Whatcom
Whatcom County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Lower Mainland of the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north, Okanogan County to the east, Skagit County to the south, San Juan County across Rosario Strait to the southwest, and the Strait of Georgia to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: County with 201,000 residents
- Description: county in the state of Washington, United States
- Also known as: “Whatcom County”, “Whatcom County, WA”, and “Whatcom County, Washington”
Whatcom
- Categories: county of Washington and locality
- Location: Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.8108° or 48° 48′ 39″ northLongitude
-121.8828° or 121° 52′ 58″ westPopulation
201,000Elevation
5,190 feet (1,582 metres)Open location code
84WWR468+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2691270121OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
5815675Wikidata ID
Q156623
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Whatcom” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Whatcom County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة واتكوم”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة واشنطن، واشنطن”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة وهاتكوم، واشنطون”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه واتكوم، واشنطن”
- Asturian: “condáu de Whatcom”
- Azerbaijani: “Uatkom əyaləti”
- Azerbaijani: “Uotkom qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Votkom qraflığı”
- Basque: “Whatcom konderria”
- Bavarian: “Whatcom County, Washington”
- Bavarian: “Whatcom County”
- Bishnupriya: “হুৱাটকম কাউন্টি, ৱাশিংটন”
- Bishnupriya: “হুৱাটকম কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Уаткъм”
- Catalan: “comtat de Whatcom”
- Cebuano: “Whatcom County”
- Chechen: “Уотком (гуо, Вашингтон)”
- Chechen: “Уотком”
- Chinese: “Whatcom Kūn”
- Chinese: “霍特科姆县”
- Chinese: “霍特科姆縣”
- Chinese: “霍特科姆郡”
- Czech: “Okres Whatcom”
- Czech: “Whatcom County”
- Dutch: “Whatcom County”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Whatcom”
- Finnish: “Whatcomin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Whatcom”
- French: “Comté de Whatcom”
- Georgian: “უოტკომის ოლქი”
- German: “Whatcom County”
- Gilaki: “واتکام ٚ شأرستان (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “واتکام ٚ شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ואטקום”
- Hungarian: “Whatcom megye”
- Irish: “Contae Whatcom”
- Italian: “contea di Whatcom”
- Italian: “Contea di Whatcom”
- Japanese: “ホワットコム郡”
- Japanese: “ワットコム郡”
- Korean: “왓컴 군”
- Korean: “왓컴군”
- Low German: “Whatcom County”
- Mazanderani: “واتکام شهرستان (واشینگتن)”
- Mazanderani: “واتکام شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Whatcom Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Whatcom Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whatcom County”
- Norwegian: “Whatcom County”
- Persian: “شهرستان واتکام، واشینگتن”
- Persian: “شهرستان واتکام”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Whatcom”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Whatcom”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Whatcom, Washington”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Whatcom”
- Romanian: “Whatcom County”
- Russian: “Вэтком”
- Russian: “Уотком”
- Sardinian: “contea de Whatcom”
- Serbian: “Whatcom County”
- Serbian: “Округ Вотком”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whatcom County, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whatcom County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Whatcom”
- Slovenian: “Whatcom County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Whatcom (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Whatcom”
- Swedish: “Whatcom County”
- Tatar: “Уотком (округ, Вашингтон)”
- Tatar: “Уотком”
- Turkish: “Whatcom County, WA”
- Turkish: “Whatcom County, Wash.”
- Turkish: “Whatcom County, Washington”
- Turkish: “Whatcom County”
- Turkish: “Whatcom ilçesi, WA”
- Turkish: “Whatcom ilçesi, Wash.”
- Turkish: “Whatcom ilçesi, Washington”
- Turkish: “Whatcom ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Вотком”
- Urdu: “واٹکم کاؤنٹی، واشنگٹن”
- Venetian: “contea de Whatcom”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Whatcom, Washington”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Whatcom”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Whatcom, Washington”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Whatcom”
- Welsh: “Whatcom County, Washington”
- Welsh: “Whatcom County”
- Western Panjabi: “وٹکام کاؤنٹی”
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