county

Summary

county is an administrative territorial entity type^[1]. county ranks in the top 10% of administrative_territorial_entity_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,443 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• county's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity type^[3].
• county is a type of administrative territorial entity^[4].
• county is a type of region^[5].
• county's Commons category is recorded as Counties^[6].
• county's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Counties^[7].
• county's described at URL is recorded as https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#county^[8].
• county's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=county^[9].
• county's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as border_type=county^[10].
• county's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[11].
• county's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic^[12].
• county's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[13].
• county's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5^[14].
• county's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C49292^[15].
• county's different from is recorded as County^[16].
• county's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

county's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity type^[3]. Recorded subclass of include administrative territorial entity^[4] and region^[5].

Why It Matters

county ranks in the top 10% of administrative_territorial_entity_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,443 views/month).^[2] county has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] county is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]