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Biskra Province
Biskra Province (بسكرة), Algeria's wilaya 07, capital Biskra, the Gateway to the Desert: 20,986 km², ~772,746 people, 30 municipalities, millions of Deglet Nour date palms, and major untapped desert-tourism potential.
Bistriţa-Năsăud
Bistriţa-Năsăud (Beszterce-Naszód megye), Romanian county in northern Transylvania, NUTS 3 RO112, capital Bistriţa. About 297,000 people, 5,355 km², GDP per capita 11,700 € (2024), 31st of 42 Romanian regions.
Bitlis
Bitlis: city and province in Turkey's Eastern Anatolia region, west of Lake Van; named after Bedlis, Alexander's commander; Seljuk from 1084, Ottoman from 1514, liberated from Russian occupation 8 August 1916; TRB2 region, SEGE rank 76th.
Blue Nile State (ولاية النيل الأزرق)
Blue Nile State (ولاية النيل الأزرق) is a southeastern Sudanese state on the Blue Nile river, capital Ed Damazine, population about 1.3 million, home to the Roseires Dam and an active front in the SAF–RSF war since early 2026.
Bolívar, Venezuela
Bolívar is a Venezuelan state in the Guayana region south of the Orinoco, capital Ciudad Bolívar. Known for the Orinoco Mining Arc (111,843.70 km²), Guri dam (10,200 MW), Canaima National Park, and mining-driven deforestation and Indigenous displacement.
Bombay State
Bombay State was an Indian state, enlarged into a bilingual Marathi-Gujarati state on 1 November 1956 under the States Reorganisation Act, with capital Bombay (Mumbai); it was divided on 1 May 1960 into Maharashtra and Gujarat by the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960.
Bomet
Bomet is a county in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya, created from the former Kericho district in 1992, with its capital at Bomet Town.
Bongolava Region
Bongolava (Faritra Bongolava) is a region of central-western Madagascar with capital Tsiroanomandidy; 16,821 km², 24 communes, a maize and rice granary, first Guichet Agricole (2023), 87% poverty rate.
Boone County, Kentucky, United States
Boone County is a county in northern Kentucky along the Ohio River across from Cincinnati, named for pioneer Daniel Boone, with its county seat at Burlington.
Borgou Department
Borgou, a department of Benin in the northeast with chief town Parakou; 25,856 km², 8 communes, 1,214,249 inhabitants (2013 census), second most populous, bordering Nigeria and holding over 65% of Benin's cattle.
Borno State
Borno State, a state in North-East Nigeria with capital Maiduguri, formed 1976, second largest of 36 states, borders Cameroon, Niger, and Chad, and is the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency since 2009.
Borsod-Abauj Zemplen county
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (Borsod-Abauj Zemplen) county, north-eastern Hungary, seat Miskolc; formed 1950 from Borsod, Abaúj, Zemplén; 7,247 km², 604,493 people, 358 settlements, second largest Hungarian county.
Bosnia Vilayet
The Bosnia Vilayet (vilâyet-i Bosna) was an Ottoman province governed from Sarajevo, created in 1865 and occupied by Austria-Hungary from 1878 until its annexation in 1908.
Bouches-du-Rhône
Bouches-du-Rhône (13), French department in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, prefecture Marseille; created 4 March 1790 from Provence and Orange; 5,087 km², 2.09 million inhabitants (2023), third most populous in France.
Bouira Province
Bouira Province (البويرة), a wilaya of north-central Algeria created in 1974, capital Bouira city; 728,290 people, 4,454 km², Djurdjura Mountains, Lalla Khedidja (2,308 m), Tikjda ski station, and Kabyle Berber culture.
Boumerdes Province
Boumerdes Province (ولاية بومرداس) is a coastal wilaya of north-central Algeria: 1,456.68 km², 801,068 residents (2018), 9 daïras, 32 communes, seat of Algeria's 1962 Provisional Executive, and site of the deadly 2003 Mw 6.8 earthquake.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (BFC, Arpitan Borgogne-Franche-Comtât), a French region created 1 January 2016 by merging Burgundy and Franche-Comté; chef-lieu Dijon, seat Besançon; 2,802,670 inhabitants (2023), eight departments, industrial economy.
Bracław Voivodeship
Bracław Voivodeship (Polish: województwo bracławskie, Ukrainian: Брацлавське воєводство) was an administrative unit of Right-Bank Ukraine, created in 1566 and part of the Polish Crown from 1569 to 1793, with its seat at Bracław.
Braga District
Braga District (Distrito de Braga), a northwest Portugal district in the Minho region with capital Braga city; 14 municipalities, 371 parishes, about 846,000 residents (2021), area 2,706 km², density 312.7/km².
Brăila (district)
Brăila County (Județul Brăila), a county of southeastern Romania on the Danube with seat at Brăila port city; 4,765.76 km², ~281,000 residents (2021), first mentioned 1481, Ottoman raia 1542–1829, reestablished 17 February 1968.
Brazzavile Department
Brazzavile Department (Brazzaville Department, CG-BZV) is the first-order administrative division of the Republic of the Congo containing the capital Brazzaville; census 2023 population 2,138,236, density 3,646.81 per km2.
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
Brest Litovsk Voivodeship was a unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, created in the 1566 reform and ended when Russia annexed the region in 1795.
Brest Oblast
Brest Oblast (Брестская область), southwestern province of Belarus bordering Ukraine and Poland, capital Brest; formed 4 December 1939, area 32,300 sq km, 16 raions, agro-industrial economy with strong dairy exports.
British America
British America: the English and British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, 1607–1783, from Jamestown through the thirteen colonies plus Florida and Quebec, ending with American independence.
British North America
British North America: the British Empire's North American colonies, especially those remaining loyal after 1783. New France ceded in 1763; united by the British North America Act 1867 into the Dominion of Canada.
Brittany (administrative region)
Brittany (Bretagne, code 53) is a French administrative region of four departments with capital Rennes, created in 1972 without Loire-Atlantique; population 3,449,370 (2023), 83 councilors, president Loïg Chesnais-Girard.
Bruxelles-Capitale
Bruxelles-Capitale, also called the Brussels-Capital Region, is one of Belgium's three federal regions, covering the capital and its 19 municipalities since 1989, with about 1.26 million inhabitants.
Bryansk Oblast
Bryansk Oblast (Брянская область), a Russian federal subject formed 5 July 1944 from Orel Oblast districts, capital Bryansk; borders Belarus and Ukraine; GRP 724.2 bln rub (2024), population 1,132.5 thousand (2025), governor Egor Kovalchuk since September 2026.
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires Province (Provincia de Buenos Aires), Argentina's most populous province, 17,569,053 people (2022 census), capital La Plata since 1882, 135 partidos, governor Axel Kicillof, leading industrial and agricultural economy.
Bujumbura Rural Province
Bujumbura Rural Province (IProvense ya Bujumbura Rural), capital Isale, ISO code BL, was a Burundian province of 555,933 people around Bujumbura city; merged into the new five-province Bujumbura province in the 2025 territorial reform.