A wilaya is an administrative subdivision usually translated as province. Province is a name for a secondary, or subnational entity of government in most countries. ...

The Turkish pronunciation of the (originally Arabic) word, vilayet, is the name for the Provinces of the Ottoman Empire. This article details the subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire. ...

Arabic

Note: The governorates of Iraq (muhafazah) are often translated as province, in opposite to official Iraqi documents and the general use for other arab countries. This conflicts somehow with the general translation for muhafazah (governorate) and wilaya (province). A governorate is a subnational entity. ... The Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. ...

For Morocco which is divided into provinces and wilayas this translation would cause loosing information. Morocco is divided into 37 provinces and 2 wilayas*: Three additional provinces of Ad Dakhla (Oued Eddahab), Boujdour, and Es Smara as well as parts of Tan-Tan and Laayoune fall within Moroccan-claimed Western Sahara. ...

For Sudan the term state is used. The Republic of the Sudan, or Republic of Sudan (in recent years the definite article has increasingly been dropped in common usage) is the largest country in Africa, situated in the northeast part of the continent. ...

For the United States the term wilaya relates to a member state.

See also

• Provinces of Afghanistan (velayat)
• Provinces of Algeria
• Regions of Oman

Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat: Map showing provinces of Afghanistan Badakhshan province Badghis province Baghlan province Balkh province Bamiyan province Daikondi province - northern part of Oruzgan province - established March 28, 2004 Farah province Faryab province Ghazni province Ghowr province Helmand province Herat province Jowzjan province Kabul province Kandahar... Map of the provinces of Algeria in alphabetical order. ... Oman is divided into eight regions (mintaqah). ...

Turkish

Vilâyet (also eyalet or pashaluk) was the Turkish name for the provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The governor of a vilâyet was called beylerbeyi or vadi. Ottoman Turkish is the variant of the Turkish language which was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire, containing extensive borrowings from Arabic and Persian and written in Arabic script. ... The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious (as written in tugra) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul ( Constantinople/Asitane/Konstantiniyye ) Sovereigns Sultans of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million Area 12+ million km² Establishment 1299 Dissolution October 29, 1923...

• Provinces of Tajikistan (singular: viloyat, plural: viloyatho)
• Provinces of Turkmenistan (singular: welayat, plural: welayatlar)
• Provinces of Uzbekistan (singular: viloyat, plural: viloyatlar)
• subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire.

The current provinces of Turkey are called il in turkish. Tajikistan is divided into regions, or provinces (singular: viloyat, plural: viloyatho) (capitals in parentheses)- Khatlon Viloyati Khatlon (Qurghonteppa) Sughd Viloyati Sughd (Khujand) Karotegin (Kofarnihon) and one autonomous province (viloyati mukhtor)- Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon (Khorugh). ... This article details the subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire. ... Provinces of Turkey are called iller in Turkish, singular is il (see Turkish alphabet for capitalization of i). ...

See also

• mintaqah (= region)
• muhafazah (= governorate)