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- "أَيْن وِلايَتَك يا مايْك؟"
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I think "state as in country" is usually دَوْلة -- as a nation-state political entity etc. -- see Wikipedia article in English on the UAE for example and note the Arabic version of the UAE's full name --
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Frankly, the americocentricism in this unit is really annoying. For one, the choice of examples is pretty limited and dull. More problematically, the administrative structure of the us (state/county/city) differs from that of other countries (eg regional examples: egypt (governorate/region/city) saudi arabia (region/governorate/subgovernorates) lebanon, syria, jordan, iraq (governorate/district/city), iran (region/province/county/district/city)). This poses a problem if eg you want to say انا من بلدة جدة في منطقة مكة في مدامرة المنطق الحجاز, none of which are terms taught here.