Portal:Politics/Selected article/2007, week 11
A VOC.
In federations a governor can be the title of each appointed or (as in the US) elected
state
.
Most countries in the world have some sort of official known or rendered as "governor," though in some countries the heads of the constitutive states, provinces, communities and regions may have a different title.
This is particularly common in European nations and many of their former colonies, with titles such as President of the Regional Council in France and minister-president in Germany. Other countries using different titles for sub-national units include Spain, Italy and Switzerland.
There can also be non-political governors: high ranking officials in private or similar
school governors
and bank governors.