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Cherokee

Cherokee County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,078. Its county seat is , which is also the capital of the Cherokee Nation.
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  • Type: County with 48,700 residents
  • Description: county in Oklahoma, United States
  • Also known as: “Cherokee County”, “Cherokee County, OK”, and “Cherokee County, Oklahoma”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tahlequah Municipal Airport and Cherokee National History Museum.

Aerodrome
is a city-owned, public-use located two nautical miles northwest of the central business district of , a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.

Museum
The is an art and cultural history museum in Tahlequah, , United States. Established in 2019, it is housed in the historic Cherokee Nation Supreme Court building, formerly known as the building.

Protected area
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The , now the Cherokee National History Museum, is a historic tribal government building in . Completed in 1869, it served as the capitol building of the Cherokee Nation from 1869 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tahlequah.

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is a city in Cherokee County, located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears.

Cherokee

Latitude
35.9159° or 35° 54′ 57″ north
Longitude
-94.995° or 94° 59′ 42″ west
Population
48,700
Elevation
873 feet (266 metres)
Open location code
8677W283+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316983668
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4532932
Wiki­data ID
Q491633
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Cherokee” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Cherokee County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة شيروكي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه شيروكي، أوكلاهوما”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Cherokee”
  • Basque: “Cherokee konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Cherokee County, Oklahoma”
  • Bavarian: “Cherokee County”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেরুকী কাউন্টি, ওকলাহোমা”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেরুকী কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Чероки”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Cherokee”
  • Cebuano: “Cherokee County”
  • Chinese: “Cherokee Kūn”
  • Chinese: “切罗基县”
  • Chinese: “切羅基縣”
  • Dutch: “Cherokee County”
  • Esperanto: “Cherokee County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Ĉeroka”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Cherokee”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Cherokee”
  • Esperanto: “ksntono Ĉerokoj”
  • Finnish: “Cherokeen piirikunta”
  • French: “Cherokee County”
  • French: “comté de Cherokee”
  • French: “Comté de Cherokee”
  • Galician: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Georgian: “ჩეროკის ოლქი”
  • German: “Cherokee County”
  • Gilaki: “چروکی ٚ شأرستان (اؤکلاهؤما)”
  • Gilaki: “چروکی ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Τσερόκι”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Τσερόκι”
  • Hungarian: “Cherokee megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Cherokee”
  • Italian: “Cherokee County”
  • Italian: “contea di Cherokee”
  • Italian: “Contea di Cherokee”
  • Japanese: “チェロキー郡”
  • Korean: “체로키군”
  • Low German: “Cherokee County”
  • Mazanderani: “چروکی شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cherokee Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cherokee Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherokee County i Oklahoma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherokee County”
  • Norwegian: “Cherokee County”
  • Ossetian: “Чероки (зылд, Оклахомæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Чероки”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چروکی، اکلاهما”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چروکی”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Cherokee”
  • Portuguese: “Cherokee County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Cherokee”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Cherokee, Oklahoma”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Cherokee”
  • Russian: “Чероки”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Cherokee”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cherokee County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Чероки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee County, Oklahoma”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee County”
  • Slovenian: “Cherokee County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Cherokee”
  • Spanish: “Cherokee County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Cherokee”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Swedish: “Cherokee County, Oklahoma”
  • Swedish: “Cherokee County”
  • Tatar: “Гарвин (округ, Оклахома)”
  • Tatar: “Чероки”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, OK”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, Okla.”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, Oklahoma”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, OK”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, Okla.”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, Oklahoma”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Черокі”
  • Urdu: “چروکی کاؤنٹی، اوکلاہوما”
  • Urdu: “چروکی کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Cherokee”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cherokee, Oklahoma”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cherokee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Cherokee, Oklahoma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Cherokee”
  • Welsh: “Cherokee County, Oklahoma”
  • Welsh: “Cherokee County”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیروکی کاؤنٹی، اوہائیو”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیروکی کاؤنٹی”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Green Country Estates and Indian Meadows.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Tahlequah Cemetery and Tahlequah High School Softball Field.

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