Carthage
Carthage is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 2,490 as of the 2020 census. Carthage is best known for being the site of the 1844 murder of Joseph Smith, who founded the Latter Day Saint movement.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,540 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Hancock County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Carthage, IL” and “Carthage, Illinois”
- Postal code: 62321
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ferris and Bentley.
Ferris
Village
Ferris is a village in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. The population was 127 at the 2020 census. Ferris is situated 4 miles northwest of Carthage.
Bentley
Hamlet
Bentley is an incorporated town in southeast Hancock County, Illinois, United States. The population was 30 at the 2020 census. Bentley is situated 5 miles south of Carthage.
Elvaston
Village
Elvaston is a village in Hancock County, Illinois, United States. The population was 147 at the 2020 census. Elvaston is situated 6 miles west of Carthage.
Carthage
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Carthage Township, Hancock, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.41643° or 40° 24′ 59″ northLongitude
-91.13625° or 91° 8′ 11″ westPopulation
2,540Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)United Nations Location Code
US RTGOpen location code
86GCCV87+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 151396898OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Carthage” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قرطاج”
- Basque: “Carthage”
- Bulgarian: “Картидж”
- Catalan: “Carthage”
- Cebuano: “Carthage”
- Chechen: “Картедж”
- Chinese: “Carthage”
- Chinese: “迦太基 (伊利诺伊州)”
- Chinese: “迦太基”
- Croatian: “Carthage”
- Czech: “Carthage”
- Dagbani: “Carthage”
- Danish: “Carthage”
- Dutch: “Carthage”
- French: “Carthage”
- German: “Carthage”
- Gilaki: “کارثيج (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “کارثيج”
- Haitian: “Carthage, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Carthage”
- Hebrew: “קרת’ג”
- Hungarian: “Carthage”
- Ido: “Carthage, Illinois”
- Ido: “Carthage”
- Irish: “Carthage”
- Italian: “Carthage”
- Japanese: “カーシッジ”
- Japanese: “カーセッジ”
- Korean: “카시지”
- Ladin: “Carthage”
- Latin: “Carthago”
- Mazanderani: “کارتج (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “کارتج”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Carthage”
- Newari: “कार्थेज, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “कार्थेज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carthage”
- Norwegian: “Carthage”
- Persian: “کارتج، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “کارتج”
- Polish: “Carthage”
- Portuguese: “Carthage”
- Russian: “Картхейдж”
- Serbian: “Картиџ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carthage, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carthage”
- Slovak: “Carthage”
- Slovenian: “Carthage”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارتج، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Carthage (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Carthage”
- Swedish: “Carthage, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Carthage”
- Tatar: “Картедж”
- Turkish: “Carthage, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Carthage”
- Ukrainian: “Картедж”
- Urdu: “کارتھیج، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “کارتھیج”
- Uzbek: “Carthage”
- Uzbek: “Cартҳаге”
- Vietnamese: “Carthage, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Carthage”
- Volapük: “Carthage”
- Waray (Philippines): “Carthage, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Carthage”
- Welsh: “Carthage, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Carthage”
- Western Frisian: “Carthage”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carthage”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.