Americus
Americus is in the Classic Heartland of Georgia. It is home to a preserved Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.
Photo: Eoghanacht, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 17,000 residents
- Description: city in Sumter County, Georgia, USA
- Also known as: “Americus (Georgia)”, “Americus, GA”, “Americus, Georgia”, “امریکس، جورجیا”, “अमेरिकस (ज्योर्जिया)”, and “अमेरिकस, ज्योर्जिया”
- Postal code: 31709
Americus
- Categories: city in the United States, municipality of Georgia, and locality
- Location: Sumter County, Classic Heartland of Georgia, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.0724° or 32° 4′ 21″ north
Longitude
-84.2327° or 84° 13′ 58″ west
Population
17,000
Elevation
430 feet (131 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US AMU
Open location code
864Q3QC8+XW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Americus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أميريكوس”
- Basque: “Americus”
- Belarusian: “Амерыкус”
- Catalan: “Americus”
- Cebuano: “Americus”
- Chechen: “Америкус”
- Chinese: “阿梅里克斯”
- Czech: “Americus”
- Dagbani: “Americus”
- Danish: “Americus”
- Dutch: “Americus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اميريكوس”
- French: “Americus”
- German: “Americus”
- Gilaki: “آمرکوس (جؤرجيا)”
- Gilaki: “آمرکوس”
- Greek: “Αμέρικους”
- Haitian: “Americus, Georgie”
- Haitian: “Americus”
- Hebrew: “אמריקוס”
- Hungarian: “Americus”
- Ido: “Americus, Georgia”
- Ido: “Americus”
- Irish: “Americus”
- Italian: “Americus”
- Japanese: “アメリカス”
- Korean: “아메리커스”
- Ladin: “Americus (Georgia (stat American))”
- Ladin: “Americus)”
- Malagasy: “Americus, Georgia”
- Malagasy: “Americus”
- Malayalam: “അമേരിക്കസ്, ജോർജിയ”
- Malayalam: “അമേരിക്കസ്”
- Mazanderani: “امریکاس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Americus”
- Newari: “अमेरिकस, जर्जिया”
- Newari: “अमेरिकस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Americus”
- Norwegian: “Americus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Americus”
- Persian: “امریکاس، جورجیا”
- Persian: “امریکاس”
- Polish: “Americus”
- Portuguese: “Americus”
- Russian: “Америкус”
- Serbian: “Америкус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Americus, Georgia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Americus”
- Slovak: “Americus”
- Slovenian: “Americus”
- South Azerbaijani: “امریکاس، جورجیا”
- Spanish: “Americus”
- Swedish: “Americus, Georgia”
- Swedish: “Americus”
- Tatar: “Америкус”
- Turkish: “Americus, Georgia”
- Turkish: “Americus”
- Ukrainian: “Америкус”
- Urdu: “امریکس، جارجیا”
- Uzbek: “Americus”
- Volapük: “Americus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Americus, Georgia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Americus”
- Welsh: “Americus, Georgia”
- Welsh: “Americus”
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