Carter

Carter County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,356. Its county seat is . The county is named in honor of Landon Carter, an early settler active in the "Lost State of Franklin" 1784–1788 secession from the State of North Carolina.
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Wikipedia
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  • County with 56,400 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,238 feet (682 metres)
  • Description: county in Tennessee, United States
  • Also known as
    “Carter County”
    “Carter County, Tennessee”
    “Carter County, TN”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Watauga Dam.
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is a hydroelectric and flood control dam…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hampton and Fish Springs.
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is an unincorporated community and…
is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Tennessee.

Carter

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Latitude
36.2841° or 36° 17′ 3″ north
Longitude
-82.1195° or 82° 7′ 10″ west
Open location code
868V7VMJ+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316993998
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4611599
Wiki­data ID
Q494990

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Carter” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Carter County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كارتر”
  • Armenian: “Քարտեր շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Carter”
  • Basque: “Carter konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Bavarian: “Carter County”
  • Belarusian: “Картэр”
  • Bishnupriya: “চার্টার কাউন্টি, টেনেসি”
  • Bishnupriya: “চার্টার কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Картър”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Carter”
  • Cebuano: “Carter County”
  • Chechen: “Картер (гуо, Теннесси)”
  • Chechen: “Картер”
  • Chinese: “卡特县”
  • Chinese: “卡特縣”
  • Chinese: “卡特郡”
  • Dutch: “Carter County”
  • Finnish: “Carterin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Carter”
  • French: “Comté de Carter”
  • Georgian: “კარტერის ოლქი”
  • German: “Carter County”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان (تنسي)”
  • Gilaki: “کارتر ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κάρτερ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קרטר”
  • Hungarian: “Carter megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Carter, Tennessee”
  • Irish: “Contae Carter”
  • Italian: “contea di Carter”
  • Italian: “Contea di Carter”
  • Japanese: “カーター郡”
  • Korean: “카터군”
  • Latin: “Carter Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Carter County”
  • Mazanderani: “کارتر شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Carter Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carter Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County i Tennessee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carter County”
  • Norwegian: “Carter County”
  • Ossetian: “Картер (зылд, Теннесси)”
  • Ossetian: “Картер”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر، تنسی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کارتر”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Carter”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Carter”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter, Tennessee”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Carter”
  • Russian: “Картер”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Carter”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Carter County”
  • Serbian: “Carter County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Картер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Carter County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Carter”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Carter (Tennessee)”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Carter”
  • Swedish: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Swedish: “Carter County”
  • Tatar: “Картер (округ, Теннесси)”
  • Tatar: “Картер”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Tenn.”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “Carter County, TN”
  • Turkish: “Carter County”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Tenn.”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi, TN”
  • Turkish: “Carter ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Картер”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، ٹینیسی”
  • Urdu: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Carter”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter, Tennessee”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Carter”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter, Tennessee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Carter”
  • Welsh: “Carter County, Tennessee”
  • Welsh: “Carter County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی، ٹینیسی”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارٹر کاؤنٹی”

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