Potosi
Potosi is a city and the county seat of Washington County, Missouri, United States. Potosi is 72 miles southwest of St. Louis. The population was 2,538 as of the 2020 census.
- Type: Village with 2,730 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Washington County, Missouri, United States
- Also known as: “Mine-a-Breton”, “Potosí”, “Potosi (Misuri)”, “Potosi, Missouri”, “Potosi, MO”, and “Потоси (Миссури)”
- Postal code: 63664
Potosi
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Breton Township, Washington, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.93644° or 37° 56′ 11″ north
Longitude
-90.78791° or 90° 47′ 17″ west
Population
2,730
Elevation
902 feet (275 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US PSI
Open location code
869FW6P6+HR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Potosi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوتوسي”
- Basque: “Potosi”
- Catalan: “Potosi”
- Cebuano: “Potosi”
- Chechen: “Потоси”
- Chinese: “波托西”
- Danish: “Potosi”
- Dutch: “Potosi”
- French: “Potosi”
- Gilaki: “پوتوسی (ميزؤري)”
- Gilaki: “پوتوسی”
- Haitian: “Potosi, Missouri”
- Haitian: “Potosi”
- Hungarian: “Potosi”
- Ido: “Potosi, Missouri”
- Ido: “Potosi”
- Irish: “Potosi”
- Italian: “Potosi”
- Japanese: “ポトシ”
- Kazakh: “Potosï”
- Kazakh: “Потоси”
- Kazakh: “پوتوسىي”
- Kirghiz: “Потоси”
- Ladin: “Potosi”
- Mazanderani: “پوتوسی (میزوری)”
- Mazanderani: “پوتوسی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Potosi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Potosi”
- Norwegian: “Potosi”
- Persian: “پوتوسی”
- Polish: “Potosi”
- Portuguese: “Potosi”
- Russian: “Потоси”
- Serbian: “Потоси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Potosi, Missouri”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Potosi”
- South Azerbaijani: “پوتوسی، میزوری”
- Spanish: “Potosi”
- Swedish: “Potosi, Missouri”
- Swedish: “Potosi”
- Tatar: “Потоси”
- Ukrainian: “Потосі”
- Urdu: “پوٹوسی، مسوری”
- Uzbek: “Potosi”
- Volapük: “Potosi”
- Welsh: “Potosi, Missouri”
- Welsh: “Potosi”
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Places to explore: Springtown and Bates Creek Camp.
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Highlights: Washington County Court and Washington County Sheriff Department.
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