County Geographical Area
The largest county or county-equivalent is the Unorganized Borough, Alaska, which is more than 330,000 square miles (850,000 km2). The five largest counties or county-equivalents are also all in Alaska; elsewhere the largest by land area is San Bernardino County, California, which is more than 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2). The smallest county by land area is Kalawao County, Hawaii, which is 13 square miles (34 km2).
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Famous quotes containing the words county, geographical and/or area:
“Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)
“Men’s private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world’s seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.”
—Faith Baldwin (1893–1978)
“Many women are reluctant to allow men to enter their domain. They don’t want men to acquire skills in what has traditionally been their area of competence and one of their main sources of self-esteem. So while they complain about the male’s unwillingness to share in domestic duties, they continually push the male out when he moves too confidently into what has previously been their exclusive world.”
—Bettina Arndt (20th century)