# General Information:

Peter identifies himself as the writer and identifies and greets the believers to whom he is writing.

# the foreigners of the dispersion

Peter speaks of his readers as people who live away from their homes in many different countries. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# Cappadocia ... Bithynia

Along with the other places that Peter mentions, "Cappadocia" and "Bithynia" were Roman provinces located in what is now the country of Turkey.

# the chosen ones

"the ones whom God the Father has chosen." God has chosen them according to his own foreknowledge.

