Provinces

Counties are geographical areas that are usually based on an older political division and are based on cultural and geographical features that many people strongly identify with even today. Therefore, the counties survive in, among other things, place names, dialects, folk costumes and old traditions of various kinds, and each county has its own county symbols. In many countries, an old division survives, although there are significant differences between historical counties and the current formal division.

In Turf the counties have no function unlike, for example, the Swedish counties that make up regions. Counties, in the countries where they occur, are generally included as part of one or more regions.