How do counties in the USA work?

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I’m from the Philippines and we divide things differently here. The country is divided into provinces, which are divided into cities/municipalities, which are divided into barangays.

So I looked at a map of Washington and saw that Seattle is not its own county, but is a part of a county. So are states in the USA divided into counties, which are then divided into towns and cities?

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Counties can also be divided into townships.

Some cities have merged with their counties (like Louisville, Kentucky), and some cities are “independent” of any county.

Instead of counties, Louisiana has “parishes” and Alaska has “boroughs”.

Some cities are subdivided into wards and/or boroughs.

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