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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The challenging thing about the US, is that States have a lot more power than compared to most other countries. So giving a single explanation is going to be difficult because each State will have variations. So counties are administrative divisions of the individual states. The states are part of the federation of the USA. “Below” the counties are towns. There are several cities that are large enough that the city administration essentially governs the county. There are a few cities where the city covers multiple counties (like NY).

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