County vs. Province

The largest administrative division of most states in the United States.

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

A territorial division exercising administrative, judicial, and political functions in Great Britain and Ireland.

(Ecclesiastical) A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.

The territory under the jurisdiction of a count or earl.

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

The people living in a county.

An area of knowledge, activity, or interest

An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 48 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska and Louisiana).

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

A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.

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

A jail operated by a county government.

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

(historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.

A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.

Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.

An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.

An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.

(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.

A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; - called also a shire. See Shire.

(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.

A count; an earl or lord.

(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.

A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government;

The parts of a country outside its capital city.

The largest administrative district within a state;

An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.

A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.

A region of country; a tract; a district.

A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.

The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.

The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;

The proper sphere or extent of your activities;