Athens
Athens is an unincorporated community in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of Los Angeles Southwest College.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: unincorporated community in California, USA
- Also known as: “Athens, CA” and “Athens, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harbor Freeway station and Vermont/Athens station.
Harbor Freeway station
Bus station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harbor Freeway station is a transit center located on the Harbor Transitway, within the Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange of Interstate 105 and Interstate 110 near Figueroa Street in the neighborhood of South Los Angeles.
Vermont/Athens station
Railway station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vermont/Athens station is a below-grade light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is situated in the median of Interstate 105 and named after Vermont Avenue and the Athens community where it is located.
Avalon station
Railway station
Photo: HanSangYoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Avalon station is an elevated light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located in the median of Interstate 105, above Avalon Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the neighborhood of Green Meadows.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Los Angeles and West Athens.
South Los Angeles
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Los Angeles is a large region of Los Angeles made up of the neighborhoods south of Downtown L.A. This is a relatively impoverished area of the city, infamous for gang violence and for being the epicenter of major race riots in the 1960s and 1990s.
West Athens
Quarter
West Athens is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 9,393 at the 2020 census. It is an unincorporated community within the 2nd Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County.
West Rancho Dominguez
Hamlet
West Rancho Dominguez, formerly known as West Compton and also known as East Gardena, is an unincorporated census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California. West Rancho Dominguez is situated 2 miles south of Athens.
Athens
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.92041° or 33° 55′ 14″ northLongitude
-118.27905° or 118° 16′ 45″ westElevation
171 feet (52 metres)Open location code
8553WPCC+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 150941199OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Volapük—“Athens” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Athens”
- Chinese: “阿森斯”
- Chinese: “雅典”
- French: “Athens”
- Irish: “Athens”
- Italian: “Athens”
- Persian: “آتن، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “آتن”
- South Azerbaijani: “آتن، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Athens (California)”
- Spanish: “Athens”
- Urdu: “ایتھنز، کیلیفورنیا”
- Volapük: “Athens, California”
- Volapük: “Athens”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Athens Park and Church of God in Jesus Name.
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