Fayette
Fayette County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky and is consolidated with the city of Lexington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous county in the commonwealth.- Type: County with 323,000 residents
- Description: county in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Fayette County”, “Fayette county, Kentucky”, “Fayette County, Kentucky”, and “Fayette County, KY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rupp Arena and Pope Villa.
Rupp Arena
Stadium
Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is part of Central Bank Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.
Pope Villa
Historic site
The Pope Villa in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1811 for Senator John Pope. It is one of only three extant Latrobe residences in the United States.
Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center
Theater building
The Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center is a nonprofit, city-owned, multi-use arts and performance venue located at the corner of Third Street and Elm Tree Lane in Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lexington and Liberty Heights.
Lexington
Lexington is the second largest city in Kentucky, located in the Bluegrass Region. Known as the Horse Capital of the World, Lexington has traditionally been dominated by the horse industry and is also heavily influenced by the University of Kentucky, the state's flagship university and the largest employer in the city.Liberty Heights
Hamlet
Liberty Heights is a neighborhood in southeastern Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Winchester Road to the north, New Circle Road to the east, and R. J. Corman railroad tracks to the west and south.
Lansdowne
Neighborhood
Lansdowne is a neighborhood in southeast Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Tates Creek Road to the east, New Circle Road to the south, and its western border is a combination of Belvoir Dr / Malabu Dr, Larkin Rd, Heather Way, and Melbourne Way.
Fayette
- Categories: county of Kentucky and locality
- Location: Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0281° or 38° 1′ 41″ north
Longitude
-84.4722° or 84° 28′ 20″ west
Population
323,000
Elevation
1,053 feet (321 metres)
Open location code
86CQ2GHH+64
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Fayette” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fayette County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة فاييت”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه فاييت، كنتاكي”
- Armenian: “Ֆայետ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Fayette”
- Basque: “Fayette konderria”
- Bavarian: “Fayette County, Kentucky”
- Bavarian: “Fayette County”
- Belarusian: “Фает”
- Bishnupriya: “ফায়েত কাউন্টি, কেন্টাকি”
- Bishnupriya: “ফায়েত কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Файет”
- Catalan: “comtat de Fayette”
- Cebuano: “Fayette County”
- Chechen: “Фейетт (гуо, Кентукки)”
- Chechen: “Фейетт”
- Chinese: “Fayette Kūn”
- Chinese: “費耶特縣”
- Chinese: “费耶特县”
- Czech: “Fayette County”
- Dutch: “Fayette County”
- Esperanto: “Fayette County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Fayette”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Fayette”
- Estonian: “Fayette’i maakond”
- Finnish: “Fayetten piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Fayette”
- French: “Comté de Fayette”
- French: “Fayette County”
- Ganda: “Essaza lye Fayette, Kentucky”
- Ganda: “Fayette County”
- Georgian: “ფეიეტის ოლქი”
- German: “Fayette County”
- Gilaki: “فیت ٚ شأرستان (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “فیت ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Φαγιέτ”
- Hungarian: “Fayette megye”
- Irish: “Contae Fayette”
- Italian: “contea di Fayette”
- Italian: “Contea di Fayette”
- Italian: “Fayette County”
- Japanese: “ファイエット郡”
- Japanese: “フェイエット郡”
- Korean: “페이엣군”
- Low German: “Fayette County”
- Mazanderani: “فیت شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Fayette Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fayette Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fayette County i Kentucky”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fayette County”
- Norwegian: “Fayette County”
- Ossetian: “Фейетт”
- Persian: “شهرستان فیت، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “شهرستان فیت”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Fayette”
- Portuguese: “condado de Fayette”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Fayette”
- Portuguese: “Fayette County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Fayette, Kentucky”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Fayette”
- Russian: “Фейетт”
- Sardinian: “contea de Fayette”
- Scots: “Fayette Coonty”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fayette County”
- Serbian: “Округ Фејет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fayette County, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fayette County”
- Spanish: “condado de Fayette”
- Spanish: “Condado de Fayette”
- Spanish: “Fayette County”
- Swedish: “Fayette County, Kentucky”
- Swedish: “Fayette County”
- Tatar: “Фейетт (округ, Кентуки)”
- Tatar: “Фейетт”
- Tumbuka: “Fayette County, Kentucky”
- Tumbuka: “Fayette County”
- Turkish: “Fayette County, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Fayette County, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Fayette County, KY”
- Turkish: “Fayette County”
- Turkish: “Fayette ilçesi, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Fayette ilçesi, Ky.”
- Turkish: “Fayette ilçesi, KY”
- Turkish: “Fayette ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Фаєтт”
- Urdu: “فائیٹ کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
- Urdu: “فائیٹ کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Fayette”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Fayette, Kentucky”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Fayette”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Fayette, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Fayette”
- Welsh: “Fayette County, Kentucky”
- Welsh: “Fayette County”
- Western Panjabi: “فایٹ کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
- Western Panjabi: “فایٹ کاؤنٹی”
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