Tag:place=county

place = 
Description
A county - a geographical region of a country. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: places
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
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Status: in use
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A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes, in certain modern nations. In most of the countries that have counties, a county is an administrative subdivision of a larger administrative area and does not necessarily correspond to a populated place. Therefore, the placement of a place= node is arbitrary, conventionally at the centroid of the boundary. Alternatively, you can tag the boundary relation with border_type=county (or a more specific value).

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