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On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and Louisiana as Feliciana County. On December 22, 1810, the county west of the Pearl River was organized in four civil parishes: East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, St. Helena, and St. Tammany.
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 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]
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 .
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. [1] [2]
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (the equivalent of counties in most other states). [257] List of parishes in Louisiana; Louisiana census statistical areas; Most parishes have an elected government known as the Police Jury, [258] dating from the colonial days. It is the legislative and executive government of the parish, and is elected by ...
As of 2024, there were 2,999 counties, 64 Louisiana parishes, 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in Alaska, 9 Councils of Government in Connecticut, 41 independent cities, [f] and the District of Columbia for a total of 3,144 counties and county equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia. [7]
Cabarrus County, North Carolina; Cabell County, West Virginia; Cabo Rojo Municipality, Puerto Rico; Cache County, Utah; Caddo County, Oklahoma; Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Among the 50 states, 44 are partitioned entirely into counties, with no county equivalents. 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 .