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Place Name
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Lea County
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Pronunciation
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LEE
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Lovington
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Population
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55,765 (1990)
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Location
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New Mexico, United States, North America
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Latitude
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32°47'N
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Longitude
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103°25'W
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Lea
(LEE), county (
4,394 sq mi/11,380 sq km; 1990
pop. 55,765), extreme SE N.Mex., in Llano Estacado;  Lovington;
32°47'N 103°25'W. Cattle, sheep; dairying; chiles, corn, sorghum,
hay, alfalfa, melons, peas, spinach, pecans, peanuts, cotton, wheat,
oats, barley, millet, rye. Bounded S and E by Texas (Central-Mountain
time zone boundary on both sides; N.Mex. in Mountain time zone).
Petroleum, natural-gas fields. Harry McAdams State Park in E corner, at
Hobbs. Formed 1917.
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