Bihar and Orissa Province Bihar and Orissa Province Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and a part of Odisha. The territories were conquered by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and were part of the Bengal Presidency, the largest British province in India. On 22 March 1912 both Bihar and Orissa division were separated from the Bengal Presidency as Bihar and Orissa Province. On 1 April 1936 Bihar and Orissa became separate provinces. In 1756 Bihar was part of Bengal Subah of Mughal Empire while Orissa was a different Subah.
Provinces of Portugal its beginning, a policy of regionalisation of the country, which was written into the 1933 Constitution, creating new provinces, within an executive body, the "juntas de provincia" () and a deliberative body, the "conselhos provinciais" (). Created in 1936, the new provinces did not correspond to the traditional "comarcas" or "provinícias". The new territories were based on studies made by Amorim Girão, a geographer, who divided continental Portugal into 13 ""regiões naturais"" (). The provinces were: These eleven provinces corresponded each to one of the natural regions developed by Amorim Girão, with two exceptions: the natural regions of Trás-os-Montes and