What's the difference between a province and a state?

Question

Is England a province?

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Answer 1

A Pvonvine is a jurisdiction in Canada and other nations A State is the same thing -

Largely they differ in power structure and power sharing with a federal government

For instance our Provinces are fairly weak in comparison to an American State -

A lot of the power share goes to the federal governemtn which is the opposite in a US state

England is a nation not a Province within a nation but it may be called a nation state as could Canada or the US

Answer 2

A province is a smaller political as compared to a state. England is one the states of the United Kingdom.

Answer 3

A province and a state are about the same thing. In Canada, they are called provinces - Alberta, British Columbia etc. just like Idaho or Montana would be a state. England is a country like the United States or canada are countries.

Answer 4

"England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total population of the United Kingdom whilst the mainland territory of England occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. Elsewhere, it is bordered by the North Sea, Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and English Channel."

"A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision."

"A state is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. It usually includes the set of institutions that claim the authority to make the rules that govern the people of the society in that territory, though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it. In sociology, the state is normally identified with these institutions: in Max Weber's influential definition, it is that organization that has a "monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory," which may include the armed forces, civil service or state bureaucracy, courts, and police."

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