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A112507
Number of counties per state of the USA in increasing order.
1
3, 5, 5, 8, 10, 14, 14, 15, 16, 16, 21, 23, 23, 27, 29, 33, 36, 39, 44, 46, 53, 55, 56, 58, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 67, 67, 72, 75, 77, 82, 83, 87, 88, 92, 93, 95, 95, 99, 100, 102, 105, 114, 120, 159, 254
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Alabama, Florida and Pennsylvania each have 67 counties. Five pairs of states share other numbers of counties. See also related comments in A112506.
REFERENCES
"Populations and Areas of Counties and States", The World Almanac and Book of Facts (2000 edition). New Jersey: Primedia Reference Inc., 1999. pp. 427-445.
EXAMPLE
Delaware is the state of the United States of America with the fewest number of counties so a(1)=3 because that state has 3 counties. Texas, the state with the most counties, has a(50)=254 counties.
CROSSREFS
Cf. A112506 (same but in alphabetical order by state).
Sequence in context: A101330 A063285 A316938 * A229428 A348374 A029639
KEYWORD
fini,full,nonn
AUTHOR
Rick L. Shepherd, Sep 08 2005
STATUS
approved