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In some federations, a province (subnational entity) is called a state.
Often, due to American English influence, words such as Länder are translated as states when a more precise translation would be provinces.
The United Nations also considers a government in exile resident on a geographic area which it is holding under military occupation to be a subnational (subsovereign) entity. The Republic of China on Taiwan is the most prominent example in the world today, and has been refused admittance to the United Nations twelve times in a row as of the Fall of 2004.
