Madrid

Community of Madrid
Community of Madrid#English

Madrid (a province of the Community of Madrid, Spain)


Bali

Bali (an island and province of Indonesia)


Barcelona

From Iberian Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription, found in Greek Βαρκινών (Barkinṓn) and Latin Barcino, Barcelo, and Barceno.

Barcelona (a province of Catalonia, Spain)


Jakarta

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian Jakarta.

ubor

Jakarta (a province and capital city of Indonesia)


Tarragona

Tarragona (a province of Catalonia, Spain)


Verona

Verona (a province of Veneto, in northern Italy)


Trento

Borrowed from Italian Trento, from Latin Tridentum (literally “three teeth”), named for the three hills that surround the city.

der

Trentino-Alto Adige
Trentino-Alto Adige#English

(rare) Trentino (a province of Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)


Hainaut

Hainaut (a province of Wallonia, Belgium)


Pisa

Pisa (a city and province of Tuscany, Italy)


Palestina

Palestine (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)


Luxemburg

Luxembourg (a province of Wallonia, Belgium)


Córdoba

Córdoba (a province in central Argentina)


Anvers

Antwerp (a province of Flanders, Belgium, the most populous)


Santiago

Santiago Metropolitan Region
Santiago Metropolitan Region#English

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region (a province of Chile)


Salamanca

Castile and León
Castile and León#English

Salamanca (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Salamanca)


Valladolid

Valladolid (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Valladolid)


Sevilla

Borrowed from Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya), from Latin Hispalis, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /sefela/, “plain, valley”).

bor+

إِشْبِيلِيَة

der

Seville (a province of Andalusia, Spain)


Guadalajara

[ɡwə.ðə.ləˈʒa.ɾə]

Borrowed from Arabic وَادِي الْحِجَارَة (wādī l-ḥijāra, literally “valley of stones”).

bor+

وَادِي الْحِجَارَة

Castilla-La Mancha
Castilla-La Mancha#English

Guadalajara (a province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; capital: Guadalajara)


Saragossa

[sə.ɾəˈɣɔ.sə]

Earlier Saragoça, Çaragoça, from Andalusian Arabic سرقسطة (Saraqusṭa), from Latin Caesaraugusta.

Zaragoza (a province of Aragon, Spain; capital: Zaragoza)


Navarra

autonomous community
autonomous community

Navarre (an autonomous community and province in northern Spain)


Siracusa

Borrowed from Italian Siracusa, from Latin Syrācūsae, from Ancient Greek Συρᾱ́κουσαι (Surā́kousai).


Toledo

Toledo (a province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)


Frísia

Borrowed from Latin Frisia (“territory of the Frisians”).

(exonym) Frisia, Friesland (a province of the Netherlands)


Nàpols

From Latin Neapolis, from Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis), from νέα (néa, “new”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).


Àfrica

(historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)


Àsia

(historical) Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in modern western Turkey, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)


València

→ Basque: Valentzia

→ Chinese: 瓦倫西亞 /瓦伦西亚 (Wǎlúnxīyà)

→ Dutch: Valencia

→ English: Valencia

→ Galician: Valencia

→ German: Valencia, Valentz

→ Italian: Valencia

→ Portuguese: Valência

desctree

→ Spanish: Valencia, Val. (abbreviation)
→ Cebuano: Valencia
Chinese:
→ Mandarin: 巴倫西亞 /巴伦西亚 (Bālúnxīyà) (transliteration)
→ Tagalog: Valencia

→ Turkish: Valensiya

Valencia (a province of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain)


Capadòcia

Borrowed from Latin Cappadocia, from Ancient Greek Καππαδοκία (Kappadokía), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎫𐎱𐎬𐎢𐎣 (k-t-p-tu-u-k /katpatuka/).

der

Cappadocia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 18 AD until the 7th century)


Badajoz

Badajoz (a province of Extremadura, Spain)


Illes Balears

les Illes Balears (canonical feminine plural)

Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands#English:_Q5765

Balearic Islands (an archipelago, autonomous community, and province off the east coast of Spain, formed by the four major islands Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera and several smaller islands)


Múrcia

Murcia (an autonomous community and province in southeast Spain)


Alacant

Borrowed from Arabic اَلقَنْت (al-qant) or لَقَنْت (laqant), from Latin Lucentum, or Vulgar Latin Leukante, ultimately from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, bright”). Originally named Ἄκρα Λευκή (Ákra Leukḗ) or Λευκή Ἄκρα (Leukḗ Ákra, “white summit”) by Phocaean Greeks.

Valencian Community
Valencian Community#English

Alicante (a province of the Valencian Community, Spain)


Cantàbria

Cantabria (an autonomous community and province in northern Spain)


La Rioja

La Rioja (an autonomous community and province in northern Spain)


Astúries

Asturias (an autonomous community and province of Spain, on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea)


Zamora

Zamora (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Zamora)


Burgos

Burgos (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Burgos)


Albacete

Albacete (a province of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)


Lleó

Inherited from Latin Legiōnem, from legiō (“legion”).

León (a province of Castile and León, Spain)


Bitínia

(historical) Bithynia (a geographic region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey)


Segòvia

[səˈɣɔ.βi.ə]

Borrowed from Spanish Segovia, from Latin Segovia, from Celtiberian Segouia, from a suffixed form of Proto-Celtic *segos (“victory”).

Segovia (a province of Castile and León, Spain)


Las Palmas

Las Palmas (a province of the Canary Islands, Spain; capital: Las Palmas)


Jaén

Jaén (a province of Andalusia, Spain; capital: Jaén)


Lleida

Inherited from Old Catalan Leyda; from Andalusian Arabic لاردة (“Lèrideh”); from Latin Ilerda, originating with the name of an Iberian tribe. Compare Spanish Lérida.

Lleida (a province in western Catalonia, Spain)


Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife#English:_Q99976

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (a province of the Canary Islands)


Pontevedra

Pontevedra (a province of Galicia, Spain; capital: Pontevedra)


Còrdova

Córdoba (a province of Andalusia, Spain, around the city)


Holanda Septentrional

North Holland (a province of the Netherlands)


Almeria

Almeria (a province of Andalusia, Spain; capital: Almeria)


Castelló

Castellón de la Plana
Castellón de la Plana#English

Castellón (a province of Valencia, Spain; capital: Castellón de la Plana)


Lícia

(historical) Lycia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing on its own from 43 AD to 74 AD, and later as part of Lycia et Pamphylia)


Holanda Meridional

South Holland (a province of the Netherlands)


Hispània

(historical) Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, a peninsula and historical region of Southern Europe covering modern-day Spain, Portugal and Andorra, when under the control of Ancient Rome; split into between two and five Roman provinces, depending on the time period)


Mesopotàmia

Borrowed from Latin Mesopotamia, from Ancient Greek Μεσοποταμία (Mesopotamía).

(historical) Mesopotamia (a former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 116 to 117 AD and again from 198 to 637 AD)


Sòria

Soria (a province of Castile and León, Spain)


Guipúscoa

Guipúzcoa (a province of the Basque Country, Spain)


Il·líria

(historical) Illyria, Illyricum (a much larger former province of the Roman Empire, covering the whole of Dalmatia and Pannonia, existing from 27 BC to c. 70 AD and reconstituted in 293 AD by Diocletian)


Biscaia

Biscay (a province of the Basque Country, Spain)


Dalmàcia

(historical) Dalmatia (a province of the Roman Empire)


Àlaba

Álava (a province of the Basque Country, Spain)


Dàcia

Dacia (an ancient kingdom and province of the Roman Empire; modern Romania and Moldova)


Torí

Turin (a city and province of Piedmont, Italy)


Àvila

Ávila (a province in Castile and León, Spain; capital: Ávila)


Càceres

Cáceres (a province of Extremadura, Spain)


la Corunya

Borrowed from Galician A Coruña, from earlier A Cruña, from a proposed Celtiberian *clunia (“humid place; prairie”) akin to the Gaulish root of the French toponym Cluny.


Palència

Palencia (a province of Castile and León, Spain; capital: Palencia)


Lusitània

Lusitania (an ancient kingdom and province of the Roman Empire in northeastern Iberia)


Comunitat de Madrid

Community of Madrid
Community of Madrid#English:_Q5756

Community of Madrid (an autonomous community and province of Spain)


Oristany

Oristano (a city and province of Sardinia, Italy)


Agrigent

Agrigento (a city and province of Italy)


Brabant Flamenc

[bɾəˈβaɱ fləˈmɛŋ]


Brabant Septentrional

North Brabant (a province of the Netherlands)


Pont

Learned borrowing from Latin Pontus, from Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos). Doublet of Pontos.

Bithynia et Pontus
Bithynia et Pontus#English

(historical) Pontus (a former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus)


Càller

Sicilian: Càlliri

Cagliari (a province and capital city of Sardinia, Italy)


Mèsia

(historical) Moesia (a province of the Roman Empire)


Tirol del Sud

South Tyrol (a predominantly German-speaking autonomous province of the Trentino-Alto Adige region in north-east Italy; until 1919 part of Austria, since 1972 under a special autonomy statute)


Cap Septentrional

Northern Cape (a province of South Africa)


Cap Oriental

Eastern Cape (a province of South Africa)


Cap Occidental

Western Cape (a province of South Africa)