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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IIRC ( not a US resident ) counties are general areas which can consist of one of more cities, but might also just be a part of a huge city? ( for example, the boroughs of New York, which are different enough to have their own subcultures and backgrounds )

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