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County equivalent
Extracted from the Wikipedia article County (United States).
Territories
American Samoa has 15 of its own counties, but the U.S. Census Bureau treats these as minor civil divisions and the three districts and two atolls as county equivalents. The U.S. Census Bureau counts all of Guam as one county equivalent (with the FIPS code 66010), while the USGS counts Guam's election districts (villages) as county equivalents. The U.S. Census Bureau counts the three main islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands as county equivalents, while the USGS counts the districts of the U.S. Virgin Islands (of which there are 2) as county equivalents.