Imperial County
Imperial County is in the California Desert at the extreme southeast corner of the state. Locally this area is known as the Imperial Valley.
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Imperial County
- Type: County with 180,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Comte d’Imperial”, “County of Imperial, California”, “Imperial”, “Imperial (condáu)”, “Imperial County California”, “Imperial County, CA”, “Imperial County, Calif.”, “Imperial County, California”, “Imperial County, Kaliforniya”, “Imperial ilçesi, CA”, “Imperial ilçesi, Calif.”, “Imperial ilçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Okrožje Imperial”, “Quận Imperial, Ca Li”, “Імпірыял”, “Імпірыял (акруга)”, “مقاطعه إمبيريال، كاليفورنيا”, and “インペリアル・カウンティ”
- Neighbors: Mexicali, Riverside County, and San Diego County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Desert, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
33.0305° or 33° 1′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
-115.3596° or 115° 21′ 34″ west
Population
180,000
Elevation
-56 feet (-17 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Imperial County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Imperial County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة إمبيريال”
- Armenian: “Իմպերիալ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu d’Imperial”
- Azerbaijani: “İmperial qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “İmperial”
- Basque: “Imperial konderria”
- Bavarian: “Imperial County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Imperial County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Імпірыял”
- Belarusian: “Імпэрыял”
- Bengali: “ইম্পেরিয়াল কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bengali: “ইম্পেরিয়াল কাউন্টি”
- Bishnupriya: “ইম্পেরিয়েল কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “ইম্পেরিয়েল কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Импириъл”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Imperial”
- Cebuano: “Imperial County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئیمپێریەل”
- Chechen: “Империал”
- Chinese: “因皮里尔县”
- Chinese: “帝國縣”
- Czech: “Imperial County”
- Danish: “Imperial County”
- Dutch: “Imperial County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة امبيريال”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعه امبيريال”
- Esperanto: “kantono Imperial”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Imperial”
- Estonian: “Imperiali maakond”
- Finnish: “Imperialin piirikunta”
- French: “comté d’Imperial”
- French: “Comté d’Imperial”
- Georgian: “იმპერიალის ოლქი”
- German: “Imperial County”
- Gilaki: “ایمپریال ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Ιμπίριαλ”
- Hebrew: “אימפריאל”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אימפריאל”
- Hungarian: “Imperial megye”
- Icelandic: “Imperial-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Imperial, California”
- Irish: “Contae Imperial”
- Italian: “contea di Imperial”
- Italian: “Contea di Imperial”
- Japanese: “インペリアル郡”
- Korean: “임페리얼군”
- Ladino: “Imperial”
- Latin: “Imperial Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Imperial County”
- Lithuanian: “Imperialo apygarda”
- Low German: “Imperial County”
- Malayalam: “ഇമ്പീരിയൽ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “इंपीरियल काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “ایمپریال شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ایمپریال شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Imperial Kūn”
- Navajo: “Séí Dah Daaskʼid Hótsxaa Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Imperial County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Imperial County”
- Norwegian: “Imperial County”
- Occitan (post 1500): “comtat d’Imperial”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat dImperial”
- Pampanga: “Imperial County, California”
- Pampanga: “Imperial County”
- Persian: “شهرستان امپریال”
- Persian: “شهرستان ایمپریال، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ایمپریال”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Imperial”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Imperial”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Imperial, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Imperial”
- Russian: “Импириал”
- Sardinian: “contea de Imperial”
- Serbian: “Округ Импиријал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Imperial County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Imperial County”
- Slovenian: “Imperial County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Imperial”
- Swedish: “Imperial County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Imperial, California”
- Tagalog: “Kondehan ng Imperial”
- Tajik: “Империал”
- Tatar: “Империал (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Империал”
- Tumbuka: “Imperial County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Imperial County”
- Turkish: “Imperial County”
- Turkish: “Imperial ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Імперіал”
- Urdu: “امپیریل کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Imperial”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Imperial, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Imperial”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Imperial, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Imperial”
- Welsh: “Imperial County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Imperial County”
- Western Panjabi: “امپیریل کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “因皮里尔县 (加利福尼亚州)”
- Wu Chinese: “因皮里尔县（加利福尼亚州）”
- Yue Chinese: “帝國縣”
- “Imperial”
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