Mutsu Province The Meiji Mutsu Province was a region in the northernmost part of the main island that corresponds to today's Aomori Prefecture. At the same time, while the characters of the name were unchanged, the official reading was changed to the "on'yomi" version "Rikuō". Mutsu Province Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the combined area of Mutsu and the neighboring province Dewa which make up the Tōhoku region. Mutsu, on northern Honshū, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi and became
Province of Messina the province include the Alcantara and the Pollina, which forms the border with the province of Palermo to the west. The main comunes by population are: Province of Messina Messina (Italian: Provincia di Messina; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Missina) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital was the city of Messina. It was replaced by the Metropolitan City of Messina. It had an area of , which amounts to 12.6 percent of total area of the island, and a total population of more 650,000. There are 108 "comuni" (singular: "comune") in the province ,