Chestertown

Chestertown is a town in , United States. The population was 5,532 as of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Kent County, the oldest county in Maryland.
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  • Type: Town with 5,530 residents
  • Description: town in and seat of Kent County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Chester”, “Chester Town”, “Chester-Town”, “Chestertown, Maryland”, “Chestertown, MD”, “New Town”, “New-Town”, “Newtown”, and “Port of Chester”
  • Postal code: 21620

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chestertown station and Widehall.

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Chestertown is a historic railway station built in 1902–03 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and located in Chestertown, . It is a 1+1⁄2-story, 17-by-47-foot Queen Anne–style building.

Historic building
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is a historic and architecturally significant house in Chestertown, . Built by Thomas Smyth III, 1769–1770, it is a contributing property in the Chestertown Historic District.

Building
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The , sometimes known as The Abbey, is the official residence of the president of Washington College. The building is in the Georgian style and is made entirely out of brick.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingstown.

Village
is a census-designated place in , United States. The population was 1,644 at the 2000 census.

Chestertown

Latitude
39.209° or 39° 12′ 32″ north
Longitude
-76.0666° or 76° 3′ 60″ west
Population
5,530
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CWN
Open location code
87F56W5M+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158234081
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4351264
Wiki­data ID
Q755851
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Chestertown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشيسترتاون”
  • Basque: “Chestertown”
  • Belarusian: “Чэстэртаўн”
  • Catalan: “Chestertown”
  • Cebuano: “Chestertown”
  • Chechen: “Честертаун (Мэриленд)”
  • Chechen: “Честертаун”
  • Chinese: “Chestertown”
  • Chinese: “切斯特頓”
  • Chinese: “切斯特顿”
  • Dutch: “Chestertown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيسترتاون”
  • French: “Chestertown”
  • German: “Chestertown”
  • Gilaki: “چستر‌تاؤن (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “چستر‌تاؤن”
  • Hebrew: “צ’סטרטאון”
  • Hungarian: “Chestertown”
  • Irish: “Chestertown”
  • Italian: “Chestertown”
  • Japanese: “チェスタータウン”
  • Kazakh: “Çestértawn”
  • Kazakh: “Честэртаун”
  • Kazakh: “تشەستەرتاۋن”
  • Korean: “체스터타운”
  • Ladin: “Chestertown”
  • Mazanderani: “چسترتوون (مریلند)”
  • Mazanderani: “چسترتوون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chestertown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chestertown”
  • Norwegian: “Chestertown”
  • Persian: “چسترتوون، مریلند”
  • Persian: “چسترتوون”
  • Polish: “Chestertown”
  • Portuguese: “Chestertown”
  • Russian: “Честертаун”
  • Serbian: “Честертаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chestertown, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chestertown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چزترتوون، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Chestertown (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Chestertown”
  • Swedish: “Chestertown, Maryland”
  • Swedish: “Chestertown”
  • Tatar: “Честертаун (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Честертаун”
  • Ukrainian: “Честертаун”
  • Urdu: “چیسٹر ٹاؤن، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Chestertown”
  • Uzbek: “Честертоwн”
  • Vietnamese: “Chestertown, Maryland”
  • Vietnamese: “Chestertown”
  • Volapük: “Chestertown”
  • Welsh: “Chestertown, Maryland”
  • Welsh: “Chestertown”

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