Listă de comitate din statul Hawaii
Cele cinci comitate ale statului Hawaii se găsesc pe insulele arhipelagului Hawaii și se bucură de libertate administrativă relativ mai mare decât ale celor aflate pe partea continentală a Statelor Unite.
Comitatele statului Hawaii sunt singurele entități administrative sub-statale ale statului întrucât nu există nici un altfel de organizare locală, așa cum ar fi guverne locale sau consilii orășenești.
Statul Rhode Island are de asemenea cinci comitate, fapt ceea ce face Delaware statul american cu cele mai puține comitate, doar trei. Public education is carried out by the Hawaii State Department of Education (Hawaii does not delegate educational responsibility to local school boards like the other 49 states),[1], so Hawaiian counties collect property taxes and user fees in order to support road maintenance, community activities, parks (including life guards at beach parks), garbage collection, police (the state police force, called the Hawaii Department of Public Safety, is limited in scope), ambulance, and fire suppression services.[2] All the counties were created in 1905 from unorganized territory, seven years after the Territory of Hawaii was created.[2][3] The county of Kalawao is used exclusively as a leper colony, and does not have many of the elected officials the other counties do.[4]
County information [modificare]
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
| Comitat |
Cod FIPS [5] |
County seat [6] |
Etymology |
Populație [7] |
Zonă [7] |
Hartă |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii County | 001 | Hilo | Island of Hawai'i, with which the county is coterminous; said to be named for Hawaiʻiloa, a legendary Polynesian navigator | 185.079 | 4.028 sq mi (10.432 km²) |
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May 10, 1905 |
| Maui County | 009 | Wailuku | Maui Island, the largest of the islands in the county; named for Māui, a demigod from native mythology | 154.834 | 1.120 sq mi (2.901 km²) |
 |
July 1, 1905 |
| Kalawao County | 005 | Kalaupapa[4] | The village of Kalawao, which lies within its boundaries. | 90 | 52 sq mi (135 km²) |
 |
November 10, 1905 |
| City and County of Honolulu | 003 | Honolulu | "Sheltered bay" or "place of shelter" in Hawaiian language[8] | 953.207 | 597 sq mi (1.546 km²) |
 |
April 30, 1907 |
| Kauai County | 007 | Līhu'e | Kauai Island, the largest of the islands in the county; named possibly derived from Kaua'i, the eldest son of Hawaiʻiloa. | 67.091 | 622 sq mi (1.611 km²) |
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July 1, 1905 |
Referințe [modificare]
- ^ Hawaii State Department of Education. „Hawai'i DOE, About”. http://doe.k12.hi.us/about/index.htm. Accesat la 26 aprilie 2007.
- ^ a b „Hawaii State: Facts & Figures - Des Osman Realty”. http://osman1.com/hi-facts.html. Accesat la 26 aprilie 2007.
- ^ Office of the County Clerk. „Foreword” (PDF). 2000 County Charter of the County of Hawaii. Arhivat din original la 3 iulie 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070703012729/http://www.hawaii-county.com/council/charter2000/item+1-Foreword.pdf. Accesat la 26 aprilie 2007.
- ^ a b „Hawaii's 4 (or 5) Counties”. 1 septembrie 1999. http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/counties.html. Accesat la 23 iulie 2007.
- ^ „EPA County FIPS Code Listing”. EPA. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/hi.html. Accesat la 9 aprilie 2007.
- ^ National Association of Counties. „NACo - Find a county”. http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/state.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=HI. Accesat la 26 aprilie 2007.
- ^ a b „Hawaii QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau”. State & County QuickFacts. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/hawaii_map.html. Accesat la 18 aprilie 2007.
- ^ „Honolulu Homes Guide”. 2005. http://www.honoluluhomesguide.com/. Accesat la 23 iulie 2007.
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