Answers.Body: <p>I tend to avoid using the drop down field for counties in the UK since - unlike States in the USA, or Departments in France, for example - there is no one true definition for them (is it London, Greater London, Islington, etc.).</p>
  
  <p>Instead, I remove the county drop down and add another supplemental address line if required.</p>
  
  <p>Although there are some forms on the web that use a drop down for counties, I suspect more than half just use a standard text field.</p>
  
  <p><em>Flippant side note: the important thing to collect for UK addresses is the awesome UK postcode. As soon as you have that, everything else pales into insignificance :)</em></p>
  
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Answers.Text: I agree that County is only a distraction for addresses in the UK. The important thing for delivery is the "Post Town" if you look at the Post Office guide on postal addresses. Counties aren't used, though I recognise that there is some nostalgic attachment to them in addresses in some areas. It really annoys me when I have to enter ....,London, Greater London for my address.
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Answers.Body: <p>Add 'State' into the CiviCRM profile that's being used in the event. Be sure to also include the country field.</p>
  
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  <p>Remove county from the profile, this is what is confusing the matter. County in CiviCRM terminolgy means a US State county, State applies to County for the UK.</p>
  
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  <p>The field name 'State' can be renamed to County.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>If you go to Administer>Localization you can select the available countries and the linked states/counties.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks for you reply.  This seems to be set up correctly.  When I want to create a new contact, the options for county are ones in the UK.  However it's when I create an event and ask people there to fill in their county, it only offers 6 random American ones.
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Answers.Text: That can be because the profile you are using with your event only has those options. Did you create the event as sketched in https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/events/creating-an-event/
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Answers.Text: Yes, that's how I created it.  The problem seems to lie in the 'profile' but I can't seem to edit the counties that are in the profiles!  I feel like I'm going round in circles on this things sometimes.
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Answers.Text: on the profile do you have a State/Province field - i assume this needs to be hierarchical, ie Country, State/Province, County - and if you don't have them all you would hit issues
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Answers.Text: Hi, I don't have an option for a State/Province field.  Perhaps because I have my locality as the UK and we wouldn't have that on an address field?
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Answers.Text: Check Administer/Localization/Address Settings? It might well be that State/Province is switched off there?
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Body: <p>I have created an event and want to collect the attendees address including the county.  Although based in the UK, the available options registering on the event page only offer a couple of American ones.  Can this be changed to UK ones?  There are UK options when you create a new contact on CIVI.</p>
  
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Title: Counties - US ones but based in UK
ThreadText: # Counties - US ones but based in UK
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-08-08)
  
  I have created an event and want to collect the attendees address including the county. Although based in the UK, the available options registering on the event page only offer a couple of American ones. Can this be changed to UK ones? There are UK options when you create a new contact on CIVI.
  
  **Tags:** civievent, addresses
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-02-21. Score: 3
  
  I tend to avoid using the drop down field for counties in the UK since - unlike States in the USA, or Departments in France, for example - there is no one true definition for them (is it London, Greater London, Islington, etc.).
  
  Instead, I remove the county drop down and add another supplemental address line if required.
  
  Although there are some forms on the web that use a drop down for counties, I suspect more than half just use a standard text field.
  
  *Flippant side note: the important thing to collect for UK addresses is the awesome UK postcode. As soon as you have that, everything else pales into insignificance :)*
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: I agree that County is only a distraction for addresses in the UK. The important thing for delivery is the "Post Town" if you look at the Post Office guide on postal addresses. Counties aren't used, though I recognise that there is some nostalgic attachment to them in addresses in some areas. It really annoys me when I have to enter ....,London, Greater London for my address.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2018-09-07. Score: 1
  
  Add 'State' into the CiviCRM profile that's being used in the event. Be sure to also include the country field.
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/YQzYq.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/YQzYq.jpg)
  
  Remove county from the profile, this is what is confusing the matter. County in CiviCRM terminolgy means a US State county, State applies to County for the UK.
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/FiSdO.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/FiSdO.jpg)
  
  The field name 'State' can be renamed to County.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2018-08-08. Score: 1
  
  If you go to Administer>Localization you can select the available countries and the linked states/counties.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks for you reply.  This seems to be set up correctly.  When I want to create a new contact, the options for county are ones in the UK.  However it's when I create an event and ask people there to fill in their county, it only offers 6 random American ones.  
  > **username_4**: That can be because the profile you are using with your event only has those options. Did you create the event as sketched in https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/latest/events/creating-an-event/  
  > **username_0**: Yes, that's how I created it.  The problem seems to lie in the 'profile' but I can't seem to edit the counties that are in the profiles!  I feel like I'm going round in circles on this things sometimes.  
  > **username_5**: on the profile do you have a State/Province field - i assume this needs to be hierarchical, ie Country, State/Province, County - and if you don't have them all you would hit issues  
  > **username_0**: Hi, I don't have an option for a State/Province field.  Perhaps because I have my locality as the UK and we wouldn't have that on an address field?  
  > **username_4**: Check Administer/Localization/Address Settings? It might well be that State/Province is switched off there?  
  
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