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 ).

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.

It is the province's largest island, and third largest in mainland China ( after Hainan and Chongming Islands ).

The Davie government also approved the construction of the province's parliament buildings in Victoria despite pressure to move the capital to the mainland.

Also in 1890, Greenway's Liberals enacted legislation to unilaterally abolish the province's obligation to ensure all its law were bilinqual, doing away with French-language legislation.

The province's northern boundary is formed by the Tiền Giang's main course, while the province's southern boundary is formed by the Tiền Giang's largest branch ( which breaks away from the Tiền Giang just upriver from Bến Tre province ).

In early 2007, Premier McGuinty split the province's revenue collection function away from the Ministry of Finance and resurrected the Ministry of Revenue, a ministry / portfolio that had not been used since the NDP government of Bob Rae in 1993.

Approximately, New Washington is ten ( 10 ) minutes away from Kalibo International Airport, fifteen ( 15 ) minutes away from the province's capital town of Kalibo and one and a half ( 1 ) hours away from the world-renowned Boracay Island.

Future events were foreshadowed in October, 1846, when Kassa Hailu defeated detachments of Empress Menen's army at two separate battles in Dembiya ; at the time, Ras Ali was away in Gojjam attempting to subdue the province's warlord, Birru Goshu, and unable to assist his mother.

The granitic South Mountain rises to a somewhat higher elevation and shelters the valley from the climate of the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 kilometres further south on the province's South Shore.

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 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 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.

He claimed the ambiguous nature of the province's status, with its own parliament and prime minister, gave hope to the PIRA that it could be detached from the rest of the UK:

In March, 2000, the Alberta Legislature passed Bill 202, which amended the province's Marriage Act to include an opposite-sex-only definition of marriage as well as the notwithstanding clause in order to insulate the definition from Charter challenges.

There are several remains from the province's mining history, such as the Östra Silvberg's Mining Area with a silver mining history traced to the 1480s with an adjacent cemetery and chapel.

Courts have since made many important decisions, including R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), which struck down Canada's abortion law, and Vriend v. Alberta ( 1998 ), in which the Supreme Court found the province's exclusion of homosexuals from protection against discrimination violated section 15.

After graduation from an accredited law school, each province's or territory's law society requires completion of a bar examination, and a period of supervised " articling " prior to independent practice.

Aside from some minor adjustments to suit the geography, the PRC maintained the province's territorial integrity.

This in itself is symbolized in the province's coat of arms where Jämtland, the silver moose, is threatened from the east and from the west.

Pictou Island, in Nova Scotia receives no electricity from that province's utility, Nova Scotia Power.

The team crest is a circular logo bearing the team motto Sumatera Selatan Bersatu Teguh, which means that the team can be used as one means to realize the unity of the round from all communities in South Sumatra province, and is also the province's motto.

He served in the province's Executive Council as a minister without portfolio from 1858 to 1862 and as Receiver General from 1866 to 1867.

This resulted in an $ 830 million payment in 2005 from the federal government, which Hamm applied against the principal on the province's long term debt, thereby reducing debt servicing payments by over $ 50 million annually.

With Jinan serving as the province's economic and cultural centre, the province's economic prowess has led to the development of modern coastal cities located at Qingdao, Weihai, and Yantai.

The weather of the province's coastal area has two well-defined seasons:

* 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 ).

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

More than two thirds of the province's gross industrial output is produced in Quy Nhon, which is the regions third largest industrial center after Da Nang and Nha Trang.

Li did not waste time pursuing superficial projects, but rather trekked all regions of Henan trying to search for a comprehensive solution to the province's growing problems.

Forests are mostly located in the province's mountainous regions in the northwest and northeast.

No Spanish exploration parties in search of El Dorado, " the golden one " a reference to the legendary king of a lost golden city, are known to have ever reached British Columbia, although archaeological remains point to a brief Spanish presence in the Okanagan and Similkameen regions of the province's Southern Interior.

The province's topography consists of hilly regions in the west ( 70 %) and the fertile plain of Tuy Hòa in the east.

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 ).

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.

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.

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 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.