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Polk

Polk County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,328. Its county seat is .
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  • Type: County with 20,500 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Polk County”, “Polk County, NC”, and “Polk County, North Carolina”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Columbus.

Town
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is a town and the county seat of Polk County, , . The population was 1,060 at the 2020 census.

Polk

Latitude
35.2779° or 35° 16′ 41″ north
Longitude
-82.1762° or 82° 10′ 34″ west
Population
20,500
Elevation
1,129 feet (344 metres)
Open location code
867V7RHF+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316978984
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4486072
Wiki­data ID
Q507892
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Polk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Polk County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Polk County”
  • Albanian: “Polk County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بولك”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه بولك، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Armenian: “Պոլկ շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Polk”
  • Basque: “Polk konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Polk County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Polk County”
  • Bishnupriya: “পোল্ক কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “পোল্ক কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Полк”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Polk”
  • Cebuano: “Polk County”
  • Chechen: “Полк (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Полк”
  • Chinese: “Polk Kūn”
  • Chinese: “波尔克县”
  • Chinese: “波爾克縣”
  • Chinese: “波爾克郡”
  • Czech: “Polk County”
  • Dutch: “Polk County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Polk”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Polk”
  • Esperanto: “Polk County”
  • Finnish: “Polkin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Polk”
  • French: “Comté de Polk”
  • French: “Polk County”
  • German: “Polk County”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Πολκ”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Πολκ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז פולק”
  • Hungarian: “Polk megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Polk, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Polk”
  • Italian: “contea di Polk”
  • Italian: “Contea di Polk”
  • Italian: “Polk County”
  • Japanese: “ポーク郡”
  • Korean: “포크군”
  • Low German: “Polk County”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Polk Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Polk County i Nord-Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Polk County”
  • Norwegian: “Polk County”
  • Nyanja: “Polk County”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Polk”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Polk”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Polk”
  • Portuguese: “Polk County”
  • Russian: “Полк”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Polk”
  • Serbian: “Округ Полк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Polk County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Polk County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Polk”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Polk”
  • Spanish: “Polk County”
  • Swedish: “Polk County, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Polk County”
  • Tatar: “Полк (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Полк”
  • Tumbuka: “Polk County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Polk County”
  • Turkish: “Polk County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Polk County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Polk County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Polk County”
  • Turkish: “Polk ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Polk ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Polk ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Polk ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Полк”
  • Urdu: “پوک کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Polk”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Polk, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Polk, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Polk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Polk, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Polk”
  • Welsh: “Polk County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Polk County”
  • Western Panjabi: “پولک کاؤنٹی، اتلا کیرولینا”

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