georgia has the most counties in it.
georgia has the most counties in it.
which state has the most counties in it?
georgia
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 10 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. maryland, missouri and nevada are each composed entirely of counties, except that each also has exactly one independent city: baltimore, st. louis, and carson city, respectively. the district of columbia is a single federal district. all of the above 135 exceptional cases are reckoned as county equivalents. the number of counties (or equivalents) per state ranges from the three counties of delaware, to the 254 counties of texas. in new england, where the town model predominates, several counties have no corresponding local governments, existing only as historical legal and census boundaries. these are the counties of connecticut and rhode island, as well as 8 of massachusetts' 14 counties. in all, the 50 states consist of 3,141 counties and equivalents. adding the district of columbia gives 3,142.
list of united states counties and county equivalents
following the kansas supreme court ruling in "schmidt v. moriarty", kansas equality confirmed that 19 counties were issuing licenses to same-sex couples: brown, chase, cherokee, cloud, cowley, crawford, douglas, jewell, johnson, labette, lincoln, lyon, mitchell, republic, riley, sedgwick, shawnee, washington and wyandotte. on november 20, judge richard walker, chief of the state's 9th judicial district, said his district began issuing. administrative directives existed in the 8th and 19th districts to issue as well. judge ed bouker, chief of the state's 23rd judicial district, also mentioned he would issue licenses although "...no one has [yet] filled out an application." this adds the following counties to those issuing licenses: dickinson, ellis, geary, gove, harvey, marion, mcpherson, morris, rooks and trego. a november 24 update by kansas equality added the following counties, not listed previously, as issuing licenses: doniphan, marshall, and nemaha. the following day, kansas equality confirmed the state's 31st district, adding allen, neosho, wilson, and woodson counties. as of december 16, kansas equality reported another 7 counties were issuing such licenses: clark, clay, comanche, ford, gray, kiowa, meade counties. the six counties in the 26th judicial district began issuing licenses during the week of december 22: grant, haskell, morton, seward, stanton, and stevens counties. altogether these 54 counties include 76% of the state's population. the 1st judicial district which includes atchison and leavenworth approved handing licenses, as did the 6th judicial district, comprising miami, linn, and bourbon counties. the 28th judicial district, which includes ottawa and saline counties, began issuing licenses in february. on june 26, the 27th judicial district which includes reno agreed to start issuing same-sex marriages licenses, bringing the total population living in counties that issue same sex marriage licenses to 86%.
same-sex marriage in kansas