Amherst
Amherst is a town in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Amherst County. Amherst is part of the Lynchburg metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,150 residents
- Description: town in Virginia, USA
- Also known as: “Amherst Court House”, “Amherst, VA”, “Amherst, Virginia”, “Seven Oaks”, and “The Oaks”
- Postal code: 24521
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amherst County High School.
Amherst County High School
School
Amherst County High School is a public high school, grades 9–12, serving Amherst County, Virginia, United States. As the only high school in the county, it offers a comprehensive program from advanced classes to classes offered through a reciprocity program with local colleges that allow students to earn both high school and college credit at the same time.
Amherst
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Amherst, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.5851° or 37° 35′ 7″ northLongitude
-79.0514° or 79° 3′ 5″ westPopulation
2,150Elevation
761 feet (232 metres)United Nations Location Code
US AHROpen location code
8792HWPX+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 157569882OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Amherst” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمهيرست”
- Basque: “Amherst”
- Catalan: “Amherst”
- Cebuano: “Amherst”
- Chechen: “Эмгерст”
- Chinese: “Amherst”
- Dutch: “Amherst”
- French: “Amherst, Virginia”
- French: “Amherst”
- German: “Amherst, Virginia”
- German: “Amherst”
- Gilaki: “أمهرست (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “أمهرست”
- Haitian: “Amherst, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Amherst”
- Hebrew: “אמהרסט”
- Hungarian: “Amherst”
- Italian: “Amherst”
- Ladin: “Amherst”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amherst”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amherst”
- Persian: “امهرست، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “امهرست”
- Polish: “Amherst”
- Portuguese: “Amherst, Virginia”
- Portuguese: “Amherst”
- Russian: “Амхерст (Виргиния)”
- Russian: “Амхерст”
- Serbian: “Амхерст, Вирџинија”
- Serbian: “Амхерст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amherst, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amherst”
- Slovenian: “Amherst”
- South Azerbaijani: “آمهرزت، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Amherst, Virginia”
- Spanish: “Amherst”
- Swedish: “Amherst, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Amherst”
- Tatar: “Эмгерст”
- Ukrainian: “Емгерст”
- Uzbek: “Amherst”
- Uzbek: “Амҳерст”
- Volapük: “Amherst”
- Welsh: “Amherst, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Amherst”
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