List of counties in Hawaii

The five counties of  on the enjoy somewhat greater status than many  on the  mainland. Counties in Hawaii are the only legally constituted government bodies below that of the state. No formal level of government (such as city governments) exists below that of the county in Hawaii. Because education is carried out by the (and not a function controlled  by local s like the other 49 ), es and user fees collected by the counties support mostly road maintenance, community activities, parks (including life guards at beach parks), garbage collection, police (contrary to the television series , there is no ), ambulance, and fire suppression services. All the counties were created in 1905 from unorganized territory, seven years after the was created. The county of Kalawao is used exclusively as a colony, and does not have many of the elected officials the other counties do.

County information
The (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.