Counties

//ˈkaʊntiz//

"Counties" in a Sentence (10 examples)

These smaller parts are called counties, and each county has a county council, like Westhamptonshire County Council.

England proper is divided into 48 ceremonial counties.

The United States of America has several divisions. It is first separated into the fifty states. Each state is then broken up into counties or parishes. Each county or parish is divided into towns or townships. These towns or townships contain the villages and cities.

How many counties are there in Florida?

More than 50% of Americans – 164 million people – live in coastal counties, with 1.2 million added each year. Humans have heavily altered the coastal environment through development, changes in land use, and overexploitation of resources. Now, the changing climate is imposing additional stresses.

Al lived in the Soviet Union, huge and multinational one, at the large Tver Region equal to several English counties in size.

The island of Ireland consists of thirty-two counties.

Sadly, women do not seem to have much value in other counties; this often seems to be due to patriarchal and sexist laws being applied upon populations, therefore perpetuating the patriarchal ideal that women are not equivalent to men.

While the top one percent has amassed a bigger share of wealth and income, too many families, in inner cities and in rural counties, have been left behind.

In 2010, 123.3 million people, or 39 percent of the United States’ population lived in counties directly on the shoreline.

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