Sylva

Sylva is a mountain town located along the Plot Balsam Mountain chain of the . Its artsy culture and music roots give the town its popular nickname of being “The New Orleans” of the Carolinas.
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  • Type: Town with 2,580 residents
  • Description: town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: Sylva, NC” and “Sylva, North Carolina
  • Postal code: 28779

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dillsboro and Webster.

Town
is a town in , United States. The population was 213 at the 2020 census down from 232 at the 2010 census.

Town
is a town in , , United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 363, down from 486 in 2000. was the first county seat of Jackson County, until Sylva assumed the role in 1913.

Sylva

Latitude
35.3737° or 35° 22′ 25″ north
Longitude
-83.2259° or 83° 13′ 33″ west
Population
2,580
Elevation
2,044 feet (623 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SL6
Open location code
867R9QFF+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153875748
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4494335
Wiki­data ID
Q2043861
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Sylva” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سيلفا، كارولاينا الشماليه
  • Arabic: سيلفا
  • Basque: Sylva
  • Catalan: Sylva
  • Cebuano: Sylva
  • Chechen: Силва
  • Chinese: Sylva
  • Chinese: 席爾瓦 (北卡羅萊納州)
  • Chinese: 席爾瓦
  • Dutch: Sylva
  • Egyptian Arabic: سيلفا, نورث كارولاينا
  • Esperanto: Sylva
  • French: Sylva
  • German: Sylva
  • Gilaki: سیلوا (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)
  • Gilaki: سیلوا
  • Haitian: Sylva, Kawolin dinò
  • Hungarian: Sylva
  • Irish: Sylva
  • Italian: Sylva
  • Japanese: シルヴァ
  • Japanese: シルバ
  • Korean: 실바
  • Ladin: Sylva
  • Luxembourgish: Sylva
  • Min Nan Chinese: Sylva
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sylva
  • Norwegian: Sylva
  • Persian: سیلوا، کارولینای شمالی
  • Persian: سیلوا
  • Polish: Sylva
  • Portuguese: Sylva
  • Russian: Силва (Северная Каролина)
  • Russian: Силва
  • Serbian: Силва
  • Serbo-Croatian: Sylva, North Carolina
  • Serbo-Croatian: Sylva
  • South Azerbaijani: سیلوا، قوزئی کارولینا
  • Spanish: Sylva (Carolina del Norte)
  • Spanish: Sylva
  • Swedish: Sylva, North Carolina
  • Swedish: Sylva
  • Tatar: Силва
  • Ukrainian: Силва
  • Uzbek: Sylva, North Carolina
  • Uzbek: Sylva
  • Uzbek: Сйлва
  • Volapük: Sylva, North Carolina
  • Volapük: Sylva
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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 “Sylva”. Photo: Nickbreedlove, CC BY-SA 3.0.