Counties referred to like cities

[Rothman]

It seems like it's fairly common to refer to most of Nevada's counties without "County", since there's only 17 of them. (I guess you can't do it with Elko County because Elko city exists.) During the election, you'd see Nevada-based commentators referring to "the mail returns from Washoe", "early voting in Clark", "I didn't know they even had the Internet in Esmeralda", and things like that.

New York does that. It's Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam.  Other counties like Orange County are called that as well as Duchess and Ulster are followed by county.

It's inconsistent in New York with this usage.

That might be a downstate thing.  If the "definition of upstate vs. downstate" thread were still active, I'd even list that as a possible criteria.

I don't know.  I have a friend from Rockland County that switches back and forth himself when talking about the county.

[bing101]

Tangentially related...  I once knew a woman from Ramona (CA) who always referred to the business below as "the N. A. P. A."–because, she said, Napa is a wine-producing region of California, not an auto parts store.

There's Napa County and Napa city in California it get simply referred as Napa Wine Country in Northern California. 

[DTComposer]

I'd argue Napa and Sonoma refer more to the counties than the cities. 

Chris

But there are cities of those names. There is also a Marin City and a city called Orange in California. Many, if not most, other counites in California have eponymous cities, sometimes not in the county. Yuba City, for instance, in in Sutter, not Yuba, county. Placerville is in El Dorado, not Placer, county.

I hear "Marin" more than I hear "Marin County" - and they are referring to the county, not Marin City. More specifically, they're referring to it as a sub-region of the Bay Area, like the Peninsula, East Bay, etc.

There's Napa County and Napa city in California it get simply referred as Napa Wine Country in Northern California.

I would opine that "Napa" in this context specifically refers to the valley (or the AVA), rather than the county. No one in common conversation calls it "Napa Wine Country" - that's for tourism brochures and chambers of commerce.

[roadman65]

I'm sure its been mentioned before, but  one DC suburb is considered a city even though its not a municipality,  but an area that's considered a county and one of the 110 counties of the state of Virginia.

[kphoger]

I'm sure its been mentioned before, but  one DC suburb is considered a city even though its not a municipality,  but an area that's considered a county and one of the 110 counties of the state of Virginia.

Are you going to say what it is?

[Molandfreak]

I'm sure its been mentioned before, but  one DC suburb is considered a city even though its not a municipality,  but an area that's considered a county and one of the 110 counties of the state of Virginia.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=28874.msg2587940#msg2587940

[Takumi]

I'm sure its been mentioned before, but  one DC suburb is considered a city even though its not a municipality,  but an area that's considered a county and one of the 110 counties of the state of Virginia.

Are you going to say what it is?

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