Hopewell Junction is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 2,610 at the 2000 census. It is part of the PoughkeepsieâNewburghâMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkâNewarkâBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. Hopewell Junction is located within the Town of East Fishkill. It was ranked #31 on Money Magazine's Most Desirable Places to Live for 2005. Hopewell Junction was originally a railroad junction where the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad met the New York and New England Railroad and Dutchess County Railroad.
province - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; his state is in the deep south. state. administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes.
A unitary state is a state governed as one single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (subnational units) exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate. The majority of states in the world have a unitary system of government.Of the 193 UN member states, 165 of them are governed as unitary state. Unitary states are contrasted with federal states (federations) and confederal states (confederation):1  In a unitary state, subnational units are created and abolished, and their powers may be broadened and narrowed, by the central government. Many federal states also have unitary lower levels of government; while the United States is federal, the states themselves are unitary under Dillon's Rule â counties and municipalities have only the authority granted to them by the state governments under their state constitution or by legislative acts.