In a country what is the difference between a State and a Province?

Question

In a country what is the difference between a State and a Province?

Answer 1

A State is formed with several provinces.

A State has a central goverment. A province has several locations, every in its goverment, within central goverment ,depending on the central goverment of the state though

Answer 2

Say for instance in France or China, a province is a sub-national region within a unitary state. This means the province can be abolished or created by the central government.

Answer 3

A state is a political association with effective sovereignty over a geographic area.

A province is a geographic area that has some governance secondary to the governance of a central state or country.

Answer 4

In Canada it's a province, in the USA it's a state.

Answer 5

Nothing