamed from Judaea after the Bar Kokhba revolt (c. 135 CE to c. 390 CE), governed by consular then equestrian praeses, garrisoned by two legions, later divided into Byzantine Palaestina provinces.
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, a county of northeastern Hungary bordering Ukraine, Romania, and Slovakia; seat Nyíregyháza; 5,936 km², 516,799 residents, 229 settlements; formed in 1950, apple-growing region.
Tabora Region
Tabora Region (Mkoa wa Tabora), western-central Tanzania's largest region at about 76,151 km² across seven districts; 3,391,679 people (2022 census), miombo woodland, smallholder farming, and 55% of national tobacco production.
Táchira
Táchira, a state of Venezuela in the Andean southwest, capital San Cristóbal; created a province 14 March 1856, borders Colombia's Norte de Santander; site of Venezuela's first oil wells (1878) and the binational Táchira–Norte de Santander border zone.
Taiwan, China
Taiwan, China (中国台湾) is the PRC designation treating Taiwan and nearby islands as China's Taiwan province, area 36,000 km2. The territory is actually governed by the Republic of China, whose provincial tier was downsized in 1998; the sovereignty claim is contested.
Takeo
Takeo (តាកែវ, ខេត្តតាកែវ) is a southern Cambodian province, code 21, capital Doun Kaev, bordering Vietnam. Known as the cradle of Khmer civilization for Funan-era Angkor Borei and Phnom Da.
Takhar
Takhar (Dari: تخار) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the northeast along the Amu Darya river on the border with Tajikistan, created in 1964 with its capital at Taloqan.
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas, a northeastern Mexican state bordering Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, capital Ciudad Victoria, largest city Reynosa; 43 municipalities, 80,249 km², top national road and rail trade flow with the US, formerly Nuevo Santander.
Tambacounda
Tambacounda, Senegal's largest region (about 42,706 km2, 987,152 people in 2023), in the east with 4 departments; capital Tambacounda city on the Dakar-Niger railway; low density, high poverty, and a 225-kV energy hub.
Tambralinga
Tambralinga (ตามพรลิงค์) was an early kingdom and trading entrepôt in present-day Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, southern Thailand, flourishing from the 5th to the 11th centuries and succeeded by the Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom.
Tandjilé Region
Tandjilé (Tandjile) is a province of southern Chad, capital Laï, ISO code TD-TA; 682,817 residents in 2009, 65.3% poverty, rice and groundnut farming, GEF-8 food systems project, Logone tributary.
Tanger-Assilah
Tanger-Assilah (عمالة طنجة-أصيلة), Morocco's northernmost prefecture and seat of the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima region, grouping Tangier and Asilah; 1,494,413 residents in 2024, 93.9% urban, home to Tanger Free Zone and Tanger Med.
Taoyuan
Taoyuan (桃園) is a special municipality in northwestern Taiwan, upgraded from Taoyuan County on December 25, 2014 as Taiwan's sixth special municipality; 13 districts, 1,220.95 km², about 2.36 million people, home to Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and the Aerotropolis plan.
Taraba State
Taraba State, Nigeria: North East zone state created 27 August 1991 from Gongola State, capital Jalingo, 16 LGAs, over 80 ethnic groups, Mambilla Plateau, Gashaka-Gumti National Park, governor Agbu Kefas since 2023.
Tarapacá
Tarapacá is a region of northern Chile in the Atacama Desert, known for colonial silver mining and its 19th-century sodium nitrate industry, becoming Chilean after the War of the Pacific (1879–1883).
Tarlac
Tarlac is a landlocked province in Central Luzon, Philippines, with capital Tarlac City, 17 municipalities, 511 barangays, and 1,568,162 people (2024). Its economy grew 7.6 percent in 2024 and is Services-based.
Tarnopol Voivodeship
Tarnopol Voivodeship (województwo tarnopolskie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland, carved from former Austrian Galicia in 1921, with its capital at Tarnopol, today Ternopil in Ukraine.
Taroudannt
Taroudannt (إقليم تارودانت) is a province of Morocco's Souss-Massa region, capital Taroudant: 16,500 km², 89 communes, 838,820 inhabitants (2014), 30% urbanization, farming and tourism economy.
Tatarstan (Татарстан)
Tatarstan (Татарстан), Republic of Tatarstan, a Russian federal republic at the Volga-Kama confluence with capital Kazan; declared sovereignty in 1990, voted 62% for sovereign status in 1992, and ranks among Russia's top economic regions.
Taurida Governorate
Taurida Governorate (Таврическая губерния) was a governorate of the Russian Empire covering Crimea and adjacent mainland, with its capital at Simferopol, existing from 1802 until its abolition in 1921.
Tây Ninh province
Tây Ninh province (tỉnh Tây Ninh), a Vietnamese border province in the Southeast region; merged with Long An in June 2025 into a new Tây Ninh of 8,536.44 km², 3,254,170 people, centered in Tân An city, with a 240 km Cambodian border.
Tboung Khmum
Tboung Khmum (ត្បូងឃ្មុំ), a Cambodian province created 31 December 2013 from eastern Kampong Cham by royal decree, capital Suong, area 5,250.51 km², population 763,735 (2019), agriculture-based economy.
Tébessa Province
Tébessa Province (ولاية تبسة) is a province of northeastern Algeria on the Tunisian border, with Tébessa city as its capital and a major mining economy.
Tehran Province
Tehran Province (استان تهران, Ostān-e Tehrān) is Iran's first-order administrative division surrounding the national capital Tehran; most populous province, 13,267,637 at 2016 census, 16 counties, created by 1978 decree, area 12,981 km².
Tekirdağ
Tekirdağ (Rodosto, Rodoscuk, Tekfurdağı) is a Turkish province in Thrace, north of the Sea of Marmara; 6,313 km², population 1,208,441 (2025), major wheat, sunflower, and grape producer with industry in Çorlu and Çerkezköy.