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Alpine County

Alpine County is located in the sparsely populated east-central part of 's 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".
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is an unincorporated community in Alpine and counties, , United States. 's main attraction is the .

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is a small community in Alpine County, in the . It has a population of around 130.

Alpine County

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
node 316944838
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5323414
Wiki­data ID
Q108077
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Alpine County” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Alpine County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ألباين”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه ألباين، كاليفورنيا”
  • Armenian: “Ալպայն շրջան”
  • Arpitan: “Comtât d’Arpenche”
  • Asturian: “Alpine (condáu)”
  • 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: “Alpine Kūn”
  • 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”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Alpine”
  • Finnish: “Alpinen piirikunta”
  • French: “Comte d’Alpine”
  • French: “comté d’Alpine”
  • French: “Comté d’Alpine”
  • Galician: “Condado de Alpine”
  • Georgian: “ალპაინის ოლქი”
  • German: “Alpine County”
  • Gilaki: “آلپاین ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אלפיין”
  • Hungarian: “Alpine megye”
  • Icelandic: “Alpine County”
  • Icelandic: “Alpine-sýsla”
  • Indonesian: “County Alpine, California”
  • Indonesian: “County Alpine”
  • Irish: “Contae Alpine, California”
  • Irish: “Contae Alpine”
  • Italian: “Alpine County”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “شهرستان الپاین”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Alpine”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Alpine”
  • Russian: “Алпайн”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Alpine”
  • Serbian: “Округ Алпајн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alpine County, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alpine County”
  • Slovenian: “Alpine County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Alpine”
  • Spanish: “Alpine County California”
  • Spanish: “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, CA”
  • Turkish: “Alpine County, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Alpine County, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Alpine County”
  • Turkish: “Alpine ilçesi, CA”
  • Turkish: “Alpine ilçesi, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Alpine ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
  • 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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