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Essex

Essex County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of ; the peninsula is bordered by the on the north and on the south.
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  • Type: County with 11,200 residents
  • Description: county in Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Essex County”, “Essex County, VA”, and “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Neighbors:

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dunbrooke and Tappahannock.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in Essex County, in the U.S. state of . It was named for the postmasters in the 1800s Robert Dunn and Sarah Elizabeth Brooks.

Town
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is the oldest town in Essex County, , United States. The population was 2,375 at the 2010 census, up from 2,068 at the 2000 census.

Essex

Latitude
37.9141° or 37° 54′ 51″ north
Longitude
-76.9326° or 76° 55′ 58″ west
Population
11,200
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Open location code
8795W378+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 317004665
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4757844
Wiki­data ID
Q182112
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Essex” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Essex County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة إيسكس”
  • Asturian: “condáu d’Essex”
  • Basque: “Essex konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Bavarian: “Essex County”
  • Bishnupriya: “এসেক্স কাউন্টি, ভার্জিনিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “এসেক্স কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Есекс”
  • Catalan: “comtat d’Essex”
  • Catalan: “Essex County”
  • Cebuano: “Essex County”
  • Chechen: “Эссекс”
  • Chinese: “Essex Kūn”
  • Chinese: “愛塞克斯郡”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Essex, Virjynni”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Essex”
  • Dutch: “Essex County”
  • Esperanto: “Essex County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Esekso”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Essexx”
  • Finnish: “Essexin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté d’Essex”
  • French: “Comté d’Essex”
  • French: “Essex County”
  • Georgian: “ესექსის ოლქი”
  • German: “Essex County”
  • Gilaki: “اسکس ٚ شأرستان (ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “اسکس ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Έσσεξ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אסקס”
  • Hungarian: “Essex megye”
  • Inari Sami: “Essex pirrâdâhkodde”
  • Irish: “Contae Essex”
  • Italian: “contea di Essex”
  • Italian: “Contea di Essex”
  • Italian: “Essex County”
  • Japanese: “エセックス郡”
  • Korean: “에식스군”
  • Lithuanian: “Esekso rajonas”
  • Low German: “Essex County”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Essex Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Essex Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Essex County”
  • Norwegian: “Essex County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان اسکس، ویرجینیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان اسکس”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Essex”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Essex”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Essex”
  • Portuguese: “Essex County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Essex, Virginia”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Essex”
  • Russian: “Эссекс”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Essex”
  • Serbian: “Essex County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Есекс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Essex County”
  • Slovenian: “Essex County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Essex”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Essex (Virginia)”
  • Spanish: “condado de Essex”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Essex”
  • Spanish: “Essex County”
  • Swedish: “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Essex County”
  • Tatar: “Эссекс (округ, Виргиния)”
  • Tatar: “Эссекс”
  • Tumbuka: “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Tumbuka: “Essex County”
  • Turkish: “Essex County, Va.”
  • Turkish: “Essex County, VA”
  • Turkish: “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Essex County”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi, Va.”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi, VA”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi, Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Essex ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ессекс”
  • Urdu: “ایسکس کاؤنٹی، ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “ایسکس کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Essex”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Essex, Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Essex”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Essex, Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Essex”
  • Welsh: “Essex County, Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Essex County”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسکس کاؤنٹی، ورجینیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسکس کاؤنٹی”

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