Union County
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Elizabeth and Summit.
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth is a city in and the county seat of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city is the most populous in the Central Jersey region and has retained its ranking as the state's fourth-most-populous city…
Summit
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Summit is a city in New Jersey. It is located in Union County and is about 20 miles from Manhattan. This article also covers the neighboring town of 1 New Providence.
Linden
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Linden is a city of 42,000 people in New Jersey. Linden is a regional hub of Polish immigration and features a significant number of establishments featuring the food and culture of Poland.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Rahway and Central Union County.
Rahway
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Rahway is a city in southern Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A bedroom community of New York City, it is centrally located in the Rahway Valley region, in the New York metropolitan area.
Central Union County
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Cranford is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located 18 miles southwest of New York City. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 23,847, an increase of 1,222 from the 2010 census count of 22,625, which in turn reflected an increase of 47 from the 22,578 counted in the 2000 census.
Union
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Union Township is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. In the 18th century, the area that is now Union was then called Connecticut Farms.
Clark
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Clark is a city in Union County, New Jersey. It is a suburban town of around 16,000 that is 13 miles from Newark. The town was founded in 1864 when the residents of the 5th ward of Rahway city decided to break away to establish the city.
Scotch Plains
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Scotch Plains is a town in Union County, New Jersey. This article also covers the neighboring communities of Fanwood and Plainfield.
Union County
- Type: county of New Jersey with 536,000 residents
- Description: county in New Jersey, United States
- Also known as: “Union”, “Union County, New Jersey”, and “Union County, NJ”
- Neighbors: Essex County, Hudson County, Middlesex County, Morris County, New York City, and Somerset County
- Location: Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yiddish—“Union County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Union County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة يونيون”
- Armenian: “Յունիոն շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu d’Union”
- Azerbaijani: “Yunion”
- Basque: “Union konderria”
- Bavarian: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Bavarian: “Union County”
- Belarusian: “Юніян”
- Bengali: “ইউনিয়ন কাউন্টি”
- Bishnupriya: “ইউনিয়ন কাউন্টি, নিউ জার্সি”
- Bishnupriya: “ইউনিয়ন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Юниън”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Union”
- Cebuano: “Union County”
- Chechen: “Юнион (гуо, Нью-Джерси)”
- Chechen: “Юнион”
- Chinese: “Union Kūn”
- Chinese: “尤宁县”
- Chinese: “尤宁縣”
- Chinese: “尤寧縣”
- Chinese: “尤寧郡”
- Chinese: “聯合縣”
- Danish: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Danish: “Union County”
- Dutch: “Union County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Unio”
- Esperanto: “kantono Union”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Union”
- Esperanto: “Union County”
- Finnish: “Unionin piirikunta”
- French: “comté d’Union”
- French: “Comté d’Union”
- French: “comté De Union”
- French: “Union County”
- Georgian: “იუნიონის ოლქი”
- German: “Union County”
- Gilaki: “یونیون ٚ شأرستان (نيۊجرسي)”
- Gilaki: “یونیون ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Γιούνιον”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Γιούνιον”
- Hebrew: “יוניון קאונטי”
- Hebrew: “מחוז יוניון”
- Hungarian: “Union megye”
- Irish: “Contae Union”
- Italian: “contea di Union”
- Italian: “Contea di Union”
- Italian: “Union County”
- Japanese: “ユニオン郡”
- Korean: “유니언군”
- Low German: “Union County”
- Macedonian: “Јунион”
- Mazanderani: “یونیون شهرستان (نیوجرسی)”
- Mazanderani: “یونیون شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Union Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Union Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Union County i New Jersey”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Union County”
- Norwegian: “Union County”
- Persian: “شهرستان یونیون، نیوجرسی”
- Persian: “شهرستان یونیون”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Union”
- Portuguese: “condado de Union”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Union”
- Portuguese: “Union County”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Union, New Jersey”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Union”
- Russian: “Юнион”
- Sardinian: “contea de Union”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Union County”
- Serbian: “Округ Јунион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Union County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Union”
- Slovenian: “Union County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Union, Nueva Jersey”
- Spanish: “condado de Union”
- Spanish: “Condado de Union”
- Spanish: “Union County”
- Swedish: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Swedish: “Union County”
- Tatar: “Юнион (округ, Нью-Джерси)”
- Tatar: “Юнион”
- Tumbuka: “Union County”
- Turkish: “Union County, N.J.”
- Turkish: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Union County, NJ”
- Turkish: “Union County”
- Turkish: “Union ilçesi, N.J.”
- Turkish: “Union ilçesi, New Jersey”
- Turkish: “Union ilçesi, NJ”
- Turkish: “Union ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Юніон”
- Urdu: “یونین کاؤنٹی، نیو جرسی”
- Urdu: “یونین کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Union”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Liên Bang, New Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Liên Bang, Tân Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Liên Bang”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Union, New Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Union, Tân Jersey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Union”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Union, New Jersey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Union”
- Welsh: “Union County, New Jersey”
- Welsh: “Union County”
- Western Panjabi: “یونین کاؤنٹی”
- Yiddish: “יוניאן קאנטי”
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