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Carter

Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,627. Its county seat is . Carter County is in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • Type: County with 26,600 residents
  • Description: county in Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Carter County”, “Carter County, Kentucky”, and “Carter County, KY”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Grayson.

Town
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is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Carter County, Kentucky, United States, on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 64 in the state's northeastern region.

Carter

Latitude
38.3199° or 38° 19′ 12″ north
Longitude
-83.0039° or 83° 0′ 14″ west
Population
26,600
Elevation
922 feet (281 metres)
Open location code
86CR8X9W+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316958944
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4287080
Wiki­data ID
Q486095
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Carter” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Carter County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كارتر”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كارتر، كنتاكي”
  • Armenian: “Քարթեր շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Carter”
  • Basque: “Carter konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County”
  • Bishnupriya: “কার্টার কাউন্টি, কেন্টাকি”
  • Bishnupriya: “কার্টার কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Картър”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Carter”
  • Cebuano: “Carter County”
  • Chechen: “Картер (гуо, Кентукки)”
  • Chechen: “Картер”
  • Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Chinese: “卡特县”
  • Chinese: “卡特縣”
  • Chinese: “卡特郡”
  • Czech: “Carter County”
  • Dutch: “Carter County”
  • Esperanto: “Carter County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Carter”
  • Estonian: “Carteri maakond”
  • Finnish: “Carterin piirikunta”
  • French: “Carter County”
  • French: “comté de Carter”
  • French: “Comté de Carter”
  • Ganda: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Georgian: “კარტერის ოლქი”
  • German: “Carter County”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Κάρτερ”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κάρτερ”
  • Hungarian: “Carter megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Carter”
  • Italian: “Carter County”
  • Italian: “contea di Carter”
  • Italian: “Contea di Carter”
  • Japanese: “カーター郡”
  • Korean: “카터군”
  • Low German: “Carter County”
  • Mazanderani: “کارتر شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Carter Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County i Kentucky”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County”
  • Norwegian: “Carter County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Carter”
  • Portuguese: “Carter County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Carter”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Carter”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter, Kentucky”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter”
  • Russian: “Картер”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Carter”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carter County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Картер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Carter”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارتر بؤلگه‌سی، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Carter County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Carter”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Carter”
  • Swedish: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Carter County”
  • Tatar: “Картер (округ, Кентуки)”
  • Tatar: “Картер”
  • Tumbuka: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Tumbuka: “Carter County”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Ky.”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, KY”
  • Turkish: “Carter County”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Ky.”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, KY”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Картер”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Carter”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter, Kentucky”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter”
  • Welsh: “Carter County, Kentucky”
  • Welsh: “Carter County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”

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