provincial

adjective

• 1of or concerning a province of a country or empire:provincial elections

• 2of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded:provincial towns the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial

noun

• 1an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.

• 2an inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded: a town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials
• (provincials) British local newspapers, as contrasted with national ones.

• 3 Christian Church the head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.