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Cherokee

Cherokee County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of . It borders to its west and to its south. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,774. The county seat is .
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  • Type: County with 27,400 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Cherokee County”, “Cherokee County, NC”, and “Cherokee County, North Carolina”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Murphy.

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is a town in and the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the and Valley rivers.

Cherokee

Latitude
35.1184° or 35° 7′ 6″ north
Longitude
-84.0886° or 84° 5′ 19″ west
Population
27,400
Elevation
1,749 feet (533 metres)
Open location code
867Q4W96+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979004
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4460366
Wiki­data ID
Q484664
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Cherokee” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cherokee County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Cherokee County”
  • Albanian: “Cherokee County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة تشيروكي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه تشيروكي، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Armenian: “Չերոկիի շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Cherokee”
  • Basque: “Cherokee konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Cherokee County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Cherokee County”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেরুকী কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেরুকী কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Чероки”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Cherokee”
  • Cebuano: “Cherokee County”
  • Chechen: “Чероки (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Чероки”
  • Chinese: “Cherokee Kūn”
  • Chinese: “切罗基县”
  • Chinese: “切羅基縣”
  • Danish: “Cherokee County”
  • Dutch: “Cherokee County”
  • Esperanto: “Cherokee County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Cherokee”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Cherokee”
  • Finnish: “Cherokeen piirikunta”
  • French: “Cherokee County”
  • French: “comté de Cherokee”
  • French: “Comté de Cherokee”
  • German: “Cherokee County”
  • Gilaki: “چروکی ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “چروکی ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Τσερόκι”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Τσερόκι”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז צ’רוקי”
  • Hungarian: “Cherokee megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Cherokee, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Cherokee”
  • Italian: “Cherokee County”
  • Italian: “contea di Cherokee”
  • Italian: “Contea di Cherokee”
  • Japanese: “チェロキー郡”
  • Korean: “체로키군”
  • Low German: “Cherokee County”
  • Mazanderani: “چروکی شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cherokee Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cherokee Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherokee County i Nord-Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherokee County”
  • Norwegian: “Cherokee County”
  • Ossetian: “Чероки (зылд, Цæгат Каролинæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Чероки”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چروکی، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چروکی”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Cherokee”
  • Portuguese: “Cherokee County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Cherokee”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Cherokee, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Cherokee”
  • Russian: “Чероки”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Cherokee”
  • Serbian: “Округ Чероки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee County”
  • Slovenian: “Cherokee County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Cherokee”
  • Spanish: “Cherokee County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Cherokee”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Swedish: “Cherokee County, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Cherokee County”
  • Tatar: “Чероки (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Чероки”
  • Tumbuka: “Cherokee County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Cherokee County”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Черокі”
  • Urdu: “چروکی کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Cherokee”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cherokee, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cherokee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Cherokee, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Cherokee”
  • Welsh: “Cherokee County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Cherokee County”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیروکی کاؤنٹی، اتلا کیرولینا”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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