| LIMBURG | Hasselt is the capital of this province of north-east Belgium (7) |
| NEWBRITAIN | The township of Rabaul used to be the capital of this province of Papua New Guinea before the 1994 volcanic eruption (3,7) |
| IJSSEL | River in the Netherlands, along which Hansa towns including Hasselt, Kampen and Zwolle are situated (6) |
| TRANSVAAL | Former province of north-east South Africa whose capital was Pretoria (9) |
| ALSACE | Region and former province of north-east France (6) |
| IRIANJAYA | Also called West Papua, this province of Indonesia used to be known as Dutch New Guinea (5,4) |
| HAARLEM | Capital of the province of North Holland (7) |
| ONTARIO | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police enforces the law in all Canadian provinces except Quebec and, oddly, this province in which its national headquarters is found |
| EASTERN | This Province has Bisho as its capital? (7) |
| ALBERTA | Calgary is this province's largest city...(7) |
| ARGONNE | The is a wooded region of north east France of wartime strategic significance (7) |
| CATALAN | The language of a region of north-east Spain, closely related to Spanish and Provencal (7) |
| GEORDIE | Colloquial term for a native of Tyneside and surrounding area of north-east England (7) |
| GRIMSBY | The administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire (7) |
| SHANXI | Province of north central China to the south of Inner Mongolia; capital, Taiyuan (6) |
| DEVERON | Game-fishing river of north-east Scotland (7) |
| ARDENNES | Woody plateau of south-east Belgium, Luxembourg and north-east France (8) |
| HARLEM | Area of Manhattan named after a city in the Dutch province of North Holland |
| WISBECH | Market town of north-east Cambridgeshire (7) |
| MESSINA | Town of north-east Sicily (7) |
