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I am building a class that represents a US State or Canadian Province. What should the class be called?
Some ideas:
EDIT: GeographicalRegion seems like the way to go. It could even be used as a base class for other geographical region types (ie: Country) and still make sense.
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province Add to list Share. A province is a region within a country. If you travel to Canada, you'll have to decide whether you want to go to the province of Quebec, or Saskatchewan, or one of the other 8 provinces in that enormous country. Many countries are divided into provinces.
A province is an area of land that is part of a country, similar to a state or a county. It can also be an area of land under political control by an outside country, similar to a colony. Provinces are usually units of government. Canada has 10 provinces, each with a lieutenant governor.
In most cases, a province and state will be the same thing. There are specfic differences within the contexts of certain countries, but at a high level, they serve the same purpose. States and provinces are regions designed to organize administrative zones within a country.
GeographicalRegion would be my choice. Its pretty short and totally unambiguous, and it has no connotations with real types of area such as Province or State.
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Definitely don't go with "State" - way too confusing, and "Territory" has .ca implications too. Wikipedia suggests "Subnational" or "SubnationalDivision" would be good.
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