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Los Alamos

Los Alamos County is a county in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,419. The smallest county by area in the state, Los Alamos County was formed from parts of and counties on June 10, 1949.
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  • Type: County with 18,000 residents
  • Description: county in New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Los Alamos County”, “Los Alamos County, New Mexico”, and “Los Alamos County, NM”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Los Alamos History Museum and Mesa Public Library.

Museum
Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.
The is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of , which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
is the branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Alamos.

Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town in , about an hour northwest of . Its claim to fame is the National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.

Los Alamos

Latitude
35.8585° or 35° 51′ 31″ north
Longitude
-106.3172° or 106° 19′ 2″ west
Population
18,000
Elevation
7,326 feet (2,233 metres)
Open location code
857MVM5M+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316973963
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5476834
Wiki­data ID
Q484296
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Los Alamos” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Los Alamos County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة لوس ألاموس”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه لوس ألاموس، نيومكسيكو”
  • Armenian: “Լոս Ալամոս շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Los Alamos”
  • Basque: “Los Alamos konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Los Alamos County, New Mexico”
  • Bavarian: “Los Alamos County”
  • Bishnupriya: “লস আলমোস কাউন্টি, নিউ মেক্সিকো”
  • Bishnupriya: “লস আলমোস কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Лос Аламос”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Los Alamos”
  • Cebuano: “Los Alamos County”
  • Chechen: “Лос-Аламос (гуо, Нью-Мексико)”
  • Chechen: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Chinese: “Los Alamos Kūn”
  • Chinese: “洛斯阿拉莫斯县”
  • Chinese: “洛斯阿拉莫斯縣”
  • Chinese: “洛斯阿拉莫斯郡”
  • Croatian: “Los Alamos, okrug”
  • Croatian: “Los Alamos”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Los Alamos, Novi Meksiko”
  • Dutch: “Los Alamos County”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوس الاموس كاونتى نيو ميكسيكو”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Los Alamos”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Los Alamos”
  • Esperanto: “Los Alamos County”
  • Estonian: “Los Alamose maakond”
  • Finnish: “Los Alamosin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Los Alamos”
  • French: “Comté de Los Alamos”
  • French: “Los Alamos County”
  • Galician: “Condado de Los Alamos”
  • Georgian: “ლოს-ალამოსის ოლქი”
  • German: “Los Alamos County”
  • German: “Los Alamos”
  • Gilaki: “لس آلاموس ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Λος Άλαμος”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Λος Άλαμος”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז לוס אלמוס”
  • Hungarian: “Los Alamos megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Los Alamos”
  • Italian: “contea di Los Alamos”
  • Italian: “Contea di Los Alamos”
  • Italian: “Los Alamos County”
  • Japanese: “ロスアラモス郡”
  • Korean: “로스앨러모스 군”
  • Korean: “로스앨러모스군”
  • Low German: “Los Alamos County”
  • Mazanderani: “لس آلاموس شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Los Alamos Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Los Alamos Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Los Alamos County”
  • Norwegian: “Los Alamos County”
  • Ossetian: “Лос-Аламос (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لس آلاموس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لس آلاموس”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Los Alamos”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Los Alamos”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Los Alamos”
  • Portuguese: “Los Alamos County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Los Alamos”
  • Russian: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Los Alamos”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Los Alamos County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Лос Аламос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Los Alamos County, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Los Alamos County”
  • Slovenian: “Los Alamos County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Los Alamos, Nova Mehika”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Los Alamos”
  • Spanish: “condado de Los Álamos”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Los Álamos”
  • Spanish: “Los Alamos County”
  • Swedish: “Los Alamos County”
  • Tatar: “Лос-Аламос (округ, Нью-Мексико)”
  • Tatar: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos County, N.Mex.”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos County, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos County, NM”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos County”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos ilçesi, N.Mex.”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos ilçesi, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos ilçesi, NM”
  • Turkish: “Los Alamos ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Лос-Аламос”
  • Urdu: “لاس ایلموس کاؤنٹی، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “لاس ایلموس کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Los Alamos”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Los Alamos, Tân Mễ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Los Alamos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Los Alamos, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Los Alamos”
  • Welsh: “Los Alamos County, Mecsico Newydd”
  • Welsh: “Los Alamos County”
  • Western Panjabi: “لاس الوموس کاؤنٹی”

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