Island province

Island province

Island province is a province with jurisdictional extent encompassing the whole land area of an island.

A province cannot be called an "island province" if a certain part of the island is governed or administered by a separate province. Some provinces include several smaller islands.

Some of the recognizable island provinces are:

*Prince Edward Island in Canada
*Easter Island (Islas de Pascua or Rapa Nui) in Chile
*Hainan in China
*Bali in Indonesia
*Cebu in the Philippines
*Jeju in South Korea
*Phuket in Thailand


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