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Rowan

Rowan County, officially the County of Rowan, is a county in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, its population was 146,875. Its county seat, , is the oldest continuously populated European-American town in the western half of North Carolina.
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  • Type: County with 138,000 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Rowan County”, “Rowan County, NC”, and “Rowan County, North Carolina”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Salisbury.

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is a city in the region of . This town stemming back to the mid-18th century along Native American trade routes and transitioning through Revolutionary and Civil War and agricultural, industrial, and post-industrial times has a downtown quarter numbered with boutique shops and a popular transportation museum nearby.

Rowan

Latitude
35.6316° or 35° 37′ 54″ north
Longitude
-80.5172° or 80° 31′ 2″ west
Population
138,000
Elevation
751 feet (229 metres)
Open location code
867XJFJM+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316978979
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4489163
Wiki­data ID
Q507966
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Rowan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rowan County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Rowan County”
  • Albanian: “Rowan County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة روان”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه روان، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Rowan”
  • Basque: “Rowan konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Rowan County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Rowan County”
  • Bishnupriya: “রৌয়ান কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “রৌয়ান কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Роуън”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Rowan”
  • Cebuano: “Rowan County”
  • Chechen: “Роуэн (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Роуэн”
  • Chinese: “Rowan Kūn”
  • Chinese: “罗恩县”
  • Chinese: “羅恩縣”
  • Chinese: “羅恩郡”
  • Czech: “okres Rowan”
  • Czech: “Rowan County”
  • Dutch: “Rowan County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Rowan”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Rowan”
  • Esperanto: “Rowan County”
  • Estonian: “Rowani maakond”
  • Finnish: “Rowanin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Rowan”
  • French: “Comté de Rowan”
  • French: “Rowan County”
  • German: “Rowan County”
  • Gilaki: “روآن ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “روآن ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז רוון”
  • Hungarian: “Rowan megye”
  • Indonesian: “County Rowan, Carolina Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Rowan County”
  • Irish: “Contae Rowan, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Rowan”
  • Italian: “contea di Rowan”
  • Italian: “Contea di Rowan”
  • Italian: “Rowan County”
  • Japanese: “ローワン郡”
  • Korean: “로완군”
  • Low German: “Rowan County”
  • Mazanderani: “روآن شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Rowan Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rowan Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rowan County i Nord-Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rowan County”
  • Norwegian: “Rowan County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان روآن، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان روآن”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Rowan”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Rowan”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Rowan”
  • Portuguese: “Rowan County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Rowan, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Rowan”
  • Russian: “Роуан”
  • Russian: “Роуэн”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Rowan”
  • Serbian: “Округ Роуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rowan County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rowan County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Rowan”
  • Slovenian: “Rowan County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Rowan”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Rowan”
  • Spanish: “Rowan County”
  • Swedish: “Rowan County, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Rowan County”
  • Tatar: “Роуэн (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Роуэн”
  • Tumbuka: “Rowan County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Rowan County”
  • Turkish: “Rowan County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Rowan County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Rowan County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Rowan County”
  • Turkish: “Rowan ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Rowan ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Rowan ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Rowan ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ровен”
  • Urdu: “روون کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Rowan”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Rowan, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Rowan, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Rowan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Rowan, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Rowan”
  • Welsh: “Rowan County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Rowan County”
  • Western Panjabi: “رووان کاؤنٹی”

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