States may be divided in a number of ways.
Geographically they may be divided by landmarks such as bodies of water.
States may also be divided along the lines of latitude and longitude.
Climate, language, culture, and population are other ways a state may be divided.
Some states are divided by natural landforms, such as rivers, mountains, or lakes or hills. Other states are divided by political categorization.
counties
Counties
they can be divided by cuting a line down the side
== == They are further broken down into counties or parishes.
Way back when, land discoverers divided states by rivers and lakes as well as conquered territories.
counties
Most U.S. states are divided into counties. Louisiana is divided into parishes. Alaska is divided into boroughs and census areas.
By state lines.
Spain
Each of the US states is divided into counties. In Louisiana, these are known as "parishes", from the name for the classical divisions of the Roman Catholic Church.
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