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Amherst

Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of in the United States. The county is part of the Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its county seat is also named .
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  • Type: County with 32,400 residents
  • Description: county in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Amherst County”, “Amherst County, VA”, and “Amherst County, Virginia”
  • Neighbors:

Amherst

Latitude
37.5998° or 37° 35′ 59″ north
Longitude
-79.1484° or 79° 8′ 54″ west
Population
32,400
Elevation
1,375 feet (419 metres)
Open location code
8792HVX2+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317004640
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4744328
Wiki­data ID
Q470626
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Amherst” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Amherst County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أمهيرست، فيرجينيا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة أمهيرست”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه أمهيرست، فيرجينيا”
  • Asturian: “condáu d’Amherst”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amxerst (dairə)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amxerst”
  • Basque: “Amherst konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Amherst County, Virginia”
  • Bavarian: “Amherst County”
  • Bishnupriya: “আমহের্সট কাউন্টি, ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “আমহের্সট কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Амхърст (окръг, Вирджиния)”
  • Bulgarian: “Амхърст”
  • Catalan: “comtat d’Amherst”
  • Cebuano: “Amherst County”
  • Chechen: “Амхерст”
  • Chinese: “Amherst Kūn”
  • Chinese: “阿默斯特縣”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Amherst, Virjynni”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Amherst”
  • Czech: “Amherst County”
  • Dutch: “Amherst County (Virginia)”
  • Dutch: “Amherst County”
  • Esperanto: “Amherst County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Amherst”
  • Finnish: “Amherstin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté d’Amherst”
  • French: “Comté d’Amherst”
  • Georgian: “ამჰერსტის ოლქი”
  • German: “Amherst County”
  • Gilaki: “آمرست ٚ شأرستان (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “آمرست ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אמהרסט”
  • Hungarian: “Amherst megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Amherst”
  • Italian: “contea di Amherst”
  • Italian: “Contea di Amherst”
  • Japanese: “アマースト郡”
  • Korean: “애머스트군”
  • Low German: “Amherst County”
  • Mazanderani: “آمرست”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Amherst Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amherst Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amherst County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amherst fylke”
  • Norwegian: “Amherst County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان آمرست، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان آمرست”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Amherst”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Amherst”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de amherst”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Amherst”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Amherst, Virginia”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Amherst”
  • Russian: “Амхерст”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Amherst”
  • Serbian: “Округ Амхерст, Вирџинија”
  • Serbian: “Округ Амхерст”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amherst County, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amherst County”
  • Slovenian: “Amherst County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Amherst”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Amherst (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “condado de Amherst”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Amherst”
  • Swedish: “Amherst County”
  • Tatar: “Амилия (округ, Виргиния)”
  • Tatar: “Амхерст”
  • Tumbuka: “Amherst County, Virginia”
  • Tumbuka: “Amherst County”
  • Turkish: “Amherst County, Va.”
  • Turkish: “Amherst County, VA”
  • Turkish: “Amherst County, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Amherst County”
  • Turkish: “Amherst ilçesi, Va.”
  • Turkish: “Amherst ilçesi, VA”
  • Turkish: “Amherst ilçesi, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Amherst ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Амгерст”
  • Urdu: “ایمہرسٹ کاؤنٹی، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “ایمہرسٹ کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Amherst”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Amherst, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Amherst”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Amherst, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Amherst”
  • Welsh: “Amherst County, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Amherst County”
  • Western Panjabi: “امہرسٹ کاؤنٹی”

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