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Somerset

Somerset County is a county in the Commonwealth of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,129. Its county seat is . The county was created from part of on April 17, 1795, and named after the county of in .
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  • Type: County with 77,700 residents
  • Description: county in Pennsylvania, United States
  • Also known as: “Somerset County”, “Somerset County, PA”, and “Somerset County, Pennsylvania”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include State Correctional Institution – Laurel Highlands and Somerset Hospital.

Prison
is a minimum-security facility in Somerset Township, Pennsylvania, about 70 miles southeast of . The prison houses minimum-security inmates, particularly geriatric and mentally ill males.

Hospital
UPMC Somerset is a non-profit, general acute care community hospital that was founded on January 31, 1921 and is located at 225 South Center Avenue 15501.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Somerset and Listie.

Photo: Canadian2006, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a borough of 6,000 people and a township of 12,000 people in the of . This article also covers Shanksville about 11 miles away.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in Somerset County, , United States. The community is located 3.7 miles east-northeast of . had a until September 28, 2002; it still has its own ZIP code, 15549.

Somerset

Latitude
39.998° or 39° 59′ 53″ north
Longitude
-79.0416° or 79° 2′ 30″ west
Population
77,700
Elevation
2,448 feet (746 metres)
Open location code
87F2XXX5+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316987668
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5212857
Wiki­data ID
Q490908
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Somerset” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Somerset County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة سومرست”
  • Armenian: “Սոմերսետ շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Somerset”
  • Basque: “Somerset konderria”
  • Basque: “Somerseteko konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Somerset County, Pennsylvania”
  • Bavarian: “Somerset County”
  • Bishnupriya: “সমারসেট কাউন্টি, পেনসিলভানিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “সমারসেট কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Самърсет”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Somerset”
  • Cebuano: “Somerset County”
  • Chechen: “Сомерсет”
  • Chinese: “Somerset Kūn”
  • Chinese: “桑莫塞郡”
  • Chinese: “索美塞特县”
  • Chinese: “索美塞特縣”
  • Chinese: “萨默塞特县”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Somerset, Pennsylvani”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Somerset”
  • Czech: “Somerset County”
  • Dutch: “Somerset County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Somerset”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Somerset”
  • Esperanto: “Somerset County”
  • Finnish: “Somersetin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Somerset”
  • French: “Comté de Somerset”
  • French: “Somerset County”
  • Georgian: “სომერსეტის ოლქი”
  • German: “Somerset County”
  • Gilaki: “سامرست ٚ شأرستان (پنسيلوانيا)”
  • Gilaki: “سامرست ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Σόμερσετ”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Σόμερσετ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז סאמרסט”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז סומרסט”
  • Hungarian: “Somerset megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Somerset, Pennsylvania”
  • Irish: “Contae Somerset”
  • Italian: “contea di Somerset”
  • Italian: “Contea di Somerset”
  • Italian: “Somerset County”
  • Japanese: “サマセット・カウンティ”
  • Japanese: “サマセット郡”
  • Korean: “서머싯 군”
  • Korean: “서머싯군”
  • Latin: “Somerset Comitatus (Pennsilvania)”
  • Latin: “Somerset Comitatus”
  • Latin: “Somersetensis comitatus”
  • Low German: “Somerset County”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرست شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Somerset Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Somerset Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Somerset County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somerset County i Pennsylvania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somerset County”
  • Norwegian: “Somerset County”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Somerset Kaundi”
  • Persian: “شهرستان سامرست، پنسیلوانیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان سامرست”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Somerset”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Somerset”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Somerset”
  • Portuguese: “Somerset County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Somerset, Pennsylvania”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Somerset”
  • Russian: “Сомерсет”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Somerset”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Somerset County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Самерсет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somerset County, Pennsylvania”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somerset County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Somerset”
  • Slovenian: “Somerset County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Somerset”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Somerset”
  • Spanish: “Somerset County”
  • Swedish: “Somerset County, Pennsylvania”
  • Swedish: “Somerset County”
  • Tatar: “Графство Сомерсет (округ, Пенсильвания)”
  • Tatar: “Сомерсет”
  • Tumbuka: “Somerset County, Pennsylvania”
  • Tumbuka: “Somerset County”
  • Turkish: “Somerset County, Pa.”
  • Turkish: “Somerset County, PA”
  • Turkish: “Somerset County, Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “Somerset County”
  • Turkish: “Somerset ilçesi, Pa.”
  • Turkish: “Somerset ilçesi, PA”
  • Turkish: “Somerset ilçesi, Pensilvanya”
  • Turkish: “Somerset ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомерсет”
  • Urdu: “سومرسیٹ کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
  • Urdu: “سومرسیٹ کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Somerset”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Somerset, Pennsylvania”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Somerset”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Somerset, Pennsylvania”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Somerset”
  • Welsh: “Somerset County, Pennsylvania”
  • Welsh: “Somerset County”
  • Western Panjabi: “سومرسیٹ کاؤنٹی، پنسلوانیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “سومرسیٹ کاؤنٹی”

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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 “Somerset”. Photo: Canadian2006, CC BY-SA 3.0.