A country is a political unit in England that is roughly equivalent to what kind of political unit in the U.S.

Answer 1

Clarify your question.

Answer 2

if you mean a county in england. it's something of a cross between a county and a state in the us. it has some similarities to each, and also some vast differences. a county in england has an mp, but a county in the us may have a single representative in the state house and the federal house of representatives, or it may have several, each representing a given number of voters and will usually cross county lines to be fairly distributed for representation in the house, whether at the state or federal level. additionally, each state must have one representative in the us house, but most have more since the number of total representatives is fixed at the federal level. when populations shift, some states gain and others lose representatives in the us house because represetation is based on population in each state. it is changed every ten years after the census is taken. new districts are drawn after the census to reflect the population changes, but the number of total representatives remains the same. it is this which causes the change in the number of congressional districts in each state every ten years.
however, the senate is always reflective of the number of counties in each state at the state level. at the federal level, each state has two senators regardless of population, that number is at 100 senators. two for each of the fifty states, and only goes up when a new state joins the unioon. that last occurred in 1959, when four senators were added for the two states which joined the union in that year. those states were alaska and hawaii. also, each territory of the united states has a representative in the house. puerto rico and the us virgin islands are territories and have a non-voting representative in the house as do several other us possessions and the district of columbia, which is the nations capitol. reading our constitution can give a good insight into how the nation was set up to reflect both the equal status of each state, and each state's differing populations.

Answer 3

Given that the constituent countries of the U.K. are England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, I think the closest analogy in U.S. terms would be the State, such as California, Florida, Arkensas, and Michigan. Each state government enacts it's own local laws and administration, though it is of a lower scale than the federal level, but still has a certain amount of independence from the federal govenment.

Answer 4

I do not understand the benefit for England to combine still. Butl with the combining of countries to form the UK, I assume England is now like a US state.

Answer 5

If you mean country and "The UK", not England - fenris is pretty much correct.

If you mean "county" and England - then the equivalent is 'county' in the USA - Hayley is pretty much corect. (Think - England/the UK were there BEFORE the USA. Maybe, just maybe the USA got started using 'county' from when it was part of the 'Empire'!!!)

Answer 6

I think that you are talking about an English county not country? If so there is an exact equivelent in the US - there are counties. NJ for example has 21 counties and I think about half are named after British counties (eg Sussex, Essex, Somerset)