Bristol County

Bristol County is a region in eastern along the border with and on Narragansett Bay. It contains only three towns.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Bristol and Barrington.

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is a quintessential New England waterfront town. Part of the East Bay communities along with and , it is on a peninsula in surrounded by Narragensett and Mount Hope Bays.

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is a scenic town of 17,000 in Bristol County, with many great waterfront properties and activities.

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is a town of 11,000 people in . has both sandy beaches and rolling farmland. You can explore its shops, galleries, theatre and restaurants or ride down the East Bay Bike Path that stretches from Providence to Bristol.

Bristol County

Latitude of center
41.7034° or 41° 42′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-71.2844° or 71° 17′ 4″ west
Population
49,900
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316987976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5221078
Wiki­data ID
Q54262
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Bristol County” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bristol County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة بريستول”
  • Armenian: “Բրիստոլ շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Bristol”
  • Basque: “Bristol konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Bristol County, Rhode Island”
  • Bavarian: “Bristol County”
  • Bishnupriya: “ব্রিস্টল কাউন্টি, রোড আইল্যান্ড”
  • Bishnupriya: “ব্রিস্টল কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Бристъл”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Bristol”
  • Cebuano: “Bristol County”
  • Chechen: “Бристоль (гуо, Род-Айленд)”
  • Chechen: “Бристоль”
  • Chinese: “Bristol Kūn”
  • Chinese: “布里斯托縣”
  • Dutch: “Bristol County”
  • Esperanto: “Bristol County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Bristol”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Bristol”
  • Estonian: “Bristoli maakond”
  • Finnish: “Bristolin piirikunta”
  • French: “Bristol County”
  • French: “comté de Bristol”
  • French: “Comté de Bristol”
  • Galician: “condado de Bristol”
  • Georgian: “ბრისტოლის ოლქი”
  • German: “Bristol County”
  • Gilaki: “بریستول ٚ شأرستان (رؤد آیلند)”
  • Gilaki: “بریستول ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז בריסטול”
  • Hungarian: “Bristol megye”
  • Indonesian: “County Bristol, Rhode Island”
  • Indonesian: “County Bristol”
  • Irish: “Contae Bristol, Oileán Rhode”
  • Irish: “Contae Bristol”
  • Italian: “Bristol County”
  • Italian: “contea di Bristol”
  • Italian: “Contea di Bristol”
  • Japanese: “ブリストル郡”
  • Korean: “브리스틀군”
  • Low German: “Bristol County”
  • Mazanderani: “بریستول شهرستان (رودایلند)”
  • Mazanderani: “بریستول شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bristol Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bristol Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bristol County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bristol County”
  • Norwegian: “Bristol County”
  • Ossetian: “Бристол (зылд, Род-Айленд)”
  • Ossetian: “Бристол”
  • Persian: “شهرستان بریستول، رود آیلند”
  • Persian: “شهرستان بریستول”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Bristol”
  • Portuguese: “Bristol County”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Bristol”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Bristol”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Bristol, Rhode Island”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Bristol”
  • Russian: “Бристол”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Bristol”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bristol County”
  • Serbian: “Bristol County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Бристол”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bristol County, Rhode Island”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bristol County”
  • Slovenian: “Bristol County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Bristol”
  • Spanish: “Bristol County”
  • Spanish: “condado de Bristol”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Bristol”
  • Swedish: “Bristol County, Rhode Island”
  • Swedish: “Bristol County”
  • Tajik: “Бристол”
  • Tatar: “Бристоль (округ, Род-Айленд)”
  • Tatar: “Бристоль”
  • Thai: “เทศมณฑลบริสตอล”
  • Thai: “บริสตอลเคาน์ตี”
  • Turkish: “Bristol County, R.I.”
  • Turkish: “Bristol County, Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “Bristol County, RI”
  • Turkish: “Bristol County”
  • Turkish: “Bristol ilçesi, R.I.”
  • Turkish: “Bristol ilçesi, Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “Bristol ilçesi, RI”
  • Turkish: “Bristol ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бристоль”
  • Ukrainian: “Брістоль”
  • Urdu: “برسٹل کاؤنٹی، روڈ آئلینڈ”
  • Venetian: “contea de Bristol”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Bristol, Đảo Rhode”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Bristol, Rhode Island”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Bristol”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Bristol, Rhode Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Bristol”
  • Welsh: “Bristol County, Rhode Island”
  • Welsh: “Bristol County”

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