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The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (French: paroisses, Spanish: parroquias), making it the only state besides Alaska to call its subdivisions something other than "counties." [a] Louisiana's usage of the term "parish" for a geographic region or local government dates back to the French colonial and Spanish colonial periods ...
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, and 304 cities, towns, and villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (the equivalent of counties in most other states). [255] List of parishes in Louisiana; Louisiana census statistical areas; Most parishes have an elected government known as the Police Jury, [256] dating from the colonial days. It is the legislative and executive government of the parish, and is elected by ...
Parishes in Louisiana are the equivalent of counties in other U.S. states. For church buildings or congregations see Category:Churches in Louisiana . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parishes of Louisiana .
Acquisition of Louisiana by the United States in 1803 was a catalyst for increased Anglo-American settlement, especially in the northern part of the state. In 1846, the state legislature designated Baton Rouge as Louisiana's new capital to replace "sinful" New Orleans.
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [3] or simply Greater New Orleans (French: Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Spanish: Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties ...
Louisiana is instead divided into 64 equivalent parishes, while Alaska is divided into 19 equivalent boroughs and 11 sparsely populated census areas, the latter also known collectively as the unorganized borough. Virginia is composed of a mixture of 95 counties and 38 independent cities.