Cape Province vs state

Cape Province and state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Cape Province	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

Cape Province (noun)	state (noun)
a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
	a politically organized body of people under a single government
	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
	the territory occupied by a nation
	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
	a state of depression or agitation
	(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

Cape Province (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.