11.   For New Englanders, the Atlantic Canada province is easy to reach by car, plane, or ferry.

12.   He said national averages are not meaningful in a country where a single province is larger than many countries.

13.   Its richest oil province is mostly Arab Shiite.

14.   Milosevic has absolutely refused to entertain an outside force in Kosovo, arguing that the province is the sovereign territory of Serbia and Yugoslavia.

15.   Miller says he will go out of his way not to make waves, but the province is still likely to face months of political turmoil.

16.   No other major government supports independence, either, a stance that means the province is unlikely to ever separate from Indonesia as East Timor recently did.

17.   One of every three New Brunswickers is French-speaking, and the province is the only one in Canada that has two official languages -- French and English.

18.   Samangan province is ground zero for the plague.

19.   The book accurately conveys a sense of lax regulation and enforcement, and points to a poaching problem that the province is loathe to admit.

20.   The frontier province is essentially lawless, with drugs sold freely and smuggling unchecked.