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Hawaii Counties
The five counties of Hawaiʻi on the Hawaiian Islands enjoy somewhat greater status than many
counties on the United States mainland. Counties in Hawaiʻi are the only legally constituted government bodies
below that of the state.
The county of Kalawao is used exclusively as a leper colony, and does not have many of the
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Hawaii Counties
The State of Hawaii (/həˈwaɪ.iː/ or /həˈwaɪʔiː/ in English; Hawaiian: Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi) is a state in the
United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States,
southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia. The state was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, making it the
50th state. Its capital is Honolulu on the island of Oahu.
This state
encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which is made up of hundreds of islands spread over
1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest
to southeast) Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi. The last is by far the
largest, and is often called the "Big Island" or "Big Isle" to avoid confusion with the state as a whole. This
archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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