Definition of county County

/kawˈnti/ - [kawntee] - coun•ty

We found 13 definitions of county from 6 different sources.

What does county mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: counties
county - (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government; "the county has a population of 12,345 people"
		region, part a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
		britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, great britain a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
		county courthouse, county seat the town or city that is the seat of government for a county
county - (United States) the largest administrative district within a state; "the county plans to build a new road"
		administrative district, administrative division, territorial division a district defined for administrative purposes

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Wiktionary

county (Noun)
The land ruled by a count or a countess.
county (Noun)
An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand , Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States .
county (Noun)
A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions, as in traditional county .

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

county (n.)
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
county (n.)
A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire.
county (n.)
A count; an earl or lord.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

county
An area comprising more than one city and whose boundaries have been designed according to some biological, political, administrative, economic, demographic criteria.
county
The land under the jurisdiction of a count.

Wikipedia

A county is the name for a piece of land. It has a different meaning in different languages. Originally the word was for the land under a count (in Great Britain an earl). Today a "county" is often something between a larger state and a smaller town or district.

County governments keep records and organize elections and laws.

Canada.

Canada has ten provinces. Five of them have counties in them. In Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, these are local government units, but in Quebec and Prince Edward Island they are now only geographical units. Statistics

China.

The word "county" is the English name for the Chinese word "xiàn" (县 or 縣). On Mainland China under the People's Republic of China, counties are the third level of local government. On Taiwan, the county is the highest governmental level below the Republic of China central government.

There are about 2,000 counties in China; this number is about the same as in the Han dynasty, 2,000 years ago. The county is one of the oldest levels of government in China.

Before, "prefecture" and "district" were names for "xiàn", before the Republic of China. People started using the English name "county" after the start of the Republic of China.

The head of a county is the magistrate.

Croatia.

Counties started to be units of regional self-government in Croatia in 1990. There are twenty counties and the city of Zagreb which has the same status. They are called "županije" and their leader is a "župan".

France.

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United States
A county, in the United States, is a form of government that is right below the state. 48 out of the 50 states in the United States uses counties. Louisiana uses parishes while Alaska uses bouroughs. Both of these are equal to the county. The list that the U.S. Census Bureau keeps that lists all of the counties in the United States says that there are 3,481 counties or other kinds of divisions that are equal to the county in the United States.

The midwestern and northeastern states in the United States divides the county further into townships or towns, some of which house municipalities. The place where the government and courts for the town is called the "county seat".

On average, a county in the United States has a population of around 100,000 people. The county that has the most people living in it is Los Angeles County, California. Around 9.8 million people live there. The county that has the least amount of people living in it is Loving County, Texas, with only 67 people living in the entire county.

The average number of counties in each state is 62. Delaware has the least amount of counties with only 3 counties. Texas has the most counties with 254.