Provincial

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Provincial has several meanings and may refer to:

Provincial examinations: Bi-annual province-wide examinations for students between the grades of 10 to 12 in the province of British Columbia
Anything related to a province, a formal geographical division;
Anything related to "the provinces", the parts of a country outside of its capital or largest cities (e.g. all parts of England other than London);
A person who is an inhabitant of a province or "the provinces" as defined above;
Figurative: someone who has a limited, restricted, or non-sophisticated mentality or habits, stereotypical of an inhabitant of "the provinces". See: parochialism
A provincial superior of a religious order.