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What County Am I In? Your county, on the map
Allow location access and the card below names the county you're standing in, worked out from your GPS position and official boundary data. Outside the United States you'll see the local equivalent — a district, borough or municipality.
IP FIX
Latitudeyour latitude…
Longitudeyour longitude…
Accuracyradius in meters
SourceIP address
Locating you by IP address…
What county am I indetecting your county…Or the local equivalent — district, borough, municipality
My addressDetecting your street address…Allow GPS for a street-level address
Cityfinding your city…
State / regionfinding your region…
Countryfinding your country…
Postal codeyour ZIP / postcode…
Time zoneyour time zone…
IP addresslooking up your IP…
Your coordinates, every format
DDyour decimal coordinates…
DMSdegrees, minutes, seconds…
Maps linkyour Google Maps link…
How this page finds your county
Your county comes from matching your GPS coordinates against administrative boundary maps. Counties don't broadcast anything a phone can hear, so the lookup runs in two steps: first your device fixes its position to within a few meters, then that point is checked against OpenStreetMap's boundary polygons, which mirror the official survey lines. Near a county line the answer depends on which side your fix lands — and with a typical 10-meter GPS error, standing on the boundary itself genuinely can return either neighbor.
The coordinate side of that first step — what the two numbers mean and how precise they get — is covered separately in My GPS Coordinates.
What is a county, exactly?
A county is the administrative layer between your city and your state. The United States has 3,143 of them counting equivalents: Louisiana calls its version parishes, Alaska has boroughs, and Virginia adds 38 independent cities that belong to no county at all. The scale runs from Los Angeles County with nearly ten million residents to Loving County, Texas, with fewer than a hundred.
Why the county answer matters
Plenty of everyday paperwork runs on county, not city. Property taxes are assessed by the county. Court jurisdiction, jury duty, voter registration, marriage licenses, building permits and vehicle titles all route through county offices, and school district lines usually track county geography. It's also the one field on official forms that nobody memorizes about themselves — which is roughly why this page exists.
Your county and your city aren't the same thing
City limits and county lines ignore each other. New York City contains five entire counties, one per borough. Oklahoma City stretches across four. Millions of Americans live in unincorporated areas — inside a county but inside no city at all, where the county itself provides police, roads and zoning. So "what city am I in" and "what county am I in" are separate questions, each with occasionally surprising answers.
Does everywhere have counties?
No. Connecticut and Rhode Island still print county names on maps but run no government at that level, so the name is geography, not administration. Outside the United States, this page returns whatever fills the same slot: ceremonial counties in England, counties in Ireland, districts in Germany and India, municipalities across much of Europe and Latin America. Where a region skips the layer entirely, the card says so and shows your region instead.
Frequently asked questions
Can a ZIP code be in two counties?
Yes, and often. ZIP codes follow postal delivery routes, not government boundaries, and thousands of them cross county lines. That's exactly why looking up your county by ZIP gives wrong answers for millions of addresses, while a GPS point can't be in two counties at once.
How do I find the county for a different address?
Search the address on openstreetmap.org and read the county from the result details, or use the county's own GIS lookup — most US counties run one for property records. This page always answers for where the device currently is.
Why do I see a district or municipality instead of a county?
Because your country files its middle administrative layer under a different name. The lookup returns the local equivalent, so a reading of "Rīgas valstspilsēta" or "Landkreis München" is the correct answer for that place, not an error.
What if I'm standing exactly on a county line?
Then both answers are honest. Your GPS fix carries a 5–15 meter error radius, and when that circle overlaps the boundary, repeated readings can flip between the neighbors. Walk fifty meters clearly into one side and refresh.
Is county detection as accurate as the GPS fix itself?
Almost. The extra uncertainty comes from the boundary data, and in populated areas OpenStreetMap's polygons track the official survey lines within meters. In remote areas the mapped line can lag a legal adjustment, but disputes at that scale are rare enough to be news.
From county back to the full picture
County is the middle of the stack: your position, then your city, your county, your state. The complete view — live map, street address and every layer at once — is on My Location Now.