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Guilford

Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 541,299, making it the third-most populous county in North Carolina.
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  • Type: County with 488,000 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Guilford County”, “Guilford County, NC”, and “Guilford County, North Carolina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include North Carolina A&T State University and International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

University
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is a public, historically black, land-grant research university in , United States.

Museum
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The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is located in , , United States. Its building formerly housed the Woolworth's, the site of a nonviolent protest in the civil rights movement and is now a National Historic Landmark, as well as a part of the Downtown Greensboro Historic District.

Museum
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The Greensboro History Museum, consisting of the former and Smith Memorial Building, is a historic building located at 130 Summit Ave. in , Guilford County, North Carolina.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greensboro.

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is a city of almost 300,000 people in . It is named after Nathanael Greene, a Patriot general who fought a battle here during the Revolutionary War.

Guilford

Latitude
36.0876° or 36° 5′ 15″ north
Longitude
-79.7889° or 79° 47′ 20″ west
Population
488,000
Elevation
797 feet (243 metres)
Open location code
878236Q6+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979017
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4469393
Wiki­data ID
Q502257
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Guilford” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guilford County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Guilford County”
  • Albanian: “Guilford County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة غيلفورد”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه غيلفورد، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Armenian: “Գիլֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Guilford”
  • Basque: “Guilford konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Guilford County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Guilford County”
  • Belarusian: “Гілфард”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুইলফোর্ড কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুইলফোর্ড কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Гилфорд”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Guilford”
  • Cebuano: “Guilford County”
  • Chechen: “Гилфорд (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Гилфорд”
  • Chinese: “Guilford Kūn”
  • Chinese: “吉尔福德县”
  • Chinese: “吉爾福德縣”
  • Chinese: “吉爾福德郡”
  • Czech: “Guilford County”
  • Danish: “Guilford County”
  • Dutch: “Guilford County”
  • Esperanto: “Guilford County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Guilford”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Guilford”
  • Estonian: “Guilfordi maakond”
  • Finnish: “Guilfordin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Guilford”
  • French: “Comté de Guilford”
  • French: “Guilford County”
  • German: “Guilford County”
  • Gilaki: “گیلفرد ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “گیلفرد ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז גילפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Guilford megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Guilford, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Guilford”
  • Italian: “contea di Guilford”
  • Italian: “Contea di Guilford”
  • Italian: “Guilford County”
  • Japanese: “ギルフォード郡”
  • Korean: “길퍼드군”
  • Low German: “Guilford County”
  • Mazanderani: “گیلفرد شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guilford Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guilford Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guilford County”
  • Norwegian: “Guilford County”
  • Ossetian: “Гилфорд (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Гилфорд”
  • Persian: “شهرستان گیلفرد، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان گیلفرد”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Guilford”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Guilford”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Guilford”
  • Portuguese: “Guilford County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Guilford, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Guilford”
  • Russian: “Гилфорд”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Guilford”
  • Serbian: “Округ Гилфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guilford County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guilford County”
  • Slovenian: “Guilford County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Guilford”
  • Spanish: “condado de Guilford”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Guilford”
  • Spanish: “Guilford County”
  • Swedish: “Guilford County”
  • Tatar: “Гилфорд (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Гилфорд”
  • Tumbuka: “Guilford County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Guilford County”
  • Turkish: “Guilford County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Guilford County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Guilford County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Guilford County”
  • Turkish: “Guilford ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Guilford ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Guilford ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Guilford ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Гілфорд”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґілфорд”
  • Urdu: “گیلفورڈ کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولینا”
  • Urdu: “گیلفورڈ کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Guilford”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Guilford, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Guilford, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Guilford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Guilford, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Guilford”
  • Welsh: “Guilford County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Guilford County”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوئلفورڈ کاؤنٹی”

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