547. Number of Provinces
1. Description
There are n cities. Some of them are connected, while some are not. If city a is connected directly with city b, and city b is connected directly with city c, then city a is connected indirectly with city c.
A province is a group of directly or indirectly connected cities and no other cities outside of the group.
You are given an n x n matrix isConnected where isConnected[i][j] = 1 if the ith city and the jth city are directly connected, and isConnected[i][j] = 0 otherwise.
Return the total number of provinces.
2. Example
Example 1

Input: isConnected = [[1,1,0],[1,1,0],[0,0,1]]
Output: 2
Example 2

Input: isConnected = [[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1]]
Output: 3
3. Constraints
- 1 <= n <= 200
- n == isConnected.length
- n == isConnected[i].length
- isConnected[i][j] is 1 or 0.
- isConnected[i][i] == 1
- isConnected[i][j] == isConnected[j][i]
4. Solutions
Breadth-First Search
n = isConnected.size()
Time complexity: O($n^2$)
Space complexity: O(n)
class Solution {
public:
int findCircleNum(const vector<vector<int>> &isConnected) {
int circle_count = 0;
vector<bool> visit(isConnected.size(), false);
for (int i = 0; i < isConnected.size(); ++i) {
if (!visit[i]) {
++circle_count;
visit[i] = true;
queue<int> to_check({i});
while (!to_check.empty()) {
int ii = to_check.front();
to_check.pop();
for (int j = 0; j < isConnected[ii].size(); ++j) {
if (isConnected[ii][j] == 1 && !visit[j]) {
to_check.push(j);
visit[j] = true;
}
}
}
}
}
return circle_count;
}
};
Union Find
n = isConnected.size()
Time complexity: O($n^2$)
Space complexity: O(n)
class Solution {
public:
int find(vector<int> &parent, int index) {
if (parent[index] != index) {
parent[index] = find(parent, parent[index]);
}
return parent[index];
}
void unite(vector<int> &parent, int index1, int index2) {
parent[find(parent, index1)] = find(parent, index2);
}
int findCircleNum(vector<vector<int>> &isConnected) {
int city_count = isConnected.size();
vector<int> parent(city_count);
for (int i = 0; i < city_count; i++) {
parent[i] = i;
}
for (int i = 0; i < city_count; i++) {
for (int j = i + 1; j < city_count; j++) {
if (isConnected[i][j] == 1) {
unite(parent, i, j);
}
}
}
int circle_count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < city_count; i++) {
if (parent[i] == i) {
++circle_count;
}
}
return circle_count;
}
};