Cherokee
Cherokee is a town in the North Carolina Mountains within the Qualla Boundary, the proper name of the Cherokee Indian reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jan Kronsell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,140 residents
- Description: census designated place in North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Cherokee, NC”, “Cherokee, North Carolina”, and “Elawa diyi”
- Postal code: 28719
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oconaluftee Indian Village and Harrah’s Cherokee.
Oconaluftee Indian Village
Museum
Photo: Jan Kronsell, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Oconaluftee Indian Village is a replica of an 18th-century eastern Cherokee community founded in 1952 and located along the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.
Harrah’s Cherokee
Casino
Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort is a casino and hotel on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. It is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and operated by Caesars Entertainment.
New Kituwah Academy
School
The New Kituwah Academy, also known as the Atse Kituwah Academy, is a private bilingual Cherokee- and English-language immersion school for Cherokee students in kindergarten through sixth grade, located in Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Yellow Hill community of the Qualla Boundary.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ravensford.
Ravensford
Hamlet
Ravensford is an unincorporated community in Swain County, Western North Carolina. This is within the traditional homeland of the Cherokee people. In a survey and excavation project in the early 21st century, part of the community was found to have archeological resources that were thousands of years old, in addition to more recent historic materials related to the Cherokee people. Ravensford is situated 2½ miles northeast of Cherokee.
Cherokee
Latitude
35.4766° or 35° 28′ 36″ northLongitude
-83.319° or 83° 19′ 8″ westPopulation
2,140Elevation
1,985 feet (605 metres)Open location code
867RFMGJ+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 153963345OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4460364Wikidata ID
Q471385
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Cherokee” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cherokee”
- Cebuano: “Cherokee”
- Chechen: “Чероки”
- Chinese: “Cherokee”
- Chinese: “切罗基”
- Chinese: “切羅基”
- Danish: “Cherokee”
- French: “Cherokee”
- German: “Cherokee”
- Gilaki: “چرؤکي (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “چرؤکي”
- Irish: “Cherokee”
- Italian: “Cherokee”
- Ladin: “Cherokee”
- Persian: “چرکی، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “چرکی”
- Persian: “چروکی”
- Polish: “Cherokee”
- Russian: “Чероки”
- Serbian: “Чероки”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cherokee”
- Spanish: “Cherokee (Carolina del Norte)”
- Spanish: “Cherokee”
- Tatar: “Чероки”
- Ukrainian: “Черокі”
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