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Nelson

Nelson County is a county in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,015, and was estimated to be 3,007 in 2024. The county seat and largest city is .
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  • Type: County with 3,130 residents
  • Description: county in North Dakota, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Nelson County”, “Nelson County, ND”, and “Nelson County, North Dakota”

Nelson

Latitude
47.8852° or 47° 53′ 7″ north
Longitude
-98.1774° or 98° 10′ 39″ west
Population
3,130
Elevation
1,506 feet (459 metres)
Open location code
86V3VRPF+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316979713
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5060593
Wiki­data ID
Q48902
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Nelson” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nelson County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة نيلسون”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه نيلسون، داكوتا الشماليه”
  • Armenian: “Նելսոն”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Nelson”
  • Basque: “Nelson konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Nelson County, North Dakota”
  • Bavarian: “Nelson County”
  • Bishnupriya: “নেলসন কাউন্টি, নর্থ ডাকোটা”
  • Bishnupriya: “নেলসন কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Нелсън”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Nelson”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Nelson”
  • Cebuano: “Nelson County”
  • Chechen: “Нельсон”
  • Chinese: “Nelson Kūn”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜縣”
  • Dutch: “Nelson County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Nelson”
  • Finnish: “Nelsonin piirikunta”
  • French: “Comte de Nelson”
  • French: “comté de Nelson”
  • French: “Comté de Nelson”
  • German: “Nelson County”
  • Gilaki: “نلسون ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي داکؤتا)”
  • Gilaki: “نلسون ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Νέλσον”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Νέλσον”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז נלסון”
  • Hungarian: “Nelson megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Nelson, Dakota Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Nelson”
  • Italian: “contea di Nelson”
  • Italian: “Contea di Nelson”
  • Japanese: “ネルソン郡”
  • Korean: “넬슨군”
  • Lithuanian: “Nelsono apygarda”
  • Low German: “Nelson County”
  • Mazanderani: “نلسون شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nelson Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nelson Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson County i Nord-Dakota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson County”
  • Norwegian: “Nelson County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نلسون، داکوتای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نلسون”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Nelson”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Nelson”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Nelson”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Nelson, Dakota de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Nelson”
  • Russian: “Нельсон”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Nelson”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nelson County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Нелсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson County, North Dakota”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson County”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Nelson (Dakota del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “condado de Nelson”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Nelson”
  • Swedish: “Nelson County, North Dakota”
  • Swedish: “Nelson County”
  • Tatar: “Нельсон (округ, Төньяк Дакота)”
  • Tatar: “Нельсон”
  • Tumbuka: “Nelson County, North Dakota”
  • Tumbuka: “Nelson County”
  • Turkish: “Nelson County, Kuzey Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Nelson County, N.Dak.”
  • Turkish: “Nelson County, ND”
  • Turkish: “Nelson County”
  • Turkish: “Nelson ilçesi, Kuzey Dakota”
  • Turkish: “Nelson ilçesi, N.Dak.”
  • Turkish: “Nelson ilçesi, ND”
  • Turkish: “Nelson ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Нелсон”
  • Urdu: “نیلسن کاؤنٹی، شمالی ڈکوٹا”
  • Urdu: “نیلسن کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Nelson”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Nelson, North Dakota”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Nelson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Nelson, North Dakota”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Nelson”
  • Welsh: “Nelson County, Gogledd Dakota”
  • Welsh: “Nelson County”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیلسن کاؤنٹی، اتلا ڈیکوٹا”

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