The province is an administrative division used in several States, since the Roman Empire. The word province comes from the Latin provincia , which means overcome countries.

The Latin term provincia gave the Provence.

In France, the word province fell in disuse since the revolution. Since the word province was re-used in particular with the XXème century; with Paris, the expression in province means out of the Paris region . The expression thus gathers a whole of heterogeneous areas which it is complex to gather under the same term. One substitutes sometimes the expression to him in area , whereas l'" Island-of-France" is also a French area.

With the Netherlands, the provinces were regarded as almost independent States: to see Seventeen Provinces, republic of the United Provinces.

See also: Province (literature)

Countries divided into provinces

The countries divided into provinces are:

• the Argentinian - to see Provinces of Argentina;
• the Belgium - to see Provinces of Belgium;
• the Kampuchea - to see Provinces of Kampuchea;
• the Canada - to see Provinces and territories of Canada;
• the China - to see Provinces of China;
• the Democratic republic of Congo - to see Provinces of the Democratic republic of Congo;
• the Korea - to see Provinces of Korea;
• Cuba - to see Provinces of Cuba;
• the Spain - to see Provinces of Spain;
• the Gabon - to see Provinces of Gabon;
• the Indonesia - to see Provinces of Indonesia;
• the Iran - to see Provinces of Iran;
• the Italy - to see Provinces of Italy;
• the Japan - to see Provinces of Japan;
• the Laos - to see Provinces of Laos;
• the New Caledonia - to see Provinces of New Caledonia;
• the Netherlands - to see Provinces of the Netherlands;
• the Peru - to see Provinces of Peru;
• Filipino - to see Provinces of Philippines;
• the Russia - to see Provinces of Russia;
• the Thailand - to see Provinces of Thailand;
• the Vietnam - to see Provinces of Vietnam.

Old provinces

• Provinces of France

• Provinces of Japan
• Provinces of Savoy
• historical Provinces of Sweden
• Roman Provinces

See too

• List of the catholic ecclesiastical provinces
• List of the ecclesiastical provinces Anglicans
• Parisianisme

Nds-nl: Pervincie Simple: Province

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