Utrecht (province) the largest in the Netherlands in both area and population. In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrecht Hill Ridge (Dutch: Utrechtse Heuvelrug), a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age. Because of the scarcity of nutrients in the fast-draining sandy soil, the greatest part of a landscape that was formerly heath has been planted with pine plantations. The south of the province is a river landscape. The west consists mostly of meadows. In the north are big lakes formed by the digging of peat
Talca Province Talca Province Talca Province () is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). Its capital is the city of Talca. As a province, Talca is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president. The province comprises ten communes, each governed by a municipality consisting of an alcalde and municipal council. According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute ("INE"), the province spans an area of and had a population of 352,966 inhabitants (174,734 men and 178,232 women), giving it a population density of .