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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>France</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Germany" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Germany"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Germany</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Germany-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hungary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hungary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Hungary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hungary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ireland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ireland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Ireland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ireland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Italy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Italy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Italy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Italy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lithuania" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lithuania"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Lithuania</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lithuania-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Norway" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Norway"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Norway</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Norway-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Poland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Poland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Poland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Poland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Romania" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Romania"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>Romania</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Romania-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sweden" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sweden"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>Sweden</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sweden-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ukraine" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ukraine"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>Ukraine</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ukraine-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_Kingdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Kingdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13</span> <span>United Kingdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Kingdom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-England" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#England"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13.1</span> <span>England</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-England-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Northern_Ireland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Northern_Ireland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13.2</span> <span>Northern Ireland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Northern_Ireland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scotland_and_Wales" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scotland_and_Wales"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13.3</span> <span>Scotland and Wales</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scotland_and_Wales-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-North_America" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#North_America"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>North America</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-North_America-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle North America subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-North_America-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Canada" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Canada"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Canada</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Canada-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alberta" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alberta"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>Alberta</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alberta-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-British_Columbia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#British_Columbia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.2</span> <span>British Columbia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-British_Columbia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Manitoba" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Manitoba"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.3</span> <span>Manitoba</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Manitoba-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_Brunswick" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_Brunswick"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.4</span> <span>New Brunswick</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_Brunswick-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Newfoundland_and_Labrador" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newfoundland_and_Labrador"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.5</span> <span>Newfoundland and Labrador</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newfoundland_and_Labrador-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Northwest_Territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Northwest_Territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.6</span> <span>Northwest Territories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Northwest_Territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nova_Scotia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nova_Scotia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.7</span> <span>Nova Scotia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nova_Scotia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nunavut" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nunavut"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.8</span> <span>Nunavut</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nunavut-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ontario" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ontario"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.9</span> <span>Ontario</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ontario-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Prince_Edward_Island" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Prince_Edward_Island"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.10</span> <span>Prince Edward Island</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prince_Edward_Island-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Quebec" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Quebec"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.11</span> <span>Quebec</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Quebec-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Saskatchewan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Saskatchewan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.12</span> <span>Saskatchewan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Saskatchewan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Yukon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Yukon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.13</span> <span>Yukon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Yukon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jamaica" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jamaica"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Jamaica</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jamaica-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Oceania" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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</li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-South_America" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#South_America"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>South America</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-South_America-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle South America subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-South_America-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Argentina" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Argentina"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Argentina</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Argentina-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Brazil" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Brazil"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Графства – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Графства" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="Графство – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Графство" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontelezh" title="Kontelezh – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Kontelezh" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comtat_(divisi%C3%B3_administrativa)" title="Comtat (divisió administrativa) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Comtat (divisió administrativa)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontado" title="Kontado – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Kontado" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrabstv%C3%AD" title="Hrabství – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Hrabství" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir" title="Sir – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sir" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Κομητεία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κομητεία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado" title="Condado – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konderri" title="Konderri – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Konderri" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="شهرستان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_(Domaine)" title="Comté (Domaine) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté (Domaine)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contae" title="Contae – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Contae" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coontae" title="Coontae – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Coontae" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ce%C3%A0rn" title="Ceàrn – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Ceàrn" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado" title="Condado – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Condado" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="شأرستان – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="شأرستان" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%B4%EC%9A%B4%ED%8B%B0" title="카운티 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="카운티" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80" title="काउण्टी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="काउण्टी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grofovija" title="Grofovija – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Grofovija" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komtio" title="Komtio – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Komtio" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%8B" title="কোন্ডাডো – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="কোন্ডাডো" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BDsla" title="Sýsla – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sýsla" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_(suddivisione_amministrativa)" title="Contea (suddivisione amministrativa) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea (suddivisione amministrativa)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%94_(%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA)" title="נפה (יחידה שלטונית) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="נפה (יחידה שלטונית)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%82%D1%8B%D2%9B_(%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%8B%D2%9B_%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA)" title="Графтық (феодалдық иелік) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Графтық (феодалдық иелік)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Earistan" title="Şaristan – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Şaristan" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatus" title="Comitatus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Comitatus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C4%81fiste" title="Grāfiste – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Grāfiste" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafyst%C4%97" title="Grafystė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Grafystė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graofsjap" title="Graofsjap – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Graofsjap" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megye_(k%C3%B6zigazgat%C3%A1si_egys%C3%A9g)" title="Megye (közigazgatási egység) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Megye (közigazgatási egység)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Грофовија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Грофовија" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%87" title="مقاطعه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مقاطعه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunti" title="Kaunti – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Kaunti" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A2ing" title="Gâing – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Gâing" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%AE" title="ကောင်တီ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ကောင်တီ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3" title="カウンティ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="カウンティ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="Графство – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Графство" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comtat" title="Comtat – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Comtat" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C" title="کاؤنٹی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="کاؤنٹی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaunti" title="Kaunti – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" data-title="Kaunti" data-language-autonym="Tok Pisin" data-language-local-name="Tok Pisin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tok Pisin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrabstwo" title="Hrabstwo – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Hrabstwo" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado" title="Condado – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Condado" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitat" title="Comitat – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Comitat" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taripayt%27aqa" title="Taripayt'aqa – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Taripayt'aqa" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="Графство – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Графство" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonty" title="Coonty – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Coonty" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/County" title="County – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="County" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%86%D9%BD%D9%8A" title="ڪائونٽي – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="ڪائونٽي" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="شارستان – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="شارستان" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Грофовија – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Грофовија" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grofovija" title="Grofovija – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Grofovija" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a 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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Geographical and administrative region in some countries</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable"><span>For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="County (disambiguation)">County (disambiguation)</a>.</span> <span>Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Country" title="Country">Country</a>.</span></div> <p> A <b>county</b> (Latin <i><b>comitatus</b></i>) is a geographic <a href="/wiki/Region" title="Region">region</a> of a country used for administrative or other purposes<sup id="cite_ref-chambers_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chambers-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in some nations. The term is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a> <i lang="fro"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comt%C3%A9#Old_French" class="extiw" title="wikt:comté">comté</a></i> denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a <a href="/wiki/Count" title="Count">count</a> (<a href="/wiki/Earl" title="Earl">earl</a>) or, in his stead, a <a href="/wiki/Viscount" title="Viscount">viscount</a> (<i>vicomte</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-etymology_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etymology-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including <i lang="fr"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comt%C3%A9#French" class="extiw" title="wikt:comté">comté</a></i>, <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">contea</i></span>, <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">contado</i></span>, <span title="Catalan-language text"><i lang="ca">comtat</i></span>, <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">condado</i></span>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Grafschaft</i></span>, <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">graafschap</i></span>, and <i>zhupa</i> in <a href="/wiki/Slavic_languages" title="Slavic languages">Slavic languages</a>; terms equivalent to 'commune' or 'community' are now often instead used. </p><p>When the <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a> conquered England, they brought the term with them. Although there were at first no counts, <i>vicomtes</i> or counties in Anglo-Norman England, the earlier <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxons</a> did have <a href="/wiki/Earls" class="mw-redirect" title="Earls">earls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheriff" title="Sheriff">sheriffs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shire" title="Shire">shires</a>. The shires were the districts that became the <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historic counties of England</a>, and given the same Latin translation <i><a href="/wiki/Comitatus_(warband)" title="Comitatus (warband)">comitatus</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-vision_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vision-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many English county names derive from the name of the county town (<a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a>) with the word <i>shire</i> added on, for example <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term "county" evolved to designate a level of <a href="/wiki/Local_government" title="Local government">local administration</a> that was immediately beneath a <a href="/wiki/Central_government" title="Central government">national government</a>, within a <a href="/wiki/Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">unitary</a> (non-federal) system of government. “County” later also became used differently in some <a href="/wiki/Federalism" title="Federalism">federal systems</a> of government, for a local administrative division subordinate to a primary <a href="/wiki/Subnational_entity" class="mw-redirect" title="Subnational entity">subnational entity</a>, such as a Province (e.g. Canada) or a level 3 territorial unit such as NUTS 3 (<a href="/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics" title="Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics">Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics</a> – Level 3). </p><p>In the United States and Canada, which inherited many British terms and governmental norms, counties are usually administrative divisions set by convenient geographical demarcations, which are governed by designated officeholders such as <a href="/wiki/Sheriff" title="Sheriff">sheriffs</a>. These sheriffs and their <a href="/wiki/Sheriff%27s_department" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheriff's department">departments</a> are typically mandated under <a href="/wiki/State_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="State (United States)">U.S. state</a> or <a href="/wiki/Province_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Province (Canada)">Canadian provincial</a> law to manage geographically defined court jurisdictions.<sup id="cite_ref-citsguide2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-citsguide2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (October 2024)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>A county may be further subdivided into smaller jurisdictions such as <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">hundreds</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">townships</a>. A county usually, but not always, contains cities, towns, <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">townships</a>, <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">villages</a>, or other <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporation" title="Municipal corporation">municipal corporations</a>, which in most cases are somewhat subordinate or dependent upon county governments. Depending on the nation, <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>, and local geography, municipalities may or may not be subject to direct or indirect county control. The functions of both levels are often consolidated into a city government when the area is densely populated, and are generally not when it is less densely populated.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outside <a href="/wiki/English-speaking_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="English-speaking countries">English-speaking countries</a>, an equivalent of the term <i>county</i> is often used to describe subnational jurisdictions that are structurally equivalent to counties in the relationship they have with their national government;<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but which may not be administratively equivalent to counties in predominantly English-speaking countries. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Africa">Africa</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kenya">Kenya</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Kenya"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Kenya" title="Counties of Kenya">Counties of Kenya</a></div> <p>Counties are the current second-level political division in Kenya. Each county has an assembly where members of the county assembly (MCAs) sit. This assembly is headed by a governor. Each county is also represented in the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Kenya" title="Senate of Kenya">Senate of Kenya</a> by a senator. Additionally, a women's representative is elected from each county to the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Kenya" title="Parliament of Kenya">Parliament of Kenya</a> to represent women's interests. Counties replaced <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Kenya" title="Provinces of Kenya">provinces</a> as the second-level division after the promulgation of the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Kenya" title="Constitution of Kenya">Constitution of Kenya</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liberia">Liberia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Liberia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Liberia" title="Counties of Liberia">Counties of Liberia</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a> has 15 counties, each of which elects two senators to the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Liberia" title="Senate of Liberia">Senate of Liberia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Asia">Asia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="China">China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" title="Counties of China">Counties of China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Taiwan" title="Counties of Taiwan">Counties of Taiwan</a></div> <p>The English word <i>county</i> is used to translate the Chinese term <span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">xiàn</i></span> (<span lang="zh"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8E%BF#Chinese" class="extiw" title="wikt:县">县</a></span> or <span lang="zh"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B8%A3#Chinese" class="extiw" title="wikt:縣">縣</a></span>). In <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>, governed by the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a> (PRC), <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" title="Counties of China">counties</a> and <a href="/wiki/County-level_division" class="mw-redirect" title="County-level division">county-level divisions</a> are the third level of regional/local government, coming under the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Provinces_of_Chinal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Provinces of Chinal (page does not exist)">provincial level</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_China" title="Prefectures of China">prefectural level</a>, and above the <a href="/wiki/Townships_of_China" title="Townships of China">township level</a> and <a href="/wiki/Villages_of_China" title="Villages of China">village level</a>. </p><p>There are 1,464 so-named "counties" out of 2,862 county-level divisions in the PRC, and the number of counties has remained more or less constant since the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> (206 BC – AD 220). It remains one of the oldest titles of local-level government in China and significantly predates the establishment of provinces in the <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan dynasty</a> (1279–1368). The county government was particularly important in <a href="/wiki/Imperial_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial China">imperial China</a> because this was the lowest level at which the imperial government is functionally involved, while below it the local people are managed predominantly by the <a href="/wiki/Landed_gentry_in_China" title="Landed gentry in China">gentries</a>. The head of a county government during imperial China was the <a href="/wiki/County_magistrate" title="County magistrate">magistrate</a>, who was often a newly ascended <i><a href="/wiki/Jinshi" title="Jinshi">jinshi</a></i>. </p><p>In older context, <i>district</i> was an older English translation of <span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">xiàn</i></span> before the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%9349)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of China (1912–49)">Republic of China</a> (ROC). The English nomenclature <i>county</i> was adopted following the establishment of the ROC. In addition, <a href="/wiki/Provincial_city_(Taiwan)" title="Provincial city (Taiwan)">provincial cities</a> have the same level of authority as counties. Above county, there are <a href="/wiki/Special_municipality_(Taiwan)" title="Special municipality (Taiwan)">special municipalities</a> (in effect) and province (suspended due to economical and political reasons). There are currently 13 counties in the <a href="/wiki/Free_area_of_the_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Free area of the Republic of China">ROC-controlled territories</a>. </p><p>During most of the imperial era, there were no concepts like municipalities in China. All cities existed within counties, <a href="/wiki/Jun_(country_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jun (country subdivision)">commanderies</a>, prefectures, etc., and had no governments of their own.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Large cities (must be imperial capitals or seats of prefectures) could be divided and administered by two or three counties. Such counties are called 倚郭縣 (<span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">yǐguō xiàn</i></span>, 'county leaning on the city walls') or <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant">附郭縣</span></span> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">fùguō xiàn</i></span>, 'county attached to the city walls'). The <a href="/wiki/Yamen" title="Yamen">yamen</a> or governmental houses of these counties exist in the same city. In other words, they share one county town. In this sense, a <span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">yǐguō xiàn</i></span> or <span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">fùguō xiàn</i></span> is similar to a district of a city. </p><p>For example, the city of <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a> (seat of the eponymous prefecture, also known as <i>Canton</i> in the Western world) was historically divided by <a href="/wiki/Nanhai_District#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanhai District">Nanhai County</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant">南海縣</span></span>) and <a href="/wiki/Panyu_District#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Panyu District">Panyu County</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant">番禺縣</span></span>). When the first modern city government in China was established in Guangzhou, the urban area was separated from these two counties, with the rural areas left in the remaining parts of them. However, the county governments remained in the city for years, before moving into the respective counties. Similar processes happened in many Chinese cities. </p><p>Nowadays, most counties in mainland China, i.e. with "Xian" in their titles, are administered by <a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefecture-level cities">prefecture-level cities</a> and have mainly agricultural economies and rural populations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indonesia">Indonesia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Indonesia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Regency_(Indonesia)" title="Regency (Indonesia)">Regency (Indonesia)</a></div> <p>Regency (<i>kabupaten</i>) in Indonesia is an administrative unit under a province that is equivalent to a city. A regency is headed by a regent who is directly elected by the people, and is responsible for public services such as education, health, and infrastructure. The structure of a regency includes several districts (<i>kecamatan</i>) which are further divided into villages or ward. Regency in Indonesia is similar to the concept of "county" in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, but with differences in cultural context and government system. Indonesia has more than 400 regencies spread across all provinces. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iran">Iran</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Iran"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Iran" title="Counties of Iran">Counties of Iran</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iran_Counties.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Iran_Counties.svg/220px-Iran_Counties.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Iran_Counties.svg/330px-Iran_Counties.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Iran_Counties.svg/440px-Iran_Counties.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1210" data-file-height="1100" /></a><figcaption>Counties of Iran</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Iran" title="Provinces of Iran">ostans</a> (provinces) of <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> are further subdivided into counties called <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahrestān</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">شهرستان</span>). County consists of a city centre, a few <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Bakhsh" title="Bakhsh">bakhsh</a></i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">بخش</span>), and many villages around them. There are usually a few cities (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">شهر</span>, <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahar</i></span>) and rural agglomerations (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span lang="fa" dir="rtl">دهستان</span>, <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">dehestān</i></span>) in each county. Rural agglomerations are a collection of a number of villages. One of the cities of the county is appointed as the capital of the county. </p><p>Each <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahrestān</i></span> has a government office known as <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">farmândâri</i></span> (<span title="Persian-language text"><span lang="fa" dir="rtl">فرمانداری</span></span>), which coordinates different events and government offices. The <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">farmândâr</i></span> <span title="Persian-language text"><span lang="fa" dir="rtl">فرماندار</span></span>, or the head of <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">farmândâri</i></span>, is the governor of the <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahrestān</i></span>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fars_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Fars Province">Fars Province</a> has the highest number of <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahrestāns</i></span>, with 36, while <a href="/wiki/Qom_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Qom Province">Qom</a> uniquely has one, being <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coextensive" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:coextensive">coextensive</a> with its <a href="/wiki/Qom_County" title="Qom County">namesake county</a>. Iran had 324 <span title="Persian-language text"><i lang="fa-Latn">shahrestāns</i></span> in 2005 and 443 in 2021. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Korea">Korea</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Korea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_North_Korea" title="Administrative divisions of North Korea">Administrative divisions of North Korea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_South_Korea" title="Administrative divisions of South Korea">Administrative divisions of South Korea</a></div> <p>County is the common English translation for the <a href="/wiki/Korean_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean character">character</a> <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko">군</span></span> (<span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko-Latn">gun</i></span> or <span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko-Latn">kun</i></span>) that denotes the current second level political division in <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>. In <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>, the county is one type of municipal-level division. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Europe">Europe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Denmark">Denmark</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Denmark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Denmark" title="Counties of Denmark">Counties of Denmark</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> was divided into counties (<a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>: <i lang="da">amter</i>) from 1662 to 2006. On 1 January 2007 the counties were replaced by five <a href="/wiki/Regions_of_Denmark" title="Regions of Denmark">Regions</a>. At the same time, the number of municipalities was slashed to 98. </p><p>The counties were first introduced in 1662, replacing the 49 fiefs (<span title="Danish-language text"><i lang="da">len</i></span>) in <a href="/wiki/Denmark%E2%80%93Norway" title="Denmark–Norway">Denmark–Norway</a> with the same number of counties. This number does not include the subdivisions of the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Schleswig" title="Duchy of Schleswig">Duchy of Schleswig</a>, which was only under partial Danish control. The number of counties in Denmark (excluding Norway) had dropped to around 20 by 1793. Following the reunification of <a href="/wiki/South_Jutland_County" title="South Jutland County">South Jutland</a> with Denmark in 1920, four counties replaced the <a href="/wiki/Prussia" title="Prussia">Prussian</a> <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Prussia" title="Districts of Prussia">Kreise</a></i></span>. <a href="/wiki/Aabenraa_County" title="Aabenraa County">Aabenraa</a> and <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8nderborg_County" title="Sønderborg County">Sønderborg County</a> merged in 1932 and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Skanderborg_County&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Skanderborg County (page does not exist)">Skanderborg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aarhus_County" title="Aarhus County">Aarhus</a> were separated in 1942. From 1942 to 1970, the number stayed at 22.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number was further decreased by the 1970 Danish municipal reform, leaving 14 counties plus two cities unconnected to the county structure; <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frederiksberg" title="Frederiksberg">Frederiksberg</a>. </p><p>In 2003, <a href="/wiki/Bornholm_County" title="Bornholm County">Bornholm County</a> merged with the local five municipalities, forming the <a href="/wiki/Bornholm" title="Bornholm">Bornholm Regional Municipality</a>. The remaining 13 counties were abolished on 1 January 2007 where they were replaced by five new regions. In the same reform, the number of municipalities was slashed from 270 to 98 and all municipalities now belong to a region. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">Departments of France</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_arrondissements_of_France" title="List of arrondissements of France">List of arrondissements of France</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg/110px-France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg/165px-France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg/220px-France_d%C3%A9partementale.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1898" /></a><figcaption>Departments of France</figcaption></figure> <p>A <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">comté</i></span> was a territory ruled by a <a href="/wiki/Count" title="Count">count</a> (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">comte</i></span>) in medieval France. In modern France, the rough equivalent of a county as used in many English-speaking countries is a <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_France" title="Departments of France">department</a> (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">département</i></span>). Ninety-six departments are in <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">metropolitan France</a>, and five are <a href="/wiki/Overseas_department_and_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas department and region">overseas departments</a>, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 334 <a href="/wiki/Arrondissements_of_France" title="Arrondissements of France">arrondissements</a>, but these have no autonomy; they are the basis of local organisation of police, fire departments and, sometimes, administration of elections. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Germany">Germany</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Germany"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Germany" title="Districts of Germany">Districts of Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_districts_of_Germany" title="List of districts of Germany">List of districts of Germany</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Landkreise,_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Landkreise%2C_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg/110px-Landkreise%2C_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Landkreise%2C_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg/165px-Landkreise%2C_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Landkreise%2C_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg/220px-Landkreise%2C_Kreise_und_kreisfreie_St%C3%A4dte_in_Deutschland_2016-11-01.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="946" data-file-height="1253" /></a><figcaption>German districts, and district-free cities (yellow) as of 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>Each administrative district consists of an elected council and an executive, and whose duties are comparable to those of a county executive in the United States, supervising local government administration. Historically, counties in the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> were called <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Grafschaft" title="Grafschaft">Grafschaften</a></i></span>. The majority of German districts are "rural districts"<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (German: <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Landkreise</i></span>), of which there are 294 as of 2017<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>. Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants (and smaller towns in some states) do not usually belong to a district, but take on district responsibilities themselves, similar to the concept of <a href="/wiki/Independent_city" title="Independent city">independent cities</a> and there are 107 of them, bringing the total number of districts to 401.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hungary">Hungary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Hungary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Hungary" title="Counties of Hungary">Counties of Hungary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary">Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary</a></div> <p>The administrative unit of <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> is called <span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Hungary" title="Counties of Hungary">vármegye</a></i></span> (between 1950 and 2022 they were called <span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu"><a href="/wiki/Megye" class="mw-redirect" title="Megye">megye</a></i></span>, historically also <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary">comitatus</a></i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>), which can be translated with the word <i>county</i>. The two names are used interchangeably ('megye' used in common parlance, and when referring to the counties of other states), just like before 1950, when the word 'megye' even appeared in legal texts. The 19 counties constitute the highest level of the administrative subdivisions of the country together with the capital city Budapest, although counties and the capital are grouped into seven statistical regions. </p><p>Counties are subdivided into districts (<span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu">járás</i></span>) and municipalities, the two types of which are towns (<i>város</i>) and villages (<i>község</i>), each one having their own elected mayor and council. 23 of the towns have the rights of a county although they do not form independent territorial units equal to counties. </p><p>The <span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu">vármegye</i></span> was also the historic administrative unit in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Kingdom of Hungary</a>, which included areas of present-day neighbouring countries of Hungary. Its Latin name (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">comitatus</i></span>) is the equivalent of the French <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">comté</i></span>. Actual political and administrative role of counties changed much through history. Originally they were subdivisions of the royal administration, but from the 13th century they became self-governments of the nobles and kept this character until the 19th century when in turn they became modern local governments. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ireland">Ireland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">Counties of Ireland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Counties of the United Kingdom">Counties of the United Kingdom</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg/220px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg/330px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg/440px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1450" data-file-height="1807" /></a><figcaption>Ireland, showing traditional <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">provinces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">counties</a> as well as the modern administrative districts on both sides of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_border" title="Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border">international border</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The island of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> was historically divided into 32 counties, of which 26 later formed the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a> and 6 made up <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. </p><p>These counties are traditionally grouped into <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">four provinces</a>: <a href="/wiki/Leinster" title="Leinster">Leinster</a> (12 counties), <a href="/wiki/Munster" title="Munster">Munster</a> (6), <a href="/wiki/Connacht" title="Connacht">Connacht</a> (5) and <a href="/wiki/Ulster" title="Ulster">Ulster</a> (9). Historically, the counties of <a href="/wiki/County_Meath" title="County Meath">Meath</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Westmeath" title="County Westmeath">Westmeath</a> and small parts of surrounding counties constituted the province of <a href="/wiki/Mide" class="mw-redirect" title="Mide">Mide</a>, which was one of the "Five Fifths" of Ireland (in the Irish language the word for province, <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">cúige</i></span>, means 'a fifth': from <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">cúig</i></span>, 'five'); however, these have long since been absorbed into Leinster. In the Republic each county is administered by an elected "<a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county council</a>", and the old provincial divisions are merely traditional names with no political significance. </p><p>The number and boundaries of administrative counties in the Republic of Ireland were reformed in the 1990s. For example, <a href="/wiki/County_Dublin" title="County Dublin">County Dublin</a> was divided into three: <a href="/wiki/D%C3%BAn_Laoghaire%E2%80%93Rathdown" title="Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown">Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fingal" title="Fingal">Fingal</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_Dublin" title="South Dublin">South Dublin</a>; the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Dublin" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Dublin">City of Dublin</a> had existed for centuries before. The cities of <a href="/wiki/Cork_(city)" title="Cork (city)">Cork</a> and <a href="/wiki/Galway" title="Galway">Galway</a> have been separated from the town and rural areas of their counties. The cities of <a href="/wiki/Limerick" title="Limerick">Limerick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waterford" title="Waterford">Waterford</a> were merged with their respective counties in 2014. Thus, the Republic of Ireland now has 31 'county-level' authorities, although the borders of the original twenty-six counties are still officially in place.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Northern Ireland, the six county councils and the smaller town councils were abolished in 1973 and replaced by a single tier of local government. However, in the north as well as in the south, the traditional 32 counties and 4 provinces remain in common usage for many sporting, cultural and other purposes. County identity is heavily reinforced in the local culture by allegiances to county teams in <a href="/wiki/Hurling" title="Hurling">hurling</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_football" title="Gaelic football">Gaelic football</a>. Each <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Athletic_Association_county" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaelic Athletic Association county">Gaelic Athletic Association county</a> has its own flag/colours (and often a nickname), and county allegiances are taken quite seriously. See the <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">counties of Ireland</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Athletic_Association" title="Gaelic Athletic Association">Gaelic Athletic Association</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italy">Italy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Italy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> the word <i>county</i> is not used; the administrative sub-division of a region is called <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Italy" title="Provinces of Italy">provincia</a></i></span>. <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italian</a> provinces are mainly named after their principal town and comprise several administrative subdivisions called <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it"><a href="/wiki/Comune" title="Comune">comuni</a></i></span> ('communes'). There are currently 110 provinces in Italy. </p><p>In the context of pre-modern Italy, the Italian word <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">contado</i></span> generally refers to the countryside surrounding, and controlled by, the city state. The <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">contado</i></span> provided natural resources and agricultural products to sustain the urban population. In contemporary usage, <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">contado</i></span> can refer to a metropolitan area, and in some cases large rural/suburban regions providing resources to distant cities.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lithuania">Lithuania</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Lithuania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Lithuania" title="Counties of Lithuania">Counties of Lithuania</a></div> <p><span title="Lithuanian-language text"><i lang="lt">Apskritis</i></span> (plural <span title="Lithuanian-language text"><i lang="lt">apskritys</i></span>) is the Lithuanian word for county. Since 1994 <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a> has 10 counties; before 1950 it had 20. The only purpose with the county is an office of a state governor who shall conduct law and order in the county. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Norway">Norway</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Norway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Norway" title="Counties of Norway">Counties of Norway</a></div> <p>Norway has been divided into 11 <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Norway" title="Counties of Norway">counties</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bokm%C3%A5l_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bokmål language">Bokmål</a>: <i lang="nb">fylker</i>, <a href="/wiki/Nynorsk_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Nynorsk language">Nynorsk</a>: <i lang="nn">fylke</i>; singular: <span title="Norwegian-language text"><i lang="no">fylke</i></span>) since 2020; they previously numbered 19 following a local government reform in 1972. Until that year <a href="/wiki/Bergen" title="Bergen">Bergen</a> was a separate county, but today it is a <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a> within the county of <a href="/wiki/Vestland" title="Vestland">Vestland</a>. All counties form administrative entities called county municipalities (<span title="Bokmål-language text"><i lang="nb">fylkeskommuner</i></span> or <span title="Nynorsk-language text"><i lang="nn">fylkeskommunar</i></span>; singular: <span title="Norwegian-language text"><i lang="no">fylkeskommune</i></span>), further subdivided into <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_of_Norway" title="List of municipalities of Norway">municipalities</a> (<span title="Bokmål-language text"><i lang="nb">kommuner</i></span> or <span title="Nynorsk-language text"><i lang="nn">kommunar</i></span>; singular: <span title="Norwegian-language text"><i lang="no">kommune</i></span>). One county, <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>, is not divided into municipalities, rather it is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo. </p><p>Each county has its own <a href="/wiki/County_council_(Norway)" class="mw-redirect" title="County council (Norway)">county council</a> (<span title="Norwegian-language text"><i lang="no">fylkesting</i></span>) whose representatives are elected every four years together with representatives to the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_council_(Norway)" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal council (Norway)">municipal councils</a>. The counties handle matters such as high schools and local roads, and until 1 January 2002 hospitals as well. This last responsibility was transferred to the state-run <a href="/wiki/Regional_health_authority_(Norway)" title="Regional health authority (Norway)">health authorities</a> and <a href="/wiki/Health_trust" title="Health trust">health trusts</a>, and there is a debate on the future of the county municipality as an administrative entity. Some people, and parties, such as the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(Norway)" title="Conservative Party (Norway)">Conservative</a> and <a href="/wiki/Progress_Party_(Norway)" title="Progress Party (Norway)">Progress Party</a>, call for the abolition of the county municipalities once and for all, while others, including the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(Norway)" title="Labour Party (Norway)">Labour Party</a>, merely want to merge some of them into larger regions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poland">Poland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Poland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="List of counties in Poland">List of counties in Poland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Powiat" title="Powiat">Powiat</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Poland" title="Administrative divisions of Poland">Administrative divisions of Poland</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png/110px-POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png/165px-POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png/220px-POLSKA_mapa_powiaty2.png 2x" data-file-width="1021" data-file-height="948" /></a><figcaption><i>Powiaty</i> in Poland</figcaption></figure> <p>The territorial administration of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The country is divided into <a href="/wiki/Voivodeships_of_Poland" title="Voivodeships of Poland"><i>voivodeships</i></a> (provinces); these are further divided into <i><a href="/wiki/Powiat" title="Powiat">powiats</a></i> (counties or districts). The term <i>powiat</i> is often translated into English as <i>county</i> (or sometimes <i>district</i>). In historical contexts this may be confusing because the Polish term <i>hrabstwo</i> (a territorial unit administered/owned by a <i>hrabia</i> (<a href="/wiki/Count" title="Count">count</a>) is also literally translated as "county" and it was subordinated under <i>powiat</i>. </p><p>The 380 county-level entities in Poland include 314 "land counties" (powiaty ziemskie) and the 66 "city counties" (<i>miasta na prawach powiatu</i> or <i>powiaty grodzkie</i>) <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl"><a href="/wiki/Powiat" title="Powiat">powiat</a></i></span>. They are subdivisions of the 16 <a href="/wiki/Voivodeship_(Poland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Voivodeship (Poland)"><i>voivodeship</i></a>, and are further subdivided into 2,477 <a href="/wiki/Gmina" title="Gmina">gminas</a> (also called commune or <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GUS_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GUS-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romania">Romania</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Romania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Romania" title="Counties of Romania">Counties of Romania</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Romanian_license_plate_codes.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Romanian_license_plate_codes.png/110px-Romanian_license_plate_codes.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Romanian_license_plate_codes.png/165px-Romanian_license_plate_codes.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Romanian_license_plate_codes.png/220px-Romanian_license_plate_codes.png 2x" data-file-width="1611" data-file-height="1149" /></a><figcaption><i>Județe</i> of Romania</figcaption></figure> <p>The Romanian word for county, <span title="Romanian-language text"><i lang="ro">comitat</i></span>, is not currently used for any Romanian administrative divisions. Romania is divided into a total of <b>41 counties</b> (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>: <i lang="ro"><a href="/wiki/Jude%C8%9B" title="Județ">județe</a></i>), which along with the <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bucharest" title="Bucharest">Bucharest</a>, constitute the official <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Romania" title="Administrative divisions of Romania">administrative divisions of Romania</a>. They represent <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">the country</a>'s NUTS-3 (<a href="/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics" title="Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics">Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics</a> – Level 3) statistical subdivisions within the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> and each of them serves as the local level of <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Romania" title="Government of Romania">government</a> within its borders. Most counties are named after a major <a href="/wiki/Rivers_in_Romania" class="mw-redirect" title="Rivers in Romania">river</a>, while some are named after notable cities within them, such as the county seat. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sweden">Sweden</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Sweden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Sweden" title="Counties of Sweden">Counties of Sweden</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg/138px-SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg.png" decoding="async" width="138" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg/207px-SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg/276px-SWE-Map_L%C3%A4n.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="290" data-file-height="660" /></a><figcaption>Sweden's counties since 1998.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Swedish division into counties, <span title="Swedish-language text"><i lang="sv"><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A4n" title="Län">län</a></i></span>, which literally means '<a href="/wiki/Fief" title="Fief">fief</a>', was established in 1634, and was based on an earlier division into <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden" title="Provinces of Sweden">provinces</a>; <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> is divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities (<i><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Sweden" title="Municipalities of Sweden">kommuner</a></i>). At the county level there is a <a href="/wiki/County_Administrative_Boards_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="County Administrative Boards of Sweden">county administrative board</a> led by a governor appointed by the central <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Sweden" title="Government of Sweden">government of Sweden</a>, as well as an elected <a href="/wiki/County_councils_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="County councils of Sweden">county council</a> that handles a separate set of issues, notably <a href="/wiki/Hospital" title="Hospital">hospitals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Public_transportation" class="mw-redirect" title="Public transportation">public transportation</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Sweden" title="Municipalities of Sweden">municipalities</a> within its borders. The counties and their expanse have changed several times, most recently in 1998. </p><p>Every county council corresponds to a county with a number of municipalities per county. County councils and municipalities have different roles and separate responsibilities relating to local government. Health care, public transport and certain cultural institutions are administered by county councils while general education, public water utilities, garbage disposal, elderly care and rescue services are administered by the municipalities. <a href="/wiki/Gotland" title="Gotland">Gotland</a> is a special case of being a county council with only one municipality and the functions of county council and municipality are performed by the same organisation.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ukraine">Ukraine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Ukraine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Ukraine the county (<a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">повіт</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian" title="Romanization of Ukrainian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ukrainian-language romanization"><i lang="uk-Latn">povit</i></span>) was introduced in Ukrainian territories under Poland in the second half of the 14th century, and in the eighteenth century under the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Cossack_Hetmanate" title="Cossack Hetmanate">Cossack Hetmanate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sloboda_Ukraine" title="Sloboda Ukraine">Sloboda Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Ukraine" title="Southern Ukraine">Southern Ukraine</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Right-bank_Ukraine" title="Right-bank Ukraine">Right-Bank Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1913 there were 126 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited territories of the Russian Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austrian Empire</a> in 1914 there were 59 counties in Ukrainian-inhabited Galicia, 34 in <a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Ruthenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpathian Ruthenia">Transcarpathia</a>, and 10 in <a href="/wiki/Bukovina" title="Bukovina">Bukovina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Counties were retained by the independent <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_People%27s_Republic" title="Ukrainian People's Republic">Ukrainian People's Republic</a> of 1917–1921, and in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Romania until the Soviet annexations at the start of World War II. 99 counties formed the <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian SSR">Ukrainian SSR</a> in 1919, where they were abolished in 1923–25 in favour of 53 <a href="/wiki/Okruhas_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Okruhas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">okruhas</a> (in turn replaced by <a href="/wiki/Oblasts_of_Ukraine" title="Oblasts of Ukraine">oblasts</a> in 1930–32), although they existed in the <a href="/wiki/Zakarpattia_Oblast" title="Zakarpattia Oblast">Zakarpattia Oblast</a> until 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Counties of the United Kingdom">Counties of the United Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shires_of_Scotland" title="Shires of Scotland">Shires of Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_Wales" title="Historic counties of Wales">Historic counties of Wales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Counties of Northern Ireland">Counties of Northern Ireland</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Traditional_counties_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional counties of Ireland">Traditional counties of Ireland</a></div> <p>The United Kingdom is divided into a number of <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England">metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties</a>. There are also <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial counties</a> which group small non-metropolitan counties into geographical areas broadly based on the <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historic counties of England</a>. In 1974, the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties replaced the system of <a href="/wiki/Administrative_counties_of_England" title="Administrative counties of England">administrative counties</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_borough" title="County borough">county boroughs</a> which was introduced in 1889. The counties generally belong to level 3 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (<a href="/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics#Former_EU_member-state" title="Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics">NUTS 3</a>). </p><p>In 1965 and 1974–1975, major reorganisations of local government in England and Wales created several new administrative counties such as <a href="/wiki/Hereford_and_Worcester" title="Hereford and Worcester">Hereford and Worcester</a> (abolished again in 1998 and reverted, with some transfers of territory, to the two separate historic counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire) and also created several new <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_county" title="Metropolitan county">metropolitan counties</a> based on large urban areas as a single administrative unit. In Scotland, county-level local government was replaced by larger <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Scotland_1973_to_1996" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996">regions</a>, which lasted until 1996. Modern local government in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and a large part of England is trending towards smaller unitary authorities: a system similar to that proposed in the 1960s by the <a href="/wiki/Redcliffe-Maud_Report" title="Redcliffe-Maud Report">Redcliffe-Maud Report</a> for most of Britain. </p><p>The name "county" was introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Normans</a>, and was derived from a Norman term for an area administered by a <a href="/wiki/Count" title="Count">Count</a> (lord). These Norman "counties" were simply the Saxon shires, and kept their Saxon names. Several traditional counties, including <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex">Sussex</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, predate the unification of England by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_the_Great" title="Alfred the Great">Alfred the Great</a>, and were originally more or less independent kingdoms (although the most important Saxon Kingdom on the island of Britain, Alfred's own <a href="/wiki/Wessex" title="Wessex">Wessex</a>, no longer survives in any form). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="England">England</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg/110px-English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg/165px-English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg/220px-English_ceremonial_counties_1998.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1108" data-file-height="1345" /></a><figcaption>Ceremonial counties of England</figcaption></figure> <p>In England, in the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon England">Anglo-Saxon</a> period, <i>shires</i> were established as areas used for the raising of <a href="/wiki/Tax" title="Tax">taxes</a>, and usually had a fortified town at their centre. This became known as the <i>shire town</i> or later the <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a>. In many cases, the shires were named after their shire town (for example Bedford<i>shire</i>), but there are several exceptions, such as <a href="/wiki/Cumberland" title="Cumberland">Cumberland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a>. In several other cases, such as <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>, the modern county town is different from the town after which the shire is named. (See <a href="/wiki/Toponymical_list_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom">Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom</a>) </p><p>Most non-metropolitan counties in England are run by <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county councils</a> and are divided into <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">non-metropolitan districts</a>, each with its own council. Local authorities in the UK are usually responsible for education, emergency services, planning, transport, social services, and a number of other functions. </p><p>Until 1974, the county boundaries of England changed little over time. In the <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> period, a number of important cities were granted the status of counties in their own right, such as <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coventry" title="Coventry">Coventry</a>, and numerous small <a href="/wiki/Exclave" class="mw-redirect" title="Exclave">exclaves</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Islandshire" title="Islandshire">Islandshire</a> were created. In 1844, most of these exclaves were transferred to their surrounding counties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Northern_Ireland">Northern Ireland</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Northern Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png/110px-Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png/165px-Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png/220px-Northern_Ireland_-_Counties.png 2x" data-file-width="1677" data-file-height="1426" /></a><figcaption>Counties of Northern Ireland</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, the six county councils, if not their counties, were abolished in 1973 and replaced by 26 local government districts. The traditional six counties remain in common everyday use for many cultural and other purposes. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Scotland_and_Wales">Scotland and Wales</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Scotland and Wales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WalesTradNumbered.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/WalesTradNumbered.png/110px-WalesTradNumbered.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/WalesTradNumbered.png/165px-WalesTradNumbered.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/WalesTradNumbered.png/220px-WalesTradNumbered.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="499" /></a><figcaption>Historic counties of Wales</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png/110px-ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png/165px-ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png/220px-ScotlandCountiesNumbered.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="457" /></a><figcaption>Counties in Scotland at the time of their 1975 abolishment</figcaption></figure> <p>The thirteen <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_Wales" title="Historic counties of Wales">historic counties of Wales</a> were fixed by statute in 1539 (although counties such as <a href="/wiki/Pembrokeshire" title="Pembrokeshire">Pembrokeshire</a> date from 1138) and most of the <a href="/wiki/Shires_of_Scotland" title="Shires of Scotland">shires of Scotland</a> are of at least this age. The Welsh word for county is <i>sir</i> which is derived from the English 'shire'.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The word is officially used to signify counties in Wales.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Gaelic form, Scottish traditional county names are generally distinguished by the designation <span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><i lang="gd">siorramachd</i></span>—literally "sheriffdom", e.g. <span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><i lang="gd">Siorramachd Earra-ghaidheal</i></span> (Argyllshire). This term corresponds to the jurisdiction of the sheriff in the Scottish legal system. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="North_America">North America</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: North America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Canada">Canada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Canada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Canada" title="Local government in Canada">Local government in Canada</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alberta">Alberta</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Alberta"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <i>county</i> in <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a> used to be a type of designation in a single-tier municipal system; but this was nominally changed to "<a href="/wiki/List_of_municipal_districts_in_Alberta" title="List of municipal districts in Alberta">municipal district</a>" under the <i>Municipal Government Act</i>, when the <i>County Act</i> was repealed in the mid-1990s. However, at the time the new "municipal districts" were also permitted to retain the usage of <i>county</i> in their official names.<sup id="cite_ref-MGAtransition_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MGAtransition-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, in Alberta, the term <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipal_districts_in_Alberta" title="List of municipal districts in Alberta">county</a></i> is synonymous with the term <i><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipal_districts_in_Alberta" title="List of municipal districts in Alberta">municipal district</a></i> – it is not its own incorporated municipal status that is different from that of a municipal district. As such, Alberta Municipal Affairs provides municipal districts with the opportunity to change to a <i>county</i> in their official names, but some have chosen to hold out with the <i>municipal district</i> title. The vast majority of "municipal districts" in Alberta are counties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="British_Columbia">British Columbia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: British Columbia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> has <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_British_Columbia" title="Counties of British Columbia">counties</a> for the purposes of its justice system but otherwise they hold no governmental function. For the provision of all other governmental services, the province is divided into <a href="/wiki/List_of_regional_districts_of_British_Columbia" title="List of regional districts of British Columbia">regional districts</a> that form the upper tier, which are further subdivided into <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_British_Columbia" title="List of municipalities in British Columbia">local municipalities</a> that are partly autonomous, and <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">unincorporated</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_regional_district_electoral_areas_in_British_Columbia" title="List of regional district electoral areas in British Columbia">electoral areas</a> that are governed directly by the regional districts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Manitoba">Manitoba</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Manitoba"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The province of <a href="/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a> was divided into <a href="/wiki/List_of_former_counties_of_Manitoba" title="List of former counties of Manitoba">counties</a>; however, these counties were abolished in 1890. Manitoba is divided into rural municipalities, which do not overlap with urban municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_Brunswick">New Brunswick</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: New Brunswick"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The counties of <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_of_New_Brunswick" title="List of counties of New Brunswick">New Brunswick</a> were upper-tier governance units until the municipal reform of 1967; they were also used as electoral districts until 1973. They remain in use as <a href="/wiki/Census_divisions" class="mw-redirect" title="Census divisions">census</a> <a href="/wiki/Census_geographic_units_of_Canada" title="Census geographic units of Canada">divisions</a> by <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Canada" title="Statistics Canada">Statistics Canada</a> and by locals as geographic identifiers. The Territorial Division Act defining them remains in effect; their subdivisions are called <a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_New_Brunswick" title="List of parishes in New Brunswick">parishes</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Newfoundland_and_Labrador">Newfoundland and Labrador</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Newfoundland and Labrador"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="Newfoundland and Labrador">Newfoundland and Labrador</a> does not have any second-level administrative subdivision between the provincial government and its municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Northwest_Territories">Northwest Territories</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Northwest Territories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories">Northwest Territories</a> are divided into regions; however, these regions only serve to streamline the delivery of territorial governmental services, and have no government of their own. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nova_Scotia">Nova Scotia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Nova Scotia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> formerly had a two-tier system of local government in which counties were upper tier municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nunavut">Nunavut</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Nunavut"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a> is divided into regions; however, these regions only serve to streamline the delivery of territorial governmental services, and have no government of their own. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ontario">Ontario</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Ontario"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a> has a two-tier system of local government in which counties are upper tier municipalities. </p><p>The primary administrative <a href="/wiki/Ontario#Administrative_divisions" title="Ontario">division</a> of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Ontario" title="Southern Ontario">Southern Ontario</a> is its 22 counties, which are upper-tier local governments providing limited municipal services to rural and moderately dense areas—within them, there are a variety of lower-tier towns, cities, villages, etc. that provide most municipal services. This contrasts with Northern Ontario's 10 districts, which are geographic divisions but not local governments—although some towns, etc. are within them that are local governments, the low population densities and much larger area have significant impacts on how government is organized and operates. In both Northern and Southern Ontario, urban densities in cities are one of two other local structures: <a href="/wiki/Regional_municipalities" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional municipalities">regional municipalities</a> (restructured former counties which are also upper tiers) or single-tier municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prince_Edward_Island">Prince Edward Island</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Prince Edward Island"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The counties of <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_of_Prince_Edward_Island" title="List of counties of Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a> are historical and have no governments of their own today. However, they remain used as <a href="/wiki/Census_divisions" class="mw-redirect" title="Census divisions">census</a> <a href="/wiki/Census_geographic_units_of_Canada" title="Census geographic units of Canada">divisions</a> by <a href="/wiki/Statistics_Canada" title="Statistics Canada">Statistics Canada</a>, and by locals as geographic identifiers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quebec">Quebec</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Quebec"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a> has a two-tier system of local government in which counties are upper tier municipalities. Quebec's counties are more properly called "<a href="/wiki/List_of_regional_county_municipalities_and_equivalent_territories_in_Quebec" title="List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec">Regional County Municipalities</a>" (<span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">municipalités régionales de comté</i></span>). The province's <a href="/wiki/List_of_former_counties_of_Quebec" title="List of former counties of Quebec">former counties</a> proper were supplanted in the early 1980s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Saskatchewan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a> is divided into rural and urban municipalities, which do not overlap. Saskatchewan does not have any second-level administrative subdivision between the provincial government and the municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Yukon">Yukon</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Yukon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Yukon" title="Yukon">Yukon</a> does not have any second-level administrative subdivision between the territorial government and its municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jamaica">Jamaica</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Jamaica"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> is divided into 14 <a href="/wiki/Parishes_of_Jamaica" title="Parishes of Jamaica">parishes</a> which are grouped together into 3 historic <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Jamaica" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of Jamaica">counties</a>: <a href="/wiki/Cornwall_County,_Jamaica" title="Cornwall County, Jamaica">Cornwall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County,_Jamaica" title="Middlesex County, Jamaica">Middlesex</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Surrey_County,_Jamaica" title="Surrey County, Jamaica">Surrey</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County (United States)</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">List of United States counties and county equivalents</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Usa_counties_large.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Usa_counties_large.svg/300px-Usa_counties_large.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Usa_counties_large.svg/450px-Usa_counties_large.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Usa_counties_large.svg/600px-Usa_counties_large.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="627" /></a><figcaption>The 3,142 <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">counties</a> and county equivalents of the United States</figcaption></figure> <p>Counties in <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. states</a> are <a href="/wiki/Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">administrative</a> or <a href="/wiki/Political_subdivisions" class="mw-redirect" title="Political subdivisions">political subdivisions</a> of the state in which their boundaries are drawn. In addition, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a> uses the term "county equivalent" to describe places that are comparable to counties, but called by different names.<sup id="cite_ref-US_county_equivalent_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_county_equivalent-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Forty-eight of the 50 U.S. states use the term "county", while Alaska and Louisiana use the terms "<a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">borough</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">parish</a>", respectively, for analogous jurisdictions. A <i><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">consolidated city-county</a></i>, such as the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">City and County of San Francisco</a>, is formed when a city and county merge into one unified jurisdiction. Conversely, <i><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent cities</a></i>, including <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carson_City,_Nevada" title="Carson City, Nevada">Carson City</a>, and all cities in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, legally belong to no county, i.e. no county even nominally exists in those places compared to a consolidated city-county where a county does legally exist in some form. <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, is known as a <i><a href="/wiki/Federal_city" title="Federal city">federal city</a></i> because it is outside the jurisdiction of any state; the U.S. Census Bureau treats it as a single county equivalent.<sup id="cite_ref-US_county_equivalent_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_county_equivalent-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The specific governmental powers of counties vary widely between the states. They are generally the intermediate tier of state government, between the statewide tier and the immediately local government tier (typically a city, town/borough, or village/township). Some of the governmental functions that a county may offer include judiciary, county prisons, land registration, enforcement of building codes, and federally mandated services programs. Depending on the individual state, counties or their equivalents may be administratively subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">townships</a>, <a href="/wiki/Borough" title="Borough">boroughs or boros</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">towns</a> (in the <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> states, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Wisconsin" title="Administrative divisions of Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a>). </p><p><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> is a special case where the city is made up of <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">five boroughs</a>, each of which is territorially coterminous with a <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_York" title="List of counties in New York">county</a>, though not always with an identical name. The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is Queens County, and Staten Island is Richmond County. In the context of city government, the boroughs are subdivisions of the city but are still called "county" where county function is involved, e.g., "<i>New York County</i> Courthouse". </p><p>County governments in <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Rhode_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government in Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Connecticut" title="Local government in Connecticut">Connecticut</a> have been completely abolished but the entities remain for administrative and statistical purposes. Alaska's 323,440-square-mile (837,700 km<sup>2</sup>) <a href="/wiki/Unorganized_Borough,_Alaska" title="Unorganized Borough, Alaska">Unorganized Borough</a> also has no county equivalent government, but the U.S. Census Bureau further divides it into statistical county equivalent subdivisions called <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">census areas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-US_county_equivalent_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_county_equivalent-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government in Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> eliminated county governments in 8 of its 14 counties.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Today, 3,142 counties and county equivalents carve up the United States, ranging in number from 3 for <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Delaware" title="List of counties in Delaware">Delaware</a> to 254 for <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Texas" title="List of counties in Texas">Texas</a>. The areas of each county also vary widely between the states. For example, the territorially medium-sized state of <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> has 67 counties delineated in geographically convenient ways.<sup id="cite_ref-citsguide_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-citsguide-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By way of contrast, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, with far less territory, has massively sized counties in comparison even to Pennsylvania's largest,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> yet each organizes their judicial and incarceration officials similarly. </p><p>Most counties have a <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a>: a city, town, or other named place where its administrative functions are centered. Some <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> states use the term <a href="/wiki/Shire_town" class="mw-redirect" title="Shire town">shire town</a> to mean "county seat". A handful of counties like <a href="/wiki/Harrison_County,_Mississippi" title="Harrison County, Mississippi">Harrison County, Mississippi</a> have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of the county, dating back from the days when travel was difficult. In Virginia, where all cities are independent, some double as county seats despite not being part of a county. Notable examples include the independent <a href="/wiki/Fairfax,_Virginia" title="Fairfax, Virginia">City of Fairfax</a> serving as the seat of <a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax County</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salem,_Virginia" title="Salem, Virginia">Salem</a> serving as the county seat of <a href="/wiki/Roanoke_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Roanoke County">Roanoke County</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Oceania">Oceania</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Oceania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australia">Australia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Australia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_states_of_Australia" title="Eastern states of Australia">eastern states of Australia</a>, counties are <a href="/wiki/Lands_administrative_divisions_of_Australia" title="Lands administrative divisions of Australia">used in the administration of land titles</a>. They do not generally correspond to a level of government, but are used in the identification of parcels of land. </p><p>The local communities in Australia that share the same <a href="/wiki/Post_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Post code">post code</a> are usually referred to as <a href="/wiki/Suburbs_and_localities_(Australia)" title="Suburbs and localities (Australia)">suburbs or localities</a>. Several neighboring suburbs are often serviced by the same <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Australia" title="Local government in Australia">local government</a> known as a <a href="/wiki/Council" title="Council">council</a>, whose <a href="/wiki/Jurisdiction_(area)" title="Jurisdiction (area)">jurisdiction</a> is officially known as the <a href="/wiki/Local_government_area" title="Local government area">local government area</a> (LGA). An LGA functions basically the same way as a county of other countries, although it is called instead as "city", "municipality", "shire", "borough", "town", "district" or simple "councils" depending on the <a href="/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia" title="States and territories of Australia">state/territory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subregion" title="Subregion">subregion</a>. It performs <a href="/wiki/Municipal_services" title="Municipal services">municipal services</a> and regulates <a href="/wiki/Construction_permit" class="mw-redirect" title="Construction permit">permits</a> for <a href="/wiki/Land_use" title="Land use">land uses</a>, but lacks any <a href="/wiki/Legislative" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative">legislative</a> or <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement" title="Law enforcement">law enforcement</a> powers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Zealand">New Zealand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: New Zealand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Counties_in_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties in New Zealand">Counties in New Zealand</a></div> <p>After New Zealand abolished its <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_New_Zealand" title="Provinces of New Zealand">provinces</a> in 1876, a system of counties similar to other countries' systems was instituted, lasting until 1989. They had chairmen, not mayors as <a href="/wiki/Borough" title="Borough">boroughs</a> and cities had; many legislative provisions (such as <a href="/wiki/Burial" title="Burial">burial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subdivision_(land)" title="Subdivision (land)">land subdivision</a> control) were different for the counties. </p><p>During the second half of the 20th century, many counties received overflow population from nearby cities. The result was often a merger of the two into a <i>district</i> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Rotorua" title="Rotorua">Rotorua</a>) or a change of name to either <i>district</i> (e.g. Waimairi) or <i>city</i> (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Manukau_City" title="Manukau City">Manukau City</a>). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1974_(New_Zealand)" title="Local Government Act 1974 (New Zealand)">Local Government Act 1974</a> began the process of bringing urban, mixed, and rural councils into the same legislative framework. Substantial reorganisations under that Act resulted in the 1989 shake-up, which covered the country in (non-overlapping) cities and districts and abolished all the counties except for the <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Islands" title="Chatham Islands">Chatham Islands</a> County, which survived under that name for a further 6 years but then became a "Territory" under the "Chatham Islands Council". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="South_America">South America</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: South America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Argentina">Argentina</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Argentina"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Provinces in Argentina are divided into <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_Argentina" title="Departments of Argentina">departments</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i lang="es">departamentos</i>), except in the <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Province" title="Buenos Aires Province">Buenos Aires Province</a>, where they are called <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Partidos_of_Buenos_Aires" title="Partidos of Buenos Aires">partidos</a></i></span>. The <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Autonomous City of Buenos Aires</a> is divided into communes (<span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">comunas</i></span>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazil">Brazil</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>States in Brazil were divided into <a href="/wiki/Microregions_of_Brazil" title="Microregions of Brazil">microregions</a> (<a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>: <i lang="pt">microrregiões</i>) before they were replaced by "immediate geographic regions" in 2017. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The larger the population center, and the denser the population, the more likely it is to have assumed and subsumed county level functions; normally under a special bill passed by the cognizant legislative body.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">National governments that are Federations, such as Germany have subdivisions similar to the English Counties in size. France has regions and departements which similarly provide governmental services. Which services are mapped to which governmental offices, level or officials is the province of the national constitution and legislative body.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">e.g. Westmoreland, Washington in western Pennsylvania.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-etymology-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-etymology_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">C. W. Onions (Ed.) <i>The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology</i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, 1966.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-vision-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-vision_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vision of Britain <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/type_page.jsp?unit_type=ANC_CNTY">[1]</a> – Type details for ancient county. 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Consolidation of certain offices in smaller counties involves the offices of prothonotary, clerk of courts, register of wills and recorder of deeds.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Citizen%27s+Guide+to+Pennsylvania+Local+Government&rft.atitle=County+Government&rft.pages=8&rft.date=2010&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdced.pa.gov%2Fdownload%2Fcitizens-guide-to-pennsylvania-local-government-pdf%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACounty" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There were exceptions in the <a href="/wiki/Jin_dynasty_(1115%E2%80%931234)" title="Jin dynasty (1115–1234)">Jīn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yuan_dynasty" title="Yuan dynasty">Yuan</a> dynasties, when cities were separated from counties and independently administered by institutions like <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant">録事司</span></span> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">lù shi sī</i></span>) and <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">司候司</span></span> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><i lang="zh-Latn">sī hòu sī</i></span>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100104054929/http://www.byhistorie.dk/kommuner/artikel.aspx?artikel=amter.xml">"Amternes administration 1660–1970 (in Danish)"</a>. 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href="/wiki/List_of_terms_for_administrative_divisions" title="List of terms for administrative divisions">English terms</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Common_English_terms" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Common English terms</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Area</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Canton_(administrative_division)" title="Canton (administrative division)">Canton</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Half-canton" class="mw-redirect" title="Half-canton">Half-canton</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">Capital</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_capital" title="Federal capital">Federal capital</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Capital_city#Origins" title="Capital city">Imperial capital</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/City" title="City">City</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_city" title="Autonomous city">Autonomous city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charter_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Charter city">Charter city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_city" title="Independent city">Independent city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incorporated_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Incorporated city">Incorporated city</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imperial_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial city">Imperial city</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Free_imperial_city" title="Free imperial city">Free imperial city</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Royal_free_city" title="Royal free city">Royal free city</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Community_(administrative_division)" title="Community (administrative division)">Community</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain" title="Autonomous communities of Spain">Autonomous community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Residential_community" title="Residential community">Residential community</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">County</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_county" title="Administrative county">Administrative county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_county" title="Autonomous county">Autonomous county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">County seat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">County town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_county" title="Metropolitan county">Metropolitan county</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_county" title="Non-metropolitan county">Non-metropolitan county</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_county_municipality" title="Regional county municipality">Regional county municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viscountcy" class="mw-redirect" title="Viscountcy">Viscounty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Country" title="Country">Country</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas country">Overseas country</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Department_(administrative_division)" title="Department (administrative division)">Department</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_department" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas department">Overseas department</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/District" title="District">District</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital district">Capital district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_district" title="City district">City district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_district" title="Congressional district">Congressional district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_district" title="Electoral district">Electoral district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_district" title="Federal district">Federal district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_government_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian government district">Indian government district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Land_district" title="Land district">Land district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Manitoba#Local_government_districts" title="List of municipalities in Manitoba">Local government district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan district">Metropolitan district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">Non-metropolitan district</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_district" title="Military district">Military district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_district" title="Municipal district">Municipal district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_district" title="Police district">Police district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_district" title="Regional district">Regional district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural_district" title="Rural district">Rural district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanitary_district" title="Sanitary district">Sanitary district</a></li> <li>Service district <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Educational_service_district_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Educational service district (disambiguation)">Educational service district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_service_district" title="Local service district">Local service district</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/School_district" title="School district">School district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Intermediate_school_district" title="Intermediate school district">Intermediate school district</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">Special district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">in the US</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_district" title="Urban district">Urban district</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Division_(political_geography)" title="Division (political geography)">Division</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_division" title="Census division">Census division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_division" title="Police division">Police division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenue_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Revenue division">Subdivision of India</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Indian reserve/reservation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservation</a> (United States)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reserve" title="Indian reserve">Indian reserve</a> (Canada)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Municipality</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/City_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="City municipality">City municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_municipality" title="County municipality">County municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct-controlled_municipality" title="Direct-controlled municipality">Direct-controlled municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_municipality" title="District municipality">District municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Neutral municipality">Neutral municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_municipality" title="Regional municipality">Regional municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resort_municipality" title="Resort municipality">Resort municipality</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_resort_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountain resort municipality">Mountain resort municipality</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rural_municipality" title="Rural municipality">Rural municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Specialized_municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Specialized municipality">Specialized municipality</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prefecture" title="Prefecture">Prefecture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_prefecture" title="Autonomous prefecture">Autonomous prefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subprefecture" title="Subprefecture">Subprefecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super-prefecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Super-prefecture">Super-prefecture</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Praetorian_prefecture" title="Praetorian prefecture">Praetorian prefecture</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Province" title="Province">Province</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_province" title="Autonomous province">Autonomous province</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Overseas_province" title="Overseas province">Overseas province</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Roman province</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Region" title="Region">Region</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Administrative region <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_region" title="Special administrative region">Special administrative region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous region">Autonomous region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capital_region" title="Capital region">Capital region</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_capital_region" class="mw-redirect" title="National capital region">National capital region</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Development_region" title="Development region">Development region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesoregion_(geography)" title="Mesoregion (geography)">Mesoregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microregion" title="Microregion">Microregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas region">Overseas region</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subregion_(administrative_division)" title="Subregion (administrative division)">Subregion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Federated_state" title="Federated state">State</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proto-state" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-state">Proto-state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City-state" title="City-state">City-state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal state">Federal state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_state_(polity)" title="Free state (polity)">Free state</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign state</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Territory" title="Territory">Territory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital territory">Capital territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal capital territory">Federal capital territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_capital_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="National capital territory">National capital territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependent territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_territory" title="Federal territory">Federal territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Incorporated territory">Incorporated territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Organized_incorporated_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Organized incorporated territory">Organized incorporated territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overseas_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas territory">Overseas territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_territory" title="Union territory">Union territory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">Town</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_town" title="Census town">Census town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">Market town</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Township" title="Township">Township</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charter_township" title="Charter township">Charter township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Civil township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paper_township" title="Paper township">Paper township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Survey_township" title="Survey township">Survey township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_township" title="Urban township">Urban township</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unit</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regional_unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional unit">Regional unit</a></li> <li>Territorial unit <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_territorial_unit" title="Autonomous territorial unit">Autonomous territorial unit</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Zone</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Economic zone <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">Exclusive economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_economic_zone" title="Free economic zone">Free economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_economic_zone" title="Special economic zone">Special economic zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exclusion_zone" title="Exclusion zone">Exclusion zone</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_exclusion_zone" title="Military exclusion zone">Military exclusion zone</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_speech_zone" title="Free speech zone">Free speech zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_zone_(territorial_entity)" title="Neutral zone (territorial entity)">Neutral zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Self-administered_zone" title="Self-administered zone">Self-administered zone</a></li> <li>Trade zone <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Free-trade_zone" title="Free-trade zone">Free-trade zone</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other_English_terms" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other English terms</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Victoria#Alpine_resorts" title="Local government in Victoria">Alpine resort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailiwick" title="Bailiwick">Bailiwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banner_(administrative_division)" title="Banner (administrative division)">Banner</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banners_of_Inner_Mongolia" title="Banners of Inner Mongolia">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Block_(district_subdivision)" title="Block (district subdivision)">Block</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadastre" title="Cadastre">Cadastre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_(administrative_division)" title="Circle (administrative division)">Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division)" title="Circuit (administrative division)">Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Commune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condominium_(international_law)" title="Condominium (international law)">Condominium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constituency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency (administrative division)">Constituency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy" title="Duchy">Duchy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/District_duchy" title="District duchy">District</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elderships_of_Lithuania" title="Elderships of Lithuania">Eldership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave" title="Enclave and exclave">Enclave and exclave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">Federal dependency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">Hamlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">Manor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_manor" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal manor">Royal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muftiate" title="Muftiate">Muftiate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neighbourhood" title="Neighbourhood">Neighbourhood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">Precinct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">Principality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quarter_(urban_subdivision)" title="Quarter (urban subdivision)">Quarter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regencies_and_cities_of_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of regencies and cities of Indonesia">Regency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_republic" title="Autonomous republic">Autonomous republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riding_(division)" title="Riding (division)">Riding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sector_(administrative_division)" title="Sector (administrative division)">Sector</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_sector" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous sector">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shire" title="Shire">Shire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">Sultanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzerainty" title="Suzerainty">Suzerainty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">Townland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">Village</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_summer_villages_in_Alberta" title="List of summer villages in Alberta">Summer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">Ward</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agency_(administrative_division)" title="Agency (administrative division)">Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_(county_division)" title="Barony (county division)">Barony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">Burgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exarchate" title="Exarchate">Exarchate</a></li> 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