Editing Borough (section)

===United States===
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In the United States, a borough is a unit of [[local government]] or other [[administrative division]] below the level of the [[U.S. state|state]]. The term is currently used in seven states.

The following states use, or have used, the word with the following meanings:
*[[Alaska]], as a [[county-equivalent]] — [[List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska]]
*[[Connecticut]], as an incorporated municipality within, or [[Coterminous municipality|consolidated]] with, a [[New England town|town]] — see [[Borough (Connecticut)]]
*[[Michigan]], formerly applied to a village in the midst of forming a city.<ref name="mitc1">{{cite news|url=http://www.mackinacislandnews.com/news/2017-07-14/Top_News/City_of_Mackinac_Island_Reaches_200th_Anniversary.html|title=City of Mackinac Island Reaches 200th Anniversary|last1=Lien|first1=Cathryn|date=July 14, 2017|work=Mackinac Island Town Crier|access-date=February 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208123350/http://www.mackinacislandnews.com/news/2017-07-14/Top_News/City_of_Mackinac_Island_Reaches_200th_Anniversary.html|archive-date=February 8, 2018|url-status=dead|language=en}}</ref> Also in Michigan is [[Mackinac Island, Michigan|Mackinac Island]], which was a borough from 1817 to 1847, when it became a [[Administrative divisions of Michigan#Villages|village]]; it has been a [[Administrative divisions of Michigan#City|city]] since 1899.
*[[New Jersey]], as a type of independent incorporated municipality — see [[Borough (New Jersey)]]
*[[New York State|New York]], as one of the five divisions of New York City, each coextensive with a county — see [[Boroughs of New York City]]
*[[Pennsylvania]], as a type of municipality comparable to a town — see [[Borough (Pennsylvania)]] — though two of the state's largest cities, [[Pittsburgh]] and [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]], have retained their names despite clearly being cities, as well as smaller communities that are officially cities in the Commonwealth such as [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania|Gettysburg]]
*[[Virginia]], as a division of a city under certain circumstances — see {{section link|Administrative divisions of Virginia#Boroughs}}
*[[Wisconsin]] in the 19th century occasionally used the term "borough" for the type of [[civil township]] normally known as a [[administrative divisions of Wisconsin#Town|town]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Deborah B. Martin |title=History of Brown County Wisconsin : Past and Present, Vol. 1 |publisher=The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company |location=Chicago |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hz8VAAAAYAAJ |date=1913 |page=302|access-date=25 April 2023 |format=PDF }}</ref>