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Comarques of Catalonia

Comarques of Catalonia

The comarques of Catalonia (singular comarca, Eastern Catalan:, Western Catalan:), often referred to in English as counties, are an administrative division of Catalonia, Spain. Each comarca comprises a number of municipalities, roughly equivalent to a county in the United States. Currently, Catalonia is divided into 42 comarques and Aran, considered a "unique territorial entity" and not a comarca.

Each comarca has a representative county council (Catalan: consell comarcal), except for Barcelonès which abolished it in 2019, and Aran which has instead the Conselh Generau d'Aran.

Comarques form the second-level administrative division within Catalonia, being a subdivision of vegueries (or provinces at state level).