Butte County
Butte County is in the Shasta Cascades region of California. The county is named for the Marysville Buttes that are actually found in neighboring Sutter County. Butte County is a rural destination featuring rolling hills, rivers, and large agricultural areas.
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Butte County
- Type: County with 220,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Butte”, “Butte (condáu)”, “Butte County California”, “Butte County i California”, “Butte County, CA”, “Butte County, Calif.”, “Butte County, California”, “Butte ilçesi, CA”, “Butte ilçesi, Calif.”, “Butte ilçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Butte İlçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Comte de Butte”, “Condado de Butte (California)”, “Okrožje Butte”, “مقاطعه بوت، كاليفورنيا”, “ビュート・カウンティ”, and “布尤特縣”
- Neighbors: Colusa County, Glenn County, Plumas County, Sutter County, Tehama County, and Yuba County
- Categories: charter county of California and locality
- Location: Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
39.6519° or 39° 39′ 7″ north
Longitude of center
-121.5858° or 121° 35′ 9″ west
Population
220,000
Elevation
820 feet (250 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Butte County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Butte County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بوت”
- Armenian: “Բյուտ մարզ”
- Armenian: “Բյուտ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Butte”
- Azerbaijani: “Byutt qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Byutt”
- Basque: “Butte konderria”
- Bavarian: “Butte County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Butte County”
- Bishnupriya: “বাট্টে কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “বাট্টে কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Бют”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Butte”
- Cebuano: “Butte County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی بیوت”
- Chechen: “Бьютт”
- Chinese: “布尤特郡”
- Chinese: “布特郡”
- Chinese: “比尤特县”
- Czech: “Butte County”
- Danish: “Butte County”
- Dutch: “Butte County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعه بوت”
- Esperanto: “kantono Butte”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Butte”
- Finnish: “Butten piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Butte”
- French: “Comté de Butte”
- Galician: “Condado de Butte, California”
- Galician: “Condado de Butte”
- Georgian: “ბიუტის ოლქი”
- German: “Butte County”
- Gilaki: “بیوت ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Μπιουτ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז בוטה”
- Hungarian: “Butte megye”
- Icelandic: “Butte-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Butte, California”
- Irish: “Contae Butte”
- Italian: “contea di Butte”
- Italian: “Contea di Butte”
- Japanese: “ビュート郡”
- Korean: “뷰트군”
- Latin: “Butte Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Butte County”
- Lithuanian: “Bjuto apygarda”
- Low German: “Butte County”
- Malayalam: “ബട്ട് കൗണ്ടി, കാലിഫോർണിയ”
- Malayalam: “ബട്ട് കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “ब्यूट काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “بیوت شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “بیوت شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Butte Kūn”
- Newari: “ब्युत काउन्ति, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Northern Frisian: “Butte County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Butte County”
- Norwegian: “Butte County”
- Pampanga: “Butte County, California”
- Pampanga: “Butte County”
- Persian: “شهرستان بوت، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان بوت”
- Persian: “شهرستان بیوت، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان بیوت”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Butte”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Butte”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Butte, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Butte”
- Russian: “Бьютт”
- Sardinian: “contea de Butte”
- Serbian: “Округ Бјут”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Butte County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Butte County”
- Slovenian: “Butte County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Butte”
- Swedish: “Butte County, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Butte County”
- Tagalog: “Butte County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Butte, California”
- Tatar: “Бьютт (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Бьютт”
- Tumbuka: “Butte County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Butte County”
- Turkish: “Butte County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Butte ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Б’ютт”
- Ukrainian: “Бютт”
- Urdu: “بوٹ کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Butte”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Butte, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Butte”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Butte, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Butte”
- Welsh: “Butte County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Butte County”
- Western Panjabi: “بوٹے کاؤنٹی”
- Yue Chinese: “布特縣”
- “Butte”
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