The province's name recalls the traditional name of a historic Polish region, Lesser Poland, or in Polish: Małopolska.

On December 6, 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to Newfoundland and Labrador.

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 ").

The province's name derives from that of the region's capital and largest city, Opole, pronounced.

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

The province's name recalls the traditional name of the region, Mazowsze ( sometimes rendered in English as " Masovia "), with which it is roughly coterminous.

The province's name recalls the historic Lubusz Land ( Lebus or Lubus ), although part of the voivodeship in fact belongs to the historic region of Silesia.

The name Shanxi literally means " mountain's west ", which refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains.

The party adopted the " Progressive Conservative " party name in 1942 when Manitoba Premier John Bracken, a long-time leader of that province's Progressive Party, agreed to become leader of the Conservatives on condition that the party add Progressive to its name.

The table below lists the three preceding kingdoms, each province's name in the Roman alphabet, hangul, and hanja, as well as the provincial capital, and the equivalent modern-day province.

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.

The origin of the province's name is uncertain.

The name of the provincial capital, Kalan, was then officially changed to match with the province's name.

The " 400-series " numbers were first introduced in 1952 to designate the province's controlled-access highways, which were previously referred to by name.

Usually, the province's name is the same as that of its capital city.

The origin of each province's name is detailed in the table below.

The province draws its name from what were the largest cities in Hwanghae, Haeju and Hwangju ; the name, which literally means " Yellow Sea " in Korean, also references the Yellow Sea, which forms the province's eastern bound.

In practical terms, Dumont has supported the creation of a Quebec constitution, the change of the province's name to that of the " autonomous state of Québec ", and the collection of all taxes by the provincial government, with the funds necessary for the federal government to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities being transferred to it by the province.

The second strike was resolved after the province's labour minister, Mark Parent, appointed a mediator, on 1 November, to facilitate an agreement.

The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.

The province's original coat of arms ( 1560 ) was of a crossbow alone, the lion being added later.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

This court decision resulted from a complaint by the Government of Prince Edward Island after that province's number of MPs was proposed to change from 4 to 3, accounting for its declining proportion of the national population at that time.

The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.

The port of Bissau was one of the main employers and a very important source of taxes for the province's authorities.

The province's defences had been rebuilt in the preceding years, and although his health was poor Constantius wished to penetrate into enemy territory.

What followed was the generally successful Red River Rebellion of 1869 leading to the Manitoba Act and that province's entry into the Canadian Confederation.

* The province's territory was expanded to take over part of the Indian Reserve, including much of what is now southern Ontario, plus Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota.

The province's Armenian population was devastated during World War I by Ottoman troops in the opening phases of the Armenian Genocide.

After the Thirty Years ' War, Stolp lost much of its former importance — despite the fact that Stettin was then a part of Sweden, the province's capital was situated not in the second-largest city of the region, but in the one closest to the former ducal residence — Stargard.

The earl was a close friend of Samuel Shute and Joseph Dudley, colonial governors of Massachusetts when New Hampshire was under that province's jurisdiction.

Zhao was appointed Party Secretary of Sichuan in 1975, effectively the province's highest-ranking official.

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.

Although the campaign only submitted enough signatures in four of the province's 79 ridings, Free Your Vote was successful in mobilizing new support for reform.

Three months before BC Benefits was introduced by the Harcourt government, a protracted conflict began with the elements of the province's environmental movement.

The Murdochville strike was a milestone for organized labour in Quebec as it resulted in changes to the province's labour laws.

His government was the first in Canada to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the province's Charte des droits de la personne in 1977.

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.

This led to the creation of what would become the New Democratic Party of Manitoba, one of the province's major political parties and currently in power, led by premier Greg Selinger.

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

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

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.

The plague, probably brought by foreign troops during the Great Northern War, killed 250, 000 East Prussians, especially in the province's eastern regions.

Soon after the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in 1920, Chen accepted an invitation by a rebel governor in Guangzhou to serve as the head of the province's education board, but this position dissolved when the government returned to Nationalist control.

On November 30, 1675, the settlement Bergen and surrounding plantations and settlements were called Bergen County in an act passed by the province's General Assembly.

In order to make sure that all component city or municipal governments act within the scope of their prescribed powers and functions, the Local Government Code mandates the provincial governor to review executive orders issued by mayors, and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to review legislation by the Sangguniang Panlungsod ( City Council ) or Sangguniang Bayan ( Municipal Council ), of all component cities and municipalities under the province's jurisdiction.

The area inhabited by the Li ethnic group totals, about 55 percent of the province's total.

While unpopular with the province's anti-poverty movement and the then-marginal BC Green Party, Harcourt's reforms were well received by the vast majority of British Columbians.

In addition, the majority of the province's thirty-one " Technology Transfer Centres " have been established by CEGEPs.

Prior to the Quiet Revolution, the province's natural resources were mainly developed by foreign investors.

The supporters and compartment were added by Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II on 24 September 1984, and presented to the province in a public ceremony in Fredericton the following day to mark the province's bicentennial.