Province

noun
1.
an administrative division or unit of a country.
2.
the provinces.

the parts of a country outside of the capital or the largest cities.
(in England) all parts of the country outside of London.

3.
a country, territory, district, or region.
4.
Geography. physiographic province.
5.
a department or branch of learning or activity:
the province of mathematics.
6.
sphere or field of activity or authority, as of a person; office, function, or business:
Such decisions do not lie within his province.
7.
a major subdivision of British India.
8.
an ecclesiastical territorial division, as that within which an archbishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction.
9.
History/Historical.

any of the North American colonies now forming major administrative divisions of Canada.
any of certain colonies of Great Britain which are now part of the U.S.

10.
Roman History. a country or territory outside of Italy, brought under the ancient Roman dominion and administered by a governor sent from Rome.
11.
Mining. an individual mineral-producing area.
noun
1.
a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire
2.
a district, territory, or region
3.
(pl) the provinces, those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
4.
(ecology) a subdivision of a region, characterized by a particular fauna and flora
5.
an area or branch of learning, activity, etc
6.
the field or extent of a person’s activities or office
7.
(RC Church, Church of England) an ecclesiastical territory, usually consisting of several dioceses, and having an archbishop or metropolitan at its head
8.
a major administrative and territorial subdivision of a religious order
9.
(history) a region of the Roman Empire outside Italy ruled by a governor from Rome