Folly Beach
Folly Beach is a lovely little beach town on a barrier island in Greater Charleston. The beach is a popular surf spot and the town is a popular beach-going destination for residents and visitors alike, with lots of cozy beach cottages and a small but bustling business district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,080 residents
- Description: city in South Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Folly Beach, SC” and “Folly Beach, South Carolina”
- Postal code: 29439
Places of Interest
Highlights include Folly Island.
Folly Island
Island
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Folly Island is a barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina. It is one of the Sea Islands and is within the boundaries of Charleston County, South Carolina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mosquito Beach Historic District.
Mosquito Beach Historic District
Hamlet
The Mosquito Beach Historic District located on James Island, South Carolina was the weekend destination for thousands of African Americans during the height of Jim Crow. Mosquito Beach Historic District is situated 2½ miles northwest of Folly Beach.
Folly Beach
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Charleston County, Greater Charleston, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.6555° or 32° 39′ 20″ northLongitude
-79.9408° or 79° 56′ 27″ westPopulation
2,080Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
US FYBOpen location code
8742M345+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 158520656OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Folly Beach” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فولي بيتش”
- Basque: “Folly Beach”
- Catalan: “Folly Beach”
- Cebuano: “Folly Beach”
- Chechen: “Фолли-Бич”
- Chinese: “Folly Beach”
- Chinese: “富丽海滩”
- Danish: “Folly Beach”
- Dutch: “Folly Beach”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فولى بيتش”
- French: “Folly Beach”
- German: “Folly Beach”
- Gilaki: “فالی بیچ (نسايي کارؤلينا)”
- Gilaki: “فالی بیچ”
- Haitian: “Folly Beach, Kawolin disid”
- Irish: “Folly Beach”
- Italian: “Folly Beach”
- Ladin: “Folly Beach”
- Malagasy: “Folly Beach, South Carolina”
- Malagasy: “Folly Beach”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Folly Beach”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Folly Beach”
- Norwegian: “Folly Beach”
- Persian: “فالی بیچ”
- Polish: “Folly Beach”
- Portuguese: “Folly Beach”
- Russian: “Фолли-Бич”
- Serbian: “Фоли Бич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Folly Beach, South Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Folly Beach”
- South Azerbaijani: “فالی بیچ، گونئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Folly Beach”
- Tatar: “Фолли-Бич”
- Turkish: “Folly Beach”
- Ukrainian: “Фоллі-Біч”
- Uzbek: “Folly Beach”
- Volapük: “Folly Beach”
- Waray (Philippines): “Folly Beach, South Carolina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Folly Beach”
- Welsh: “Folly Beach, De Carolina”
- Welsh: “Folly Beach”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Folly Beach”. Photo: kjgarbutt, CC BY 2.0.