Watauga County
The North Carolina Mountains in western North Carolina are home to popular areas like Asheville and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The North Carolina Mountains offer scenic drives, majestic hikes and a variety of small country stores and hometown restaurants for leisure.
- County of North Carolina with about 54,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 4,170 feet (1,270 metres)
- Description: county in North Carolina, United States
- Also known as“Watauga”“Watauga County, NC”“Watauga County, North Carolina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Howard Knob and Jones House.
Howard Knob
Howard Knob is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, located in the town of Boone.
Jones House
Jones House is a historic home located at Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina.
Rich Mountain
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Rich Mountain is a mountain located in the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boone.
Boone
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Boone is a town in Watauga County nestled in the North Carolina Mountains, part of Appalachia.
Watauga County
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Latitude
36.2311° or 36° 13′ 52″ north
Longitude
-81.6964° or 81° 41′ 47″ west
Open location code
868W68J3+CF
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Watauga County” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Watauga County, Noord-Carolina”
- Afrikaans: “Watauga County”
- Albanian: “Watauga County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة واتوغا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه واتوغا، كارولاينا الشماليه”
- Asturian: “condáu de Watauga”
- Basque: “Watauga konderria”
- Bavarian: “Watauga County, North Carolina”
- Bavarian: “Watauga County”
- Bishnupriya: “ৱাটৌগা কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
- Bishnupriya: “ৱাটৌগা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Уотога”
- Catalan: “comtat de Watauga”
- Cebuano: “Watauga County”
- Chechen: “Уатога (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
- Chechen: “Уатога”
- Chinese: “沃托加县”
- Chinese: “沃托加縣”
- Chinese: “沃托加郡”
- Danish: “Watauga County”
- Dutch: “Watauga County”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Watauga”
- Esperanto: “Watauga County”
- Finnish: “Wataugan piirikunta”
- French: “Comté de Watauga”
- French: “Watauga County”
- German: “Watauga County”
- Gilaki: “واتاگا شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
- Gilaki: “واتاگا شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ואטוגה”
- Hungarian: “Watauga megye”
- Irish: “Contae Watauga, Carolina Thuaidh”
- Irish: “Contae Watauga”
- Italian: “Contea di Watauga”
- Italian: “Watauga County”
- Japanese: “ワタウガ郡”
- Korean: “와토가군”
- Low German: “Watauga County”
- Mazanderani: “واتاگا شهرستان (شمالی کارولینا)”
- Mazanderani: “واتاگا شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Watauga Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Watauga Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Watauga County”
- Norwegian: “Watauga County”
- Nyanja: “Watauga County”
- Pedi: “Watauga County”
- Persian: “شهرستان واتاگ، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “شهرستان واتاگا”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Watauga”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Watauga”
- Portuguese: “Watauga County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Watauga, Carolina de Nord”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Watauga”
- Russian: “Ватога”
- Russian: “Уотога”
- Sardinian: “contea de Watauga”
- Serbian: “Округ Ватога”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Watauga County, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Watauga County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Watauga”
- Slovenian: “Watauga County”
- Southern Sotho: “Watauga County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Watauga”
- Spanish: “Watauga County”
- Swahili: “Watauga County”
- Swati: “Watauga County”
- Swedish: “Watauga County”
- Tatar: “Уатога (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
- Tatar: “Уатога”
- Tumbuka: “Watauga County, North Carolina”
- Tumbuka: “Watauga County”
- Turkish: “Watauga County, Kuzey Karolina”
- Turkish: “Watauga County, N.C.”
- Turkish: “Watauga County”
- Turkish: “Watauga ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
- Turkish: “Watauga ilçesi, N.C.”
- Turkish: “Watauga ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Вотога”
- Ukrainian: “Вотоґа”
- Urdu: “واٹاگا کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
- Venetian: “contea de Watauga”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Watauga, North Carolina”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Watauga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Watauga, North Carolina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Watauga”
- Welsh: “Watauga County, Gogledd Carolina”
- Welsh: “Watauga County”
- Western Panjabi: “واتاؤگا کاؤنٹی”
- Xhosa: “Watauga County”
- Zulu: “Watauga County”
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Notable Places Nearby
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