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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 11,658. The county seat is . The county was formed on January 15, 1851, from open territory. It was named after the Cherokee people.
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  • Type: County with 11,700 residents
  • Description: county in Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Cherokee County”, “Cherokee County, IA”, and “Cherokee County, Iowa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cherokee.

Town
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is a city in and the county seat of County, Iowa, United States. The population was 5,199 at the 2020 Census, down from 5,369 in 2000.

Cherokee

Latitude
42.7248° or 42° 43′ 29″ north
Longitude
-95.625° or 95° 37′ 30″ west
Population
11,700
Elevation
1,368 feet (417 metres)
Open location code
86J6P9FG+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316955490
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4851249
Wiki­data ID
Q111876
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Cherokee” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Cherokee County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة تشيروكي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه تشيروكي، آيوا”
  • Armenian: “Չերոկի շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Cherokee”
  • Basque: “Cherokee konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Cherokee County, Iowa”
  • Bavarian: “Cherokee County”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেরুকী কাউন্টি, আইৱা”
  • Bishnupriya: “চেরুকী কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Чероки”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Cherokee”
  • Cebuano: “Cherokee County”
  • Chechen: “Чероки (гуо, Айова)”
  • Chechen: “Чероки”
  • Chinese: “Cherokee Kūn”
  • Chinese: “切罗基县”
  • Chinese: “切羅基縣”
  • Dutch: “Cherokee County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Ĉeroka”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Cherokee”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Cherokee”
  • Estonian: “Cherokee maakond”
  • Finnish: “Cherokeen piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Cherokee”
  • French: “Comté de Cherokee”
  • Georgian: “ჩეროკის ოლქი”
  • German: “Cherokee County”
  • Gilaki: “چروکی ٚ شأرستان (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “چروکی ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Τσερόκι”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Τσερόκι”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז צ’רוקי”
  • Hungarian: “Cherokee megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Cherokee”
  • Italian: “contea di Cherokee”
  • Italian: “Contea di Cherokee”
  • Japanese: “チェロキー郡”
  • Korean: “체로키군”
  • Low German: “Cherokee County”
  • Mazanderani: “چروکی شهرستان (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “چروکی شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cherokee Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cherokee Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherokee County i Iowa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherokee County”
  • Norwegian: “Cherokee County”
  • Ossetian: “Чероки (зылд, Айовæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Чероки”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چروکی، آیووا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چروکی”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Cherokee”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Cherokee”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Cherokee, Iowa”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Cherokee”
  • Russian: “Чероки”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Cherokee”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cherokee County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Чероки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee County, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee County”
  • Slovenian: “Cherokee County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Cherokee”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Cherokee (Iowa)”
  • Spanish: “condado de Cherokee”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Cherokee”
  • Swedish: “Cherokee County, Iowa”
  • Swedish: “Cherokee County”
  • Tatar: “Чероки (округ, Айова)”
  • Tatar: “Чероки”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, IA”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee County”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, IA”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi, Iowa”
  • Turkish: “Cherokee ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Черокі”
  • Urdu: “چروکی کاؤنٹی، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “چروکی کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Cherokee”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cherokee, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cherokee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Cherokee, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Cherokee”
  • Welsh: “Cherokee County, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Cherokee County”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیروکی کاؤنٹی، آئیووا”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیروکی کاؤنٹی”

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