Although they take their names from the mentioned historic provinces, the dialect boundaries are not congruent with province boundaries.

It defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ).

* ISO 3166-2, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code, defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

They are today seen mainly in a sporting context, as Ireland's four professional rugby teams play under the names of the provinces, and the Gaelic Athletic Association has separate Provincial councils and Provincial championships.

The country's provinces have the same names as their respective capitals.

Most of the original colonies have given their names to the modern provinces of Mozambique.

* In Pharaonic times, the governors of each of dozens of provinces in the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt ( called " nomes " by the Greeks, and whose names often alluded to local patterns of religious worship ) are usually known by the Greek word Nomarch.

) People younger than the provinces age of Majority can change their names if they have their guardians ' consent, are legally married, or have a Common law marriage.

With the exception of Quebec, Canadian provinces offer spouses a simplified mechanism for changing their last names after marriage.

There are no standard abbreviations for provinces ' names ; but the province name is optional and usually not needed if the postal code is correct.

Separate provinces were re-established under their current names of Ontario and Quebec.

In some cases, several modern regions or départements share names with the historic provinces, and their borders may cover roughly the same territory.

Thus the gouvernements became hollow structures, but they still carried a sense of the old provinces, and so their names and limits have remained popular until today.

The names of the historical French provinces — such as Brittany ( Bretagne ), Berry, Orléanais, Normandy ( Normandie ), Languedoc, Lyonnais, Dauphiné, Champagne, Poitou, Guyenne and Gascony ( Gascogne ), Burgundy ( Bourgogne ), Picardy ( Picardie ), Provence, Touraine, Limousin, Auvergne, Béarn, Alsace, Flanders, Lorraine, Corsica ( Corse ), Savoy ( Savoie )... ( please see individual articles for specifics about each regional culture ) — are still used to designate natural, historical and cultural regions, and many of them appear in modern région or département names.

Shandong is one of the richer provinces of China, and its economic development focuses on large enterprises with well-known brand names.

The names of Connacht, Ulster, Leinster and Munster are still in use, now applied to the four modern provinces of Ireland.

Disyllabic names of railway lines, freeways, and provinces are often formed by taking one character from each of the two locales ' names.

Cabrillo's expedition recorded the names of numerous Chumashan villages that were present on the California coast and adjacent islands in October 1542 — then located in the two warring provinces of Xexo ( ruled by an " old woman ", now Santa Barbara County, California ) and Xucu ( now Ventura County, California ).

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), and defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

ISO 3166-2: AU is the entry for Australia in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

ISO 3166-2: NZ is the entry for New Zealand in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

Colors of cattle came in for their special names.

A few professional baseball players cultivated eccentricities, with the encouragement of the press, so that they might see their names in big black print, along with Daddy Browning's, Al Capone's, Earl Sande's, and the Prince of Wales'.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests.

They did not have the wit to follow the stars in their courses, to exchange names with each other, to harvest the experience of each for the wisdom of all.

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

For tonal languages, further classification can be based on their treatment of tone, though names do not yet exist to distinguish the various types.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

Most of the basins take their names from cities or towns located at their rims.

The Beyliks did not mint coins in the names of their own leaders while they remained under the suzerainty of the Mongol Ilkhanids.

In popular usage, abjads often contain the word " alphabet " in their names, such as " Arabic alphabet " and " Phoenician alphabet ".

The completeness theorem and the incompleteness theorem, despite their names, do not contradict one another.

This may include the speed of their signing and names for local places.

) Diseases affecting the abdominal cavity are dealt with generally under their own names ( e. g. appendicitis ).