populous province

collocation in English

meaningsofpopulousandprovince

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withprovince.
populous
adjective
uk
/ˈpɒp.jə.ləs/us
/ˈpɑː.pjə.ləs/
A populous country, area, or place has a lot of people living ...
See more atpopulous
province
noun
uk
/ˈprɒv.ɪns/us
/ˈprɑː.vɪns/
one of the areas that a country or empire is divided into as part of the organization of its government, which often has some control over its own ...
See more atprovince

(Definition ofpopulousandprovincefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpopulous province

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
It has 1.1% of the national population and is the 19th mostpopulousprovince.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
In stanbul, the mostpopulousprovince, the number of districts is 39.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
It has an area of 2867 km and with 1.8 million inhabitants it is the country's mostpopulousprovince.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
With a population of 1,036,523, it ranks as the fourth mostpopulousprovince.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
As in 1992, less populous provinces received significantly greater net transfers.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It was the fourth mostpopulousprovinceat the time of the 1991 census, which counted 769,297 people, and the fourth most populous in the 1978 census, which counted 531,927.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
It has a total land area of 2,816 square kilometers, with a population of 49,344 at the most recent census in 2007, making it the sixth mostpopulousprovince.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The three most populous provinces disagree with the federal government goal and announced more ambitious targets on their jurisdictions.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
This prevented populous provinces from dominating the legislature.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
A province's number of provincial board members depends on its financial standing (generally, the more populous provinces are richer), with the richest provinces having up to 14 board members.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofpopulous
Go to the definition ofprovince
See other collocations withprovince