A governorate is an administrative division of a country. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states, provinces, or colonies, the term "governorate" is often used in translation from non-English-speaking administrations.
Governorate represents a political split of a piece of land
A governorate is an administrative division of a country. It is not necessarily political and, in this case, was explicitly told to be administrative and not political. This could be due to non-political concerns such as land route issues. The model probably got it wrong because it assumes those terms to be the same when they are not