What are: province, territory, protectorate, state...?
Each state is further subdivided into "counties", "divisions", or "parishes". In the states I've spent most of my life in, counties are further sub-divided into "townships". (I don't know off the top of my head how many states have townships versus some other subdivision.)
Is it a City, Province, State or a District? And How to Properly ...
2017年10月21日 · Now because I live in Egypt, I never really understood the concept of what a state, county, district nor province really mean. All I know is that Egypt is a country, but is it a state? And I know that Cairo is called the City of Cairo and it is also one of Egypt's twenty-seven governorates, so what category does Cairo fall into regarding from ...
american english - What's the correct way to write the general …
Only including the state (e.g. Washington, USA) can be ambiguous and vastly imprecise (California and Texas are larger than most countries). Some publications (The Economist magazine) use this, but it seems highbrow, unusual and weird to a teenage audience. It would look wrong next to city-state pairs from other countries (e.g. Berlin, Germany).
Is there a comma after the name of a province/state
2019年1月2日 · The latest online (subscription-based) version of the Associated Press Stylebook says this:. PUNCTUATION: Place one comma between the city and the state name, and another comma after the state name, unless ending a sentence or indicating a dateline: He was traveling from Nashville, Tennessee, to Austin, Texas, en route to his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
grammar - City after name of city capitalized - English Language ...
2015年4月25日 · In English, any part of government followed by the word “of” is not capitalized: “We went around the state of New Jersey.” The exception for city, town, hamlet, state, or village is when the part of government is actually part of the place name. Johnson City. New York City.
differences - How do 'area', 'region', and 'territory' differ ...
2016年10月3日 · As to territory referring to entire states, yes, that's possible. It's also possible that a whole state may constitute a single salesman's territory, with his state being a member of the "Northeast Region", and that region being part of the area …
grammar - Understanding "as of", "as at", and "as from" - English ...
Joel is mistaken when he says that as of means "up to and including a point of time," although it is often used to mean so.
"States Party to" or "State Parties to" or "States parties to"?
2015年4月22日 · 100 state parties to the treaty. parties is a noun, qualified by state, and to the treaty is a prepositional phrase that describes these 100 state parties. Google Ngrams shows that states party to the treaty is slightly more common, although they've swapped positions a number of times over the past few decades. It sounds better to my ears, but ...
What is the meaning of "in the realm of"? [closed]
2. the region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates: the realm of dreams. 3. the special province or field of something or someone: the realm of physics; facts within the realm of political scientists. so in the realm of would mean "in the kingdom of (some monarch)", "in the region of" or "in the field of".
etymology - What are the patterns/rules for determining U.S. state ...
If there are two words in the state's name, take the first letter of each. (NY, SD, WV, etc) Take the first two letters of the state name to form the abbreviation. Take the first and last letter of the state name to form the abbreviation. The first two rules are never broken. The second two are broken as needed in order to obey the first one.