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...

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...

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...

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...

county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its original county...

Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed. They...

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...

is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having...

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...

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:...