Presidencies and provinces of British India partially reversed, with the eastern and western halves of Bengal re-united and the province of Assam re-established; a new Lieutenant-Governor's province of Bihar and Orissa was also created. In addition, there were a few minor provinces that were administered by a Chief Commissioner: At the time of independence in 1947, British India had 17 provinces: Upon the Partition of British India into the Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan, 11 provinces (Ajmer-Merwara-Kekri, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Bombay, Central Provinces and Berar, Coorg, Delhi, Madras, Panth-Piploda, Orissa, and the United Provinces) joined India, 3 (Baluchistan, North-West Frontier and Sindh)
Provinces of Portugal referred to as "províncias" (). Each comarca was headed by an administrative and judicial magistrate, which represented Royal power in each jurisdiction of the country. These magistrates were, initially, called "tenents" (), later "meirinhos-mores" and finally, "corregedores". These six comarcas, with some changes, would be maintained as the principal administrative division of country until the 19th century. Around the 17th Century, the provinces were subdivided into individual "comarcas" or "correições" (), with their own "corregedor" (), and the provinces, as an administrative and civic role, began to be used as a statistical unit. Meanwhile, at the same time that its