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 and municipalities are roughly the same. A county can delegate part of their responsibility to a city or town as a separate administrative unit. So in Washington there is a King County Sheriff and a complete government. The City of Seattle have their own Mayor and the Seattle Police Department. So if you need police outside the city limits you call the sheriff while if you need police within the city limits you call the police. Although for some things within the city limits the sheriff is still the one to call.

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