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{{Short description|Administrative center for a county or civil parish}}
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[[Image:Renville County Courthouse MN.jpg|thumb|300px|Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as [[Renville County, Minnesota]]]]
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A '''county seat''' is an administrative center, [[seat of government]], or capital city of a [[county]] or [[parish (administrative division)|civil parish]]. The term is in use in five countries: [[Canada]], [[China]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], and the [[United States]]. An equivalent term, '''shire town''', is used in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Vermont]] and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions.<ref>[https://vtliving.com/vermontshires/ VT Shire Towns: Visiting The Shires of Vermont]</ref>
 
==Canada==
A '''county seat''' is an [[administrative center]], or [[seat of government]], for a [[county (US)|county]] or [[Parish (administrative division)|civil parish]]. The term is primarily used in the United States.
In [[Canada]], the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provinces]] of [[Ontario]], [[Quebec]], [[New Brunswick]], [[Prince Edward Island]], and [[Nova Scotia]] have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat.<ref>{{cite web |title=County Map of Nova Scotia |url=https://archives.novascotia.ca/maps/county/ |website=Nova Scotia Archives |access-date=3 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='What happened?' Long forgotten Dorchester wharf was once heart of shire town |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/roadside-history-james-upham-dorchester-wharf-new-brunswick-1.6724447 |website=CBC News |publisher=CBC |access-date=3 June 2024}}</ref>
 
==China==
In Vermont the statutory term is '''shire town'''.<ref>E.g., 24 Vt. Stat. Ann. § 2 ("The county of Addison is formed of the towns of Addison, Bridgeport, Bristol, Cornwall, Ferrisburgh, Goshen, Granville, Hancock, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlebury, Monkton, New Haven, Orwell, Panton, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Starksboro, Waltham, Weybridge, Whiting, the city of Vergennes and so much of Lake Champlain as lies in this state west of the towns in the county adjoining the lake. Middlebury is the shire town.").</ref><ref>[http://middlebury.govoffice.com/] Retrieved 24 December 2011. Notice "shire town" being used in headline.</ref><ref>[http://www.shiresofvermont.com/about.html]. Retrieved December 24, 2011. Notice the term "shire town" used on this page.</ref> Parts of the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Maritimes]] also use the term "shire town." In England, [[Wales]] and [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], the term [[county town]] is used. This term is still sometimes used colloquially in [[Scotland]] and [[Northern Ireland]], but today neither is divided into administrative counties&nbsp;– instead being divided, respectively, into [[council area]]s and [[district]]s. [[Louisiana]] uses [[Parish (country subdivision)|parishes]] instead of counties, and the administrative center is a '''parish seat'''. [[Alaska]] is organized into "[[list of boroughs and census areas in Alaska|boroughs]]", which are large districts, and the administrative center is known as a '''borough seat'''.
{{Main|Counties of China}}
County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the [[China|People's Republic of China]].
''Xian'' have existed since the [[Warring States period]] and were set up nationwide by the [[Qin dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hsu |first=Cho-yun |translator-last1=Baker |translator-first1=Timothy D. Jr. |translator-last2=Duke |translator-first2=Michael S. |year=2012 |orig-year=2006 |title=China: A New Cultural History |publisher=Columbia University Press |page=102 |isbn=9780231159203}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Goodman |editor-first=David S.G. |year=2015 |title=Handbook of the Politics of China |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing Limited |page=159 |isbn=9781782544364}}</ref> The number of counties in [[China proper]] gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As [[Qin Shi Huang]] reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern [[Han dynasty]], the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the [[Sui dynasty]] abolished the [[Commandery (China)|commandery]] level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties.
 
In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure;<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zarrow |first1=Peter |title=China in War and Revolution, 1895–1949 |date=2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-21976-6 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ijaAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA58 |language=en}}</ref> in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of a county was the [[county magistrate|magistrate]], who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases.
==Function==
[[Counties of the United States|United States counties]], as in England and [[Canada]], function as administrative subdivisions of a state and [[Unitary state|have no sovereign jurisdiction of their own]], although some have authority to enact and enforce [[Municipal code|municipal ordinances]]. Counties administer state or provincial law at the local level as part of the decentralization of state/provincial authority. In many U.S. states, state government is further decentralized by dividing counties into [[civil township]]s, to provide local government services to residents of the county who do not live in [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] [[city|cities]] or [[town]]s.
 
The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of the [[Qing dynasty]]. Changes of location and names of counties in [[History of China|Chinese history]] have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in [[Mainland China]] out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions.
A county seat is usually, but not always, an incorporated municipality. The exceptions include, but are not limited to, the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as [[Arlington County, Virginia]] and [[Howard County, Maryland]]. ([[Ellicott City, Maryland|Ellicott City]], the county seat of Howard County, is the largest unincorporated county seat in the United States, followed by [[Towson, Maryland|Towson]], the county seat of [[Baltimore County, Maryland]].) The county courthouse and county administration are usually located in the county seat, but some functions may also be conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large.
 
== Taiwan ==
==U.S. counties with more than one county seat==
{{Main|County (Taiwan)}}
Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in [[Alabama]], [[Arkansas]], [[Iowa]], [[Kentucky]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Mississippi]], [[Missouri]], [[New Hampshire]], and [[Vermont]] have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of the county. An example is [[Harrison County, Mississippi]], which lists both [[Biloxi, Mississippi|Biloxi]] and [[Gulfport, Mississippi|Gulfport]] as county seats. The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of pride (and jobs) for the towns involved.{{fact|date=November 2011}}
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[[File:苗栗縣政府 Miaoli County Government - panoramio.jpg|thumb|[[Miaoli]], the county seat of [[Miaoli County]] in Taiwan]]
In [[Taiwan]], the first counties were first established in 1661 by the [[Kingdom of Tungning]]. The later ruler [[Taiwan under Qing rule|Qing empire]] inherited this type of administrative divisions. With the increase of [[Han Chinese]] population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. [[Protestant missions in China|Protestant missionaries]] in China first romanized the term as '''hien'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davidson |first1=James W. |author-link=James W. Davidson |title=The Island of Formosa, Past and Present: History, People, Resources, and Commercial Prospects: Tea, Camphor, Sugar, Gold, Coal, Sulphur, Economical Plants, and Other Productions |year=1903 |publisher=Macmillan & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00davi |location=London and New York |ol=6931635M |page=[https://archive.org/details/islandofformosap00davi/page/93 93]}}</ref> When [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Taiwan]] became a [[Empire of Japan|Japanese colony]] in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the [[Administrative divisions of Japan|Japanese system]] in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.
 
By September 1945, Taiwan was divided into 8 [[prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] ({{lang|ja|州}} and {{lang|ja|廳}}), which remained after the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] took over.
There are 34 counties with multiple county seats (no more than two each) in 9 states:
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*[[Coffee County, Alabama]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coffeecounty.us/History.html|title=History of Coffee County|author=Coffee County, Alabama|accessdate=2011-08-19}}</ref><!-- NACo lists only one, but county website says there are two. -->
*[[St. Clair County, Alabama]]
*[[Arkansas County, Arkansas]]
*[[Carroll County, Arkansas]]
*[[Clay County, Arkansas]]
*[[Craighead County, Arkansas]]
*[[Franklin County, Arkansas]]
*[[Logan County, Arkansas]]
*[[Mississippi County, Arkansas]]
*[[Prairie County, Arkansas]]
*[[Sebastian County, Arkansas]]
*[[Yell County, Arkansas]]
*[[Lee County, Iowa]]
*[[Campbell County, Kentucky]]
*[[Kenton County, Kentucky]]
*[[Essex County, Massachusetts]]
*[[Middlesex County, Massachusetts]]
*[[Plymouth County, Massachusetts]]
*[[Bolivar County, Mississippi]]
*[[Carroll County, Mississippi]]
*[[Chickasaw County, Mississippi]]
*[[Harrison County, Mississippi]]
*[[Hinds County, Mississippi]]
*[[Jasper County, Mississippi]]
*[[Jones County, Mississippi]]
*[[Panola County, Mississippi]]
*[[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi]]
*[[Yalobusha County, Mississippi]]
*[[Jackson County, Missouri]]
*[[Hillsborough County, New Hampshire]]
*[[Bennington County, Vermont]]
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There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as [[county-administered city|county-administered cities]], [[Township (Taiwan)|urban townships]], or [[Township (Taiwan)|rural townships]].
==Other variations==
[[Connecticut]] (since 1960) and [[Rhode Island]] have no county level of government and thus no county seats; in those states, counties exist today as little more than lines drawn on a map (and a judicial function in Rhode Island).
 
===Lists of county seats===
In [[Vermont]], the county seats are called ''shire towns''. County government consists only of a [[Superior Court]] and [[Sheriff]] (as an [[officer of the court]]), both located in the respective shire town. [[Bennington County, Vermont|Bennington County]] has two shire towns ([[Manchester, Vermont|Manchester]] for the ''North Shire'', [[Bennington, Vermont|Bennington]] for the ''South Shire''), but both the Court and the Sheriff are in Bennington.
{{see also|Counties of Taiwan}}
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* [[Changhua City]]
* [[Douliu]] City
* [[Hualien City]]
* [[Jincheng, Kinmen|Jincheng Township]]
* [[Magong, Taiwan|Magong City]]
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* [[Miaoli City]]
* [[Nangan, Lienchiang|Nangan Township]]
* [[Nantou City]]
* [[Pingtung City]]
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* [[Taibao]] City
* [[Taitung City]]
* [[Yilan City]]
* [[Zhubei]] City
|}
 
==United States==
In [[Massachusetts]], most government functions which would otherwise be performed by county governments in other states are performed by town governments (there are no unincorporated areas in the state, that is, all land area in the state is within a town). As such, Massachusetts has dissolved many of its county governments, and the state government now operates the registries of deeds and sheriff's offices in those former counties.
[[File:Allentown.jpg|thumb|[[Allentown, Pennsylvania]], the third-largest city in [[Pennsylvania]] and county seat of [[Lehigh County, Pennsylvania|Lehigh County]]]]
[[File:Renville County Courthouse MN.jpg|thumb|Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as this one in [[Renville County, Minnesota]].]]
===Function===
[[File:QACourthouse QueenstownMD.jpg|thumb|The old courthouse in [[Centreville, Maryland]], the county seat of [[Queen Anne's County, Maryland]], U.S.]]
In most of the [[United States]], a [[County (United States)|county]] is an [[Administrative division|administrative]] or political subdivision of a [[U.S. state|state]] that consists of a geographic area with specific [[Border|boundaries]] and usually some level of governmental authority.<ref name=NACO>{{cite web |url = http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/Overview.aspx |title = An Overview of County Government |work = [[National Association of Counties]] |access-date = 25 April 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130417063950/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/Overview.aspx |archive-date = 17 April 2013 |url-status = dead |df = mdy-all }}</ref> The city, town, or populated place that houses county government is known as the '''seat''' of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in the county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large.
 
A county seat is usually an incorporated [[municipality]]. The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as [[Arlington County, Virginia]], where the county seat is the entire county.<ref>{{cite web|title=Counties in Virginia and the Location of Their Seats of Government|url=http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/CommissiononLocalGovernment/PDFs/county.seats.pdf|publisher=Virginia Commission on Local Government|access-date=10 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113040156/http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/CommissiononLocalGovernment/PDFs/county.seats.pdf|archive-date=13 November 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Ellicott City, Maryland|Ellicott City]], the county seat of [[Howard County, Maryland]], is the largest unincorporated county seat in the United States, followed by [[Towson, Maryland|Towson]], the county seat of [[Baltimore County, Maryland]]. Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, [[Cape May Court House, New Jersey]], though unincorporated, is a section of [[Middle Township, New Jersey|Middle Township]], an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original [[Thirteen Colonies]], county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as [[Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia]].
In [[Virginia]], a county seat may be an [[independent city]] surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, [[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax City]] is both the county seat of [[Fairfax County]] and is completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county.
 
===U.S. counties with more than one county seat===
Two counties in [[South Dakota]] ([[Shannon County, South Dakota|Shannon]] and [[Todd County, South Dakota|Todd]]) have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by [[Fall River County, South Dakota|Fall River County]] and [[Tripp County, South Dakota|Tripp County]], respectively.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}
Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in [[Alabama]], [[Arkansas]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Iowa]], [[Kentucky]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Mississippi]], [[Missouri]], [[New Hampshire]], [[New York (state)|New York]], and [[Vermont]] have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of the county. Examples include [[Harrison County, Mississippi]], which has both [[Biloxi, Mississippi|Biloxi]] and [[Gulfport, Mississippi|Gulfport]] as county seats, and [[Hinds County, Mississippi]], which has both [[Raymond, Mississippi|Raymond]] and the state capital of [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]]. The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of [[boosterism|civic pride]] for the towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities.
 
==ListsThere ofare U.S.36 counties with multiple county seats byin 11 state==states:
* [[Coffee County, Alabama]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coffeecounty.us/History.html|title=History of Coffee County|author=Coffee County, Alabama|access-date=19 August 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027140704/http://www.coffeecounty.us/History.html|archive-date=27 October 2011}}</ref><!-- NACo lists only one, but county website says there are two. -->
The state with the greatest number of counties is Texas, with 254, and the state with the least number of counties is Delaware, with 3.
* [[St. Clair County, Alabama]]
* [[Arkansas County, Arkansas]]
* [[Carroll County, Arkansas]]
* [[Clay County, Arkansas]]
* [[Craighead County, Arkansas]]
* [[Franklin County, Arkansas]]
* [[Logan County, Arkansas]]
* [[Mississippi County, Arkansas]]
* [[Prairie County, Arkansas]]
* [[Sebastian County, Arkansas]]
* [[Yell County, Arkansas]]
* [[Columbia County, Georgia]]
* [[Lee County, Iowa]]
* [[Campbell County, Kentucky]]
* [[Kenton County, Kentucky]]
* [[Essex County, Massachusetts]]
* [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts]]
* [[Plymouth County, Massachusetts]]
* [[Bolivar County, Mississippi]]
* [[Carroll County, Mississippi]]
* [[Chickasaw County, Mississippi]]
* [[Harrison County, Mississippi]]
* [[Hinds County, Mississippi]]
* [[Jasper County, Mississippi]]
* [[Jones County, Mississippi]]
* [[Panola County, Mississippi]]
* [[Tallahatchie County, Mississippi]]
* [[Yalobusha County, Mississippi]]
* [[Jackson County, Missouri]]
* [[Hillsborough County, New Hampshire]]
* [[Seneca County, New York]]
* [[Bennington County, Vermont]]
 
===Other variations===
====Alaska====
[[Alaska]] is divided into [[List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska|boroughs]] rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The [[Unorganized Borough, Alaska]], which covers 49% of the state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the [[Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska|Lake and Peninsula Borough]], has its borough seat located in another borough, namely [[King Salmon, Alaska|King Salmon]] in [[Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska|Bristol Bay Borough]].
 
====Louisiana====
In [[Louisiana]], which is divided into [[List of parishes in Louisiana|parishes]] rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats".
 
====New England====
In [[New England]], counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. [[Rhode Island]] has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and [[Massachusetts]] has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In [[Vermont]], [[Massachusetts]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleII/Chapter231/Section82|title=MGL c. 231, s. 82|access-date= 15 July 2013}}</ref> and [[Maine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/33/title33sec701.html|title=Title 33, §701: Office in shire town|work=mainelegislature.org}}</ref> county government consists only of a [[Superior Court]] and [[Sheriffs in the United States|Sheriff]] (as an [[officer of the court]]), both located in a designated "shire town." Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town [[Manchester, Vermont|Manchester]], and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington.{{cn|date=August 2023}}
 
In 2024, [[Connecticut]], which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending the use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the [[United States Census Bureau]] to a system of [[Councils of governments in Connecticut|councils of government]] for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Proposed Change to County Equivalents in Connecticut|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/ct_county_equiv_change.pdf|website=US Census Bureau}}</ref>
 
====South Dakota====
Two counties in [[South Dakota]], [[Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota|Oglala Lakota]] and [[Todd County, South Dakota|Todd]], have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by [[Fall River County, South Dakota|Fall River County]] and [[Tripp County, South Dakota|Tripp County]], respectively.<ref name=Sdcounties>{{cite web |title=Shannon County, South Dakota |url=https://oglalalakota.sdcounties.org/ |website=Sdcounties.org |access-date=1 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425051054/https://oglalalakota.sdcounties.org/ |archive-date=25 April 2012}}</ref>
 
====Virginia====
In [[Virginia]], a county seat may be an [[independent city (United States)|independent city]] surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, [[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax City]] is both the county seat of [[Fairfax County, Virginia]] and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in the independent city under an agreement, such as in [[Albemarle County, Virginia|Albemarle]], or may in be [[enclave and exclave|enclave]]s of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax]]. Others, such as [[Prince William County, Virginia|Prince William]], have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city:
*[[Albemarle County, Virginia|Albemarle County]] ([[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]])
*[[Alleghany County, Virginia|Alleghany County]] ([[Covington, Virginia|Covington]])
*[[Augusta County, Virginia|Augusta County]] ([[Staunton, Virginia|Staunton]])
*[[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax County]] ([[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax]])
*[[Frederick County, Virginia|Frederick County]] ([[Winchester, Virginia|Winchester]])
*[[Greensville County, Virginia|Greensville County]] ([[Emporia, Virginia|Emporia]])
*[[Henry County, Virginia|Henry County]] ([[Martinsville, Virginia|Martinsville]])
*[[James City County, Virginia|James City County]] ([[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]])
*[[Prince William County, Virginia|Prince William County]] ([[Manassas, Virginia|Manassas]])
*[[Roanoke County, Virginia|Roanoke County]] ([[Salem, Virginia|Salem]])
*[[Rockbridge County, Virginia|Rockbridge County]] ([[Lexington, Virginia|Lexington]])
*[[Rockingham County, Virginia|Rockingham County]] ([[Harrisonburg, Virginia|Harrisonburg]])
[[Bedford,_Virginia|Bedford]] was an independent city from 1968 to 2013, while also being the county seat of [[Bedford County, Virginia|Bedford County]]. Bedford reverted to an incorporated town, and remains the county seat, though is now part of the county.
 
===Lists of U.S. county seats by state===
The state with the most counties is Texas, with 254, and the state with the fewest counties is Delaware, with 3.
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* [[List of Alabamacounties countyin seatsAlabama|Alabama]]
* [[List of Alaskacounties boroughin seatsAlaska|Alaska]]
* [[List of Arizonacounties countyin seatsArizona|Arizona]]
* [[List of Arkansascounties countyin seatsArkansas|Arkansas]]
* [[List of Californiacounties countyin seatsCalifornia|California]]
* [[List of Coloradocounties countyin seatsColorado|Colorado]]
* [[List of Connecticutcounties countyin seatsConnecticut|Connecticut]]
* [[List of Delawarecounties countyin seatsDelaware|Delaware]]
* [[List of Floridacounties countyin seatsFlorida|Florida]]
* [[List of counties in Georgia county(U.S. seatsstate)|Georgia]]
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* [[List of Hawaiicounties countyin seatsHawaii|Hawaii]]
* [[List of Idahocounties countyin seatsIdaho|Idaho]]
* [[List of Illinoiscounties countyin seatsIllinois|Illinois]]
* [[List of Indianacounties countyin seatsIndiana|Indiana]]
* [[List of Iowacounties countyin seatsIowa|Iowa]]
* [[List of Kansascounties countyin seatsKansas|Kansas]]
* [[List of Kentuckycounties countyin seatsKentucky|Kentucky]]
* [[List of Louisianacounties parishin seatsLouisiana|Louisiana]]
* [[List of Mainecounties countyin seatsMaine|Maine]]
* [[List of Marylandcounties countyin seatsMaryland|Maryland]]
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* [[List of Massachusettscounties countyin seatsMassachusetts|Massachusetts]]
* [[List of Michigancounties countyin seatsMichigan|Michigan]]
* [[List of Minnesotacounties countyin seatsMinnesota|Minnesota]]
* [[List of Mississippicounties countyin seatsMississippi|Mississippi]]
* [[List of Missouricounties countyin seatsMissouri|Missouri]]
* [[List of Montanacounties countyin seatsMontana|Montana]]
* [[List of Nebraskacounties countyin seatsNebraska|Nebraska]]
* [[List of Nevadacounties countyin seatsNevada|Nevada]]
* [[List of Newcounties Hampshirein countyNew seatsHampshire|New Hampshire]]
* [[List of Newcounties Jerseyin countyNew seatsJersey|New Jersey]]
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* [[List of Newcounties Mexicoin countyNew seatsMexico|New Mexico]]
* [[List of Newcounties Yorkin countyNew seatsYork|New York]]
* [[List of Northcounties Carolinain countyNorth seatsCarolina|North Carolina]]
* [[List of Northcounties Dakotain countyNorth seatsDakota|North Dakota]]
* [[List of Ohiocounties countyin seatsOhio|Ohio]]
* [[List of Oklahomacounties countyin seatsOklahoma|Oklahoma]]
* [[List of Oregoncounties countyin seatsOregon|Oregon]]
* [[List of Pennsylvaniacounties countyin seatsPennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]
* [[List of Rhodecounties Islandin countyRhode seatsIsland|Rhode Island]]
* [[List of Southcounties Carolinain countySouth seatsCarolina|South Carolina]]
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* [[List of Southcounties Dakotain countySouth seatsDakota|South Dakota]]
* [[List of counties in Tennessee|Tennessee]]
* [[List of Texascounties countyin seatsTexas|Texas]]
* [[List of Utahcounties countyin seatsUtah|Utah]]
* [[List of Vermontcounties countyin seatsVermont|Vermont]]
* [[List of Virginiacounties countyin seatsVirginia|Virginia]]
* [[List of Washingtoncounties countyin seatsWashington|Washington]]
* [[List of Westcounties Virginiain countyWest seatsVirginia|West Virginia]]
* [[List of Wisconsincounties countyin seatsWisconsin|Wisconsin]]
* [[List of Wyomingcounties countyin seatsWyoming|Wyoming]]
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==See also==
* {{lang|fr|[[Administrative centre|Chef-lieu]]}}, administrative centres in [[Algeria]], [[Belgium]], [[France]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Switzerland]], and [[Tunisia]]
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* [[County seat war]], disputes between towns in the formation of the United States
*[[Administrative center]]
* [[County town]], administrative centres in [[Ireland]] and the UK[[United Kingdom]]
*[[Chef-lieu]], administrative centres in Algeria, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, and Tunisia
 
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.naco.org/ National Association of Counties]
 
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[[ja:郡庁所在地]]
[[no:Fylkessete]]
[[pt:Sede de condado]]
[[ro:Reședință de comitat]]
[[ru:Окружной центр (США)]]
[[sq:County Seat]]
[[simple:County seat]]
[[vi:Quận lỵ]]
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