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County: Encyclopedia - County
Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called "earls" in post-Celtic Brit...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Canada
Main article: Census division
Five of Canada's ten provinces are divided into counties. In Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, these...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - United States
Main article: County (United States)
The term "county" is used in 48 of the 50 states of the United States for the tier of state governme...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Poland
Polish second-level administration unit powiat is usually translated into English as county or district.
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List of counties in P...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Sweden
The Swedish division into counties was established in 1634, and was based on an earlier division into Provinces. Sweden is today divided ...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is divided into a number of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties. There are also ceremonial counties and traditi...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Norway
Norway is divided into 19 counties (sing. fylke, plur. fylker, literally "folk") as of 1972. Up to this year Bergen was a separate county...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Japan
"County" is one of the translations of gun (郡), which is a subdivision of prefecture. It is also translated as rural district, rural ar...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Croatia
Counties have been units of regional self-government in Croatia since 1990. There are twenty counties and the city of Zagreb which has th...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - China
Main article: County of China
The word "county" is used to translate the Chinese term xiàn (县 or 縣). On Mainland China under the Peo...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Hungary
The administrative unit of Hungary is called megye, or in Latin: comitatus, which can be translated with the word county. Presently Hunga...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Ireland
The island of Ireland is divided into 32 counties, of which 26 later formed the Republic of Ireland and 6 made up Northern Ireland (for c...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - New Zealand
After New Zealand abolished its provinces in 1876, a system of counties similar to other countries' systems was instituted, lasting until...
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County: Encyclopedia Ii - County - Australia
County - New South Wales.
While New South Wales was divided into counties in the early days of the colony, often preceding European set...
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