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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:39:22+00:00

I am building a class that represents a US State or Canadian Province. What

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I am building a class that represents a US State or Canadian Province. What should the class be called?

Some ideas:

  • Region: Problem with this is that .Net has a RegionInfo class that uses the term Region to represent a country (and not a State or Province).
  • State: Problem with this is that it could cause confusion with Application State, or Session State, etc…
  • Province: Could work, but very Canada-centric. Just doesn’t feel right.

EDIT: GeographicalRegion seems like the way to go. It could even be used as a base class for other geographical region types (ie: Country) and still make sense.

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  1. GeographicalRegion would be my choice. Its pretty short and totally unambiguous, and it has no connotations with real types of area such as Province or State.

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