County
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The land ruled by a count or a countess. An administrative region of various countries, including Canada, China, Croatia, France, the Republic of Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions, as in traditional county.
Example sentence: Santa Clara County has 23 active Superfund sites, more than any other county in the United States. All of them were designated as such in the mid to late 1980s, and most were contaminated by toxic chemicals involved in making computer parts. Completely cleaning up these chemicals may be impossible.
Parish
Part of speech: noun
Definition: In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.The community attending that church; the members of the parish.A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.An administrative subdivision in Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.