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Monroe

Monroe County is a county located in the Eastern Pennyroyal Plateau region of the U.S. state of . Its county seat is . The county is named for President James Monroe.
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  • Type: County with 11,300 residents
  • Description: county in Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Monroe County”, “Monroe County, Kentucky”, and “Monroe County, KY”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tompkinsville.

Town
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is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Monroe County, , United States. The population was 2,309 at the 2020 census. The city was named after Vice President Daniel D.

Monroe

Latitude
36.6995° or 36° 41′ 58″ north
Longitude
-85.7285° or 85° 43′ 43″ west
Population
11,300
Elevation
945 feet (288 metres)
Open location code
868PM7XC+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316958764
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4301192
Wiki­data ID
Q505453
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Monroe” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Monroe County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة مونرو”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه مونرو، كنتاكي”
  • Armenian: “Մոնրո շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Monroe”
  • Basque: “Monroe konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Bavarian: “Monroe County”
  • Bishnupriya: “মনরৌ কাউন্টি, কেন্টাকি”
  • Bishnupriya: “মনরৌ কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Монро”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Monroe”
  • Cebuano: “Monroe County”
  • Chechen: “Монро (гуо, Кентукки)”
  • Chechen: “Монро”
  • Chinese: “Monroe Kūn”
  • Chinese: “門羅縣”
  • Chinese: “门罗县”
  • Dutch: “Monroe County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Monroe”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Monroe”
  • Esperanto: “Monroe County”
  • Estonian: “Monroe maakond”
  • Finnish: “Monroe County”
  • French: “comté de Monroe”
  • French: “Comté de Monroe”
  • French: “Monroe County”
  • Ganda: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Ganda: “Monroe County”
  • Georgian: “მონროს ოლქი”
  • German: “Monroe County”
  • Gilaki: “مونروو شأرستان (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “مونروو شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Μονρόε”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Μονρόε”
  • 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: “مونروو شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Monroe Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monroe Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monroe County i Kentucky”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monroe County”
  • Norwegian: “Monroe County”
  • Ossetian: “Монро (зылд, Кентукки)”
  • Ossetian: “Монро”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مونروو، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مونروو”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Monroe”
  • Portuguese: “Monroe County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Monroe, Kentucky”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Monroe”
  • Russian: “Монро”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Monroe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Monroe County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Монро”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monroe County”
  • Slovenian: “Monroe County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Monroe”
  • Spanish: “condado de Monroe”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Monroe”
  • Spanish: “Monroe County”
  • Swedish: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Swedish: “Monroe County”
  • Tatar: “Монро (округ, Кентуки)”
  • Tatar: “Монро”
  • Tumbuka: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Tumbuka: “Monroe County”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County, Ky.”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County, KY”
  • Turkish: “Monroe County”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi, Ky.”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi, KY”
  • Turkish: “Monroe ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Монро”
  • Urdu: “مونرو کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
  • Urdu: “مونرو کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Monroe”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Monroe, Kentucky”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Monroe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Monroe, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Monroe”
  • Welsh: “Monroe County, Kentucky”
  • Welsh: “Monroe County”
  • Western Panjabi: “منرو کاؤنٹی، کینٹکی”
  • Western Panjabi: “منرو کاؤنٹی”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Poplar Log Church and Bowman Cemetery.

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