Uniquely, County Donegal shares a border with only one other county in the Republic of Ireland – County Leitrim.

Oneida County shares a long northeast border with Madison County.

Adams County lies in northeastern Indiana in the United States and shares its eastern border with Ohio.

Ohio County is one of four counties in the United States to border a state with which it shares the same name ( the other three counties are Nevada County, California, Texas County, Oklahoma, and Delaware County, Pennsylvania ).

Due to its size and central location in the state, Polk County shares borders with more counties than any other in the state, nine.

* 25px US 92 a west-to-east route shares a concurrency with US 17 further south in Polk County until branching off onto the International Speedway Boulevard.

Nevada County is one of four counties in the United States to border a state with which it shares the same name ( the other three counties are Texas County, Oklahoma, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Ohio County, West Virginia ).

Lexington is the county seat ( in spite of its independent status ), and it shares three constitutional officers with Rockbridge County: Sheriff, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Commonwealth's Attorney.

The city also shares a border with the City of Hampton and a water boundary across Chesapeake Bay with Northampton County.

Newport News shares land borders with James City County on the northwest, York County on the north and northeast, and Hampton on the east.

Lee County shares Cumberland Gap National Historical Park with Kentucky and Tennessee.

* Laneview ( shares with Middlesex County )

* Passing ( shares with Caroline County )

A border county separating North Carolina and South Carolina, York County shares boundaries with the following counties in both states:

-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.

The top 3 students from 11 participating Dallas County high schools will be honored by the Dallas Sales Executives Club at a banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Houston Room of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel as the club winds up its annual Distributive Education project.

The navigation of the Tallapoosa River –- which has its source in Paulding County, Georgia, and is about long -– is prevented by shoals and a fall at Tallassee, a few miles north of its junction with the Coosa.

He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

Doubts about the future of Abergavenny Cattle Market have been raised following the granting of planning permission by Monmouthshire County Council for demolition of the cattle market, and its subsequent replacement by a supermarket, car park, and library.

* Cape Breton County and its divisions, Nova Scotia ; Statistics Canada

Map of County Mayo depicting its nine baronies

Despite Connecticut's relatively small size, it features wide regional variations in its landscape ; for example, in the northwestern Litchfield Hills, it features rolling mountains and horse farms, whereas in the southeastern New London County, it features beaches and maritime activities.

The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).

The Legislature named Carson City to be the seat of Ormsby County and selected the hotel as the territorial prison with Curry serving as its first warden.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.

Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.

The Kittitas County Fair officially began in 1885, and has been held at its current location since 1923.

Local news coverage for the town and some of its neighbors is provided by the Tri County Journal and the Washington Missourian.

Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.

The significance of the County and its counts eroded through time, but the designation remained in a very broad sense.

Created in the year 862 as a feudal fief in West Francia, the County of Flanders was divided when its western districts fell under French rule in the late 12th century.

Before the 2008 season, Fenway Park's capacity was increased to 37, 373, where it remains following additional renovations for the 2009 season, making its total capacity the fourth smallest, ahead of Marlins Park, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and Tropicana Field.

Gotland County inherited its coat of arms from the province of Gotland.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

* Antelope Valley, a desert region of northern Los Angeles County, California, in the US

After the death of Sir Robert Montgomery, Henry inherited the Montgomery ancestral estate of New Park at Moville in northern County Donegal.

The northern side of the bay is defined by Ontario's mainland, while the southern side follows the shore of the Prince Edward County headland.

From the northern shore of Manhattan, Broadway crosses Spuyten Duyvil Creek via the Broadway Bridge and continues through Marble Hill ( a discontinuous portion of the borough of Manhattan ) and the Bronx into Westchester County.

Berkeley is located in northern Alameda County.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

Despite the abundance of well-known seeps in southern California, the first commercial oil well in California was drilled in Humboldt County, northern California in 1865.

With the discovery of the Orcutt and Lompoc fields, northern Santa Barbara County became a regional center of production ; towns such as Orcutt owe their existence to the quickly growing industry.

The last county to be formed was County Wicklow in 1606-1607, taking in the southern part of Dublin ( with the exception of three " islands ," exclaves of ( mainly ) church property ), and the northern part of " Catherlough " or Carlow, including Arklow.

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

* Schleswigsch dialect spoken in former South Jutland County ( the northern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig ) around Aabenraa ( Apenrade )

The southern half of present-day Lebanon formed the northern march of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ; the northern half was the heartland of the County of Tripoli.

In 1999, they emerged in northern Liberia, in April 2000 they started fighting in Lofa County in northernmost Liberia.

* Marin County, California, is a southwards-pointing peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of San Francisco Bay, and San Pablo Bay

On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco.

Żarnowiec (, German Zarnowitz ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krokowa, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.

* January 29 – After a second petition for partition from its residents, the North Carolina General Assembly abolishes Bute County, North Carolina ( established 1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portion Warren County ( for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren ) and the southern portion Franklin County ( for Benjamin Franklin ).

The County of Castile, which originally included Cantabria ( excepting Liébana ), part of Vizcaya, most of Burgos and parts of La Rioja., became the leading force in the northern Christian states ' 800-year Reconquista (" reconquest ") of central and southern Spain from the Muslim rulers who had dominated most of the peninsula since the early 8th century.