Loving County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Mentone. It is the least populous county in Texas.


Lubbock County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Lubbock.


Lynn County

Named after William (or George Washington) Lynn (sources differ on this).

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Tahoka.


Maverick County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Eagle Pass.


McCulloch County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Brady.


McLennan County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Waco.


McMullen County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Tilden.


Milam County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Cameron.


Motley County

Named after Junius William Mottley (note spelling difference).

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Matador.


Nacogdoches County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Nacogdoches.


Ochiltree County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Perryton.


Palo Pinto County

Named after Palo Pinto Creek, from Spanish palo pinto (“painted stick”).

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Palo Pinto.


Pecos County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Fort Stockton.


Presidio County

Named after the Presidio del Norte, an old border fort and settlement.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Marfa.


Rains County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Emory.


Reeves County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Pecos.


Refugio County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Refugio.


Rockwall County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Rockwall.


San Augustine County

Named either after Augustine of Hippo or the county seat.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: San Augustine.


San Jacinto County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Coldspring.


Shackelford County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Albany.


Somervell County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Glen Rose.


Stonewall County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Aspermont.


Swisher County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Tulia.


Terry County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Brownfield.


Throckmorton County

Named after William Edward Throckmorton.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Throckmorton.


Upton County

Named after brothers John C. and William F. Upton.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Rankin.


Val Verde County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Del Rio.


Waller County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Hempstead.


Webb County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Laredo.


Wharton County

Named after brothers William H. Wharton and John Austin Wharton.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Wharton.

John Austin Wharton (1806–38)
William H. Wharton


Wilbarger County

Named after Josiah P. and Mathias Wilbarger.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Vernon.


Willacy County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Raymondville.


Zapata County

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Zapata.


Przemyśl

/pəˈʃɛmɪʃəl/

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Przemyśl.

ubor

A county, a powiat in Subcarpathia, in southeastern Poland; in full, Przemyśl County. County seat: Przemyśl.


Yilan

Those who know Formosa will have heard of a large rice-producing place called Kapsulan. This place, known officially as Komalan-t'ing was changed in January 1878 into Yilan-hsien (宜蘭縣), by which name it is now known.

[1880 February 20, “Tamsui Trade Report for the Year 1879”, in Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879, Shanghai, page 181:

Wu, concurrently manager of the Taiwan Petroleum Exploration Division of CPC, said his division has conducted geographical surveys in Taipei, Tainan, and Yilan Counties, covering an area of 497 square kilometers.
Seismic surveys of costal areas covering 604 square kilometers also have been conducted, as well as a gravity survey of coastal areas in Yilan.

1977 August 14, “Petroleum corporation stepping up search for oil and gas on Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, page 4:

In December 1971, the ROC government included the Diaoyutai Islets in the administrative district of Yilan county of Taiwan province.

1998, Wang Ke-wen, editor, Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, New York & London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

Taiwan’s Yilan County in the northeast was hit the hardest by Dujuan’s strongest winds on the right side of the eye.

2015 September 28, Angela Fritz, “Watch Typhoon Dujuan roar ashore in Taiwan with violent 140 mph winds”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-01, CAPITAL WEATHER GANG:

On Monday morning, the Taiwan Railways Administration released a 12-second video of the moment the Puyuma Express train derailed in northeast Taiwan’s Yilan County. The train was carrying 366 passengers.[…]
Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and its premier, Lai Ching-te, both visited Yilan County after the accident.

2018 October 22, Chris Horton, “8 Members of Family Killed in Taiwan’s Worst Rail Crash in Decades”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-22, Asia Pacific:


Korçë

Borrowed from Albanian Korçë, from a South Slavic language. See the archaic Bulgarian word горица (gorica, “little mountain”), which could refer to the mountain of Morava as the city was under Bulgarian rule during the Middle Ages.

A city in southeastern Albania, located on a plateau west of the mountain of Morava; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.


Cornubia

(literary) Cornwall: A peninsula, cultural area, maritime ceremonial county, and duchy in England; forming its south-western extremity, bordered by Devon in the east.


Lianjiang

Lienkong (alternative)
Lienchiang (alternative)
Lien-chiang (alternative)
Lienkiang (alternative)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 連江／连江 (Liánjiāng).

連江 /连江

county in eastern China; town in eastern China ; alternative form of Lienchiang (Matsu Islands)

With the promulgation of the Statue^([sic – meaning Statute]) for the Security and Guidance of Quemoy, Matsu, and the Pratas and Spratly Areas on August 7, 1992, the villagers in Jinmen and Lianjiang (Lienchiang, i.e. Matsu) counties held their first elections in November 1993 respectively to have their county magistrates locally elected.

1996, T. K. Tong, “Historical Relations”, in Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai, editors, 中國大陸與臺灣 [Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents], Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46:

With programs such as Taiwan’s Advancements and Every Road Leads to Freedom, the Matsu Broadcasting Station (馬祖廣播電台) commenced its daily broadcasts toward the coast of China’s Fujian Province on June 15, 1959.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, then-political warfare bureau chief Chiang Chien-jen (蔣堅忍) announced the station’s objectives: to provide entertainment to the soldiers stationed on the tiny island off the coast of China and to “broadcast the voice of justice and freedom to sway the hearts of our compatriots on the mainland.”
According to the Chronicle of Lianjiang County (連江縣誌), that year the station broadcast 1,872 hours of propaganda, leading to 53 communist defections.
Although Taiwan had been broadcasting propaganda to China since 1949, the station’s establishment was part of a nationwide effort in 1959 to ramp up its psychological warfare operations. In Matsu, this included upgrading the existing loudspeakers and setting up a facility to send balloons containing propaganda messages.

2019 June 9, Han Cheung, “Taiwan in Time: The airwaves of ‘freedom’”, in Taipei Times:

Wang said the ancestral homes of Matsu's people are found in the Lienchiang area (written “Lianjiang” in China), which is now divided between the territories of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China. “Their bloodline, language, religion, customs, and lifestyles are all extremely similar,” he said.

2024 May 13, Jono Thomson, “Magistrate of Taiwan's Matsu seeks bridge, infrastructure connections with China”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2024-05-13, Cross-strait:

Alternative form of Lienchiang: a county of Fujian, Taiwan; administrative name for the Matsu Islands.


Mid Glamorgan

A county of Wales formed from part of the traditional county of Glamorgan in 1974. It was abolished in 1996 for administrative purposes, but retained as a preserved county.


Honolulu County

A county of Hawaii, United States. County seat: Honolulu.


Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

/dʊn ˈlɪəɹə ræθˈdaʊn/

A county of Ireland formed in 1994 from the borough of Dún Laoghaire and parts of County Dublin.


Accomac County

Named after the Accawmack Indians who inhabited the area.

(historical) Obsolete spelling of Accomack County: a county of Virginia, United States.


Nowy Targ

From Polish Nowy Targ (literally “New Market”).

bor

A county of Podhale, Lesser Poland, Poland.


Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg

An administrative county in northeastern Hungary.


Magwi

Eastern Equatoria
Eastern Equatoria#English

A county of Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan, on the border with Uganda.


Alfalfa

From alfalfa, from Spanish, from Arabic.

Ellipsis of Alfalfa County: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States.


Vlorë

Borrowed from Albanian Vlorë, from Ancient Greek Αυλών (Aulṓn), the name given to the city by its settlers in the 6th century BC.

The third largest city in Albania, located on the Bay of Vlorë and the foothills of the Ceraunian Mountains at the Strait of Otranto; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.


Kukës

A city in northeastern Albania, located in the north of the Luma between the rivers Black Drin and White Drin just upstream from their confluence into the river Drin; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.


Berat

Borrowed from Albanian Berat, from Ottoman Turkish برات (Berat), from Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ, “white city, white town”), a name given to the city in the 9th century by its Bulgarian occupants, which in turn is a compound of бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) (from Proto-Slavic *bělъ) and градъ (gradŭ, “city, town”) (from Proto-Slavic *gordъ). Doublet of Belgrade, Beograd, and Belgorod.

doublet

A culturally significant city surrounded by mountains in south-central Albania, located on the right bank of the river Osum and west of the Tomorr mountain range; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.


Lezhë

Borrowed from Albanian Lezhë, through phonetic shifts from Latin Lissus, from Ancient Greek Λίσσος (Líssos).

A growing city in northwestern Albania, located 5-6 km southeast of Shëngjin slightly northeast of the southern mouth of the river Drin (Small Drin), which passes through the town; the town is best known for being one of the former centres of the Illyrian kingdom and for its typically Illyrian fortification walls; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.


Nowotarski

en-proper-noun

Nowotarski (countable and uncountable, plural Nowotarskis)

Nowotarski County
Nowotarski County#English

(uncountable) Ellipsis of Nowotarski County: a county of Podhale, Lesser Poland, Poland.


Attala

Ellipsis of Attala County: a county of Mississippi, United States.


Hastings County

The county is named after British politician and military officer Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754 - 1826).

A county in south-east Ontario, Canada. County seat: Belleville.


Troms og Finnmark

Borrowed from Norwegian Troms og Finnmark.


Annapolis County

Named after Annapolis Royal, which became the county seat.


Neamț

A river and county of Romania. Capital: Piatra Neamț.


Bruce County

A county in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, named after James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin.


God's own county

(British) Nickname for Yorkshire: a county in northeast England.


Yarmouth County

The county is named after the community of Yarmouth.


Kimhyŏnggwŏn County

From Korean 김형권군(金亨權郡) (Gimhyeonggwon'gun). Named after Korean revolutionary Kim Hyŏnggwŏn, uncle of Kim Il Sung.

named-after

According to the north Korean Central Broadcasting Station on August 15, the Central People's Committee (north Korea's highest government body) issued on August 12 two administrative decrees, one to name Pungsan County of Yanggang Province as Kimhyonggwon County and Pungsan District Kimhyonggwon District, and the other to name Pabal Senior High School in Pungsan County Kimhyonggwon Senior High School, in order to preserve the land associated with[…]
and Pungsan County in Yanggang Province Kimhyonggwon District and Kimhyonggwon County. Kim Hyong-gwon is President Kim Il-sung's deceased uncle. The committee also issues a decree naming Pabal Senior High School of Kimhyonggwon Senior High School.

1990, North Korea News, numbers 508-559, →OCLC, pages 3, 6:

[…]in Hwangsuwon-ri of Kimhyonggwon County of Yanggang Province, an area situated north of the Pujollyong mountain range.

1999, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific, number 3575-3587, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:

A separate source in Ryanggang Province said that when the sealed cargo section was opened, it was found to be carrying slaughtered sheep from Kimhyonggwon County under refrigeration. The rules stipulate that the truck cannot stop or rest after the cargo has been loaded and the cargo box cannot be opened while in transit.

2019 July 31, Kim Yoo Jin, “Soldiers who inspected Kim Jong Un’s personal food truck removed from duties”, in Daily NK, archived from the original on 2019-09-03:

A county in southeastern Ryanggang Province, North Korea.


Hexhamshire

From Middle English Hexhamschire; equivalent to Hexham + -shire.

A civil parish in Northumberland, England, to the south of Hexham.


Renfrew County

The county is named after Renfrew in Scotland.


South Dublin

A county of Ireland formed in 1994 from parts of the south of County Dublin.


Innlandet

A county in south-eastern Norway, formed on 1 January 2020 on the merger of Hedmark and Oppland.


Bandar Abbas

Borrowed from Persian بندر عباس (bandar abbâs).


Grey County

A county in Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, named after Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.


Vestland

Sogn og Fjordane
Sogn og Fjordane#Norwegian_Bokmål

A county in Western Norway, formed on 1 January 2020 on the merger of the counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane.


Lanark County

The county is named after Lanark in Scotland.

A county in Ontario, Canada. County seat: Perth.


Peterborough County

The county is named in honour of Canadian politician Peter Robinson (1785 - 1838).

A county in Southern Ontario, Canada, with its county seat in Peterborough, an independent city.


Digby County

The county is named after the Township of Digby, which is named in turn after naval officer Robert Digby (1732 - 1815).


Simcoe County

Named by colonial administrator John Graves Simcoe (1752 - 1806) in honour of his father, John Simcoe.

A county in Ontario, Canada, just north of the Greater Toronto Area.


Bjelovar-Bilogora

A county of Croatia. County seat: Bjelovar.


Brod-Posavina

A county of Croatia. County seat: Slavonski Brod.


Dubrovnik-Neretva

A county of Croatia. County seat: Dubrovnik.


Koprivnica-Križevci

A county of Croatia. County seat: Koprivnica.


Krapina-Zagorje

A county of Croatia. County seat: Krapina.


Lika-Senj

A county of Croatia. County seat: Gospić.


Osijek-Baranja

A county of Croatia. County seat: Osijek.


Požega-Slavonia

A county of Croatia. County seat: Požega.


Primorje-Gorski Kotar

A county of Croatia. County seat: Rijeka.


Šibenik-Knin

A county of Croatia. County seat: Šibenik.


Sisak-Moslavina

A county of Croatia. County seat: Sisak.


Split-Dalmatia

A county of Croatia. County seat: Split.


Virovitica-Podravina

A county of Croatia. County seat: Virovitica.


Vukovar-Syrmia

A county of Croatia. County seat: Vukovar.


Agder

A county in southern Norway, formed on 1 January 2020 on the merger of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder counties.


Antigonish County

desc

→ Scottish Gaelic: Siorramachd Antaiginis (calque)

The county is named after the town of Antigonish.


Lambton County

Named after British colonial administrator and politician John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792 - 1840). Lambton had visited the area of the future county in the late 1830s.


Shelburne County

The county is named after William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737 - 1805).


Colchester County

The county is named after Colchester in Essex, England.


Prince County

The county is named after George IV, the then-Prince of Wales.

Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island#English

A county of Prince Edward Island, Canada.


Albert County

→ French: Comté d'Albert (calque)

The county is named after Prince Albert (1819 - 1861).


Carleton County

→ French: Comté de Carleton (calque)

The county is named after the first lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, Thomas Carleton (c. 1735 - 1817).


Madawaska County

→ French: Comté de Madawaska (calque)

The county is named after the Madawaska river.


Restigouche County

→ French: Comté de Restigouche (calque)

The county is named after the Restigouche river.


Saint John County

→ French: Comté de Saint-Jean (calque)

The county is named after the city of Saint John.


Sunbury County

→ French: Comté de Sunbury (calque)

The county is named after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716 - 1771), who also held the title of Viscount Sunbury.


Westmorland County

→ French: Comté de Westmorland (calque)

The county is named for its location next to Cumberland County, as was the case in England at the time.


Cape Breton County

The county is named after Cape Breton Island.


Guysborough County

→ Scottish Gaelic: Siorramachd Am Mainisdear

The county is named after the community of Guysborough.


Hants County

The county is named after Hampshire in England. The name was likely inspired by nearby New Hampshire.


Inverness County

→ French: Comté d'Inverness (calque)

→ Scottish Gaelic: Siorramachd Inbhir Nis (calque)

The county is named after Inverness-shire in Scotland.


Pictou County

→ Scottish Gaelic: Siorramachd Piogto (calque)

The county is named after the town of Pictou.


Jarocin

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Jarocin.

Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.


Kumgang

A county of Kangwon Province, North Korea.


Khorramabad

Borrowed from Persian خرمآباد, from خرم (xorram) + ـآباد (abad).

bor

Persian خرمآباد


Frontenac County

Named after Louis de Buade de Frontenac, whose name comes from the Gallo-Roman name Frontinus + -acum.


Płock County

Calque of Polish powiat płocki, influenced by the city it's named after, Płock.

Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship#English

A county of Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.


Dufferin County

The county is named after British colonial administrator Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826 - 1902).


Elgin County

The county is named after British colonial administrator James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811 - 1863).


Haliburton County

The county is named after Canadian statesman and author Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865).


Lennox and Addington County

The county is named after the former Lennox County and Addington County.


Larestan

Transliteration of Persian لارستان, from لار (lâr, “Lar”, a city of Iran, capital of Larestan) + ـستان (-estan, “-stan”).


Nakuru

Nakuru County, one of 47 counties in Kenya.


Uasin Gishu

Uasin Gishu County, one of the 47 counties in Kenya. Capital: Eldoret.


United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

en-proper noun

the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville

A county in eastern Ontario, Canada, commonly known as Leeds and Grenville or Leeds Grenville.


Mława

A town and county of Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.


Oława

Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship#English

A town, county, and river in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.


Krosno Odrzańskie

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Krosno Odrzańskie.

ubor

Lubusz Voivodeship
Lubusz Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland.


Hrubieszów

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Hrubieszów.

Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.


Grójec

A town, gmina, and county of Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.


Kyongwon

Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.

[1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341:

Furthermore, border trade between the two countries was conducted at Chunggang (Chung-chiang), a small island in the estuary of the Yalu, Hoeryŏng (Hui-ning), and Kyŏng’wŏn (Ch’ing-yüan). The last two places are in the lower Tumen valley.

1968, Hae-jong Chun, “Sino-Korean Tributary Relations in the Ch’ing Period”, in John King Fairbank, editor, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:

An, one of the closest comrades of Kim II Sung from Manchuria, was also known as An Sang-gil. He was born on February 24, 1907, in Kyŏngwŏn, Hamgyŏng pukto, and participated in Kim’s guerrilla forces all during the 1930s.

1988, Dae-Sook Suh, Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 356:

Before heading into Wiwŏn, Mukedeng announced that, after inspecting the corpses and the border-crossing site, he would head upriver through the Kanggye region, travelling all the way to Kyongwon on the lower reaches of the Tumen River.

2007, Andre Schmid, “Tributary Relations and the Qing-Chosŏn Frontier on Mount Paektu”, in Diana Lary, editor, The Chinese State at the Borders, UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:

North Korean defector XXX testified that he/she was detained at Jongori Correctional Center in 2010. At the time, XXX (man, age 27 at the time) from Kyongwon County, North Hamgyoung province, was caught stealing cooked rice from the dining hall. He was forced to carry outside and bury human waste. When agents found him unable to fulfill the task, they beat him to death, after dragging him around.

2013 July, “The Reality of Civil and Political Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136:

Mr. Han, who retired from the Hamyon coal mines at age 60, was living in Kyongwon, in northeast North Korea, when a man showed up in August 2001, asking whether he wanted to meet his South Korean relatives. Mr. Han said he followed the man across the river border to China, his youngest son tagging along.

2020 August 7, Sang-Hun Choe, “For P.O.W., Landmark Verdict Against North Korea Is Long-Overdue Justice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07, Asia Pacific:

A county of North Hamgyong Province, North Korea.


Uiju

Article 5 permitted Chinese and Koreans to trade at Ch’aengmun and Ŭiju on the Yalu River and at Hun-ch’un and Hoeryŏng on the Tumen River, the duties to be 5 percent ad valorem on all goods except red ginseng.

1977, Martina Deuchler, “Korea Between China and Japan”, in Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885, University of Washington Press, published 1983, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 142:

Mukedeng next tried to get more information on the frontier by ordering some minor local officials to write a detailed description of all they knew about the geography between Uiju and the Pyesagun as far as Kapsan, even including the six commanderies in the lower stretches of the Yalu River.

Visitors to Sinuiju are often diverted to the city of Uiju, further north along the Amnok. It was first known as Ryongman, meaning ‘a river bend with dragons’, but the city’s history is largely steeped in battling invaders from every direction, mostly from China. From Koguryo a fort existed here and the city never lost its military significance. Peaceful trade links over the river made Uiju prosperous in times of peace, and it was the provincial capital from 1907 to 1923, when Sinuiju took over.

2008, Robert Willoughby, “The Border with China and Beyond”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204:

NKHR2008000011 2008-08-12; North Korean defector XXX testified that in March 2004 at Uiju County, North Pyongan Province he/she and two sisters also received one year sentence on charges of illegal border crossing, but had to serve more than a year at No. 11 correctional center. (Interview with defector XXX in Seoul on June 15, 2008).

2013 July, Defector XXX, quotee, “The Reality of Human Rights of North Korean Escapees”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 490:

Two short-range ballistic missiles took off from Uiju, a county near the northwestern corner of North Korea, and flew 267 miles before crashing off the country’s east coast, the South Korean military said.

2022 January 13, Sang-Hun Choe, “North Korea Fires 2 Ballistic Missiles After Lashing Out Over Sanctions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-15, Asia Pacific:

Commercial satellite images indicate that the first North Korean freight train that crossed the Yalu River last week then returned from China and unloaded cargo at an airfield in the border town of Uiju, according to the North Korea-focused 38 North website. The airfield is believed to have been converted to disinfect imported supplies, which may include food and medicine.

2022 January 28, Tong-hyung Kim, “N. Korea, after harsh 2-year lockdown, slowly reopens border”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-01-27:

A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.


Harghita

Borrowed from Romanian Harghita, from Hungarian Hargita.

Romanians are in the majority in the region, but not in certain pockets – such as the county of Harghita, where Hungarians make up 85 percent of the population. […] In M[i]ercurea-Ciuc, capital of Harghita, Hungarians in June demonstrated outside the police station, demanding that the Romanian word for the police be replaced by the Hungarian word.

1990 November 12, Celestine Bohlen, “Ethnic Rivalries Revive in East Europe”, in The New York Times, section A, page 1:


Gostynin

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Gostynin.


Przasnysz

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Przasnysz.


Cornewall

[…] noꝛ to any wollen clothes made in the countie of Coꝛnewall […]

1533, “Can acte concernyng clothes/called Ueſſes/made in the countie of Suffolke” (chapter xi), in Anno xiiii. et anno .xv. Henrici octaui, page 24:

Sir Edwarde Courtney and Peter his bꝛother biſhop of Exletter, retſed another army in deuouſhire and coꝛnewall.

1548, Edw. Halle, The union of the two noble, page 582:

England is the greateſt part, and is diuided into 40 Counties, which ve call ſhires, whereof ten (that is to ſay) Kent, Suſſex, Surrey, Southampton, Barkſhire, Wiltſhie, Dorſetſhire, Somerſetſhire, Deuonſhire and Cornewall, doe containe the firſt part that Iſland: which part bounding toward the South, ſtandeth berweene the Thames and the Sea.

1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590:

Obsolete spelling of Cornwall: a county of England.


Brzeziny

Lodz Voivodeship
Lodz Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.


Poddębice

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Poddębice.


Rasht

From Persian رشت (Rašt), of uncertain origin. Sometimes connected to رشتن (reštan, “to spin, to weave”) or its homonym رشتن (raštan, “to dye”), q.v., both with reference to the city's textile industry.


Brzesko

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Brzesko.

Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Lesser Poland Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.


Września

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Września.


Oborniki

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Oborniki.


Kisumu

Kisumu County, one of the 47 counties in Kenya, of which the city is the capital.


Kiambu

Kiambu County, one of 47 counties in Kenya.


Makueni

Makueni County, one of 47 counties in Kenya.


Machakos

Machakos County, one of 47 counties in Kenya.


Laikipia

Laikipia County, one of the 47 counties in Kenya, located on the Equator.


Telšiai

The capital city of Telšiai County, Lithuania.


Tauragė

A city, municipality, and county of Lithuania.


United Counties of Prescott and Russell

en-proper noun

the United Counties of Prescott and Russell

The county was created as a result of a merger between Russell County and Prescott County in 1820.

A county in the far east of Ontario, Canada. County seat: L'Orignal.


Ulleung

North Gyeongsang
North Gyeongsang#English

A county of North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.


Changjin

A county of South Hamgyong Province, North Korea.


Norfolke

1572, Thomas Palfreyman, “An exhortation ſent from a ſtraunger, a worthy and famous learned man of God, to the righte big he and mightie Prince, Edvvard Duke of Somerſet, for the ſeeking and quiet eſtablishing of peace and rightuouſneſle, in the Church of England: Immediatly vpon the commotions, ſodainly raiſed vp in the vveſt partes, as alſo in Suffolke and Norfolke. In the yeare of our Lord Chriſt. 1545.”, in A paraphrase uppon the epistle of the holie apostle S. Paule to the Romanes, page 86:

We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs,
As well appeareth by the cauſe you come,
Namely, to appeale each other of high treaſon.
Cooſin of Hereford, what doſt thou obiect
Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:

And indeed he is ouer diligent that can finde Landes of mine in Warwikeſhire and Norfolke, […]

1596, Thomas Cartwright, A brief apologie of Thomas Cartwright againſt all ſuch ſlaunderous accuſations as it pleaſeth Mr Sutcliffe in ſeuerall pamphlettes moſt iniuriouſly to loade him with:

Obsolete spelling of Norfolk: a county of England.


Suffolke

From thence to the riuer of Trent, which paſſeth through the middeſt of England, be 16 ſhires, whereof the firſt ſix (ſtanding Eaſtward) are Eſſex, Middleſex, Hartfordſhire, Suffolke, Northſolke and Cambridgeſhire:[…]

We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 120, column 2:

1624, John Drue, The Duchess of Suffolke:

1627, William Hawkins, Apollo Shroving, Composed for the Schollars of the Free-schoole of Hadleigh in Suffolke:

Obsolete spelling of Suffolk: a county of England.


Pakchon

Meanwhile, the progress rates of rice transplantation near Sukchon County, South Pyongan Province, and Pakchon County, North Pyongan Province, were 58.1% and 68.0%, respectively, compared with the progress rates of 63.0% and 75.1% at the same time in 2018. In other words, the progress rates in Sukchon and Pakchon Counties were 4.9% and 6.7% lower than the rates six years earlier.

2024 June 25, Bruce Songhak Chung, “N. Korea completes almost 70% of rice transplanting as of early June”, in Daily NK, archived from the original on 2024-06-27:


Koksan

According to a Daily NK source in North Korea, about 60 homes were flooded and fields destroyed in Unpa County and Koksan County, North Hwanghae Province, during recent monsoon rains.[…]
In Koksan County, strong winds blew the roofs off homes, while torrential rains poked holes in or collapsed the walls of houses.

2022 July 6, Kim Chae Hwan, “North Hwanghae Province hit hard by torrential rains”, in Daily NK, archived from the original on 2022-07-07:

A county of North Hwanghae Province, North Korea.


Garden of England

Sail-like, the oast-house towers of Horsmonden seem almost to plough the rich soil of their Kentish hopfield like graceful yachts on a gently rolling sea. And sail-like, their wind vanes turn the angled cowls with the breeze to create a vacuum inside that draws up hot air to dry the hops on their slatted floor below. This is the Garden of England, and the village is surrounded by orchards and pastures, as well as hopfields - […].

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 227, photo caption:

Nickname for Kent: a county in southeast England.


Nyeri

A large town and county of the same name in central Kenya.


Lipno

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.


Opatów

Holy Cross Voivodeship
Holy Cross Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Holy Cross Voivodeship, Poland.


Koło

A town and county of Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.


Sokółka

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Sokółka.

Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland.


Olesno

Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship#English

A town, county, and gmina in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.


Staszów

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Staszów.


Lubartów

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Lubartów.

ubor

A town and county of Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.


Opole Lubelskie

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Opole Lubelskie.


Onsong

A county of North Hamgyong Province, North Korea.


Goseong

The runaway soldier was reported to have opened fire on troops who had tracked him down near a school in the Goseong region, close to the North Korean border.

2014 June 22, “S. Korean troops in gun battle”, in Deutsche Welle, sourced from rc/mkg (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters), archived from the original on 2025-06-03:

A county of Gangwon Province, South Korea.


Kosong

An American "SR-71" high-speed and high-altitude reconnaissance plane intruded 33 miles within the military security line east of Kosong County of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea yesterday for espionage and hostile acts, according to KCNA.

1979 September 24 [1979 September 21], “American Plane Intrudes Into Airspace of DPRK”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 186, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs; United States, page B 4:

A county of Kangwon Province, North Korea.


Shahr-e Kord

Shahrekord (alternative)
Shahr Kord (alternative)
Shahr Kurd (alternative)


Boyer-Ahmad

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad#English

A county of Iran, with Yasuj, capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, as its capital.


Kłobuck

Unadapted borrowing from Polish Kłobuck.

Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship#English

A town and county of Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.


Arâk

Borrowed from Persian اراک (arāk /arâk).

Alternative spelling of Arak:
A county of Iran, around the city