The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is not on Vancouver Island but rather is located in the southwest corner of the mainland ( an area often called the Lower Mainland ).

As of 2011, 2, 590, 921 people ( 59 % of British Columbia's total population ), lived in the region ; sixteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located there.

Four of the province's five universities, all four of its professional sports teams, and most of its cultural activities are located in Winnipeg.

* Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor Gabriel Johnston moves to the province's largest and most prosperous city of New Bern.

Although Sheshatshiu and Natuashish are home to most of the province's Innu people, some also live at Labrador City, Wabush, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, St. John's, and elsewhere.

At the time, Sichuan was China's most populous province, but it had been economically devastated by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, whose collective policies had collapsed the province's agricultural production to levels not seen since the 1930s, despite a great increase in the province's population.

The term has almost become a brand name, especially in California, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Washington, to which most of the province's cannabis is exported.

Seeking a mandate for its most daring reform, the nationalization of the province's electric companies under Hydro-Québec, the Liberal Party called for a new election in 1962.

Brownlee cut spending aggressively: he closed most of the province's agricultural colleges, reduced the civil service by more than a third, cut provincial employees ' salaries, and disbanded the Alberta Provincial Police.

At that time, the Premier agreed that most traditional objections to extension of the franchise were " played out ", but expressed concern at the increases that would result to the cost of elections and uncertainty at whether most of the province's women actually wanted suffrage.

Oliver was the province's most prominent Liberal, but had just been named federal Minister of the Interior, and was not interested in leaving Ottawa.

One of the most contentious issues facing the newly elected government was the decision of the province's capital city.

Perhaps most significantly, it set up a court system, with Arthur Lewis Sifton as the province's first Chief Justice.

While most public works issues were handled by Public Works Minister Cushing, following the 1909 election Rutherford named himself as the province's first Minister of Railways.

Its territory encompasses two cities: Naga City, the lone chartered city, is the province's and the region's most progressive city, also commercial, financial, and cultural center, while Iriga City, a component city, is the center of the Rinconada area and Riŋkonāda Language.

Prior to the Plantation of Ulster in 1610, Sorley Boy had been the most powerful of the province's Scoto-Irish.

Tacurong City is the smallest unit in the province in terms of land area, but it is the most urbanized, and is considered to be the province's commercial center.

His term was marked by rapid expansion of the province's paved road system, as well as the completion of most of the major road bridges in British Columbia.

Education Minister Gerard Kennedy established a province-wide negotiating framework with the province's teachers ' unions with the result that most school boards settled their contracts without lost teaching time.

Its border with Gauteng includes that province's Johannesburg-Pretoria axis, the most industrialised metropole on the continent.

Unlike their predecessor party, that formed government during its entire existence, the Alberta Conservatives were a marginal party in Alberta for most of the province's early history.

Most of this land, which was Indian land for most of the province's history, has now been ceded to other states and most of the land within New York has been divided into new counties.

The success made Taishi Ci famous, but he also became the province's enemy.

One of the province's famous resident is the farmer turned kickboxer Thun Sophea.

The province's Tây Sơn district is also famous as the starting place of the Tây Sơn Uprising ( and thus the Tây Sơn Dynasty ).

Ironically this range is the higher one, including the province's highest peak, Seweweekspoortpiek ( Seven Weeks Gorge Peak ) at 2325 m. The famous Towerkop ( Bewitch Peak ) towers over the Klein Karoo town of Ladismith at a height of 2189 m. The peak is so named for its cleft peak, that, according to legend, was split by a spell and subsequent bolt of lightning.

Two of the province's most famous products are the renowned pu-erh tea which is traditionally grown in Simao ; as well as Xuanwei ham, which is often used to flavour stewed and braised foods in Chinese cuisine, as well as for making the stocks and broths of many Chinese soups.

Since membership is based on a province's communion with Canterbury, expulsion would require the Archbishop of Canterbury's refusal to be in communion with the affected jurisdiction ( s ).

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy ; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.

The province's mainland is the Nova Scotia peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, including numerous bays and estuaries.

Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for its shipwrecks, approximately from the province's southern coast.

As of 2011, the province's population is 514, 536.

Newfoundland and Labrador's capital and largest city, St. John's, is Canada's 20th-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and is home to nearly 40 percent of the province's population.

The name Newfoundland is derived from English as " New Found Land " ( a translation from the Portuguese Terra Nova, and still reflected in the province's French language name, " Terre Neuve ").

* Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions ; Central Ontario ( although not actually the province's geographic centre ), Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe and Southwestern Ontario ( parts of which were formerly referred to as Western Ontario ).

Occitan's decline is somewhat less pronounced in Bearn because of the province's history ( a late addition to the Kingdom of France ), though even there the language is little spoken outside the homes of the rural elderly.

The province's name is derived from the Saskatchewan River.

The province's highest point, at, is located in the Cypress Hills and is the highest geographical point above sea-level between the Rocky Mountains and Quebec.

The Silesian voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.

The University is also the province's second largest research institution and the nation's lead institution in the VENUS and NEPTUNE deep-water seafloor observatory projects.

Agriculturally fertile soils account for around 60 % of the province's area, while 20 %, the rest of the non-forested or urban areas, is mostly wetland soil ( muck-peat and alluvial soils ).

Wielkopolska Region lies within the basin of the Oder River, 88 % of the province's surface water drains into the Warta river basin, and the remaining 12 % is drained by a multitude of other river systems, including the Barycz, Ladislaus Trench and Obrzycy waterways.

The Greater Poland voivodeship's government is headed by the province's voivode ( governor ) who is appointed by the Polish Prime Minister.