province

A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.

A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.

Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.

An area of knowledge, activity, or interest: synonym: field.

The range of one’s proper duties and functions; scope.

An area of land, less extensive than a region, having a characteristic plant and animal population.

Any of various lands outside Italy conquered by the Romans and administered by them as self-contained units.

Originally, a country of considerable extent which, being reduced under Roman dominion, was remodeled, subjected to the rule of a governor sent from Rome, and charged with such taxes and contributions as the Romans saw fit to impose. The earliest Roman province was Sicily.

An administrative division of a country: as, the provinces of Spain; the former provinces of France; more loosely, any important administrative unit, as one of the governments of Russia or of the crownlands of Austria.

A part of a country or state as distinguished from the capital or the larger cities; the country: usually in the plural: as, an actor who is starring in the provinces.