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There is 24 counties and county-equivalents in Maryland. Though an independent city rather than a county, the City of Baltimore is considered the equal of a county. Many of the counties in Maryland were named for relatives of the Barons Baltimore who were the proprietors of the Maryland colony from its founding in 1634 through 1771. The Barons Baltimore were Catholic, and George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, originally intended that the colony be a haven for English Catholics, though for the majority of its history Maryland has had a majority of Protestants

Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Upper Marlboro
Year Organized: 1695
Square Miles: 486

Court House:

14741 Governor Oden Bowie Dr, 3200
County Administration Building
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-3037

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Prince George of Denmark, husband to Queen Anne I of Great Britain

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

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Neighboring Counties:

North: Howard County
Northeast: Anne Arundel County
Southeast: Calvert County
Southwest: Charles County
West: Fairfax County, Va.
Northwest: Washington city, D.C.; Montgomery County

Cities and Towns:

- Berwyn Heights	town	Incorporated Area
- Bladensburg	town	Incorporated Area
- Bowie	city	Incorporated Area
- Brentwood	town	Incorporated Area
- Capitol Heights	town	Incorporated Area
- Cheverly	town	Incorporated Area
- College Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Colmar Manor	town	Incorporated Area
- Cottage City	town	Incorporated Area
- District Heights	city	Incorporated Area
- Eagle Harbor	town	Incorporated Area
- Edmonston	town	Incorporated Area
- Fairmount Heights	town	Incorporated Area
- Forest Heights	town	Incorporated Area
- Glenarden	city	Incorporated Area
- Greenbelt	city	Incorporated Area
- Hyattsville	city	Incorporated Area
- Landover Hills	town	Incorporated Area
- Laurel	city	Incorporated Area
- Morningside	town	Incorporated Area
- Mount Rainier	city	Incorporated Area
- New Carrollton	city	Incorporated Area
- North Brentwood	town	Incorporated Area
- Riverdale Park	town	Incorporated Area
- Seat Pleasant	city	Incorporated Area
- Takoma Park	city	Incorporated Area
- University Park	town	Incorporated Area
- Upper Marlboro (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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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, act locally."

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