![[photo, Anne Arundel County Courthouse, Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/36loc/an/images/i003915c.jpg)
In Maryland, the county seat is the town or city where county government is centered. Here is where the executive and legislative branches of county government have their offices, and where the county courthouse is found.
Anne Arundel County Courthouse, Church Circle, Maryland, November 1999. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
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