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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Municipal and Political subdivisions within the United States aren’t necessarily consistent from one state to another. They’re not even necessarily consistent *within* a state.
For example in New York we have, *generally* from smallest to largest
* Village
* Town
* City
* County
* State
But New York City is an exception (it encompasses and governs five individual counties), and cities are sometimes far smaller than the towns around them (e.g. the City of Glen Cove was chartered out of the Town of Oyster Bay – it’s independently governed as a city, but the town around it is geographically far larger and has 10 times the city’s population).
Also at least in New York our municipal subdivisions have essentially nothing to do with population or land area(my village has twice the population of the City of Glen Cove and is geographically larger), and our political subdivisions ignore the municipal boundaries (we have state assembly districts for electing representatives to our state government that span county lines).
The moral of this story is threefold:
1. Trying to make sense out of anything the United States does is futile.
2. Trying to make sense out of anything New York State does is doubly futile.
3. Much like banks, the United States should never be used as an example of how to do anything. *Especially organizing a government.*
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