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Lake County is an inland county in region. Parts of Lake County are considered part of . This rural county is named after Clear Lake, a body of water that is believed to be 2.5 million years old and thus the oldest lake in North America.
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is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, California. The city is 125 miles northwest of . is situated on the western shore of , at an elevation of 1,355 feet.

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is a city in Lake County inland in the region of . It is located at the southern end of Clear Lake, which is more than 1.5 million years old.

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is a census-designated place in Lake County, California, United States. Its population was 1,114 at the 2020 census, down from 1,323 at the 2010 census, which was up from 1,020 at the 2000 census.

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is an unincorporated community in Lake County, California, located six miles southeast of , at an elevation of 1,384 feet. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined that community as a census-designated place.

Lake County

Latitude of center
39.0505° or 39° 3′ 2″ north
Longitude of center
-122.7777° or 122° 46′ 40″ west
Population
64,700
Elevation
3,225 feet (983 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316944795
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5364466
Wiki­data ID
Q156361
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Lake County” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lake County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ليك”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه ليك، كاليفورنيا”
  • Armenian: “Լեյք շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Lake”
  • Asturian: “Lake (condáu)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leyk qraflığı”
  • Basque: “Lake konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Lake County, Kalifornien”
  • Bavarian: “Lake County”
  • Belarusian: “Лейк (акруга, Каліфорнія)”
  • Belarusian: “Лейк”
  • Bishnupriya: “লেইক কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “লেইক কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Лейк”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Lake Califòrnia”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Lake”
  • Catalan: “Lake County”
  • Cebuano: “Lake County”
  • Chechen: “Лейк”
  • Chinese: “Lake Kūn”
  • Chinese: “湖縣”
  • Chinese: “莱克县”
  • Chinese: “萊克縣”
  • Czech: “Lake County”
  • Danish: “Lake County”
  • Dutch: “Lake County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Lago”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Lago”
  • Finnish: “Laken piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Lake”
  • French: “Comté de Lake”
  • French: “Lake County”
  • Georgian: “ლეიკის ოლქი”
  • German: “Lake County”
  • Gilaki: “لیک ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Λέικ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז לייק”
  • Hungarian: “Lake megye”
  • Icelandic: “Lake County”
  • Icelandic: “Lake-sýsla”
  • Irish: “Contae Lake, California”
  • Irish: “Contae Lake”
  • Italian: “contea di Lake”
  • Italian: “Contea di Lake”
  • Italian: “Lake County”
  • Japanese: “レイク・カウンティ”
  • Japanese: “レイク郡 (カリフォルニア州)”
  • Japanese: “レイク郡”
  • Korean: “레이크군”
  • Latin: “Lake Comitatus”
  • Limburgan: “Lake County”
  • Low German: “Lake County”
  • Malayalam: “ലേക്ക് കൗണ്ടി”
  • Marathi: “लेक काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “لیک شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “لیک شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lake County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake County i California”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake County”
  • Norwegian: “Lake County”
  • Pampanga: “Lake County, California”
  • Pampanga: “Lake County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لیک، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لیک”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Lake”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Lake”
  • Russian: “Лейк”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Lake”
  • Serbian: “Округ Лејк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake County, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lake County”
  • Slovenian: “Lake County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Lake”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Lake”
  • Spanish: “Lake County California”
  • Spanish: “Lake County”
  • Swedish: “Lake County, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Lake County”
  • Tagalog: “Kondado ng Lake, California”
  • Tagalog: “Lake County”
  • Tatar: “Лейк (округ, Калифорния)”
  • Tatar: “Лейк”
  • Tumbuka: “Lake County, California”
  • Tumbuka: “Lake County”
  • Turkish: “Lake County, CA”
  • Turkish: “Lake County, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Lake County, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Lake County”
  • Turkish: “Lake ilçesi, CA”
  • Turkish: “Lake ilçesi, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Lake ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Lake ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Лейк”
  • Urdu: “لیک کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Lake”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Lake, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Lake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lake, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Lake”
  • Welsh: “Lake County, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Lake County”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیک کاؤنٹی”
  • Yue Chinese: “湖縣”
  • “Lake”

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