Athens
Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 12,857. The city has called itself the "Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World." Athens was selected as one of the first "Certified Retirement Communities" in Texas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Athens
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Henderson, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.2044° or 32° 12′ 16″ northLongitude
-95.8549° or 95° 51′ 18″ westPopulation
12,900Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)United Nations Location Code
US AWXOpen location code
8646643W+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 151534857OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Athens” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أثينا”
- Basque: “Athens”
- Belarusian: “Атэнс (Тэхас)”
- Belarusian: “Атэнс”
- Catalan: “Athens, Texas”
- Catalan: “Athens”
- Cebuano: “Athens (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Texas)”
- Cebuano: “Athens”
- Chechen: “Эйтенз”
- Chinese: “Athens”
- Chinese: “阿森斯”
- Chinese: “雅典”
- Croatian: “Athens”
- Danish: “Athens”
- Dutch: “Athens”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اثينا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اثينز”
- Esperanto: “Athens”
- Faroese: “Athens”
- French: “Athens”
- German: “Athens”
- Gilaki: “آتنز”
- Greek: “Άθενς”
- Haitian: “Athens, Texas”
- Haitian: “Athens”
- Hungarian: “Athens”
- Icelandic: “Athens”
- Irish: “Athens, Texas”
- Irish: “Athens”
- Italian: “Athens”
- Japanese: “アセンズ”
- Kalaallisut: “Athens”
- Korean: “애선스”
- Ladin: “Athens”
- Malagasy: “Athens, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Athens”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Athens”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Athens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Athens”
- Norwegian: “Athens”
- Persian: “آتن، تگزاس”
- Persian: “آتن”
- Persian: “اتن، تگزاس”
- Polish: “Athens”
- Portuguese: “Athens”
- Russian: “Атенс”
- Serbian: “Атенс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Athens, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Athens”
- Slovenian: “Athens”
- South Azerbaijani: “آتن، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Athens (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Athens”
- Swedish: “Athens, Texas”
- Swedish: “Athens”
- Tatar: “Эйтенз (Техас)”
- Tatar: “Эйтенз”
- Turkish: “Athens, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Athens”
- Ukrainian: “Ейтенз”
- Urdu: “ایتھنز، ٹیکساس”
- Urdu: “ایتھنز”
- Uzbek: “Athens, Texas”
- Uzbek: “Athens, TX”
- Uzbek: “Athens”
- Vietnamese: “Athens, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Athens”
- Volapük: “Athens (TX)”
- Volapük: “Athens, Texas”
- Volapük: “Athens, TX”
- Volapük: “Athens”
- Waray (Philippines): “Athens, Texas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Athens”
- Welsh: “Athens, Texas”
- Welsh: “Athens”
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