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Durham County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 324,833, making it the sixth-most populous county in North Carolina.
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  • Type: County with 268,000 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Durham County”, “Durham County, NC”, and “Durham County, North Carolina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Durham Regional Hospital and Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass.

Hospital
Duke Regional Hospital, located in northern , is a general-services that has been part of the Duke University Health System since 1998.

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The is a railroad bridge in , United States. Built in 1940, the bridge carries passenger and freight trains over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and functions as the northbound access to the nearby .

Stadium
, nicknamed "The DAP", is a former minor league baseball stadium in . The stadium was home to the Durham Bulls from 1926 through 1994, the North Carolina Central Eagles and the Durham School of the Arts Bulldogs.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Durham and American Tobacco Historic District.

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Of the three cities that make up 's , has traditionally been the grittier, more working-class one. A city of about 283,500 residents in 2020, 's early wealth was built on tobacco and textiles, with a vibrant African-American community that once made the city a center for Black culture.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic tobacco factory complex and national historic district located in , Durham County, North Carolina.

Neighborhood
is an unincorporated community in Durham County, , United States, on North Carolina Highway 98, east of its junction with U.S. Route 70. Most of was annexed by in 1966.

Durham

Latitude
36.0181° or 36° 1′ 5″ north
Longitude
-78.8752° or 78° 52′ 31″ west
Population
268,000
Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)
Open location code
8783249F+7W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979054
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4464374
Wiki­data ID
Q428298
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Durham” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Durham County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Durham County”
  • Albanian: “Durham County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة دورهام”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Durham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Durham qraflığı”
  • Basque: “Durham konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Durham County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Durham County”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডারহাম কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডারহাম কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Дърам”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Durham”
  • Cebuano: “Durham County”
  • Chechen: “Дарем (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Дарем”
  • Chinese: “Durham Kūn”
  • Chinese: “达勒姆县”
  • Chinese: “達勒姆縣”
  • Dutch: “Durham County”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دورام كاونتى (نورث كارولاينا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دورام كاونتى”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Durham”
  • Finnish: “Durhamin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Durham”
  • French: “Comté de Durham”
  • German: “Durham County”
  • Gilaki: “دورهام ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “دورهام ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Ντάραμ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז דרהאם”
  • Hungarian: “Durham megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Durham, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Durham”
  • Italian: “contea di Durham”
  • Italian: “Contea di Durham”
  • Japanese: “ダーラム郡”
  • Korean: “더럼군”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Durhamensis”
  • Latin: “Dunelmensis comitatus”
  • Low German: “Durham County”
  • Mazanderani: “دورهام شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Durham Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Durham Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Durham County”
  • Norwegian: “Durham County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان دورهام، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان دورهام”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Durham”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Durham”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Durham, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Durham”
  • Russian: “Дарем”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Durham”
  • Serbian: “Округ Дарам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durham County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durham County”
  • Slovenian: “Durham County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Durham”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Durham (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Durham”
  • Swedish: “Durham County, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Durham County”
  • Tatar: “Дарем (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Дарем”
  • Tumbuka: “Durham County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Durham County”
  • Turkish: “Durham County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Durham County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Durham County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Durham County”
  • Turkish: “Durham ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Durham ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Durham ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Durham ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарем”
  • Ukrainian: “Дергем”
  • Urdu: “ڈرہم کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولینا”
  • Urdu: “ڈرہم کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Durham”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Durham, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Durham, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Durham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Durham, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Durham”
  • Welsh: “Durham County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Durham County”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈرہام کاؤنٹی”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Durham”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Club Boulevard Community and Colonial Village.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Garden Of Gethsemane Outreach Ministries and Beaver Marsh Preserve.

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