The answer is because Louisiana does not have any county, but rather parishes. If we are going to talk about parishes, we can answer 64. Louisiana covers an area of 111,898 square kilometers and with a population of more than 4 million people. Some of the parishes in Louisiana are as follows: Allen Parish, Ascension Parish, Iberville Parish, Orleans Parish, Ouachita Parish and Assumption Parish which were established in 1807,
Bossier Parish and Sabine Parish in 1843, Jackson Parish in 1845, Bienville Parish in 1848, Cameron Parish in 1870, Webster Parish in 1871, East Carroll Parish and West Carroll Parish in 1877, Acadia Parish in 1886, Evangeline Parish and LaSalle Parish in 1910 and Beauregard Parish and Jefferson David Parish in 1912.