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Zanjan Province
Zanjan Province (استان زنجان), northwestern Iranian province, capital Zanjan city; population 1,057,461; cold semi-arid climate, Qezel Ozan River, Soltaniyeh Dome UNESCO site, knife-making handicrafts.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Запорізька область)
Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Запорізька область) is a south-eastern Ukrainian oblast created 10 January 1939, centered on Zaporizhzhia on the Dnipro; largely Russian-occupied and illegally annexed in 2022.
Zarqa Governorate
Zarqa Governorate (محافظة الزرقاء) is a Jordanian governorate 20 km northeast of Amman, Jordan's industrial hub with 52% of national industries, area 4,761.3 km2, population over 1.3 million, and a JD800 million development program.
Zeeland
Zeeland (Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and six former islands, motto Luctor et emergo), the southwestern Dutch province of 392,000 people at or below sea level, protected by the Delta Works, with North Sea Port, tourism and an energy hub at Borssele.
Zeta Banovina
Zeta Banovina was one of nine provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1941, formed around Montenegro with parts of Serbia, Bosnia, and Dubrovnik.
Zhambyl Oblysy
Zhambyl Oblysy (Жамбыл облысы), also called Zhambyl Region, is a region of southern Kazakhstan formed in 1939 with its center at Taraz; an industrial-agricultural region holding most of Kazakhstan's phosphorite and fluorspar reserves.
Zhejiang (浙江)
Zhejiang (浙江), also abbreviated Zhe, is a coastal province in the Yangtze River Delta of southeast China, capital Hangzhou. Known for the Land of Silk, 2,878 islands, Ningbo-Zhoushan port, and a 2025 GDP of 9.45 trillion yuan.
Zhenzhou
Zhenzhou (真州) was a Song-Yuan prefecture at modern Yizheng, Jiangsu, created in 1013 from Jian'an Army; a Grand Canal-Yangtze grain and salt hub, reduced to Yizhen County in 1369. The name survives as Zhenzhou Town, Yizheng's county seat.
Zhongshan, Guangdong
Zhongshan (中山市), formerly Xiangshan County (香山县), is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta; county established 1152, renamed 1925 for Sun Yat-sen, prefecture-level city since 1988.
Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Oblast (Zhytomyrshchyna), a northwestern Ukrainian province created 22 September 1937, capital Zhytomyr; fifth-largest oblast at 29,832 km², holds over 85% of Ukraine's titanium reserves, borders Belarus, and hosts 55,800 displaced persons.
Zinder (district)
Zinder Region (district), Niger: center-east region around the city of Zinder, capital of the historic Damagaram sultanate; 155,778 km², about 5.27 million people (2023), 10 departments, highest national growth rate at 4.7%.
Zlínský kraj
Zlínský kraj (Zlín Region), NUTS CZ072, a Czech region on the Slovak border, seat Zlín; 3,963 km², fourth smallest of 14 regions, 577,515 residents (2025), comprising Valašsko, Slovácko, and Haná.
Zomba District
Zomba District is a first-order administrative district in Malawi's Southern Region, 2,580 km², containing Zomba City, the former capital. Population 746,724 (2018 census); economy dominated by maize and tobacco farming and Lake Chilwa fisheries.
Zonguldak
Zonguldak, a province and city on Turkey's western Black Sea coast, home of the country's largest hard coal basin (Zonguldak Coal Basin), first Republic-era province (1 April 1924), and the Filyos port project.
Zou Department
Zou Department (Département du Zou, also Département du Centre) is a first-order administrative division of Benin with 628,684 people, area 5,243 km², nine communes including Abomey and Bohicon, and five neighboring departments.
Zulia
Zulia is Venezuela's northwesternmost and most populous state, capital Maracaibo, area 63,100 km2, centered on oil-producing Lake Maracaibo; a sovereign federal state 1864-1868 and later Gran Estado Falcón Zulia (1881-1890).