Swain

The North Carolina Mountains in western are home to popular areas like and the . The North Carolina Mountains offer scenic drives, majestic hikes and a variety of small country stores and hometown restaurants for leisure.
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  • County with about 14,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 2,910 feet (890 metres)
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as
    “Swain County”
    “Swain County, NC”
    “Swain County, North Carolina”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bryson City Depot.
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Railway station
The is a train station located in , United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bryson City.
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is a small city located in the of .

Swain

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Latitude
35.4582° or 35° 27′ 30″ north
Longitude
-83.4663° or 83° 27′ 59″ west
Open location code
867RFG5M+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316978998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4494189
Wiki­data ID
Q496197

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Swain” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Swain County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Swain County”
  • Albanian: “Swain County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة سوين”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه سوين، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Swain”
  • Basque: “Swain konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Swain County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Swain County”
  • Bishnupriya: “সৱিন কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “সৱিন কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Суейн”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Swain”
  • Cebuano: “Swain County”
  • Chechen: “Суэйн (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Суэйн”
  • Chinese: “斯温县”
  • Chinese: “斯溫縣”
  • Chinese: “斯溫郡”
  • Czech: “Swain County”
  • Danish: “Swain County”
  • Dutch: “Swain County”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Swain”
  • Esperanto: “Swain County”
  • Finnish: “Swainin piirikunta”
  • French: “Comté de Swain”
  • French: “Swain County”
  • German: “Swain County”
  • Gilaki: “سوین ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “سوین ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז סויין”
  • Hungarian: “Swain megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Swain, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Swain”
  • Italian: “Contea di Swain”
  • Italian: “Swain County”
  • Japanese: “スウェイン郡”
  • Korean: “스웨인군”
  • Low German: “Swain County”
  • Mazanderani: “سوین شهرستان (شمالی کارولینا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سوین شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Swain Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Swain Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Swain County”
  • Norwegian: “Swain County”
  • Nyanja: “Swain County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان سوین، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان سوین”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Swain”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Swain”
  • Portuguese: “Swain County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Swain, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Swain”
  • Russian: “Суэйн”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Swain”
  • Serbian: “Округ Свејн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Swain County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Swain County”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Swain”
  • Spanish: “Swain County”
  • Swedish: “Swain County”
  • Tatar: “Суэйн (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Суэйн”
  • Tumbuka: “Swain County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Swain County”
  • Turkish: “Swain County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Swain County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Swain County”
  • Turkish: “Swain ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Swain ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Swain ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Свейн”
  • Urdu: “سوئین کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولینا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Swain”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Swain, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Swain”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Swain, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Swain”
  • Welsh: “Swain County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Swain County”
  • Western Panjabi: “سوائن کاؤنٹی”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Spruce Grove Church and Sherrill Gap.

North Carolina: Highlights

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