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Georgetown

Georgetown is a town of 7,000 people in . It is known for its unusual town layout and for its many historic buildings. It is also the county seat for Sussex County.
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  • Type: Town with 4,930 residents
  • Description: town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States
  • Also known as: “George Town”, “Georgetown, DE”, and “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Postal code: 19947

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Sussex County Courthouse and Sussex County Airport.

Courthouse
Photo: Smallbones, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic courthouse located at Georgetown, . It was built in 1793, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame structure in a late Georgian style.

Aerodrome
Photo: FlugKerl2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Delaware Coastal Airport is a public use in unincorporated , United States. Owned by the Sussex County Council, it is located two nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Georgetown.

Courthouse
Photo: Eli Pousson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a historic courthouse located at The Circle in Georgetown, . It was designed by noted Philadelphia architect William Strickland and built between 1837 and 1840.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wood Branch.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is southeast of Georgetown.

Georgetown

Latitude
38.6901° or 38° 41′ 24″ north
Longitude
-75.3859° or 75° 23′ 9″ west
Population
4,930
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
IATA airport code
GED
Open location code
87C6MJR7+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157584813
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4142643
Wiki­data ID
Q755587
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Georgetown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جورجتاون”
  • Basque: “Georgetown”
  • Catalan: “Georgetown”
  • Cebuano: “Georgetown (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Delaware)”
  • Cebuano: “Georgetown”
  • Chechen: “Джорджтаун”
  • Chinese: “Georgetown”
  • Chinese: “乔治敦”
  • Chinese: “喬治敦”
  • Croatian: “Georgetown (Delaver)”
  • Croatian: “Georgetown”
  • Danish: “Georgetown”
  • Dutch: “Georgetown”
  • Finnish: “Georgetown”
  • French: “Georgetown”
  • German: “Georgetown”
  • Gilaki: “جرج‌تاؤن (دلاویر)”
  • Gilaki: “جرج‌تاؤن”
  • Greek: “Τζορτζτάουν”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ורג’טאון”
  • Hungarian: “Georgetown”
  • Ido: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Ido: “Georgetown”
  • Indonesian: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Indonesian: “Georgetown”
  • Interlingua: “Georgetown”
  • Irish: “Georgetown”
  • Italian: “Georgetown”
  • Japanese: “ジョージタウン (デラウェア州)”
  • Japanese: “ジョージタウン”
  • Korean: “조지타운”
  • Ladin: “Georgetown”
  • Mazanderani: “جرج‌تاون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Georgetown”
  • Newari: “जोर्जटाउन (डेलावेर)”
  • Newari: “जोर्जटाउन, डेलावेर”
  • Newari: “जोर्जटाउन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Georgetown”
  • Norwegian: “Georgetown”
  • Persian: “جرج‌تاون، دلاور”
  • Persian: “جرج‌تاون”
  • Persian: “جورجتاون، دلاور”
  • Polish: “Georgetown”
  • Portuguese: “Georgetown”
  • Romanian: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Romanian: “Georgetown”
  • Russian: “Джорджтаун”
  • Scots: “Georgetown”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Georgetown”
  • Serbian: “Džordžtaun”
  • Serbian: “Georgetown”
  • Serbian: “Џорџтаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Georgetown, Delaver”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Georgetown”
  • Slovak: “Georgetown”
  • Slovenian: “Georgetown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جورجتوون، دلاویر”
  • Spanish: “Georgetown (Delaware)”
  • Spanish: “Georgetown”
  • Swedish: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Swedish: “Georgetown”
  • Tatar: “Джорджтаун”
  • Turkish: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Turkish: “Georgetown”
  • Ukrainian: “Джорджтаун”
  • Urdu: “جارج ٹاؤن، ڈیلاویئر”
  • Urdu: “جورج ٹاؤن، ڈیلاویئر”
  • Urdu: “جورج ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Georgetown”
  • Uzbek: “Георгетоwн”
  • Volapük: “Georgetown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Georgetown”
  • Welsh: “Georgetown, Delaware”
  • Welsh: “Georgetown”

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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 “Georgetown”. Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.