• A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French comté denoting...
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  • A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada...
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  • Thumbnail for List of United States counties and county equivalents
    There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents in the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions...
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    There are 67 counties in the U.S. state of Florida, which became a territory of the U.S. in 1821 with two counties complementing the provincial divisions...
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    In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States...
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    Yorkshire (redirect from God's own county)
    county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its original county...
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  • Thumbnail for List of county routes in Hudson County, New Jersey
    The following is a list of county routes in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. For more information on the county route system in New Jersey...
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    There are 62 counties in the U.S. state of New York. The first 12 were created immediately after the British took over the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam;...
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    following is a list of county routes in Passaic County in the United States state of New Jersey. For more information on the county route system in New Jersey...
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    Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed. They...
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    (/ˈlæŋkəʃər/ LAN-kə-shər, /-ʃɪər/ -⁠sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire...
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  • A county administrative board (Swedish: länsstyrelse) is a Swedish Government Agency in each of the counties of Sweden, led by a vice-regal governor (Swedish:...
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    Kent (redirect from County of Kent, England)
    Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe. It borders Essex across the entire estuary of the River Thames...
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  • The following is a list of county routes in Camden County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. For more information on the county route system in New Jersey...
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    Texas counties. Many of these were later divided into new counties. The last county to be initially created was Kenedy County in 1921, but Loving County is...
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    There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. A tenth county, Wayne, was...
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    following is a list of county routes in Cumberland County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. For more information on the county route system in New Jersey...
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    Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern...
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    58 counties. The state was first divided into 27 counties on February 18, 1850. These were further sub-divided to form sixteen additional counties by...
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  • County routes in Onondaga County, New York, are not signed in any form, serving as little more than references for inventory purposes. One county route...
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    Ringkjøbing County (Danish: Ringkjøbing Amt) is a former county (Danish: amt) on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. It had the lowest population...
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  • Thumbnail for Arlington County, Virginia
    Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of...
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    Dutchess County, New York maintains a system of signed county routes primarily to serve local traffic between the various communities in the county. Route...
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    County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county...
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  • Derby County Football Club (/ˈdɑːrbi/) is a professional association football club in Derby, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second...
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  • Thumbnail for List of cities and counties in Virginia
    Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling...
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    Cheshire (redirect from County of Chester)
    Cheshire (/ˈtʃɛʃər, -ɪər/ CHESH-ər, -⁠eer) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester...
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    The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the...
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    Copenhagen County (Danish: Københavns Amt) is a former county (amt) on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. It covered the municipalities...
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  • Volusia County, Florida (located in central-east Florida), operates a system of county roads that serve all portions of the county. The Volusia County Public...
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