Kings County, New Brunswick
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Kings County (2001 population 64,208) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. Both the Saint John and Kennebecasis rivers pass through the county. Dairy farming is an important industry in the area. On March 18, 2004, at the 48th annual World Cheese and Butter Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, Dairytown Products, a company from Sussex, won first prize for butter, besting 37 entries from the USA, France, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark and other countries from around the world.
Tourists come to see the many covered bridges in the county. Approximately half of the Kings County population lives in suburbs of the nearby city of Saint John.
List of towns in Kings County, with 2001 populations given:
- Quispamsis (13,757)
- Rothesay (11,505)
- Grand Bay-Westfield (4,949)
- Sussex (4,182)
- Hampton (3,997)
- Nauwigewauk (1,508)
- Norton (1,370)
- Sussex Corner (1,321)
- Havelock (380)