Alpine County
Alpine County is located in the sparsely populated east-central part of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. With only 1,200 residents it is California's least-populous county, leading the county's tourism board to advertise "Two people per square mile and you".
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Kirkwood and Bear Valley.
Kirkwood
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Alpine County
- Type: County with 1,180 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Alpine”, “Alpine (condáu)”, “Alpine County California”, “Alpine County, CA”, “Alpine County, Calif.”, “Alpine County, California”, “Alpine County, Kaliforniya”, “Alpine ilçesi, CA”, “Alpine ilçesi, Calif.”, “Alpine ilçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Comte d’Alpine”, “kantono Alpine”, “Okrožje Alpine”, “شهرستان الپاین”, and “مقاطعه ألباين، كاليفورنيا”
- Neighbors: Amador County, Calaveras County, El Dorado County, Mono County, and Tuolumne County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Sierra Nevada, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
38.5894° or 38° 35′ 22″ north
Longitude of center
-119.8345° or 119° 50′ 4″ west
Population
1,180
Elevation
8,159 feet (2,487 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Alpine County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Alpine County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ألباين”
- Armenian: “Ալպայն շրջան”
- Arpitan: “Comtât d’Arpenche”
- Asturian: “condáu d’Alpine”
- Azerbaijani: “Alpayn qraflığı”
- Basque: “Alpine konderria”
- Bavarian: “Alpine County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Alpine County”
- Bishnupriya: “আলপাইন কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “আলপাইন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Алпайн”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Alpine”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’Alpine”
- Cebuano: “Alpine County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئەلپین”
- Chechen: “Алпайн”
- Chinese: “阿尔派恩县”
- Chinese: “阿爾卑斯縣”
- Chinese: “阿爾卑斯郡”
- Chinese: “阿爾派恩縣”
- Czech: “Alpine County”
- Danish: “Alpine County”
- Dutch: “Alpine County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Alpa”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Alpine”
- Finnish: “Alpinen piirikunta”
- French: “comté d’Alpine”
- French: “Comté d’Alpine”
- Galician: “Condado de Alpine”
- Georgian: “ალპაინის ოლქი”
- German: “Alpine County”
- Gilaki: “آلپاین ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Αλπάιν”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אלפיין”
- Hungarian: “Alpine megye”
- Icelandic: “Alpine-sýsla”
- Indonesian: “County Alpine, California”
- Indonesian: “County Alpine”
- Irish: “Contae Alpine, California”
- Irish: “Contae Alpine”
- Italian: “contea di Alpine”
- Italian: “Contea di Alpine”
- Japanese: “アルパイン郡”
- Korean: “알파인군”
- Latin: “Alpine Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Alpine County”
- Lithuanian: “Alpaino apygarda”
- Lithuanian: “Alpių apygarda”
- Low German: “Alpine County”
- Malayalam: “ആൽപൈൻ കൌണ്ടി, കാലിഫോർണിയ”
- Malayalam: “ആൽപൈൻ കൌണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “आल्पाइन काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “آلپاین شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “آلپاین شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alpine Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Alpine County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alpine County”
- Norwegian: “Alpine County”
- Pampanga: “Alpine County, California”
- Pampanga: “Alpine County”
- Persian: “شهرستان آلپاین، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان آلپاین”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Alpine”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Alpine”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Alpine, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Alpine”
- Russian: “Алпайн”
- Sardinian: “contea de Alpine”
- Serbian: “Округ Алпајн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alpine County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alpine County”
- Slovenian: “Alpine County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Alpine”
- Swedish: “Alpine County”
- Tatar: “Алпайн (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Алпайн”
- Tumbuka: “Alpine County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Alpine County”
- Turkish: “Alpine County”
- Turkish: “Alpine ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Алпайн”
- Urdu: “الپائن کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Alpine”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Alpine, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Alpine”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Alpine, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Alpine”
- Welsh: “Alpine County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Alpine County”
- Western Panjabi: “الپائن کاؤنٹی”
- Yue Chinese: “阿爾卑斯縣”
- “Alpine”
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