Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur is the southern half of the Baja California peninsula. The state is known for its remote beaches, sport fishing, and breeding waters for whales and other marine mammals.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: State with 798,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Also known as: “BCS”, “Distrito Sur Baja California”, “Estado de Baja California Sur”, “Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur”, “MX-BCS”, “MX03”, “South Lower California”, “South Territory of Baja California”, “Territorio Sur Baja California”, and “Tlani California Huitztlāmpa”
Baja California Sur
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.5818° or 25° 34′ 55″ northLongitude
-111.5706° or 111° 34′ 14″ westPopulation
798,000Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)Abbreviation
“BCS”Open location code
75QCHCJH+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2160053456OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baja California Sur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Baja California Sur”
- Arabic: “باخا كالفورنيا سور”
- Arabic: “ولاية باجا كاليفورنيا سور”
- Arabic: “ولاية باها كاليفورنيا سور”
- Arabic: “ولايه باجا كاليفورنيا سور”
- Aragonese: “Baixa California Sud”
- Aragonese: “Baixa California Sur”
- Aragonese: “Baja California del Sur”
- Aragonese: “Baja California Sur”
- Aragonese: “Baxa California Sur”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Բախա Կալիֆոռնիա”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Ստորին Կալիֆոռնիա”
- Asturian: “Baxa California Sur”
- Aymara: “Baja California Sur Istadu”
- Balinese: “Baja California Sur”
- Basque: “Baja California Sur”
- Basque: “Hego Kalifornia Beherea”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Ніжняя Каліфорнія”
- Belarusian: “Штат Паўднёвая Ніжняя Каліфорнія”
- Bengali: “বাহা কালিফোর্নিয়া সুর”
- Bosnian: “Južna Donja Kalifornija”
- Breton: “Baja California Sur”
- Breton: “Kalifornia-Izel ar C’hreisteiz”
- Bulgarian: “Баха Калифорния Сур”
- Bulgarian: “Южна Долна Калифорния”
- Catalan: “Baixa Califòrnia Sud”
- Catalan: “Baja California Sur”
- Catalan: “Estat de Baixa Califòrnia Sud”
- Cebuano: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
- Chechen: “Къилба Лаха Калифорни”
- Chinese: “Baja California Sur Chiu”
- Chinese: “南下加利福尼亚州”
- Chinese: “南下加利福尼亞”
- Chinese: “南下加利福尼亞州”
- Cornish: “Baja California Sur”
- Corsican: “Bassa California di u Sudu”
- Croatian: “Baja California Sur”
- Czech: “Baja California Sur”
- Czech: “Jižní Dolní Kalifornie”
- Danish: “Baja California Sur”
- Dutch: “Baja California Sur”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Neder-Californie”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Neder-Californië”
- Esperanto: “Baja California Sur”
- Esperanto: “Suda Baja California”
- Esperanto: “Suda Basa Kalifornio”
- Esperanto: “Suda Malsupra Kalifornio”
- Estonian: “Baja California Sur”
- Estonian: “Baja California Suri osariik”
- Finnish: “Baja California Sur”
- French: “Baja California Sur”
- French: “Basse Californie du Sud”
- French: “Basse-Californie du Sud”
- French: “Basse-Californie-du-Sud”
- French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur”
- French: “MX-BCS”
- Galician: “Baixa California Sur”
- Galician: “Baja California Sur”
- Georgian: “ქვედა კალიფორნია”
- Georgian: “ქვემო კალიფორნია”
- German: “Baja California Sur”
- German: “MX-BCS”
- German: “Süd-Niederkalifornien”
- Greek: “Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια ντελ Σουρ”
- Greek: “Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια Σουρ”
- Gujarati: “બાજા કેલિફોર્નિયા સુર”
- Hausa: “Yanayin yanayi na Baja California Sur”
- Hebrew: “באחה קליפורניה הדרומית”
- Hebrew: “באחה קליפורניה סור”
- Hindi: “बाहा कैलिफोर्निया सुर”
- Hungarian: “Dél-Alsó-Kalifornia”
- Hungarian: “Déli-Alsó-Kalifornia”
- Icelandic: “Baja California Sur”
- Ido: “Basa Kalifornia Sudo”
- Iloko: “Baja California Sur”
- Indonesian: “Baja California Sur”
- Interlingua: “Baja California Sur”
- Irish: “Baja California Sur”
- Italian: “Baja California Sur”
- Italian: “Bassa California del Sud”
- Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア・スール州”
- Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア・スル”
- Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア・スル州”
- Japanese: “バハカリフォルニアスル州”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಜಾ ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಫೋರ್ನಿಯಾ ಸುರ್”
- Kazakh: “Төменгі оңтүстік Калифорния”
- Korean: “바하 칼리포르니아 수르 주”
- Korean: “바하칼리포르니아수르”
- Korean: “바하칼리포르니아수르주”
- Ladino: “Basha Kalifornia Sud”
- Latin: “Basia California Meridionalis”
- Latin: “California Inferior Meridionalis”
- Latvian: “Dienvidu Lejaskalifornija”
- Lithuanian: “Pietų Žemutinė Kalifornija”
- Lithuanian: “Žemutinė Pietų Kalifornija”
- Macedonian: “Јужна Долна Калифорнија”
- Malay: “Baja California Sur”
- Marathi: “बाशा कालिफॉर्निया सुर”
- Marathi: “बाशा कालिफोर्निया सुर”
- Marathi: “बाहा कालिफोर्निया सुर”
- Marathi: “बाहा कॅलिफोर्निया सुर”
- Mazanderani: “باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Baja California Sur Chiu”
- Navajo: “Shádiʼááhjí Ayaaí Ahééháshį́į́h Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Baja California Sur (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Baja California Sur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baja California Sur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baja California Sur”
- Norwegian: “Baja California Sur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bassa Califòrnia del Sud”
- Ossetian: “Хуссар Дæллаг Калифорни”
- Pampanga: “Baja California Sur”
- Persian: “باحا کالیفرنیا سور”
- Persian: “باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
- Persian: “باها کالیفرنیا سور”
- Piemontese: “Bassa Califòrnia dël Sud”
- Polish: “Baja California Sur”
- Polish: “Kalifornia Dolna Południowa”
- Portuguese: “Baixa Califórnia do Sul”
- Portuguese: “Baixa Califórnia Sul”
- Portuguese: “Baja California Sur”
- Portuguese: “Estado da Baixa Califórnia do Sul”
- Portuguese: “Estado da Baixa Califórnia Sul”
- Portuguese: “Estado da Baja California Sur”
- Quechua: “Baja California Sur suyu”
- Romanian: “Baja California Sur”
- Romansh: “Baja California Sid”
- Romansh: “Baja California Sur”
- Russian: “Нижняя Калифорния Южная”
- Russian: “Южная Нижняя Калифорния”
- Sardinian: “Califòrnia Bassa de su Sud”
- Scots: “Baja California Sur”
- Scots: “Sooth Lawer Californie”
- Serbian: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
- Serbian: “Јужна Доња Калифорнија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baja California Sur”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Južna Donja Kalifornija”
- Sicilian: “Bassa California dû Sud”
- Sinhala: “බජා කැලිෆෝනියා සර්”
- Sinhala: “බාජා කැලිෆෝනියා සුර් ප්රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
- Slovak: “Baja California Sur”
- Slovenian: “Baja California Sur”
- Slovenian: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
- Slovenian: “Južna Spodnja Kalifornija”
- Spanish: “B C S”
- Spanish: “B.C.S.”
- Spanish: “Baja California Sur”
- Spanish: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
- Swahili: “Baja California Sur”
- Swedish: “Baja California Sur”
- Tagalog: “Baja California Sur”
- Tajik: “Калифорнияи Поёнии Ҷанубӣ”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு பாகா கலிபோர்னியா”
- Tamil: “பாஜா கலிபோர்னியா சூர்”
- Tatar: “Баха-Калифорния-Сур”
- Tatar: “Көньяк Түбән Калифорния”
- Telugu: “బాజా కాలిఫోర్నియా సుర్”
- Thai: “Baja California Sur”
- Thai: “บาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียซูร์”
- Thai: “รัฐบาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียซูร์”
- Tumbuka: “Baja California Sur,Mexico”
- Tumbuka: “Baja California Sur”
- Turkish: “Baja California Sur”
- Turkish: “Güney Aşağı Kaliforniya”
- Ukrainian: “Баха-Каліфорнія-Сур”
- Ukrainian: “Баха-Каліфорнія-Сюр, Південна Нижня Каліфорнія”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Нижня Каліфорнія”
- Urdu: “باجا کیلیفورنیا سر”
- Urdu: “باخا کیلیفورنیا سر”
- Uzbek: “Quyi janubiy Kaliforniya”
- Venetian: “Basa Całifòrnia Sud”
- Vietnamese: “Baja California Nam”
- Vietnamese: “Baja California Sur”
- Vietnamese: “Hạ California Nam”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Baja California”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Hạ California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baja California Sur”
- Welsh: “Baja California Sur”
- Western Panjabi: “باجا کیلیفورنیا سر”
- Wu Chinese: “南下加利福尼亚州”
- Yue Chinese: “南下加利福尼亞州”
- “Baja California Sur”
- “Tsintlan Echkapan California”
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Notable Places Nearby
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