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  1. administrative unit of a country or state. In
  2. the US a county is a subdivision of a state;
  3. the power of counties differs widely between
  4. states. In the UK it is nowadays synonymous
  5. with `shire,` although historically the two
  6. had different origins. Many of the English
  7. counties can be traced back to Saxon times.
  8. The republic of Ireland has 26 geographical
  9. and 27 administrative counties.
  10.