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Yancey

Yancey County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,470. Its county seat is .
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  • Type: County with 17,800 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Yancey County”, “Yancey County, NC”, and “Yancey County, North Carolina”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burnsville.

Town
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is a town that serves as the county seat of Yancey County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, sits in the shadow of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Eastern Continental United States.

Yancey

Latitude
35.8875° or 35° 53′ 15″ north
Longitude
-82.3036° or 82° 18′ 13″ west
Population
17,800
Elevation
2,769 feet (844 metres)
Open location code
867VVMQW+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4500160
Wiki­data ID
Q502487
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Yancey” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yancey County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Yancey County”
  • Albanian: “Yancey County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة يانسي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه يانسي، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Yancey”
  • Basque: “Yancey konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Yancey County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Yancey County”
  • Bishnupriya: “য়ানসিয় কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “য়ানসিয় কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Янси”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Yancey”
  • Cebuano: “Yancey County”
  • Chechen: “Янси”
  • Chinese: “Yancey Kūn”
  • Chinese: “扬西县”
  • Chinese: “揚西縣”
  • Chinese: “揚西郡”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Yancey, Sjeverna Karolina”
  • Croatian: “Yancey, okrug”
  • Croatian: “Yancey”
  • Dutch: “Yancey County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Yancey”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Yancey”
  • Esperanto: “Yancey County”
  • Finnish: “Yanceyn piirikunta”
  • French: “comté d’Yancey”
  • French: “comté de Yancey”
  • French: “Comté de Yancey”
  • French: “Yancey County”
  • German: “Yancey County”
  • Gilaki: “ینسی ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “ینسی ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ינסי”
  • Hungarian: “Yancey megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Yancey, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Yancey”
  • Italian: “contea di Yancey”
  • Italian: “Contea di Yancey”
  • Italian: “Yancey County”
  • Japanese: “ヤンシー・カウンティ”
  • Japanese: “ヤンシー郡”
  • Korean: “얀시군”
  • Low German: “Yancey County”
  • Mazanderani: “ینسی شهرستان (شمالی کارولینا)”
  • Mazanderani: “ینسی شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Yancey Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yancey Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yancey County”
  • Norwegian: “Yancey County”
  • Nyanja: “Yancey County”
  • Pedi: “Yancey County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ینسی، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان ینسی”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Yancey”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Yancey”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Yancey”
  • Portuguese: “Yancey County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Yancey, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Yancey”
  • Russian: “Янси”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Yancey”
  • Serbian: “Округ Јанси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yancey County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yancey County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Yancey”
  • Slovenian: “Yancey County”
  • Southern Sotho: “Yancey County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Yancey”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Yancey”
  • Spanish: “Yancey County”
  • Swahili: “Yancey County”
  • Swati: “Yancey County”
  • Swedish: “Yancey County”
  • Tatar: “Янси”
  • Tumbuka: “Yancey County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Yancey County”
  • Turkish: “Yancey County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Yancey County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Yancey County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Yancey County”
  • Turkish: “Yancey ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Yancey ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Yancey ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Yancey ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Янсі”
  • Urdu: “یئنسی کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Yancey okrugi”
  • Venetian: “contea de Yancey”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Yancey, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Yancey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Yancey, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Yancey”
  • Welsh: “Yancey County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Yancey County”
  • Western Panjabi: “یانسے کاؤنٹی”
  • Xhosa: “Yancey County”
  • Zulu: “Yancey County”

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