Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 29,278. Its county seat is Harlan. With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county—a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited, but containing a wet city, in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed. In the city of Harlan, restaurants seating 100+ may serve alcoholic beverages. Harlan County is well known in folk and country music, having ...