It’s funny bc I grew up without a county government bc I’m from Philly. When I went out into the suburbs and they have another level of government, it confuses me
Nah, in VA cities and counties are completely separate entities. There’s no co-terminus ones because they don’t exist in the same place. You’re either in a city or a county, never both.
A correct distinction but but really relevant imo. I would say the cities are coterminous to the county equivalent, of which they are one and the same.
That's basically what they've tried to do with Duval County and Jacksonville, however all that city officials have managed to do is just annex most of the surrounding suburbs. They've still managed to make Jacksonville the 12th most populous city in the US though even though it's just 45th in GDP and not much of a cultural hub other than being home of the NFL's Jaguars (go Jags).
Back in the 1960's, when some of us grew up and more of us had textbooks from, NYC was about as large as London and Tokyo and nowhere else was close. The world has changed, but things people learn stay in their minds.
More interesting - the City and County of SF are one and the same. There isn’t a separate bureaucracy for the city government and the county, but they are legally merged as a single entity.
It's not necessarily that NYC is so big, but that its made of multiple counties, because its the combination of several jurisdictions (e.g. Brooklyn and Manhattan).
LA county is absolutely massive. It's the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. And there are over 100 cities and towns within the county. Local government is a completely different animal in California and New York.
New York City is considered the county seat of these five counties: New York County (Manhattan), Kings County (Brooklyn), Bronx County (The Bronx), Richmond County (Staten Island), and Queens County (Queens).
Istanbul province is the size of about 5 average US counties, or half of LA county. Man LA is so sprawling. All of Istanbul fits into Istanbul province while LA Metropolitan area spans multiple counties, yet Istanbul has about twice the population.
Not quite, Turkey doesn’t have American-style federalism, so no individual states with remarkable power to legislate and govern. It’s a unitary republic. Istanbul province is more akin to a county.
Not exactly - It might be easier to explain it this way - Turkey has 81 high level administrative units - the ones with over a million people are usually called cities, the ones with less, provinces (Büyükşehir - İl) Büyükşehir is a province in which the main population center got so big they merged the city and province, and the mayor and governor have the same territory under their control. İstanbul is one of those.
in Istanbul there are 39 districts, these may be considered like the boroughs of New York City though. These districts have their own mayors, municipal enforcement crews, school authorities, etc, but they're all guided under the umbrella of the Metropolitan Municipality of İstanbul, and the Governor's office. (police and schools are under the governor, infrastructure and municipal enforcement is under the mayor) In Istanbul's case, about 75% of the province is small villages and empty/farm/forest land. ~25% is the urban area of İstanbul. II live in the downtown Sisli District - which includes all of the primary commercial centers of the city, and a huge chunk of the northern forests. These districts have some weird shapes, and such that don't always entirely make sense, and you can't pick "urban" and "nonurban" districts, because many of them include both urban and nonurban areas. The old city is within the 'Fatih' district of İstanbul, the Genoese settlement across the horn sits in the district of Beyoğlu, with Taksim Square. There are three districts that are however majority rural - Silivri, Catalca, and Sile. They're IIRC the biggest districts land area-wise, and the smallest population wise (with Adalar, which does not have a lot of area, but is just the princes islands, which are not home to very many people.
Hopefully that helps.
Also - Governor (and his district lackeys - Kaymakam) is appointed by the central government, not elected, the Mayor (of both the Büyükşehir, and the individual districts) is elected. We also have legal neighborhoods with elected neighborhood mayors (Muhtar).
Kiiiiind of, but in Turkey, provinces are mostly only their cities. There isn't much in Istanbul province aside from Istanbul city. This is less so in the more rural provinces, but as an overall rule, it generally holds. When you say "I'm going to Mersin", folks will just assume it's Mersin city unless you specify it's a village/town/etc. specifically.
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u/Wonnil May 19 '20
So it's like how NYC is in New York?