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province

Administrative division in several countries

Entityadministrative territorial entity typeQ34876

Also known as provinces · landscape

Instance of: administrative territorial entity type
Subclass of: administrative territorial entity

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A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman provincia, which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term province has since been adopted by many countries. In some countries with no actual provinces, "the provinces" is a metaphorical term meaning "outside the capital city".

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Permanent duplicated item: Q25634186
Different from: province criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items
province
Partially coincident with: Q105985227
Used by: by province

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35 identifiers linking province across the web's reference databases

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AIDb. (2026). province (Q34876). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/province-Q34876