Province

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A province can mean a principal subdivision of a country, or administrative division within a state, or an administative division within a conquered territory.

Other uses

Northern Ireland became known as 'the Province', originally a translation of the Nordic word Ulster - which is one of the four original Irish provinces, and of which Northern Ireland covers two thirds.[1] Northern Ireland is sometimes called a province of the United Kingdom, though not normally by the UK government or the Northern Ireland Assembly.

  1. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1992