Lamar
Lamar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,222. Its county seat is Purvis. Named for Confederate Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the county was carved out of Marion County to the west in 1904.- Type: County with 62,400 residents
- Description: county in Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Lamar County”, “Lamar County i Mississippi”, “Lamar County, Miss.”, “Lamar County, Mississippi”, “Lamar County, MS”, “Lamar ilçesi, Miss.”, “Lamar ilçesi, Mississippi”, and “Lamar ilçesi, MS”
Lamar
- Categories: county of Mississippi and locality
- Location: Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
31.211° or 31° 12′ 40″ north
Longitude
-89.5152° or 89° 30′ 55″ west
Population
62,400
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
Open location code
863G6F6M+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Lamar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Lamar County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لامار”
- Armenian: “Լամար շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Lamar”
- Basque: “Lamar konderria”
- Bavarian: “Lamar County, Mississippi”
- Bavarian: “Lamar County”
- Bishnupriya: “লামার কাউন্টি, মিসিসিপি”
- Bishnupriya: “লামার কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Ламар”
- Catalan: “comtat de Lamar”
- Cebuano: “Lamar County”
- Chechen: “Ламар (гуо, Миссисипи)”
- Chechen: “Ламар”
- Chinese: “拉馬爾縣”
- Chinese: “拉马尔县”
- Danish: “Lamar County”
- Dutch: “Lamar County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Lamar”
- Estonian: “Lamari maakond”
- Finnish: “Lamarin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Lamar”
- French: “Comté de Lamar”
- Georgian: “ლამარის ოლქი”
- German: “Lamar County”
- Gilaki: “لامار ٚ شأرستان (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “لامار ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Λαμάρ”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Λαμάρ”
- Hungarian: “Lamar megye”
- Irish: “Contae Lamar”
- Italian: “contea di Lamar”
- Italian: “Contea di Lamar”
- Japanese: “ラマー郡”
- Korean: “러마군”
- Latin: “Lamar Comitatus”
- Low German: “Lamar County”
- Mazanderani: “لامار شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lamar Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lamar Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lamar County”
- Norwegian: “Lamar County”
- Persian: “شهرستان لامار، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “شهرستان لامار”
- Persian: “شهرستان لمار”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Lamar”
- Portuguese: “condado de Lamar”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lamar”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lamar, Mississippi”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lamar”
- Russian: “Ламар”
- Sardinian: “contea de Lamar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lamar County”
- Serbian: “Округ Ламар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lamar County, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lamar County”
- Spanish: “condado de Lamar”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lamar”
- Swedish: “Lamar County, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Lamar County”
- Tatar: “Ламар (округ, Миссисипи)”
- Tatar: “Ламар”
- Turkish: “Lamar County, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Lamar ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Ламар”
- Urdu: “لامار کاؤنٹی، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “لامار کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Lamar”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lamar, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Lamar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lamar, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lamar”
- Welsh: “Lamar County, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Lamar County”
- Western Panjabi: “لامار کاؤنٹی،مسسسپی”
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