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A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish , the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division:
As of 2024, there were 2,999 counties, 64 Louisiana parishes, 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in Alaska, 9 Councils of Government in Connecticut, 41 independent cities, [f] and the District of Columbia for a total of 3,144 counties and county equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia. [7]
In Louisiana, counties are called parishes; likewise, the county seat is known as the parish seat. The difference in nomenclature does not reflect a fundamental difference in the nature of government, but is rather a reflection of the state's unique status as a former French and Spanish colony (although a small number of other states once had ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 ... (50 states and DC) showing states divided into counties, or parishes in Louisiana ...
Louisiana is instead divided into 64 equivalent parishes, while Alaska is divided into 19 equivalent boroughs and 11 sparsely populated census areas, the latter also known collectively as the unorganized borough. Virginia is composed of a mixture of 95 counties and 38 independent cities.
A: The Unorganized Borough, Alaska, formed by the Borough Act of 1961, is a legal entity, run by the Alaska state government as an extension of State government, [12] it and the independently incorporated Unified, Home Rule, First Class and Second Class boroughs roughly correspond to parishes in Louisiana and to counties in the other 48 states.
12 counties (qarqe) 61 municipalities (bashki) 373 units of local governance (njësite të qeverisjes vendore) 2,972 villages (fshatra) Algeria: Unitary 58 provinces 553 districts (daïras) 1,541 communes (baladiyahs) Andorra: Unitary 7 parishes (parròquies) Angola: Unitary 18 provinces (províncias) 163 municipalities (municípios)
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [3] or simply Greater New Orleans (French: Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Spanish: Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties ...