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class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Minimal_scope" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Minimal_scope"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1</span> <span>Minimal scope</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Minimal_scope-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Moderate_scope" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Moderate_scope"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.2</span> <span>Moderate scope</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Moderate_scope-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Broad_scope" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Broad_scope"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.3</span> <span>Broad scope</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Broad_scope-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Statistics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Statistics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Statistics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Statistics-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 Statistics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Statistics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Population" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Population"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Population</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Area" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Area"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Area</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Area-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geographic_relationships_between_cities_and_counties" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geographic_relationships_between_cities_and_counties"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Geographic relationships between cities and counties</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geographic_relationships_between_cities_and_counties-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Explanatory_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Explanatory_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Explanatory notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Explanatory_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> 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data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A4%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%87_(%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1)" title="بؤلگه (بیرلشمیش ایالتلر) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بؤلگه (بیرلشمیش ایالتلر)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%ABn_(B%C3%AD-kok)" title="Kūn (Bí-kok) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kūn (Bí-kok)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0_(%D0%97%D0%A8%D0%90)" title="Акруга (ЗША) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Акруга (ЗША)" 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%9E%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%B3_(%D0%A1%D0%90%D0%A9)" title="Окръг (САЩ) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Окръг (САЩ)" 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_(Vaeinigte_Staatn)" title="County (Vaeinigte Staatn) – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="County (Vaeinigte Staatn)" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comtat_dels_Estats_Units" title="Comtat dels Estats Units – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Comtat dels Estats Units" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okresy_ve_Spojen%C3%BDch_st%C3%A1tech_americk%C3%BDch" title="Okresy ve Spojených státech amerických – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Okresy ve Spojených státech amerických" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(Vereinigte_Staaten)" title="County (Vereinigte Staaten) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="County (Vereinigte Staaten)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maakond_(Ameerika_%C3%9Chendriigid)" title="Maakond (Ameerika Ühendriigid) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Maakond (Ameerika Ühendriigid)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</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_(%CE%97%CE%A0%CE%91)" title="Κομητεία (ΗΠΑ) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κομητεία (ΗΠΑ)" 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/Condados_de_los_Estados_Unidos" title="Condados de los Estados Unidos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condados de los Estados Unidos" 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/Kantonoj_de_Usono" title="Kantonoj de Usono – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kantonoj de Usono" 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/Ameriketako_Estatu_Batuetako_konderriak" title="Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako konderriak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ameriketako Estatu Batuetako konderriak" 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_(%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7)" title="شهرستان (ایالات متحده آمریکا) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان (ایالات متحده آمریکا)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_des_%C3%89tats-Unis" title="Comté des États-Unis – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté des États-Unis" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(Feriene_Steaten)" title="County (Feriene Steaten) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="County (Feriene Steaten)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condados_dos_Estados_Unidos_de_Am%C3%A9rica" title="Condados dos Estados Unidos de América – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Condados dos Estados Unidos de América" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%B0_(%EB%AF%B8%EA%B5%AD)" title="군 (미국) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="군 (미국)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okruzi_SAD-a" title="Okruzi SAD-a – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Okruzi SAD-a" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_(Amerika_Serikat)" title="County (Amerika Serikat) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="County (Amerika Serikat)" 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-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contato_(SUA)" title="Contato (SUA) – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Contato (SUA)" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BDslur_%C3%AD_Bandar%C3%ADkjunum" title="Sýslur í Bandaríkjunum – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sýslur í Bandaríkjunum" 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/Contee_degli_Stati_Uniti_d%27America" title="Contee degli Stati Uniti d'America – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contee degli Stati Uniti d'America" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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hreflang="ku" data-title="Navçeyên Dewletên Yekbûyî yên Amerîkayê" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apgabals_(ASV)" title="Apgabals (ASV) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Apgabals (ASV)" 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/Apygarda_(JAV)" title="Apygarda (JAV) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Apygarda (JAV)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a 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title="District of Columbia">federal district</a> and <a href="/wiki/U.S._territories" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. territories">territories</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">United States of America</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Found in</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Number</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">3,244 (including <a href="#County_equivalents">county equivalents</a> in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and the 100 county equivalents in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._territories" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. territories">U.S. territories</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" 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href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States" title="List of Indian reservations in the United States">list</a>) / <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_home_land" title="Hawaiian home land">Hawaiian home land</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_Alaska_Native_tribal_entities" title="List of Alaska Native tribal entities">Alaska Native tribal entity</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pueblo" title="Pueblo">Pueblo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Off-reservation_trust_land" title="Off-reservation trust land">Off-reservation trust land</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tribal_Jurisdictional_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal Jurisdictional Area">Tribal Jurisdictional Area</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#bf0a30; color:#FFF; border: 1px double #8C959A;"> Second level</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">County</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">Parish</a> / <a href="/wiki/Borough_(United_States)" title="Borough (United States)">Borough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unorganized_Borough,_Alaska" title="Unorganized Borough, Alaska">Unorganized Borough</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">Census area</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_populated_places_in_Guam" class="mw-redirect" title="List of populated places in Guam">Villages</a> / <a href="/wiki/Districts_and_sub-districts_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands">District (USVI)</a> / <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">District (AS)</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">Municipality (PR)</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">Unorganized atoll</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background:#bf0a30; color:#FFF; border: 1px double #8C959A;"> Third level</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Township</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_populated_places_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of populated places in the United States">Cities, towns, and villages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coterminous_municipality" title="Coterminous municipality">Coterminous municipality</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">Census-designated place</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a 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title="Conservation district">Conservation district</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_monument_(United_States)" title="National monument (United States)">National monument</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the_United_States" title="List of national parks of the United States">National park</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_congressional_districts" title="List of United States congressional districts">Congressional district</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">Special district</a> (<a href="/wiki/School_district" title="School district">school district</a>)</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homeowner_association" title="Homeowner association">Homeowner association</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association" title="Compact of Free Association">Associated state</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States military bases">Military base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_enclave" title="Federal enclave">Federal enclave</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">Unincorporated area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_town" title="Ghost town">Ghost town</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, 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a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Political_divisions_of_the_United_States" title="Template:Political divisions of the United States"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Political_divisions_of_the_United_States" title="Template talk:Political divisions of the United States"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Political_divisions_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Political divisions of the United States"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, a <b>county</b> or <b>county equivalent</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">administrative</a> or political subdivision of a <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> or other <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">territories of the United States</a> which consists of a geographic area with specific <a href="/wiki/Border" title="Border">boundaries</a> and usually some level of governmental authority.<sup id="cite_ref-NACO_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NACO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The term "<a href="/wiki/County" title="County">county</a>" is used in 48 states, while <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a> have functionally equivalent subdivisions called <a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">parishes</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">boroughs</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-NACO_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NACO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Counties and other <a href="/wiki/Local_governments_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Local governments in the United States">local governments</a> exist as a matter of <a href="/wiki/U.S._state_law" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. state law">U.S. state law</a>, so the specific governmental powers of counties may vary widely between the states, with many providing some level of services to <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">civil townships</a>, <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">municipalities</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area#United_States" title="Unincorporated area">unincorporated areas</a>. Certain municipalities are <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._municipalities_in_multiple_counties" title="List of U.S. municipalities in multiple counties">in multiple counties</a>; <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> is uniquely partitioned into five counties, referred to at the city government level as <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">boroughs</a>. Some municipalities have been consolidated with their county government to form <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">consolidated city-counties</a>, or have been legally separated from counties altogether to form <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent cities</a>. Conversely, counties in <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Connecticut</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Rhode_Island" title="List of counties in Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Massachusetts" title="List of counties in Massachusetts">eight of Massachusetts's 14 counties</a>, and Alaska's <a href="/wiki/Unorganized_Borough,_Alaska" title="Unorganized Borough, Alaska">Unorganized Borough</a> have no government power, existing only as geographic distinctions. </p><p>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. Louisiana parishes, the organized boroughs of Alaska, independent cities, and the <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a> are equivalent to counties for administrative purposes. Alaska's Unorganized Borough is further divided into <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">11 census areas</a> that are statistically equivalent to counties. In 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau began to also count <a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Connecticut's Councils of Governments</a>, which took over some of the regional powers from the state's former county governments, as county equivalents. </p><p>Territories of the United States do not have counties; instead, the United States Census Bureau also divides them into county equivalents. The U.S. Census Bureau counts <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">districts and atolls</a> as county equivalents.<sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> American Samoa locally has places called "counties", but these entities are considered to be "<a href="/wiki/Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">minor civil divisions</a>" (not true counties) by the U.S. Census Bureau.<sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The number of counties per state ranges from the three <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Delaware" title="List of counties in Delaware">counties of Delaware</a> to the 254 <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Texas" title="List of counties in Texas">counties of Texas</a>. County populations also vary widely: in 2017, according to the Census Bureau, more than half the U.S. population was concentrated in just 143 of the more than 3,000 counties, or just 4.6% of all counties; the five most populous counties, ordered from most to least, are <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California" title="Los Angeles County, California">Los Angeles County, California</a>; <a href="/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois" title="Cook County, Illinois">Cook County, Illinois</a>; <a href="/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas" title="Harris County, Texas">Harris County, Texas</a>; <a href="/wiki/Maricopa_County,_Arizona" title="Maricopa County, Arizona">Maricopa County, Arizona</a>; and <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_County,_California" title="San Diego County, California">San Diego County, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2022<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_(United_States)&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there are 3,144 counties and <a href="#County_equivalents">county-equivalents</a> in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-PopEstCounties_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopEstCounties-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are counted, then the total is 3,244 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-tallies_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tallies-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-changes_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-changes-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The idea of counties originated with the <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_England" title="Counties of England">counties of England</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">English</a> (after 1707, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a>) colonists brought to their colonies in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> a political subdivision that they already used in the British <a href="/wiki/Metropole" title="Metropole">metropole</a>: the counties. Counties were among the earliest units of <a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">local government</a> established in the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> that would become the United States. <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Virginia</a> created the first counties in order to ease the administrative workload in <a href="/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" title="Jamestown, Virginia">Jamestown</a>. The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Burgesses" title="House of Burgesses">House of Burgesses</a> divided the colony first into four "incorporations" in 1617 and finally into <a href="/wiki/Shires_of_Virginia" title="Shires of Virginia">eight shires</a> (or counties) in 1634: <a href="/wiki/James_City_Shire" title="James City Shire">James City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henrico_Shire" class="mw-redirect" title="Henrico Shire">Henrico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_City_Shire" title="Charles City Shire">Charles City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_River_Shire" title="Charles River Shire">Charles River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warrosquyoake_Shire" title="Warrosquyoake Shire">Warrosquyoake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Accomac_Shire" title="Accomac Shire">Accomac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_City_Shire" title="Elizabeth City Shire">Elizabeth City</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Warwick_River_Shire" title="Warwick River Shire">Warwick River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Virginia_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Virginia-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> America's oldest intact county court records can be found at <a href="/wiki/Eastville,_Virginia" title="Eastville, Virginia">Eastville, Virginia</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Northampton_County,_Virginia" title="Northampton County, Virginia">Northampton (originally Accomac) County</a>, dating to 1632.<sup id="cite_ref-Eastville_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eastville-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maryland" title="Province of Maryland">Maryland</a> established its first county, <a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_County,_Maryland" title="St. Mary's County, Maryland">St. Mary's</a> in 1637. In 1639, the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Maine" title="Province of Maine">Province of Maine</a> founded <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Maine" title="York County, Maine">York County</a>. <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts</a> followed in 1643. <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania" title="Province of Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> and <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">New York</a> delegated significant power and responsibility from the colony government to county governments and thereby established a pattern for most of the United States, although counties remained relatively weak in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Reynolds_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reynolds-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When <a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)" title="Independence Day (United States)">independence</a> came, the <a href="/wiki/Framers_of_the_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Framers of the Constitution">framers of the Constitution</a> left the matter to the states. Subsequently, state constitutions conceptualized county governments as arms of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-naco_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naco-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Louisiana instead adopted the local divisions called <i><a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">parishes</a></i> that dated back to both the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Spanish colonial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" title="Louisiana (New France)">French colonial periods</a> when the land was dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bryansite_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bryansite-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the twentieth century, the role of local governments strengthened and counties began providing more services, acquiring <a href="/wiki/Home_rule_in_the_United_States" title="Home rule in the United States">home rule</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_commission" title="County commission">county commissions</a> to pass <a href="/wiki/Local_ordinance" title="Local ordinance">local ordinances</a> pertaining to their <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">unincorporated areas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-naco_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naco-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1955, delegates to the <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Constitutional_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Constitutional Convention">Alaska Constitutional Convention</a> wanted to avoid the traditional county system and adopted their own unique model with different types of <i>boroughs</i> varying in powers and duties.<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><p>In some states, these powers are partly or mostly devolved to the counties' <a href="/wiki/Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">smaller divisions</a> usually called <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">townships</a>, though in New York, New England and Wisconsin they are called "towns". The county may or may not be able to override its townships on certain matters, depending on state law. </p><p>The newest county in the United States is the city and county of <a href="/wiki/Broomfield,_Colorado" title="Broomfield, Colorado">Broomfield, Colorado</a>, established in 2001 as a <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">consolidated city-county</a>, previously part of four counties.<sup id="cite_ref-Broomfield's_50_year_history_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Broomfield's_50_year_history-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Broomfield's_History_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Broomfield's_History-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The newest county equivalents are the Alaskan census areas of <a href="/wiki/Chugach_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Chugach Census Area, Alaska">Chugach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Copper_River_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Copper River Census Area, Alaska">Copper River</a>, both established in 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Alaskan boroughs of <a href="/wiki/Petersburg_Borough,_Alaska" title="Petersburg Borough, Alaska">Petersburg</a> established in 2013, <a href="/wiki/Wrangell,_Alaska" title="Wrangell, Alaska">Wrangell</a> established in 2008, and <a href="/wiki/Skagway,_Alaska" title="Skagway, Alaska">Skagway</a> established in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="County_variations">County variations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: County variations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consolidated_city-counties">Consolidated city-counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Consolidated city-counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></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">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></div> <p>A consolidated city-county is simultaneously a city, which is a <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipality</a> (municipal corporation), and a county, which is an <a href="/wiki/Administrative_division" title="Administrative division">administrative division</a> of a state, having the powers and responsibilities of both types of entities. The <a href="/wiki/City_limits" title="City limits">city limit</a> or jurisdiction is synonymous with the county line, as the two administrative entities become a non-dichotomous single entity. For this reason, a consolidated city-county is officially remarked as <i>name of city – name of county</i> (i.e., <a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia" title="Augusta, Georgia">Augusta–Richmond County</a> in Georgia). The same is true of the <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">boroughs of New York City</a>, each of which is coextensive with a county of New York State. For those entities in which the city uses the same name as the county, <i>city and county of name</i> may be used (i.e., <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">City and County of Denver</a> in Colorado). </p><p>Similarly, some of <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>'s boroughs have merged with their principal cities, creating unified city-boroughs. Some such consolidations and mergers have created cities that rank among the geographically largest cities in the world, though often with population densities far below those of most urban areas. </p><p>There are 40 consolidated city-counties in the U.S.,<sup id="cite_ref-NACO_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NACO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including Augusta–Richmond County; the City and County of Denver, Colorado; the <a href="/wiki/Honolulu" title="Honolulu">City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii</a>; <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis–Marion County, Indiana</a>; <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville–Duval County, Florida</a>; <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville–Jefferson County, Kentucky</a>; <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington–Fayette County, Kentucky</a>; <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City,_Kansas" title="Kansas City, Kansas">Kansas City–Wyandotte County, Kansas</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville–Davidson County, Tennessee</a>; <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans–Orleans Parish, Louisiana</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">City and County of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a>; <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">City and County of San Francisco, California</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Lynchburg,_Tennessee" title="Lynchburg, Tennessee">Lynchburg-Moore County, Tennessee</a> </p><p>A consolidated city-county may still contain independent municipalities maintaining some governmental powers that did not merge with the rest of the county. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Jacksonville" title="Government of Jacksonville">government of Jacksonville–Duval County, Florida</a>, still provides county-level services to the four independent municipalities within its borders: <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Beach,_Florida" title="Atlantic Beach, Florida">Atlantic Beach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baldwin,_Florida" title="Baldwin, Florida">Baldwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville_Beach,_Florida" title="Jacksonville Beach, Florida">Jacksonville Beach</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Neptune_Beach,_Florida" title="Neptune Beach, Florida">Neptune Beach</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County_equivalents">County equivalents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: County equivalents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term <i>county equivalents</i> is used by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a> to describe divisions that are comparable to counties but called by different names:<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> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">Alaska boroughs</a>: The state adopted the term "borough" instead of "county" to reflect Alaska's system with different classes of boroughs varying in governmental powers.<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></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">Alaska census areas</a>: Nearly half of the land area of Alaska is not contained within any of Alaska's 19 organized boroughs. This vast area, larger than <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> combined, is officially referred to by the Alaska state government as the <i><a href="/wiki/Unorganized_Borough,_Alaska" title="Unorganized Borough, Alaska">Unorganized Borough</a></i> and outside of other incorporated borough limits, has no independent "county" government, although several incorporated city governments exist within its boundaries; the majority of it is governed and run by the State of Alaska as an extension of state government.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The United States Census Bureau, in cooperation with the Alaska state government for census and electoral districting purposes, has divided the Unorganized Borough into 11 census areas for statistical purposes only.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">Louisiana parishes</a>: The usage of the term "<a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parish</a>" for a territorial entity or local government in Louisiana dates back to both the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Spanish colonial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" title="Louisiana (New France)">French colonial periods</a> when the land was dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>. <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> is a consolidated city-parish.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent cities</a>: These are cities that legally belong to no county. They differ from consolidated city-counties in that in the case of a consolidated city-county, the county at least nominally exists, whereas in the case of an independent city, no county even nominally exists.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are 41 such cities in the United States: <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; <a href="/wiki/Carson_City,_Nevada" title="Carson City, Nevada">Carson City, Nevada</a>; <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis, Missouri</a>; and all 38 cities in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, where any area incorporated as a city is outside of the county jurisdiction.<sup id="cite_ref-VaPop_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VaPop-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> outside the jurisdiction of any state, has a special status. The City of Washington comprises the entirety of the District of Columbia, which, in accordance with Article 1, Section 8 of the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">U.S. Constitution</a>, is under the jurisdiction of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a>. When founded in 1801, the District consisted of two counties and three cities. In 1846, Alexandria County (which now forms <a href="/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia" title="Arlington County, Virginia">Arlington County</a> and a portion of the independent city of <a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria</a>)—including the then City of Alexandria—was <a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocession" title="District of Columbia retrocession">given back to Virginia</a>. In 1871, the three remaining entities—the City of Washington, <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)">City of Georgetown</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_D.C." title="Washington County, D.C.">Washington County</a> (which was coterminous with the district)—were merged into a consolidated government of District of Columbia by an act of Congress. Georgetown was abolished as a city by another act in 1895.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Connecticut councils of governments</a> (beginning in 2024): County governments were abolished in Connecticut in 1960. Regional councils of governments (COGs) have since been developed as a means of cooperation and coordination between municipalities. Application for the COGs to be considered county equivalents for statistical purposes was made to the Census Bureau in 2019, approved in 2022, and was fully implemented by 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-counties</a> are not designated county equivalents for administrative purposes; since both the city and the county at least nominally exist, they are properly classified as counties in their own right. Likewise, the <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">boroughs of New York City</a> are coextensive with counties and are therefore by definition also not county equivalents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Territories">Territories</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Territories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are technically no counties in U.S. territories. <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> has <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">its own counties</a>, but the U.S. Census Bureau does not treat them as counties (instead, the U.S. Census Bureau treats American Samoa's <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_American_Samoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Districts of American Samoa">three districts and two atolls</a> as county equivalents).<sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> American Samoa's counties are treated as minor civil divisions.<sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most territories are directly divided into municipalities or similar units, which are treated as equivalent of counties for statistical purposes:<sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USMOICounties_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USMOICounties-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The 78 <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">municipalities of Puerto Rico</a></li> <li>The 2 <a href="/wiki/Districts_and_sub-districts_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands">districts of the United States Virgin Islands</a>, or the 3 main <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the United States Virgin Islands">islands of the United States Virgin Islands</a></li> <li>The 19 <a href="/wiki/Villages_of_Guam" title="Villages of Guam">villages of Guam</a></li> <li>The 4 <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands#Administrative_divisions" title="Northern Mariana Islands">municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands</a></li> <li>The 3 <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">districts of American Samoa</a></li> <li>The 2 <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">atolls of American Samoa</a></li> <li>The 9 islands of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Minor_Outlying_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Minor Outlying Islands">U.S. Minor Outlying Islands</a></li></ul> <p>The U.S. Census Bureau counts all of <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> as one county equivalent (with the FIPS code 66010),<sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">USGS</a> counts <a href="/wiki/List_of_populated_places_in_Guam" class="mw-redirect" title="List of populated places in Guam">Guam's election districts (villages)</a> as county equivalents.<sup id="cite_ref-USGSCounties_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGSCounties-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The U.S. Census Bureau counts the 3 main islands in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a> as county equivalents, while the USGS counts the <a href="/wiki/Districts_and_sub-districts_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands">districts of the U.S. Virgin Islands</a> (of which there are 2) as county equivalents.<sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USGSCounties_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGSCounties-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names_and_etymologies">Names and etymologies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Names and etymologies"><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">See also: <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_U.S._county_name_etymologies" title="Lists of U.S. county name etymologies">Lists of U.S. county name etymologies</a></div> <p>Common sources of county names are names of people, geographic features, places in other states or countries, and animals. Quite a few counties bear names of <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a>, French, or Spanish origin.<sup id="cite_ref-Kane_2004_vii-xii_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kane_2004_vii-xii-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Counties are most often named for people, often political figures or early settlers, with over 2,100 of the 3,144 total so named. The most common county name, with 31, is <a href="/wiki/Washington_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Washington County (disambiguation)">Washington County</a>, for America's first president, <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>. Up until 1871, there was a <a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington County, District of Columbia">Washington County</a> within the <a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a>, but it was dissolved by the <a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Organic_Act_of_1871" title="District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871">District of Columbia Organic Act</a>. <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Jefferson County (disambiguation)">Jefferson County</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, is next with 26. The most recent president to have <a href="/wiki/Harding_County,_New_Mexico" title="Harding County, New Mexico">a county</a> named for him was <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a>, reflecting the slowing rate of county creation since <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> became states in 1912. The most common names for counties not named after a president are <a href="/wiki/Franklin_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Franklin County (disambiguation)">Franklin</a> (25), <a href="/wiki/Clay_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Clay County (disambiguation)">Clay</a> (18), and <a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Montgomery County (disambiguation)">Montgomery</a> (18). </p><p>After people, the next most common source of county names are geographic features and locations, with some counties even being named after counties in other states, or for places in other countries, such as the United Kingdom (the latter is most common in the area of the original <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a> in the case of the United Kingdom, or in places which had a large number of immigrants from a particular area for other countries). The most common geographic county name is <a href="/wiki/Lake_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Lake County (disambiguation)">Lake</a>. Words from Native American languages, as well as the names of Native American leaders and tribes, lend their names to many counties.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Quite a few counties bear names of French or Spanish origin, such as <a href="/wiki/Marquette_County_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Marquette County (disambiguation)">Marquette County</a> being named after French missionary <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Marquette" title="Jacques Marquette">Father Jacques Marquette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kane_2004_vii-xii_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kane_2004_vii-xii-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county's equivalent in the state of Louisiana, the <a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">parish</a> (Fr. <i>paroisse civile</i> and Sp. <i>parroquia</i>) took its name during the state's French and Spanish colonial periods. Before the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase" title="Louisiana Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</a> and granting of statehood, government was often administered in towns where major church <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parishes</a> were located. Of the original 19 civil parishes of Louisiana that date from statehood in 1807, nine were named after the Roman Catholic parishes from which they were governed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="County_government">County government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: County government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organization">Organization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The structure and powers of a county government may be defined by the general law of the state or by a <a href="/wiki/Charter" title="Charter">charter</a> specific to that county. States may allow only general-law counties, only charter counties, or both. Generally, general-law local governments have less autonomy than chartered local governments.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Counties are usually governed by an elected body, variously called the <a href="/wiki/County_commission" title="County commission">county commission</a>, <a href="/wiki/Board_of_supervisors" title="Board of supervisors">board of supervisors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Commissioners%27_court" title="Commissioners' court">commissioners' court</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county council</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_court" title="County court">county court</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York#County" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of New York">county legislature</a>. In cases in which a <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">consolidated city-county</a> or <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a> exists, a <a href="/wiki/City_council" class="mw-redirect" title="City council">city council</a> usually governs city/county or city affairs. In some counties, day-to-day operations are overseen by an elected <a href="/wiki/County_executive" title="County executive">county executive</a> or by a chief administrative officer or <a href="/wiki/County_administrator" title="County administrator">county administrator</a> who reports to the board, the mayor, or both. </p><p>In many states, the board in charge of a county holds powers that transcend all three traditional branches of government. It has the legislative power to enact laws for the county; it has the executive power to oversee the executive operations of county government; and it has quasi-judicial power with regard to certain limited matters (such as hearing appeals from the planning commission if one exists). </p><p>In many states, several important officials are elected separately from the board of commissioners or supervisors and cannot be fired by the board. These positions may include <a href="/wiki/Clerk_(municipal_official)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clerk (municipal official)">county clerk</a>, county <a href="/wiki/Treasurer" title="Treasurer">treasurer</a>, county surrogate, <a href="/wiki/Sheriffs_in_the_United_States" title="Sheriffs in the United States">sheriff</a>, and others. </p><p><a href="/wiki/District_attorney" title="District attorney">District attorneys</a> or state attorneys are usually state-level as opposed to county-level officials, but in many states, counties and state judicial districts have coterminous boundaries. </p><p>The site of a county's administration, and often the county <a href="/wiki/Courthouse" title="Courthouse">courthouse</a>, is generally called the <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> ("parish seat" in Louisiana, "borough seat" in Alaska, or "<a href="/wiki/Shire_town" class="mw-redirect" title="Shire town">shire town</a>" in several New England counties). The county seat usually resides in a municipality. However, some counties may have multiple seats or no seat. In some counties with no incorporated municipalities, a large settlement may serve as the county seat. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scope_of_power">Scope of power</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Scope of power"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The power of county governments varies widely from state to state, as does the relationship between counties and incorporated cities. </p><p>The powers of counties arise from state law and vary widely.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Connecticut</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Rhode_Island" title="List of counties in Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> counties are geographic entities, but not governmental jurisdictions. At the other extreme, <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Maryland" title="List of counties in Maryland">Maryland counties</a> and the county equivalent <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">City of Baltimore</a> handle almost all services, including <a href="/wiki/Public_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Public education">public education</a>, although the state retains an active oversight authority with many of these services.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Hawaii" title="List of counties in Hawaii">Counties in Hawaii</a> also handle almost all services since there is no formal level of government (municipality, public education, or otherwise) existing below that of the county in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-osman_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-osman-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In most Midwestern and Northeastern states, counties are further subdivided into <a href="/wiki/Civil_township" title="Civil township">townships</a> or <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">towns</a>, which sometimes exercise local powers or administration. Throughout the United States, counties may contain other independent, self-governing <a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">municipalities</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Minimal_scope">Minimal scope</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Minimal scope"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In New England, counties function at most as judicial court districts and <a href="/wiki/Sheriffs_in_the_United_States" title="Sheriffs in the United States">sheriff's departments</a> (presently, in <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> only as judicial court districts—and in <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>, they have lost both those functions and most others but they are still used by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a> and some other federal agencies for some federal functions), and most of the governmental authority below the state level is in the hands of <a href="/wiki/New_England_town" title="New England town">towns and cities</a>. In several of Maine's sparsely populated counties, small towns rely on the county for law enforcement, and in <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> several social programs are administered at the state level. In Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of Massachusetts, counties are now only geographic designations, and they do not have any governmental powers. All government is either done at the state level or at the municipal level. In Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts, regional councils have been established to partially fill the void left behind by the abolished county governments.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regional councils' authority is limited compared with a county government—they have authority only over infrastructure and land use planning, distribution of state and federal funds for infrastructure projects, emergency preparedness, and limited law enforcement duties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Moderate_scope">Moderate scope</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Moderate scope"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Mid-Atlantic states">Mid-Atlantic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Midwest" class="mw-redirect" title="Midwest">Midwest</a>, counties typically provide, at a minimum, courts, <a href="/wiki/Public_utility" title="Public utility">public utilities</a>, libraries, hospitals, <a href="/wiki/Public_health" title="Public health">public health</a> services, parks, roads, law enforcement, and jails. There is usually a county registrar, recorder, or clerk (the exact title varies) who collects <a href="/wiki/Vital_statistics_(government_records)" title="Vital statistics (government records)">vital statistics</a>, holds elections (sometimes in coordination with a separate elections office or commission), and prepares or processes certificates of births, deaths, marriages, and dissolutions (divorce decrees). The county recorder normally maintains the official record of all real estate transactions. Other key county officials include the <a href="/wiki/Coroner" title="Coroner">coroner</a>/<a href="/wiki/Medical_examiner" title="Medical examiner">medical examiner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treasurer" title="Treasurer">treasurer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assessor_(property)" class="mw-redirect" title="Assessor (property)">assessor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Auditor" title="Auditor">auditor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comptroller" title="Comptroller">comptroller</a>, and <a href="/wiki/District_attorney" title="District attorney">district attorney</a>. </p><p>In most states, the <a href="/wiki/Sheriffs_in_the_United_States" title="Sheriffs in the United States">county sheriff</a> is the chief law enforcement officer in the county. However, except in major emergencies where clear chains of command are essential, the county sheriff normally does not directly control the police departments of city governments, but merely cooperates with them (e.g., under <a href="/wiki/Mutual_aid_(emergency_services)" title="Mutual aid (emergency services)">mutual aid</a> pacts). Thus, the most common interaction between county and city law enforcement personnel is when city police officers deliver suspects to sheriff's deputies for detention or incarceration in the county jail. </p><p>In most states, the <a href="/wiki/State_court_(United_States)" title="State court (United States)">state courts</a> and local law enforcement are organized and implemented along county boundaries, but nearly all of the substantive and procedural law adjudicated in state trial courts originates from the state legislature and state appellate courts. In other words, most criminal defendants are prosecuted for violations of state law, not local ordinances, and if they, the district attorney, or police seek reforms to the criminal justice system, they will usually have to direct their efforts towards the state legislature rather than the county (which merely implements state law). </p><p>A typical criminal defendant will be arraigned and subsequently indicted or held over for trial before a trial court in and for a particular county where the crime occurred, kept in the county jail (if he is not granted bail or cannot make bail), prosecuted by the county's district attorney, and tried before a jury selected from that county. But long-term incarceration is rarely a county responsibility, execution of <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States" title="Capital punishment in the United States">capital punishment</a> is never a county responsibility, and the state's responses to prisoners' appeals are the responsibility of the <a href="/wiki/State_attorney_general" title="State attorney general">state attorney general</a>, who has to defend before the state appellate courts the prosecutions conducted by locally elected district attorneys in the name of the state. Furthermore, county-level trial court judges are officers of the judicial branch of the state government rather than county governments. </p><p>In many states, the county controls all <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">unincorporated lands</a> within its boundaries. In states with a township tier, unincorporated land is controlled by the townships. Residents of unincorporated land who are dissatisfied with county-level or township-level resource allocation decisions can attempt to vote to incorporate as a <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">city</a>, <a href="/wiki/Town" title="Town">town</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Village_(United_States)" title="Village (United States)">village</a>. </p><p>A few counties directly provide <a href="/wiki/Public_transport" title="Public transport">public transportation</a> themselves, usually in the form of a simple bus system. However, in most counties, public transportation is provided by one of the following: a <a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">special district</a> that is coterminous with the county (but exists separately from the county government), a multi-county regional transit authority, or a state agency. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Broad_scope">Broad scope</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Broad scope"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Western_United_States" title="Western United States">western</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">southern</a> states, more populated counties provide many facilities, such as airports, <a href="/wiki/Convention_center" title="Convention center">convention centers</a>, museums, <a href="/wiki/Community_centre" title="Community centre">recreation centers</a>, beaches, harbors, zoos, clinics, <a href="/wiki/Law_library" title="Law library">law libraries</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Public_housing" title="Public housing">public housing</a>. They provide services such as child and family services, elder services, mental health services, welfare services, veterans assistance services, <a href="/wiki/Animal_control_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Animal control officer">animal control</a>, <a href="/wiki/Probation" title="Probation">probation</a> supervision, historic preservation, food safety regulation, and environmental health services. They have many additional officials like <a href="/wiki/Public_defender" title="Public defender">public defenders</a>, arts commissioners, human rights commissioners, and planning commissioners. </p><p>There may be a county fire department and a county police department – as distinguished from fire and police departments operated by individual cities, special districts, or the state government. For example, <a href="/wiki/Gwinnett_County,_Georgia" title="Gwinnett County, Georgia">Gwinnett County, Georgia</a>, and its county seat, the city of <a href="/wiki/Lawrenceville,_Georgia" title="Lawrenceville, Georgia">Lawrenceville</a>, each have their own police departments. (A separate county sheriff's department is responsible for security of the county courts and administration of the county jail.) In several southern states, <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(government_funded)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public school (government funded)">public school</a> systems are organized and administered at the county level. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statistics">Statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Statistics"><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_statistics_of_the_United_States" title="County statistics of the United States">County statistics of the United States</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <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> <p>As of 2024<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_(United_States)&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there were 2,999 counties, <a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">64 Louisiana parishes</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">19 organized boroughs</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">11 census areas</a> in Alaska, <a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">9 Councils of Government</a> in Connecticut, <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">41 independent cities</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a> for a total of 3,144 counties and <a href="#County_equivalents">county equivalents</a> in the 50 states and District of Columbia.<sup id="cite_ref-PopEstCounties_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopEstCounties-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are an additional 100 county equivalents in the <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">territories of the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusCounties2_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusCounties2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USMOICounties_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USMOICounties-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The average number of counties per state is 62, with a range from the <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Delaware" title="List of counties in Delaware">three counties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> to the <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Texas" title="List of counties in Texas">254 counties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern</a> states generally tend to have more counties than <a href="/wiki/Western_United_States" title="Western United States">Western</a> or <a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern</a> states, as many Northeastern states are not large enough in area to warrant a large number of counties, and many Western states were sparsely populated when counties were created by their respective state legislatures. The <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Rhode_Island" title="List of counties in Rhode Island">five counties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Massachusetts" title="List of counties in Massachusetts">eight of the 14 counties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> no longer have functional county governments, but continue to exist as legal and census entities. <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> abolished county governments in 1960, leaving its <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">eight counties</a> as mere legal and census entities. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau recognized the state's <a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">nine Councils of Governments</a> as replacement for the state's eight legacy counties for all statistical purposes; full implementation was completed in 2024. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption><big>The counties and county equivalents of the United States of America, by state or territory</big><br /><br /> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">federal district</a><br /> or <a href="/wiki/U.S._territories" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. territories">territory</a> </th> <th colspan="2">Total </th> <th colspan="3">Subdivisions<sup id="cite_ref-PopEstCounties_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopEstCounties-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th colspan="2">Average </th></tr> <tr> <th>2019 population<sup id="cite_ref-AnnualEstUS_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AnnualEstUS-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Land area<sup id="cite_ref-Area_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Area-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th data-sort-type="number">Counties </th> <th data-sort-type="number">Equivalents </th> <th data-sort-type="number">Total </th> <th>Population </th> <th>Land area </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama"><img alt="Alabama" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Alabama.svg/23px-Flag_of_Alabama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Alabama.svg/35px-Flag_of_Alabama.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Alabama.svg/45px-Flag_of_Alabama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Alabama" title="List of counties in Alabama">Alabama</a> </td> <td align="right">4,903,185 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="30 !">50,645 sq mi<br />131,171 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">73,182 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="33 !">756 sq mi<br />1,958 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska"><img alt="Alaska" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Alaska.svg/21px-Flag_of_Alaska.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Alaska.svg/33px-Flag_of_Alaska.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Alaska.svg/43px-Flag_of_Alaska.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1416" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">Alaska</a> </td> <td align="right">731,545 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="57 !">570,641 sq mi<br />1,477,953 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">30<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">30 </td> <td align="right">24,385 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="57 !">19,677 sq mi<br />50,964 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona"><img alt="Arizona" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arizona.svg/23px-Flag_of_Arizona.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arizona.svg/35px-Flag_of_Arizona.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arizona.svg/45px-Flag_of_Arizona.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Arizona" title="List of counties in Arizona">Arizona</a> </td> <td align="right">7,278,717 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="52 !">113,594 sq mi<br />294,207 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">15 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">15 </td> <td align="right">485,248 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="56 !">7,573 sq mi<br />19,614 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas"><img alt="Arkansas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arkansas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Arkansas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arkansas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Arkansas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Flag_of_Arkansas.svg/45px-Flag_of_Arkansas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Arkansas" title="List of counties in Arkansas">Arkansas</a> </td> <td align="right">3,017,825 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="31 !">52,035 sq mi<br />134,771 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">75 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">75 </td> <td align="right">40,238 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="31 !">694 sq mi<br />1,797 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California"><img alt="California" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/23px-Flag_of_California.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/35px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/45px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_California" title="List of counties in California">California</a> </td> <td align="right">39,512,223 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="55 !">155,779 sq mi<br />403,466 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">58 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">58 </td> <td align="right">681,245 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="51 !">2,686 sq mi<br />6,956 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado"><img alt="Colorado" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Colorado.svg/23px-Flag_of_Colorado.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Colorado.svg/35px-Flag_of_Colorado.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Flag_of_Colorado.svg/45px-Flag_of_Colorado.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Colorado" title="List of counties in Colorado">Colorado</a> </td> <td align="right">5,758,736 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="50 !">103,642 sq mi<br />268,431 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">64 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">64 </td> <td align="right">89,980 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="45 !">1,619 sq mi<br />4,194 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut"><img alt="Connecticut" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/19px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/29px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Flag_of_Connecticut.svg/38px-Flag_of_Connecticut.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="330" data-file-height="260" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Connecticut</a> </td> <td align="right">3,565,287 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="10 !">4,842 sq mi<br />12,542 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">9<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">9 </td> <td align="right">445,661 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="24 !">605 sq mi<br />1,568 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware"><img alt="Delaware" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Flag_of_Delaware.svg/23px-Flag_of_Delaware.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Flag_of_Delaware.svg/35px-Flag_of_Delaware.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Flag_of_Delaware.svg/45px-Flag_of_Delaware.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Delaware" title="List of counties in Delaware">Delaware</a> </td> <td align="right">973,764 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="08 !">1,949 sq mi<br />5,047 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">3 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">3 </td> <td align="right">324,588 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="25 !">650 sq mi<br />1,682 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C."><img alt="Washington, D.C." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg/23px-Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg/35px-Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg/46px-Flag_of_Washington%2C_D.C.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a> </td> <td align="right">705,749 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="02 !">61 sq mi<br />158 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">1<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">705,749 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="06 !">61 sq mi<br />158 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida"><img alt="Florida" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Florida.svg/23px-Flag_of_Florida.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Florida.svg/35px-Flag_of_Florida.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Florida.svg/45px-Flag_of_Florida.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Florida" title="List of counties in Florida">Florida</a> </td> <td align="right">21,477,737 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="32 !">53,625 sq mi<br />138,887 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">320,563 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="36 !">800 sq mi<br />2,073 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)"><img alt="Georgia (U.S. state)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_State_of_Georgia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Georgia_(U.S._state)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of counties in Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> </td> <td align="right">10,617,423 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="37 !">57,513 sq mi<br />148,959 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">159 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">159 </td> <td align="right">66,776 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="12 !">362 sq mi<br />937 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii"><img alt="Hawaii" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Hawaii" title="List of counties in Hawaii">Hawaii</a> </td> <td align="right">1,415,872 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="11 !">6,423 sq mi<br />16,635 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">283,174 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="43 !">1,285 sq mi<br />3,327 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho"><img alt="Idaho" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/19px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/29px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_Idaho.svg/38px-Flag_of_Idaho.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3168" data-file-height="2496" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Idaho" title="List of counties in Idaho">Idaho</a> </td> <td align="right">1,787,065 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="47 !">82,643 sq mi<br />214,045 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">44 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">44 </td> <td align="right">40,615 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="47 !">1,878 sq mi<br />4,865 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois"><img alt="Illinois" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Illinois.svg/23px-Flag_of_Illinois.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Illinois.svg/35px-Flag_of_Illinois.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Illinois.svg/46px-Flag_of_Illinois.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Illinois" title="List of counties in Illinois">Illinois</a> </td> <td align="right">12,671,821 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="34 !">55,519 sq mi<br />143,793 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">102 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">102 </td> <td align="right">124,234 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="19 !">544 sq mi<br />1,410 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana"><img alt="Indiana" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Indiana" title="List of counties in Indiana">Indiana</a> </td> <td align="right">6,732,219 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="20 !">35,826 sq mi<br />92,789 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">92 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">92 </td> <td align="right">73,176 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="13 !">389 sq mi<br />1,009 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa"><img alt="Iowa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Iowa.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iowa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Iowa.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iowa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Flag_of_Iowa.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iowa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="477" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Iowa" title="List of counties in Iowa">Iowa</a> </td> <td align="right">3,155,070 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="35 !">55,857 sq mi<br />144,669 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">99 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">99 </td> <td align="right">31,869 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="21 !">564 sq mi<br />1,461 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas"><img alt="Kansas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Kansas.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kansas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Kansas" title="List of counties in Kansas">Kansas</a> </td> <td align="right">2,913,314 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="45 !">81,759 sq mi<br />211,754 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">105 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">105 </td> <td align="right">27,746 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="35 !">779 sq mi<br />2,017 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky"><img alt="Kentucky" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Kentucky" title="List of counties in Kentucky">Kentucky</a> </td> <td align="right">4,467,673 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="21 !">39,486 sq mi<br />102,269 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">120 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">120 </td> <td align="right">37,231 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="10 !">329 sq mi<br />852 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana"><img alt="Louisiana" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_Louisiana.svg/23px-Flag_of_Louisiana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_Louisiana.svg/35px-Flag_of_Louisiana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_Louisiana.svg/46px-Flag_of_Louisiana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="7040" data-file-height="4556" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">Louisiana</a> </td> <td align="right">4,648,794 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="25 !">43,204 sq mi<br />111,898 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">64<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">64 </td> <td align="right">72,637 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="29 !">675 sq mi<br />1,748 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine"><img alt="Maine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_Maine.svg/19px-Flag_of_Maine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_Maine.svg/29px-Flag_of_Maine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_Maine.svg/38px-Flag_of_Maine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="6336" data-file-height="4992" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Maine" title="List of counties in Maine">Maine</a> </td> <td align="right">1,344,212 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="19 !">30,843 sq mi<br />79,883 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">16 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">16 </td> <td align="right">84,013 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="48 !">1,928 sq mi<br />4,993 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland"><img alt="Maryland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Maryland.svg/45px-Flag_of_Maryland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Maryland" title="List of counties in Maryland">Maryland</a> </td> <td align="right">6,045,680 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="16 !">9,707 sq mi<br />25,142 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">23 </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">1<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>k<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">24 </td> <td align="right">251,903 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="14 !">404 sq mi<br />1,048 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts"><img alt="Massachusetts" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/23px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/35px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg/46px-Flag_of_Massachusetts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="900" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Massachusetts" title="List of counties in Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> </td> <td align="right">6,949,503 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="13 !">7,800 sq mi<br />20,202 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">14 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">14 </td> <td align="right">496,393 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="20 !">557 sq mi<br />1,443 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan"><img alt="Michigan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Flag_of_Michigan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Michigan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="685" data-file-height="457" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Michigan" title="List of counties in Michigan">Michigan</a> </td> <td align="right">9,986,857 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="36 !">56,539 sq mi<br />146,435 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">83 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">83 </td> <td align="right">120,324 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="30 !">681 sq mi<br />1,764 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota"><img alt="Minnesota" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/23px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/35px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Minnesota.svg/46px-Flag_of_Minnesota.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Minnesota" title="List of counties in Minnesota">Minnesota</a> </td> <td align="right">5,639,632 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="44 !">79,627 sq mi<br />206,232 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">87 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">87 </td> <td align="right">64,823 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="40 !">915 sq mi<br />2,370 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi"><img alt="Mississippi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="720" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Mississippi" title="List of counties in Mississippi">Mississippi</a> </td> <td align="right">2,976,149 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="27 !">46,923 sq mi<br />121,531 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">82 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">82 </td> <td align="right">36,295 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="22 !">572 sq mi<br />1,482 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri"><img alt="Missouri" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Missouri.svg/23px-Flag_of_Missouri.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Missouri.svg/35px-Flag_of_Missouri.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Missouri.svg/46px-Flag_of_Missouri.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Missouri" title="List of counties in Missouri">Missouri</a> </td> <td align="right">6,137,428 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="40 !">68,742 sq mi<br />178,040 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">114 </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">1<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>l<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">115 </td> <td align="right">53,369 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="23 !">598 sq mi<br />1,548 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Montana" title="Montana"><img alt="Montana" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Montana.svg/23px-Flag_of_Montana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Montana.svg/35px-Flag_of_Montana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Montana.svg/45px-Flag_of_Montana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Montana" title="List of counties in Montana">Montana</a> </td> <td align="right">1,068,778 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="54 !">145,546 sq mi<br />376,962 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">56 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">56 </td> <td align="right">19,085 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="49 !">2,599 sq mi<br />6,731 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska"><img alt="Nebraska" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Nebraska.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nebraska.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Nebraska" title="List of counties in Nebraska">Nebraska</a> </td> <td align="right">1,934,408 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="43 !">76,824 sq mi<br />198,974 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">93 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">93 </td> <td align="right">20,800 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="37 !">826 sq mi<br />2,140 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada"><img alt="Nevada" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Flag_of_Nevada.svg/45px-Flag_of_Nevada.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Nevada" title="List of counties in Nevada">Nevada</a> </td> <td align="right">3,080,156 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="51 !">109,781 sq mi<br />284,332 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">16 </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">1<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>m<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">17 </td> <td align="right">181,186 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="55 !">6,458 sq mi<br />16,725 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire"><img alt="New Hampshire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg/45px-Flag_of_New_Hampshire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="660" data-file-height="440" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_Hampshire" title="List of counties in New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> </td> <td align="right">1,359,711 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="14 !">8,953 sq mi<br />23,187 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">10 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">10 </td> <td align="right">135,971 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="39 !">895 sq mi<br />2,319 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey"><img alt="New Jersey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_Jersey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_Jersey" title="List of counties in New Jersey">New Jersey</a> </td> <td align="right">8,882,190 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="12 !">7,354 sq mi<br />19,047 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">21 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">21 </td> <td align="right">422,961 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="11 !">350 sq mi<br />907 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico"><img alt="New Mexico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg/45px-Flag_of_New_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_Mexico" title="List of counties in New Mexico">New Mexico</a> </td> <td align="right">2,096,829 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="53 !">121,298 sq mi<br />314,161 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">33 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">33 </td> <td align="right">63,540 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="53 !">3,676 sq mi<br />9,520 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)"><img alt="New York (state)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_New_York.svg/23px-Flag_of_New_York.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_New_York.svg/35px-Flag_of_New_York.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_New_York.svg/46px-Flag_of_New_York.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_York" title="List of counties in New York">New York</a> </td> <td align="right">19,453,561 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="28 !">47,126 sq mi<br />122,057 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">62 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">62 </td> <td align="right">313,767 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="34 !">760 sq mi<br />1,969 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina"><img alt="North Carolina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg/23px-Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg/35px-Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg/45px-Flag_of_North_Carolina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_North_Carolina" title="List of counties in North Carolina">North Carolina</a> </td> <td align="right">10,488,084 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="29 !">48,618 sq mi<br />125,920 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">100 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">100 </td> <td align="right">104,881 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="18 !">486 sq mi<br />1,259 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota"><img alt="North Dakota" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg/20px-Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg/31px-Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg/41px-Flag_of_North_Dakota.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1169" data-file-height="921" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_North_Dakota" title="List of counties in North Dakota">North Dakota</a> </td> <td align="right">762,062 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="41 !">69,001 sq mi<br />178,711 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">53 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">53 </td> <td align="right">14,379 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="44 !">1,302 sq mi<br />3,372 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio"><img alt="Ohio" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Ohio.svg/25px-Flag_of_Ohio.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Ohio.svg/38px-Flag_of_Ohio.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Ohio.svg/50px-Flag_of_Ohio.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="320" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Ohio" title="List of counties in Ohio">Ohio</a> </td> <td align="right">11,689,100 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="23 !">40,861 sq mi<br />105,829 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">88 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">88 </td> <td align="right">132,831 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="17 !">464 sq mi<br />1,203 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma"><img alt="Oklahoma" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg/23px-Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg/35px-Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg/45px-Flag_of_Oklahoma.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="675" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Oklahoma" title="List of counties in Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a> </td> <td align="right">3,956,971 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="39 !">68,595 sq mi<br />177,660 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">77 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">77 </td> <td align="right">51,389 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="38 !">891 sq mi<br />2,307 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon"><img alt="Oregon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Oregon.svg/23px-Flag_of_Oregon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Oregon.svg/35px-Flag_of_Oregon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Oregon.svg/45px-Flag_of_Oregon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Oregon" title="List of counties in Oregon">Oregon</a> </td> <td align="right">4,217,737 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="48 !">95,988 sq mi<br />248,608 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">36 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">36 </td> <td align="right">117,159 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="50 !">2,666 sq mi<br />6,906 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania"><img alt="Pennsylvania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/21px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/32px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg/41px-Flag_of_Pennsylvania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="740" data-file-height="540" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Pennsylvania" title="List of counties in Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> </td> <td align="right">12,801,989 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="26 !">44,743 sq mi<br />115,883 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">67 </td> <td align="right">191,074 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="28 !">668 sq mi<br />1,730 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island"><img alt="Rhode Island" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg/19px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg/30px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg/39px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="660" data-file-height="580" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Rhode_Island" title="List of counties in Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> </td> <td align="right">1,059,361 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="07 !">1,034 sq mi<br />2,678 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">211,872 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="07 !">207 sq mi<br />536 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina"><img alt="South Carolina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Carolina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_South_Carolina" title="List of counties in South Carolina">South Carolina</a> </td> <td align="right">5,148,714 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="18 !">30,061 sq mi<br />77,857 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">46 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">46 </td> <td align="right">111,929 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="26 !">653 sq mi<br />1,693 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota"><img alt="South Dakota" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg/46px-Flag_of_South_Dakota.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_South_Dakota" title="List of counties in South Dakota">South Dakota</a> </td> <td align="right">884,659 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="42 !">75,811 sq mi<br />196,350 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">66 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">66 </td> <td align="right">13,404 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="42 !">1,149 sq mi<br />2,975 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee"><img alt="Tennessee" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Tennessee.svg/46px-Flag_of_Tennessee.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Tennessee" title="List of counties in Tennessee">Tennessee</a> </td> <td align="right">6,833,174 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="24 !">41,235 sq mi<br />106,798 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">95 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">95 </td> <td align="right">71,928 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="15 !">434 sq mi<br />1,124 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas"><img alt="Texas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/45px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Texas" title="List of counties in Texas">Texas</a> </td> <td align="right">28,995,881 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="56 !">261,232 sq mi<br />676,587 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">254 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">254 </td> <td align="right">114,157 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="41 !">1,028 sq mi<br />2,664 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah"><img alt="Utah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Utah.svg/23px-Flag_of_Utah.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Utah.svg/35px-Flag_of_Utah.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Utah.svg/46px-Flag_of_Utah.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="432" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Utah" title="List of counties in Utah">Utah</a> </td> <td align="right">3,205,958 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="46 !">82,170 sq mi<br />212,818 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">29 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">29 </td> <td align="right">110,550 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="52 !">2,833 sq mi<br />7,339 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont"><img alt="Vermont" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Vermont.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vermont.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Vermont.svg/35px-Flag_of_Vermont.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Vermont.svg/46px-Flag_of_Vermont.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Vermont" title="List of counties in Vermont">Vermont</a> </td> <td align="right">623,989 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="15 !">9,217 sq mi<br />23,871 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">14 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">14 </td> <td align="right">44,571 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="27 !">658 sq mi<br />1,705 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia"><img alt="Virginia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of counties in Virginia">Virginia</a> </td> <td align="right">8,535,519 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="22 !">39,490 sq mi<br />102,279 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">95 </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">38<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">133 </td> <td align="right">64,177 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !">416 sq mi<br />1,077 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)"><img alt="Washington (state)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/23px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/35px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/46px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1106" data-file-height="658" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Washington" title="List of counties in Washington">Washington</a> </td> <td align="right">7,614,893 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="38 !">66,456 sq mi<br />172,119 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">39 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">39 </td> <td align="right">195,254 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="46 !">1,704 sq mi<br />4,413 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia"><img alt="West Virginia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg/23px-Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg/35px-Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg/46px-Flag_of_West_Virginia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia" title="List of counties in West Virginia">West Virginia</a> </td> <td align="right">1,792,147 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="17 !">24,038 sq mi<br />62,259 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">55 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">55 </td> <td align="right">32,584 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="16 !">437 sq mi<br />1,132 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin"><img alt="Wisconsin" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg/23px-Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg/35px-Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg/45px-Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Wisconsin" title="List of counties in Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> </td> <td align="right">5,822,434 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="33 !">54,158 sq mi<br />140,268 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">72 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">72 </td> <td align="right">80,867 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="32 !">752 sq mi<br />1,948 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming"><img alt="Wyoming" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Wyoming.svg/22px-Flag_of_Wyoming.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Wyoming.svg/33px-Flag_of_Wyoming.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Flag_of_Wyoming.svg/43px-Flag_of_Wyoming.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="700" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Wyoming" title="List of counties in Wyoming">Wyoming</a> </td> <td align="right">578,759 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="49 !">97,093 sq mi<br />251,470 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">23 </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td align="right">23 </td> <td align="right">25,163 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="54 !">4,221 sq mi<br />10,933 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="background:#fbfbbb"> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">United States</a><br /> (50 states and the District of Columbia) </td> <td align="right">328,239,523 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="99 !">3,531,905 sq mi<br />9,147,592 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">2,999 </td> <td align="right">145 </td> <td align="right">3,144 </td> <td align="right">104,435 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="99 !">1,124 sq mi<br />2,910 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa"><img alt="American Samoa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/23px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/35px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/46px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">American Samoa</a><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>o<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">51,504 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="03 !">77 sq mi<br />199 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">5 </td> <td align="right">11,104 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="02 !">15 sq mi<br />40 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam"><img alt="Guam" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/23px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/35px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/46px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="738" data-file-height="396" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/List_of_populated_places_in_Guam" class="mw-redirect" title="List of populated places in Guam">Guam</a><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>p<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">162,742 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="06 !">210 sq mi<br />540 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">1 </td> <td align="right">162,742 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="08 !">210 sq mi<br />540 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands"><img alt="Northern Mariana Islands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="550" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands#Administrative_divisions" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>q<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">52,263 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="05 !">179 sq mi<br />464 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">4 </td> <td align="right">4 </td> <td align="right">13,066 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="04 !">45 sq mi<br />116 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico"><img alt="Puerto Rico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/45px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>r<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">3,193,694 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="09 !">3,515 sq mi<br />9,104 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">78 </td> <td align="right">78 </td> <td align="right">40,945 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="05 !">45 sq mi<br />116 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Minor_Outlying_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Minor Outlying Islands">U.S. Minor Outlying Islands</a><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>s<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>t<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">160 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="01 !">13 sq mi<br />34 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">9 </td> <td align="right">9 </td> <td align="right">18 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="01 !">1 sq mi<br />4 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands"><img alt="United States Virgin Islands" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1275" data-file-height="850" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>u<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">104,901 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="04 !">134 sq mi<br />346 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">— </td> <td style="background: #EEEEEE;" align="right">3 </td> <td align="right">3 </td> <td align="right">34,967 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="03 !">45 sq mi<br />115 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="background:#fbfbbb"> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">United States</a><br /> (50 states, the District of Columbia,<br /> and territories) </td> <td align="right">330,744,054 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="- !">3,535,948 sq mi<br />9,158,064 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td> <td align="right">2,999 </td> <td align="right">245 </td> <td align="right">3,244 </td> <td align="right">101,987 </td> <td align="center"><span data-sort-value="- !">1,091 sq mi<br />2,825 km<sup>2</sup></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population">Population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Population"><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:County_population_map.webp" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/County_population_map.webp/220px-County_population_map.webp.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/County_population_map.webp/330px-County_population_map.webp.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/County_population_map.webp/440px-County_population_map.webp.png 2x" data-file-width="2066" data-file-height="1369" /></a><figcaption>County population map <br /> 2022 Census data</figcaption></figure> <p>The average U.S. county population was 104,435 in 2019, while the median county, which is <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_County,_West_Virginia" title="Nicholas County, West Virginia">Nicholas County, West Virginia</a>, had a population of 25,965 in 2019. The most populous county is <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California" title="Los Angeles County, California">Los Angeles County, California</a>, with 10,014,009 residents in 2020. This number is greater than the populations of 41 U.S. states, and is only slightly smaller than the combined population of the 10 least populous states and Washington, D.C. It also makes the population of Los Angeles County 17.4 times greater than that of the least populous state, Wyoming. </p><p>The second most populous county is <a href="/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois" title="Cook County, Illinois">Cook County, Illinois</a>, with a population of 5,275,541.<sup id="cite_ref-USCensus2015_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus2015-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cook County's population is larger than that of 28 individual <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population" title="List of U.S. states and territories by population">U.S. states</a> and the combined populations of the six smallest states.<sup id="cite_ref-USCensus2015_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus2015-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The least populous county is <a href="/wiki/Loving_County,_Texas" title="Loving County, Texas">Loving County, Texas</a>, with 64 residents in 2020. Eight county equivalents in the <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">U.S. territories</a> have no human population: <a href="/wiki/Rose_Atoll" title="Rose Atoll">Rose Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Islands_Municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Islands Municipality">Northern Islands Municipality</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baker_Island" title="Baker Island">Baker Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Island" title="Jarvis Island">Jarvis Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Navassa_Island" title="Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-USMOICounties_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USMOICounties-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remaining three islands in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Minor_Outlying_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Minor Outlying Islands">U.S. Minor Outlying Islands</a> (<a href="/wiki/Midway_Atoll" title="Midway Atoll">Midway Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll" title="Palmyra Atoll">Palmyra Atoll</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wake_Island" title="Wake Island">Wake Island</a>) have small non-permanent human populations. The county equivalent with the smallest non-zero population counted in the census is <a href="/wiki/Swains_Island" title="Swains Island">Swains Island, American Samoa</a> (17 people),<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although since 2008 this population has not been permanent either.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most densely populated county or county equivalent is <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">New York County, New York</a> (coextensive with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> Borough of Manhattan), with 72,033 persons per square mile (27,812 persons/km<sup>2</sup>) in 2015. The <a href="/wiki/Yukon%E2%80%93Koyukuk_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska">Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska</a>, is both the most extensive and the least densely populated county or county equivalent with 0.0380 persons per square mile (0.0147 persons/km<sup>2</sup>) in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-USCensus2015_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus2015-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), a total of 981 counties have a population over 50,000; 592 counties have a population over 100,000; 137 counties have a population over 500,000; 45 counties have a population over 1,000,000; and 14 counties have a population over 2,000,000. At the other extreme, 35 counties have a population under 1,000; 307 counties have a population under 5,000; 709 counties have a population under 10,000; and 1,492 counties have a population between 10,000 and 50,000.<sup id="cite_ref-USCensus2015_70-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensus2015-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Area">Area</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NicholasCountySignWV.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/NicholasCountySignWV.jpg/220px-NicholasCountySignWV.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/NicholasCountySignWV.jpg/330px-NicholasCountySignWV.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/NicholasCountySignWV.jpg/440px-NicholasCountySignWV.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1864" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>A highway sign designating the border between <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_County,_West_Virginia" title="Nicholas County, West Virginia">Nicholas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Greenbrier_County,_West_Virginia" title="Greenbrier County, West Virginia">Greenbrier</a> counties in <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a> along a secondary road</figcaption></figure> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/2000_U.S._Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 U.S. Census">2000 U.S. Census</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Median" title="Median">median</a> land area of U.S. counties was 622 sq mi (1,610 km<sup>2</sup>), which is two-thirds of the median land area of a <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial county of England</a>, and a little more than a quarter of the median land area of a French <i><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9partement" class="mw-redirect" title="Département">département</a></i>. Counties in the western United States typically have a much larger land area than those in the eastern United States. For example, the median land area of counties in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> is 343 sq mi (890 km<sup>2</sup>), whereas in <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a> it is 2,427 sq mi (6,290 km<sup>2</sup>). </p><p>The most extensive county or county equivalent is the <a href="/wiki/Yukon%E2%80%93Koyukuk_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska">Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska</a>, with a land area of 145,505 square miles (376,856 km<sup>2</sup>). All nine of the most extensive county equivalents are in Alaska. The most extensive county is <a href="/wiki/San_Bernardino_County,_California" title="San Bernardino County, California">San Bernardino County, California</a>, with a land area of 20,057 square miles (51,947 km<sup>2</sup>). The least extensive county is <a href="/wiki/Kalawao_County,_Hawaii" title="Kalawao County, Hawaii">Kalawao County, Hawaii</a>, with a land area of 11.991 square miles (31.058 km<sup>2</sup>). The least extensive county equivalent in the 50 states is the <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Falls_Church,_Virginia" title="Falls Church, Virginia">Falls Church, Virginia</a>, with a land area of 1.999 square miles (5.177 km<sup>2</sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-NACO_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NACO-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If U.S. territories are included, the least extensive county equivalent is <a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a>, with a land area of 0.01 square miles (0.03 km<sup>2</sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-Kingman_Reef_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kingman_Reef-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographic_relationships_between_cities_and_counties">Geographic relationships between cities and counties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Geographic relationships between cities and counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In some states, a municipality may be in only one county and may not annex territory in adjacent counties, but in the majority of states, the state constitution or state law allows municipalities to extend across county boundaries. At least 32 states include <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_in_multiple_counties" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. cities in multiple counties">municipalities in multiple counties</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, for example, contains portions of five counties, while numerous other cities comprise portions of four counties. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> is an unusual case because it encompasses multiple entire counties in one city. Each of those counties is coextensive with one of the five <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">boroughs</a> of the city: <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> (New York County), <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a> (Bronx County), <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a> (Queens County), <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> (Kings County), and <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a> (Richmond County). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Index_of_U.S._counties" title="Index of U.S. counties">Index of U.S. counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_counties_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of counties in the United States">Lists of counties in the United States</a> <ul><li><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> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_former_United_States_counties" title="List of former United States counties">List of former United States counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of highest counties in the United States">List of highest counties in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest_U.S._county_high_points" title="List of highest U.S. county high points">List of highest U.S. county high points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._county_names" title="List of the most common U.S. county names">List of the most common U.S. county names</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard_state_code" title="Federal Information Processing Standard state code">List of FIPS codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Census_geographic_units_of_Canada" title="Census geographic units of Canada">Census geographic units of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Mexico" title="Municipalities of Mexico">Municipalities of Mexico</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The 8 county equivalents with zero people are <a href="/wiki/Rose_Atoll" title="Rose Atoll">Rose Atoll (American Samoa)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Islands_Municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Islands Municipality">Northern Islands Municipality (Northern Mariana Islands)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baker_Island" title="Baker Island">Baker Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howland_Island" title="Howland Island">Howland Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Island" title="Jarvis Island">Jarvis Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Atoll" title="Johnston Atoll">Johnston Atoll</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingman_Reef" title="Kingman Reef">Kingman Reef</a> and <a href="/wiki/Navassa_Island" title="Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">At the time of the 2010 census, 3,143 counties and equivalents were recorded in the 50 <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">states</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">District of Columbia</a>, with another 100 county equivalents recorded in the <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">territories</a> (when the nine <a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">Minor Outlying Islands</a> are included). Since that time, the <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bedford,_Virginia" title="Bedford, Virginia">Bedford, Virginia</a>, was dissolved and had its territory added to <a href="/wiki/Bedford_County,_Virginia" title="Bedford County, Virginia">Bedford County, Virginia</a>. Also, <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>'s Petersburg census area was incorporated as <a href="/wiki/Petersburg_Borough,_Alaska" title="Petersburg Borough, Alaska">Petersburg Borough</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Valdez%E2%80%93Cordova_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska">Valdez–Cordova Census Area</a> was split into the <a href="/wiki/Copper_River_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Copper River Census Area, Alaska">Copper River</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chugach_Census_Area,_Alaska" title="Chugach Census Area, Alaska">Chugach</a> census areas. On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau formally recognized <a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Connecticut's nine councils of government</a> as county equivalents instead of the state's eight counties. <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Connecticut's eight historical counties</a> continue to exist in name only, and are no longer considered for statistical purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The net result of these changes has been the number of counties and equivalents increasing to 3,144.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> The <a href="/wiki/Unorganized_Borough,_Alaska" title="Unorganized Borough, Alaska">Unorganized Borough</a> formed by the <i>Borough Act of 1961</i> is a legal entity, run by the Alaska state government as an extension of State government.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It and the independently incorporated Unified, Home Rule, First Class and Second Class boroughs roughly correspond to parishes in Louisiana and to counties in the other 48 states.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">These 11 statistical areas are used solely by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a> to tabulate population and other census statistics within the Unorganized Borough; they have no legal basis in Alaska state or federal law other than for electoral representation and federal financial assistance purposes.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Unlike in Massachusetts, <a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Connecticut's regional councils</a> do not conform to the old county lines, but rather, they are composed of towns that share the same geographic area and have similar demographics.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Prior to July 1, 2016, there were 42 independent cities. At that time, <a href="/wiki/Bedford,_Virginia" title="Bedford, Virginia">Bedford, Virginia</a>, gave up its city status and became a town within <a href="/wiki/Bedford_County,_Virginia" title="Bedford County, Virginia">Bedford County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alaska has 19 <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">organized boroughs</a> and one <a href="/wiki/Unorganized_Borough,_Alaska" title="Unorganized Borough, Alaska">Unorganized Borough</a> divided into <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">11 census areas</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau formally recognized <a href="/wiki/Councils_of_governments_in_Connecticut" title="Councils of governments in Connecticut">Connecticut's nine councils of governments</a> as county equivalents instead of the state's eight counties. Connecticut's county governments were disbanded in 1960, and the councils of governments took over some of the local governmental functions. <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut" title="List of counties in Connecticut">Connecticut's eight historical counties</a> continue to exist in name only, and are no longer considered for statistical purposes.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The U.S. Census Bureau and the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget">Office of Management and Budget</a> consider the entire District of Columbia to be a county equivalent.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Louisiana has <a href="/wiki/List_of_parishes_in_Louisiana" title="List of parishes in Louisiana">64 parishes</a> instead of counties.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore, Maryland</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis, Missouri</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Carson_City,_Nevada" title="Carson City, Nevada">Carson City, Nevada</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">independent city</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Virginia has <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Virginia">38 independent cities</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although American Samoa has 15 counties,<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they are not counted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Bureau instead counts American Samoa's <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_American_Samoa" title="Administrative divisions of American Samoa">3 districts and 2 atolls</a> as county equivalents.<sup id="cite_ref-ASamoaCounties_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ASamoaCounties-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CensusT_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CensusT-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Guam does not have counties. All of Guam is counted as one county equivalent by the U.S. Census Bureau.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Northern Mariana Islands do not have counties. The U.S. Census Bureau counts the 4 municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands as county equivalents.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Puerto Rico does not have counties. The U.S. Census Bureau counts Puerto Rico's <a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Municipalities of Puerto Rico">78 municipalities</a> as county equivalents.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The U.S. Minor Outlying Islands do not have counties. The U.S. Census Bureau counts each of the 9 island groups in the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands as county equivalents.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Minor Outlying Islands have no permanent residents. All reported population consists of temporary military and scientific habitation.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The U.S. Virgin Islands do not have counties. The U.S. Census Bureau counts the 3 main islands (<a href="/wiki/Saint_Croix" title="Saint Croix">Saint Croix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saint_Thomas,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands">Saint Thomas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saint_John,_U.S._Virgin_Islands" title="Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands">Saint John</a>) as county equivalents.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_(United_States)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Kingman_Reef-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kingman_Reef_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kingman_Reef_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Kingman-Reef">"Kingman Reef"</a>. <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i> (Online ed.)<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_with_Native_American_majority_populations" title="List of U.S. counties with Native American majority populations">Native American majority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_where_English_is_not_the_majority_language_spoken_at_home" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. counties where English is not the majority language spoken at home">Non-English speaking counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of the most populous counties in the United States">Most populous counties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_counties_by_U.S._state" title="List of the most populous counties by U.S. state">by state or territory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States#Most_densely_populated" title="County statistics of the United States">Most densely populated county</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States#Least_densely_populated" title="County statistics of the United States">least</a></li></ul></li> <li>Life expectancy <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_with_shortest_life_expectancy" title="List of U.S. counties with shortest life expectancy">shortest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_with_longest_life_expectancy" title="List of U.S. counties with longest life expectancy">longest</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of highest-income counties in the United States">Highest-income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of lowest-income counties in the United States">Lowest-income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_by_per_capita_income" title="List of United States counties by per capita income">Per capita income</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_largest_counties_in_the_United_States_by_area" title="List of the largest counties in the United States by area">Largest area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States#Area" title="County statistics of the United States">Smallest area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of highest counties in the United States">Highest mean elevation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Name origins</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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etymologies">Former</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._county_names" title="List of the most common U.S. county names">Most common names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_prominent_Confederate_historical_figures" title="List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures">Named after Confederate historical figures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_rivers" title="List of U.S. counties named after rivers">Named after rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of U.S. counties named after presidents of the United States">Named after U.S. Presidents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_women" title="List of U.S. counties named after women">Named after women</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td 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States">United States</a> articles</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States" title="History of the United States">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By period</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/History_of_the_United_States_(1776%E2%80%931789)" title="History of the United States (1776–1789)">1776–1789</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931815)" title="History of the United States (1789–1815)">1789–1815</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1815%E2%80%931849)" title="History of the United States (1815–1849)">1815–1849</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1849%E2%80%931865)" title="History of the United States (1849–1865)">1849–1865</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931917)" title="History of the United States (1865–1917)">1865–1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1917%E2%80%931945)" title="History of the United States (1917–1945)">1917–1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1945%E2%80%931964)" title="History of the United States (1945–1964)">1945–1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1964%E2%80%931980)" title="History of the United States (1964–1980)">1964–1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1980%E2%80%931991)" title="History of the United States (1980–1991)">1980–1991</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Federalist_Era" title="Federalist Era">Federalist Era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States" title="Territorial evolution of the United States">Territorial evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Indian_Wars" title="American Indian Wars">Indian Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States" title="Native American genocide in the United States">Native genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age">Gilded Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Era" title="Progressive Era">Progressive Era</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States" title="Women's suffrage in the United States">Women's suffrage</a></li> <li>Civil rights movement <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement_(1865%E2%80%931896)" title="Civil rights movement (1865–1896)">1865–1896</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement_(1896%E2%80%931954)" title="Civil rights movement (1896–1954)">1896–1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">1954–1968</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish–American War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_imperialism" title="American imperialism">Imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_in_World_War_I" title="United States in World War I">World War I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roaring_Twenties" title="Roaring Twenties">Roaring Twenties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United States during World War II">World War II</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="United States home front during World War II">home front</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Century" title="American Century">American Century</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second-wave_feminism" title="Second-wave feminism">Feminist Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gay_liberation" title="Gay liberation">LGBT Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_(1991%E2%80%932008)" title="History of the United States (1991–2008)">Post-Cold War (1991–2008)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">War on Terror</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Recession_in_the_United_States" title="Great Recession in the United States">Great Recession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By topic</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/Outline_of_the_history_of_the_United_States" title="Outline of the history of the United States">Outline of U.S. history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Demographic history of the United States">Demographic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_discoveries" title="Timeline of United States discoveries">Discoveries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_United_States" title="Economic history of the United States">Economic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_inventions" title="Timeline of United States inventions">Inventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States" title="Military history of the United States">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_United_States" title="Postage stamps and postal history of the United States">Postal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technological_and_industrial_history_of_the_United_States" title="Technological and industrial history of the United States">Technological and industrial</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_United_States" title="Geography of the United States">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U.S._territorial_sovereignty" title="U.S. territorial sovereignty">Territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Contiguous_United_States" title="Contiguous United States">Contiguous United States</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">federal district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_enclave" title="Federal enclave">federal enclaves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">insular zones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands" title="United States Minor Outlying Islands">minor outlying islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_populated_places_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of populated places in the United States">populated places</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">states</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_United_States" title="List of earthquakes in the United States">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_the_United_States" title="List of extreme points of the United States">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_United_States" title="List of islands of the United States">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountains of the United States">Mountains</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountain_peaks_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountain peaks of the United States">peaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountain_ranges#United_States" title="List of mountain ranges">ranges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_areas_in_the_United_States_National_Park_System" title="List of areas in the United States National Park System">National Parks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Plains" title="Great Plains">Great Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="Gulf Coast of the United States">Gulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_(United_States)" title="Mid-Atlantic (United States)">Mid-Atlantic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">Pacific</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_United_States" title="Central United States">Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_United_States" title="Eastern United States">Eastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_United_States" title="Northern United States">Northern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_United_States" title="Northwestern United States">Northwestern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwestern_United_States" title="Southwestern United States">Southwestern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_United_States" title="Western United States">Western</a></li></ul></li> <li>Longest <a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_the_United_States" title="List of rivers of the United States">rivers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arkansas_River" title="Arkansas River">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_River" title="Colorado River">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_River" title="Columbia River">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_River" title="Missouri River">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South" title="Red River of the South">Red (South)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukon_River" title="Yukon River">Yukon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States" title="Time in the United States">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_United_States" title="Water supply and sanitation in the United States">Water supply and sanitation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_United_States" title="List of World Heritage Sites in the United States">World Heritage Sites</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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 navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">Federal</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Executive</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/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Powers_of_the_president_of_the_United_States" title="Powers of the president of the United States">powers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Executive Office of the President of the United States">Executive Office</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States" title="Cabinet of the United States">Cabinet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_executive_departments" title="United States federal executive departments">Executive departments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_United_States_government" title="Independent agencies of the United States government">Independent agencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community" title="United States Intelligence Community">Intelligence Community</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence">Director of National Intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office" title="National Reconnaissance Office">National Reconnaissance Office</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States" title="Federal law enforcement in the United States">Law enforcement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Firearms_and_Explosives" title="Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives">ATF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protection" title="U.S. Customs and Border Protection">CBP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Diplomatic_Security" title="Bureau of Diplomatic Security">Diplomatic Security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration" title="Drug Enforcement Administration">DEA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement">ICE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">Marshals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service" title="United States Secret Service">Secret Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration" title="Transportation Security Administration">TSA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(United_States)" title="Office of Inspector General (United States)">Inspector generals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_civil_service" title="United States federal civil service">Civil service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Public policy of the United States">Public policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Legislative</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/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="List of current members of the United States House of Representatives">current members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_senators" title="List of current United States senators">current members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="President pro tempore of the United States Senate">President pro tempore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States#President_of_the_United_States_Senate" title="Vice President of the United States">President</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol_Police" title="United States Capitol Police">Capitol Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office" title="Congressional Budget Office">Congressional Budget Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Accountability_Office" title="Government Accountability Office">Government Accountability Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Government_Publishing_Office" title="United States Government Publishing Office">Government Publishing Office</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_judiciary_of_the_United_States" title="Federal judiciary of the United States">Judicial</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/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_United_States" title="Chief Justice of the United States">Chief Justice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States">Associate Justices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals" title="United States courts of appeals">Courts of appeals</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_circuit_judges" title="List of current United States circuit judges">list of judges</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_district_court" title="United States district court">District courts</a>/<a href="/wiki/United_States_territorial_court" title="United States territorial court">Territorial courts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_district_and_territorial_courts" title="List of United States district and territorial courts">list of courts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_district_judges" title="List of current United States district judges">list of judges</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_tribunals_in_the_United_States" title="Federal tribunals in the United States">Other tribunals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney" title="United States Attorney">U.S. attorney</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States" title="Law of the United States">Law</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/United_States_Bill_of_Rights" title="United States Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_liberties_in_the_United_States" title="Civil liberties in the United States">civil liberties</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Code_of_Federal_Regulations" title="Code of Federal Regulations">Code of Federal Regulations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States">Constitution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federalism_in_the_United_States" title="Federalism in the United States">federalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_preemption" title="Federal preemption">preemption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Separation of powers under the United States Constitution">separation of powers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code">United States Code</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_United_States" title="Uniformed services of the United States">Uniformed</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/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">Armed Forces</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">Marine Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Space_Force" title="United States Space Force">Space Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">Coast Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Guard_(United_States)" title="National Guard (United States)">National Guard</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NOAA_Commissioned_Officer_Corps" title="NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps">NOAA Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps" title="United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps">Public Health Service Corps</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_governments_of_the_United_States" title="State governments of the United States">State</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_District_of_Columbia" title="Government of the District of Columbia">Federal District</a>,<br />and <a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">Territorial</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_constitutional_officer" title="State constitutional officer">Executive</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/Governor_(United_States)" title="Governor (United States)">Governor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors" title="List of current United States governors">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_governor_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant governor (United States)">Lieutenant governor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_lieutenant_governors" title="List of current United States lieutenant governors">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_state_(U.S._state_government)" title="Secretary of state (U.S. state government)">Secretary of state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_attorney_general" title="State attorney general">Attorney general</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_treasurer" title="State treasurer">Treasurer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_auditor" title="State auditor">Auditor/Comptroller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_commissioner" title="Agriculture commissioner">Agriculture commissioner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurance_commissioner" title="Insurance commissioner">Insurance commissioner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_utilities_commission" title="Public utilities commission">Public utilities commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_police_(United_States)" title="State police (United States)">State police</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_and_local_law_enforcement_agencies" title="List of United States state and local law enforcement agencies">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_legislature_(United_States)" title="State legislature (United States)">Legislative</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/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures" title="List of United States state legislatures">List of legislatures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_legislators" title="List of U.S. state legislators">List of legislators</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_court_(United_States)" title="State court (United States)">Judicial</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/State_supreme_court" title="State supreme court">Supreme courts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_chief_justices" title="List of state chief justices">Chief justices</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_attorney" title="District attorney">District attorney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_district_attorneys_by_county" class="mw-redirect" title="List of district attorneys by county">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/State_law_(United_States)" title="State law (United States)">Law</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/State_constitutions_in_the_United_States" title="State constitutions in the United States">State constitutions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_statutory_codes" title="List of U.S. state statutory codes">Statutory codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uniform_act" title="Uniform act">Uniform act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_U.S._state_and_territory_governments" title="Comparison of U.S. state and territory governments">Comparison of governments</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tribe_(Native_American)" title="Tribe (Native American)">Tribal</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/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States" title="Tribal sovereignty in the United States">Tribal sovereignty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_recognition_in_the_United_States" title="Native American recognition in the United States">Native American recognition in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federally_recognized_tribes_in_the_contiguous_United_States" title="List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States">Federally recognized tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Alaska_Native_tribal_entities" title="List of Alaska Native tribal entities">Federally recognized Alaska Native tribes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States" title="State-recognized tribes in the United States">State-recognized tribes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Indian reservation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States" title="List of Indian reservations in the United States">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_home_land" title="Hawaiian home land">Hawaiian home land</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States" title="Local government in the United States">Local</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><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/List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">List of counties and county equivalents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_executive" title="County executive">County executive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheriffs_in_the_United_States" title="Sheriffs in the United States">Sheriff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_clerk" title="Municipal clerk">Clerk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Cities</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/Consolidated_city-county" title="Consolidated city-county">Consolidated city-county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_city_(United_States)" title="Independent city (United States)">Independent city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coterminous_municipality" title="Coterminous municipality">Coterminous municipality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_charter#United_States" title="Municipal charter">Charter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayor%E2%80%93council_government" title="Mayor–council government">Mayor–council government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council%E2%80%93manager_government" title="Council–manager government">Council–manager government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_commission_government" title="City commission government">City commission government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayoralty_in_the_United_States" title="Mayoralty in the United States">Mayor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_manager" title="City manager">City manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_council#United_States" title="Municipal council">City council</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Minor_civil_division" title="Minor civil division">Minor divisions</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/Civil_township" title="Civil township">Township</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_meeting" title="Town meeting">Town meeting</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Special_district_(United_States)" title="Special district (United States)">Special 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/School_district" title="School district">School district</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_school_districts_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of school districts in the United States">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </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"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_the_United_States" title="Corruption in the United States">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_the_United_States" title="Elections in the United States">Elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">Electoral College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states" title="Red states and blue states">Red states and blue states</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign relations of the United States">Foreign relations</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign policy of the United States">foreign policy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_presidency" title="Imperial presidency">Imperial presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_ideologies_in_the_United_States" title="Political ideologies in the United States">Ideologies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Americanism" title="Anti-Americanism">Anti-Americanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_exceptionalism" title="American exceptionalism">exceptionalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_nationalism" title="American nationalism">nationalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_the_United_States" title="Political parties in the United States">Parties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third parties</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States" title="List of federal political scandals in the United States">Scandals</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States_by_sector" title="Economy of the United States by sector">By sector</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_the_United_States" title="Agriculture in the United States">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banking_in_the_United_States" title="Banking in the United States">Banking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communications_in_the_United_States" title="Communications in the United States">Communications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States" title="Energy in the United States">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Insurance in the United States">Insurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_States" title="Manufacturing in the United States">Manufacturing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mining_in_the_United_States" title="Mining in the United States">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_the_United_States" title="Science and technology in the United States">Science and technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States" title="Tourism in the United States">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_trade_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign trade of the United States">Trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">by state</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">Currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_exports_of_the_United_States" title="List of exports of the United States">Exports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_federal_budget" title="United States federal budget">Federal budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_States" title="Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States">Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve System</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_United_States" title="Financial position of the United States">Financial position</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_States" title="Labor unions in the United States">Labor unions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States" title="National debt of the United States">Public debt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States" title="Social programs in the United States">Social welfare programs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States" title="Taxation in the United States">Taxation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_States" title="Unemployment in the United States">Unemployment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall Street</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Transport in the United States">Transport</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/Aviation_in_the_United_States" title="Aviation in the United States">Aviation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Driving_in_the_United_States" title="Driving in the United States">Driving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Public transportation in the United States">Public transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rail_transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Rail transportation in the United States">Rail transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Transportation policy of the United States">Transportation policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation safety in the United States">Transportation safety</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_the_United_States" title="Trucking industry in the United States">Trucking industry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Society_of_the_United_States" title="Category:Society of the United States">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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 navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_States" title="Culture of the United States">Culture</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/Americana_(culture)" title="Americana (culture)">Americana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_in_the_United_States" title="Architecture in the United States">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States" title="Cinema of the United States">Cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States" title="Crime in the United States">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_cuisine" title="American cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dance_in_the_United_States" title="Dance in the United States">Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States" title="Demographics of the United States">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">Economic issues</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">affluence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eviction_in_the_United_States" title="Eviction in the United States">eviction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_States" title="Homeownership in the United States">homeownership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States" title="Household income in the United States">household income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States" title="Income inequality in the United States">income inequality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_middle_class" title="American middle class">middle class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States" title="Personal income in the United States">personal income</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">poverty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_of_living_in_the_United_States" title="Standard of living in the United States">standard of living</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States" title="Affluence in the United States">wealth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Working_class_in_the_United_States" title="Working class in the United States">working class</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States" title="Education in the United States">Education</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States" title="Educational attainment in the United States">attainment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States" title="Literacy in the United States">literacy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_in_the_United_States" title="Family in the United States">Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fashion_in_the_United_States" title="Fashion in the United States">Fashion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" title="Flag of the United States">Flag</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_flags_of_the_United_States" title="List of flags of the United States">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folklore_of_the_United_States" title="Folklore of the United States">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="Public holidays in the United States">Holidays</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="Federal holidays in the United States">Federal holidays</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States" title="Homelessness in the United States">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Housing_in_the_United_States" title="Housing in the United States">Housing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_States" title="Human rights in the United States">Human rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States" title="Languages of the United States">Languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous languages of the Americas">Indigenous languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Sign_Language" title="American Sign Language">ASL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_literature" title="American literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_media_in_the_United_States" title="Mass media in the United States">Media</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_American_journalism" title="History of American journalism">journalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States" title="Internet in the United States">internet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers" title="History of American newspapers">newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_in_the_United_States" title="Radio in the United States">radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States" title="Television in the United States">television</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_United_States" title="Music of the United States">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naming_in_the_United_States" title="Naming in the United States">Names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner" title="The Star-Spangled Banner">National anthem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_symbols_of_the_United_States" title="National symbols of the United States">National symbols</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_(personification)" title="Columbia (personification)">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Rushmore" title="Mount Rushmore">Mount Rushmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" title="Statue of Liberty">Statue of Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Sam" title="Uncle Sam">Uncle Sam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_philosophy" title="American philosophy">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_ideologies_in_the_United_States" title="Political ideologies in the United States">Political ideologies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States">Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States" title="Religion in the United States">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_the_United_States" title="Sexuality in the United States">Sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">Social class</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_United_States" title="Society of the United States">Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_the_United_States" title="Sports in the United States">Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theater_in_the_United_States" title="Theater in the United States">Theater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation in the United States">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_games_in_the_United_States" title="Video games in the United States">Video games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visual_art_of_the_United_States" title="Visual art of the United States">Visual art</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_States" title="Social class in the United States">Social class</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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