Sylva
Sylva is a mountain town located along the Plot Balsam Mountain chain of the North Carolina Mountains. Its artsy culture and music roots give the town its popular nickname of being “The New Orleans” of the Carolinas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Dillsboro
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dillsboro is a town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 213 at the 2020 census down from 232 at the 2010 census.
Webster
Town
Photo: RichardKenni, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Webster is a town in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 363, down from 486 in 2000. Webster was the first county seat of Jackson County, until Sylva assumed the role in 1913.
Sylva
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Jackson, North Carolina Mountains, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.3737° or 35° 22′ 25″ northLongitude
-83.2259° or 83° 13′ 33″ westPopulation
2,580Elevation
2,044 feet (623 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SL6Open location code
867R9QFF+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 153875748OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- “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.