Prefecture vs. Province: What's the Difference?

The district administered or governed by a prefect.

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

An administrative district of some countries, especially China or Japan.

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

The office or authority of a prefect.

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

The residence or housing of a prefect.

An area of knowledge, activity, or interest

The office or position of a prefect.

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

The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.

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

The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.

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

The district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)

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

The office of prefect

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

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

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

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

The parts of a country outside its capital city.

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;