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Yakima County
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county in the state of Washington, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Washington
- Founded
- January 21, 1865
- Named after
- Yakama Nation
- Seat
- Yakima
- Largest city
- Yakima
- Total
- 4,311 sq mi (11,170 km )
- Land
- 4,295 sq mi (11,120 km )
- Water
- 16 sq mi (41 km ) 0.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 259,185
- Density
- 58/sq mi (22/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- www .yakimacounty .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Yakima County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 256,728. The county seat and most populous city is Yakima. The county was formed out of Ferguson County in January 1865 and is named for the Yakama tribe of Native Americans.
Yakima County comprises the Yakima, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area and is Washington state's most populous majority-Hispanic county as of 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yakima County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.