Merced County
Merced County is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 281,202.
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Hilmar
Hilmar is a small town in the San Joaquin Valley of California.Merced County
- Type: County with 281,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Comte de Merced”, “Merced”, “Merced (condáu)”, “Merced County California”, “Merced County, CA”, “Merced County, Calif.”, “Merced County, California”, “Merced County, Kaliforniya”, “Merced ilçesi, CA”, “Merced ilçesi, Calif.”, “Merced ilçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Okrožje Merced”, “Мърсайд”, “مقاطعه ميرسيد، كاليفورنيا”, “美熹德縣”, and “默塞德郡”
- Neighbors: Fresno County, Madera County, Mariposa County, San Benito County, Stanislaus County, and Tuolumne County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
37.1642° or 37° 9′ 51″ north
Longitude of center
-120.7679° or 120° 46′ 4″ west
Population
281,000
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Merced County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Merced County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ميرسيد”
- Armenian: “Մերսեդ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Merced”
- Azerbaijani: “Mersed qraflığı”
- Basque: “Merced konderria”
- Bavarian: “Merced County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Merced County”
- Belarusian: “Мерсед”
- Bishnupriya: “মার্সিড কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “মার্সিড কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Мърсед”
- Catalan: “comtat de Merced”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Merced”
- Cebuano: “Merced County”
- Chechen: “Мерсед”
- Chinese: “美熹德郡”
- Chinese: “默塞德县”
- Chinese: “默塞德縣”
- Czech: “Merced County”
- Danish: “Merced County”
- Dutch: “Merced County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسيد (مقاطعه فى كاليفورنيا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسيد”
- Esperanto: “kantono Merced”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Merced”
- Estonian: “Mercedi maakond”
- Finnish: “Mercedin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Merced”
- French: “Comté de Merced”
- Georgian: “მერსედის ოლქი”
- German: “Merced County”
- Gilaki: “مرسد ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Μέρσεντ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מרסד”
- Hungarian: “Merced megye”
- Icelandic: “Merced-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Merced, California”
- Irish: “Contae Merced”
- Italian: “contea di Merced”
- Italian: “Contea di Merced”
- Japanese: “マーセド郡”
- Korean: “머시드군”
- Latin: “Merced Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Merced County”
- Lithuanian: “Mersedo apygarda”
- Low German: “Merced County”
- Malayalam: “മെർസ്ഡ് കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “मर्सेड काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “مرسد شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “مرسد شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Merced Kūn”
- Navajo: “Shash Bitoʼ Nílį́ Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Merced County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merced County”
- Norwegian: “Merced County”
- Pampanga: “Merced County, California”
- Pampanga: “Merced County”
- Persian: “شهرستان مرسد، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان مرسد”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Merced”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Merced”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Merced, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Merced”
- Russian: “Мерсед”
- Sardinian: “contea de Merced”
- Serbian: “Okrug Mersed”
- Serbian: “Округ Мерсед”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merced County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merced County”
- Slovenian: “Merced County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Merced”
- Swedish: “Merced County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Merced, California”
- Tagalog: “Merced County”
- Tatar: “Мерсед (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Мерсед”
- Tumbuka: “Merced County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Merced County”
- Turkish: “Merced County”
- Turkish: “Merced ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Мерсед”
- Urdu: “مرسیڈ کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Merced”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Merced, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Merced”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Merced, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Merced”
- Welsh: “Merced County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Merced County”
- Western Panjabi: “مرکڈ کاؤنٹی”
- “Merced”
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