Monroe
Monroe County is a county located in the Eastern Pennyroyal Plateau region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat is Tompkinsville. The county is named for President James Monroe.
- Type: County with 11,300 residents
- Description: county in Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Monroe County”, “Monroe County i Kentucky”, “Monroe County, Kentucky”, “Monroe County, KY”, “Monroe County, Ky.”, “Monroe ilçesi, Kentucky”, “Monroe ilçesi, KY”, “Monroe ilçesi, Ky.”, “Okrožje Monroe”, and “مقاطعه مونرو، كنتاكي”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tompkinsville.
Monroe
- Categories: county of Kentucky and locality
- Location: Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Monroe” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Monroe County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة مونرو”
- 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: “門羅縣”
- Chinese: “门罗县”
- Dutch: “Monroe County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Monroe”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Monroe”
- Estonian: “Monroe maakond”
- Finnish: “Monroe County”
- French: “comté de Monroe”
- French: “Comté de Monroe”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Spanish: “condado de Monroe”
- Spanish: “Condado de Monroe”
- 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 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
Places to explore: Grandview and Forkton.
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Highlights: Poplar Log Church and Bowman Cemetery.
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