List of counties of New Brunswick

Counties of New Brunswick
Albert Carleton Charlotte Gloucester Kent Kings Madawaska Northumberland Queens Restigouche Saint John Sunbury Victoria Westmorland York
Location	Province of New Brunswick
Number	15
Populations	10,998 (Queens) – 163,576 (Westmorland)
Areas	1,461 km2 (Saint John) – 12,843 km2 (Northumberland)
Government	County government (defunct since 1966)
Subdivisions	Parishes[a]

The Canadian province of New Brunswick has 15 counties, originating in the British tradition of local courts for civil and judicial administration that were officiated by the colony's appointed magistrates.

Counties, parishes and shiretowns are delineated in the Territorial Division Act.^[1] While no longer administrative divisions,^[2] they continue to define regional communities and have many legacy functions and provincial applications. They figure prominently in residents' sense of place and continue as significant threads in the Province of New Brunswick's cultural fabric (i.e., most citizens always know which county they are in).

Counties are used as the basis of census divisions^[b] by Statistics Canada in the national census, while their parishes are the basis for census subdivisions.

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