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Capitals of United States Insular Areas Insular area Capital Since Pop. (2010) Notes American Samoa: Pago Pago: 1899: 3,656: Pago Pago refers to both a village and a group of villages, one of which is Fagatogo, the official seat of government stated in the territory's constitution. Guam: Hagåtña: 1898: 1,051: Dededo is the area's largest village.
In Michigan, the term borough only applied to Mackinac Island from February 2, 1817, to March 25, 1847. [2] [3] The Borough government was established by William Henry Puthuff after the island was proclaimed to be a U.S. territory in the War of 1812. The borough government was replaced by a village government in 1847.
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 following is a set–index article, providing a list of lists, for the cities, towns and villages within the jurisdictional United States. It is divided, alphabetically, according to the state , territory , or district name in which they are located.
An enlargeable map of the 3,143 counties and county equivalents located in the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. as of 2020. The 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are not on this map. There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents in the United States.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations. An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas".
The limited powers of the boroughs are inferior to the authority of the government of New York City, contrasting significantly with the powers of boroughs as that term is used in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, where a borough is an independent level of government, as well as with borough forms used in other states and in Greater London.