noun / suffix noun:

• state; province; county; oblast; department (of ancient China)
• continent

suffix:

• dear - after someone's name - archaism

noun:

• sandbank; sandbar

noun:

• Europe

noun:

• Kyushu (southernmost of the four main islands of Japan)

noun:

• Guangzhou (China); Kwangchow; Canton - コアンチョウ and コワンチョウ are from Chinese

noun:

• (Russian) maritime provinces

noun:

• Kitakyushu (city)

noun:

• white sandbar; white sandbank
• area in a garden or entrance of a house laid with white sand or pebbles
• gravel separating a Noh stage from the audience
• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism ➜ お白州

noun:

• Oceania ➜ オセアニア

noun:

• State of California ➜ カリフォルニア

noun:

• swing state ➜ 激戦州【げきせんしゅう】

noun:

• swing state

noun:

• Manchuria

noun:

• 66-odd provinces of old Japan; 60-odd states [literal]

noun:

• reef; sandbar; sandbank

noun:

• delta

noun:

• provincia; province of ancient Rome

noun:

• sandbank (in a river); sandbar

noun:

• another state; different region

noun:

• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism

noun:

• every state; every province

noun:

• Oceania - obscure term ➜ 大洋州

noun:

• the Six Continents

noun:

• spit (of land)

noun:

• post-war Europe