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Buncombe

Buncombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of . It is classified within . The 2020 census reported the population was 269,452, making it the 7th-most populous county in North Carolina.
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  • Type: County with 238,000 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Buncombe County”, “Buncombe County, NC”, and “Buncombe County, North Carolina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beaucatcher Mountain and St. Mary’s Episcopal Church.

Peak
is located in a portion of the Appalachian Mountain Range known as the , in , . Its name was said to have been coined in the mid-1800s by James W.

Church
Photo: Bigskybill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Mary's Episcopal Church is an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal parish in , , United States, in the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina.

Hotel
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Grove Park Inn is a historic resort hotel on the western-facing slope of Sunset Mountain within the , in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Asheville and Woodfin.

Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The city of is a liberal, artsy community nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains and in . A popular tourist destination, this "Paris of the South," has one of the most impressive, comprehensive collections of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

Village
is a town in Buncombe County, , United States. The population was 6,123 as of the 2010 census. It is part of the .

Buncombe

Latitude
35.6292° or 35° 37′ 45″ north
Longitude
-82.5256° or 82° 31′ 32″ west
Population
238,000
Elevation
2,369 feet (722 metres)
Open location code
867VJFHF+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316978970
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4458155
Wiki­data ID
Q504360
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Buncombe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Buncombe County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Buncombe County”
  • Albanian: “Buncombe County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بونكوم”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه بونكوم، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Armenian: “Բանկոմ”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Buncombe”
  • Basque: “Buncombe konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Buncombe County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Buncombe County”
  • Bishnupriya: “বানকম্বে কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “বানকম্বে কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Бънгкъм”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Buncombe”
  • Cebuano: “Buncombe County”
  • Chechen: “Банком (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Банком”
  • Chinese: “Buncombe Kūn”
  • Chinese: “班康县”
  • Chinese: “班康縣”
  • Chinese: “班康郡”
  • Czech: “Buncombe County”
  • Danish: “Buncombe County”
  • Dutch: “Buncombe County”
  • Esperanto: “Buncombe County”
  • Esperanto: “Buncombe”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Buncombe”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Buncombe”
  • Finnish: “Buncomben piirikunta”
  • French: “Buncombe County”
  • French: “comté de Buncombe”
  • French: “Comté de Buncombe”
  • German: “Buncombe County”
  • German: “Buncombe”
  • Gilaki: “بان‌کوم ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “بان‌کوم ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז באנקומב”
  • Hungarian: “Buncombe megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Buncombe, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Buncombe”
  • Italian: “Buncombe County”
  • Italian: “contea di Buncombe”
  • Italian: “Contea di Buncombe”
  • Japanese: “バンコム郡”
  • Korean: “벙컴군”
  • Low German: “Buncombe County”
  • Mazanderani: “بان‌کوم شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Buncombe Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buncombe Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buncombe County”
  • Norwegian: “Buncombe County”
  • Nyanja: “Buncombe County”
  • Ossetian: “Банком (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Банком”
  • Pedi: “Buncombe County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان بان‌کوم”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Buncombe”
  • Portuguese: “Buncombe County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Buncombe”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Buncombe”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Buncombe, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Buncombe”
  • Russian: “Банком”
  • Russian: “Банкомб”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Buncombe”
  • Serbian: “Округ Банком”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buncombe County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buncombe County”
  • Slovenian: “Buncombe County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Buncombe”
  • Southern Sotho: “Buncombe County”
  • Spanish: “Buncombe County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Buncombe”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Buncombe”
  • Swahili: “Buncombe County”
  • Swati: “Buncombe County”
  • Swedish: “Buncombe County”
  • Tatar: “Банком (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Банком”
  • Tumbuka: “Buncombe County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Buncombe County”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe County”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Buncombe ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Банком”
  • Urdu: “بنکومبے کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولینا”
  • Urdu: “بنکومبے کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Buncombe”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Buncombe, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Buncombe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Buncombe, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Buncombe”
  • Welsh: “Buncombe County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Buncombe County”
  • Western Panjabi: “بنکومب کاؤنٹی”
  • Xhosa: “Buncombe County”
  • Zulu: “Buncombe County”

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Highlights include Patton Mountain and Rich Knob.

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