administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes

commonwealth - the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

eparchy - a province in ancient Greece

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Guangdong, Guangdong province, Kwangtung - a province in southern China

Gansu, Gansu province, Kansu - a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia

Hebei, Hebei province, Hopeh, Hopei - a populous province in northeastern China

Hunan, Hunan province - a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources

Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan, Szechwan province - a populous province of south central China

Yunnan, Yunnan province - a province of southern China

Sinkiang, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region - an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people

Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol - an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911

Chihuahua - a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau

Lower Saxony - a state in northwestern Germany

Bavaria - a state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory

Italian region - Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes

Kosovo - a Serbian province in southern Yugoslavia populated predominantly by Albanians

Canadian province - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes

Australian state - one of the states constituting Australia

Tirol, Tyrol - a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria

Assam - state in northeastern India

Karnataka, Mysore - state in southern India; formerly Mysore

Manipur - state in northeastern India

Andhra Pradesh - a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal

Bihar - a state of northeastern India

Goa - a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony

Gujarat, Gujerat - an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay

Madras, Tamil Nadu - a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras

Uttar Pradesh - a state in northern India

Orissa - state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal

West Bengal - a state in eastern India

Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan - the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo

Friesland - one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands

Orange Free State, Free State - a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997

Transvaal - a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Province - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa

Cape of Good Hope - a province of western South Africa

Soviet Socialist Republic - one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)

Abkhazia, Abkhaz - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability

arena, domain, sphere, area, orbit, field - a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

ecclesiastical province - the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical orderi; "the general of the Jesuits has several provinces under him"