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Hampden County

county in Massachusetts, United States
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Summary

Hampden County is a county of Massachusetts[1]. It draws 951 Wikipedia views per month (county of massachusetts category, ranking #9 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Massachusetts[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Capital: Springfield[5]
  • Shares border with: Hampshire County[6], Worcester County[7], Tolland County[8], Hartford County[9], Litchfield County[10], Berkshire County[11], Capitol Planning Region[12], Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region[13], Northwest Hills Planning Region[14]
  • Named after: John Hampden[15]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Springfield[16], Agawam[17], Blandford[18], Brimfield[19], Chester[20], Chicopee[21], East Longmeadow[22], Granville[23], Hampden[24], Holland[25], Holyoke[26], Longmeadow[27], Ludlow[28], Monson[29]
  • Commons category: Hampden County, Massachusetts[30]
  • Inception: 1812[31]
  • Coordinate location: 42.12756, -72.571312[32]
  • Official website: http://www.pvpc.org[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hampden County, Massachusetts[34]
  • Population: 463,490[35], 464,005[36], 465,622[37], 465,997[38], 467,319[39], 470,690[40], 465,825[41]
  • List of monuments: National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampden County, Massachusetts[42]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Hampden County, Massachusetts[43]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Hampden County, Massachusetts[44]
  • Number of households: 180,492[45]
  • Native label: Hampden County[46]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C108911[47]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Hampden County, Massachusetts[48]
  • Area: 1642[49]
  • Water as percent of area: 2.7[50]

Why It Matters

Hampden County has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Related Entities

Massachusetts United States

References

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Class ancestry

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Hampden County, Mas
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Hampden County, Massachusetts.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States pres"
  2. 22w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Obo gazetteer id → 00103686
    Umls cui → C3829906
    Taxonomicon id → 1806088
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  3. 22w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Hampden County, Massachusetts
    Number of households → {'amount': '+180492'}
    Named after → —
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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