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Monroe County is a county in the U.S. state of . In 1910 the US Census Bureau calculated the nation's mean population center to lie in Monroe County.
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  • Type: County with 148,000 residents
  • Description: county in Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Monroe County”, “Monroe County, IN”, and “Monroe County, Indiana”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bloomington South High School and Seminary Square Park.

School
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Bloomington High School South is a high school in , United States. It is part of the Monroe County Community School Corporation.

Park
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, also known as the Seminary Park, is a historic public park located at . It was established in 1816 by an Act of Congress as the original site of Indiana Seminary, a preparatory school that by 1838 became .

Observatory
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is an astronomical owned and operated by Indiana University. It is located in , , United States. It is named for Daniel Kirkwood an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Indiana University who discovered the divisions of the asteroid belt known as the Kirkwood Gaps.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bloomington and Clear Creek.

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is a city of 86,000 people in . is home to the flagship campus of Indiana University and the IU Hoosiers. As it is a much larger city than the county seats of nearby counties, it serves as the de facto employment, service, and shopping center for several adjacent counties.

Village
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is an unincorporated community in , Monroe County, in the U.S. state of . It is named after the eponymous creek.

Hamlet
Bloomington is a city in Monroe County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. The population was 79,168 at the 2020 census. It is the seventh-most populous city in Indiana and the fourth-most populous outside the .

Monroe

Latitude
39.1296° or 39° 7′ 47″ north
Longitude
-86.5186° or 86° 31′ 7″ west
Population
148,000
Elevation
801 feet (244 metres)
Open location code
86FM4FHJ+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316954387
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4261526
Wiki­data ID
Q512699
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Monroe” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Monroe County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة مونرو”
  • Armenian: “Մոնրո շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Monroe”
  • Basque: “Monroe konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Monroe County, Indiana”
  • Bavarian: “Monroe County”
  • Belarusian: “Манро”
  • Bishnupriya: “মনরৌ কাউন্টি, ইন্ডিয়ানা”
  • Bishnupriya: “মনরৌ কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Монро”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Monroe”
  • Cebuano: “Monroe County”
  • Chechen: “Монро (гуо, Индиана)”
  • Chechen: “Монро”
  • Chinese: “Monroe Kūn”
  • Chinese: “門羅縣”
  • Chinese: “门罗县”
  • Dutch: “Monroe County”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة مونرو، انديانا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة مونرو”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Monroe”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Monroe”
  • Esperanto: “Monroe County”
  • Estonian: “Monroe maakond”
  • Finnish: “Monroen piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Monroe”
  • French: “Comté de Monroe”
  • French: “Monroe County”
  • Georgian: “მონროს ოლქი”
  • German: “Monroe County”
  • Gilaki: “مونرو شأرستان (اينديانا)”
  • Gilaki: “مونرو شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Μονρόε”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Μονρόε”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מונרו”
  • Hindi: “मुनरो काउंटी, इंडियाना”
  • Hindi: “मुनरो काउंटी”
  • Hungarian: “Monroe megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Monroe”
  • Italian: “contea di Monroe”
  • Italian: “Contea di Monroe”
  • Italian: “Monroe County”
  • Japanese: “モンロー郡”
  • Korean: “먼로군”
  • Low German: “Monroe County”
  • Mazanderani: “مونرو شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Monroe Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monroe Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monroe County i Indiana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monroe County”
  • Norwegian: “Monroe County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مونرو، ایندیانا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مونرو”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “Monroe County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Monroe, Indiana”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Monroe”
  • Russian: “Монро”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Monroe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Monroe County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Монро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monroe County, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monroe County”
  • Slovenian: “Monroe County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Monroe”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونرو بؤلگه‌سی، ایندیانا”
  • Spanish: “condado de Monroe”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Monroe”
  • Spanish: “Monroe County”
  • Swedish: “Monroe County, Indiana”
  • Swedish: “Monroe County”
  • Tatar: “Монро (округ, Индиана)”
  • Tatar: “Монро”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County, IN”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County, Ind.”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County, Indiana”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi, IN”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi, Ind.”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi, Indiana”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Монро”
  • Urdu: “مونرو کاؤنٹی، انڈیانا”
  • Urdu: “مونرو کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Monroe”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Monroe, Indiana”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Monroe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Monroe, Indiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Monroe”
  • Welsh: “Monroe County, Indiana”
  • Welsh: “Monroe County”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monroe”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.