A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. Close X. Advocacy Virginia Opioid Abatement Information. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state.
Social Media. The most notable examples are the six counties and independent cities where more than 40 percent of all residents are between the ages of 20 and Colleges or military bases push up the numbers in these six hotbeds of youth culture. The national leader, Riley County, Kan. Young adults account for The database below has breakdowns for the age group in all 3, counties and independent cities IC across the country.
See also: Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia. In the Canadian province of Ontario , the same type of city is referred to as a single-tier municipality there are also separated municipalities. In Quebec they are often called separated cities, as they are not Regional County Municipalities. Cities and towns in Alberta are not part of rural municipalities such as counties.
In New Brunswick , all county government was abolished in , therefore, in theory, all cities, townships, and settlements in New Brunswick could be considered independent cities. In Austria , a similar concept is the Statutarstadt. The City-state of Bremen is comprised solely of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven which was originally founded as an ocean port for the city of Bremen.
In Norway , Oslo is both a municipality kommune and a county fylke within itself. In Poland , many of the biggest cities comprise their own city counties formally "cities with county rights".
They are suitably marked on the list of counties in Poland. In Hungary 23 of the cities are "cities with county rights", these cities have equal rights with the 19 counties of Hungary.
Some cities in the United Kingdom have unitary authority status, and could be considered to be independent cities. In the UK, however, "city" has no inherent status; city status depends on a grant from the monarch and merely confers on the place so designated the right to call itself a city. The standard for such a right was once thought to depend on whether the entity had a cathedral.
As is now made clear by the Department for Constitutional Affairs [2] , there are no formal criteria such as this for the city to apply for, and be granted city status in the UK. County borough referred to a borough or a city independent of county council control in England and Wales from to with the term continuing in use in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Wales re-introduced the term in for use with certain unitary authorities. Under the administrative division system of the Republic of China , some cities are directly administered by the Executive Yuan , some are administered by provinces the province of Taiwan is nominal , and some are subordinate to counties. The centrally-administered and province-administered ones are like independent cities under this definition.
In mainland China under the administration of People's Republic of China, the Cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing are centrally-administered province-level regions, and they do not belong to any particular province. Additionally, there are several vice provincial cities that are nominally under provinces but are in reality independent of any provinces. Within some provinces, there are some cities that are directly under provinces, bypassing an administrative level prefectures and prefecture-level cities.
Hong Kong and Macau are two Special Administrative Region SAR of China which have high degree autonomy except acts of state like diplomatic relations and national defence.
In addition to its nine provinces, South Korea has a total of seven province-level "metropolitan cities. Historically, these independent cities have been carved from the province that surrounds them. Consequently, they typically share a strong regional and cultural identity with the adjoining province s.
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