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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: The confusion about countries, states,
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In article <steinjr.270.0086FD0C@sn.no>, Stein J. Rypern <steinjr@sn.no> wrote:

> Alongside Norwegian "fylke" and swedish "lan" (Hey - 
>who stole the key that makes the two dots over the a ?).
>English (british) equivalent would be roughly "county".
>Local administrative region. 
>
> In Norway there are three levels of administration:
> 1) local (municipal) - some 400 or so "kommuner". 
> 2) These are organized into 19 regional "fylker"
> 3) National level.
>
> Of course, our american friends use the word "county" 
>for something else, but never mind that. They are nuts
>anyway. Nice people, but nuts :-)

	We use it for much the same thing the Brits do:  a local admini-
strative unit larger than a municipality.  Some or our counties are even
the same size as their British counterparts.  Can we help it if we have
so dang many of them that we need to organise them into larger admini-
strative units called "states" so that everyone can be assured of getting
their mail and their proper federal subsidies?

	The Germans do the same thing, don't they?  I've always had the
impression that a "Kreis" was the rough equivalent of an American "county."
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