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San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Russia. The Russian Federation, commonly known as Russia, is the most extensive country in the world, covering 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), more than an eighth of the Earth's land area. [1]
23 counties and 1 independent city: 23: Wyoming: 21: New Jersey: 17: Nevada: 16 counties and 1 independent city: 16: Maine: 15: Arizona: 14: Massachusetts: 8 of the 14 counties in Massachusetts were disincorporated in the 1990s and early 2000s; local government in these areas consists of cities and towns. One of the remaining 6 counties is a ...
A topographic map of the United States. The United States is the world's third-largest country by total area behind Russia and Canada. [d] [176] [177] The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles (8,080,470 km 2).
An enlargeable map of the 3,143 counties and county equivalents located in the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. as of 2020. The 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are not on this map. There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents in the United States.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations. An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas".
The newest county in the United States is the city and county of Broomfield, Colorado, established in 2001 as a consolidated city-county, previously part of four counties. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The newest county equivalents are the Alaskan census areas of Chugach and Copper River , both established in 2019, [ 19 ] and the Alaskan boroughs of Petersburg ...