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Alexander

Alexander County is a county established in the U.S. state of in 1847. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,444. Its county seat is . Alexander County is part of the .
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  • Type: County with 37,200 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Alexander County”, “Alexander County, NC”, and “Alexander County, North Carolina”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taylorsville.

Town
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is a town in Alexander County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,320 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Alexander County. is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Alexander

Latitude
35.9247° or 35° 55′ 29″ north
Longitude
-81.1716° or 81° 10′ 18″ west
Population
37,200
Elevation
1,224 feet (373 metres)
Open location code
867WWRFH+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4452352
Wiki­data ID
Q491584
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Alexander” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alexander County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Alexander County”
  • Albanian: “Alexander County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أليكزاندر”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه أليكزاندر، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Asturian: “condáu d’Alexander”
  • Basque: “Alexander konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Alexander County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Alexander County”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলেক্সজান্ডার কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলেক্সজান্ডার কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Александър”
  • Catalan: “comtat d’Alexander”
  • Cebuano: “Alexander County”
  • Chechen: “Алегзандер (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Алегзандер”
  • Chinese: “Alexander Kūn”
  • Chinese: “亚历山大县”
  • Chinese: “亞歷山大縣”
  • Czech: “Alexander County”
  • Czech: “okres Alexander”
  • Dutch: “Alexander County”
  • Esperanto: “Alexander County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Aleksandro”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Alexander”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Alexander”
  • Estonian: “Alexanderi maakond”
  • Finnish: “Alexanderin piirikunta”
  • French: “Alexander County”
  • French: “comté d’Alexander”
  • French: “Comté d’Alexander”
  • German: “Alexander County”
  • Gilaki: “الکساندر ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “الکساندر ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Αλεξάντερ”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Αλεξάντερ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אלכסנדר”
  • Hungarian: “Alexander megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Alexander, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Alexander”
  • Italian: “Alexander County”
  • Italian: “contea di Alexander”
  • Italian: “Contea di Alexander”
  • Japanese: “アレクサンダー郡”
  • Japanese: “アレグザンダー郡”
  • Korean: “알렉산더군”
  • Low German: “Alexander County”
  • Mazanderani: “الکساندر شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Alexander Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alexander Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexander County i Nord-Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alexander County”
  • Norwegian: “Alexander County”
  • Nyanja: “Alexander County”
  • Pedi: “Alexander County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان الکساندر، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان الکساندر”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Alexander”
  • Portuguese: “Alexander County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Alexander”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Alexander”
  • Romanian: “Alexander County, North Carolina”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Alexander, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Alexander, North Carolina”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Alexander”
  • Russian: “Алегзандер”
  • Russian: “Александер”
  • Russian: “Александр”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Alexander”
  • Serbian: “Округ Александер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alexander County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alexander County”
  • Southern Sotho: “Alexander County”
  • Spanish: “Alexander County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Alexander”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Alexander”
  • Swedish: “Alexander County, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Alexander County”
  • Tatar: “Алегзандер (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Алегзандер”
  • Tumbuka: “Alexander County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Alexander County”
  • Turkish: “Alexander County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Alexander County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Alexander County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Alexander County”
  • Turkish: “Alexander ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Alexander ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Alexander ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Alexander ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Александер”
  • Urdu: “الیگزینڈر کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Alexander”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Alexander, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Alexander, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Alexander”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Alexander, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Alexander”
  • Welsh: “Alexander County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Alexander County”
  • Western Panjabi: “الیگزنڈر کاؤنٹی، اتلا کیرولینا”
  • Xhosa: “Alexander County”
  • Zulu: “Alexander County”

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