Qn: State?? Province??

Sep 16, 2008 23:51

Was trying to translate "Province" in Chinese for a friends of mine who is a chinese speaker but trying to learn English...
But instead I was confused by the following English words instead.

QN: What is the different between "State" and "Province" (other than the spelling, no of letters it contain, blah blah)

Take for example:
Bangkok is a province of ( Read more... )

question, personal, confusing

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kawaii_mon September 16 2008, 22:35:45 UTC
As far as I knew they were the same thing, just a different name.

According to the dictionary:
Province
1. an administrative division or unit of a country.
2. the provinces,
a. the parts of a country outside of the capital or the largest cities.
b. (in England) all parts of the country outside of London.
3. a country, territory, district, or region.

State
1. the territory, or one of the territories, of a government.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) any of the bodies politic which together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America.

Yeah, pretty much the same thing. Prefectures in Japan work the same way as far as I know.

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jchq September 21 2008, 15:04:46 UTC
Thanks sharing ;)

LOL, Me and my collegue will like having a long dicussion abt it.

Will inform that tomorrow at work.

Thanks!

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