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Lying across the Bay Bridge from , the East Bay consists of Contra Costa County and Alameda County. It has a unique culture, more laid back and with less tech industry presence than its neighbors to the west. , the area's largest city…
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  • Type: County with 1,050,000 residents
  • Description: county in California, United States
  • Also known as: “CoCo County”, “Contra Costa County”, “Contra Costa County, CA”, and “Contra Costa County, California”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Diablo.

Peak
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is a mountain of the , in Contra Costa County of the eastern in . It is south of and northeast of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clayton and North Gate.

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is a small suburban town in the East Bay of the Bay Area, in Contra Costa County.

Village
is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, , United States. sits at an elevation of 253 feet. The 2020 United States census reported 's population was 667.

Village
is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, , United States. The population was 1,255 at the 2020 census. It is located 2.5 miles east-northeast of .

Contra Costa

Latitude
37.9035° or 37° 54′ 13″ north
Longitude
-121.9175° or 121° 55′ 3″ west
Population
1,050,000
Elevation
1,198 feet (365 metres)
Open location code
849WW33J+9X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316944829
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5339268
Wiki­data ID
Q108058
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Contra Costa” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كونترا كوستا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كونترا كوستا، كاليفورنيا”
  • Armenian: “Քոնտրա Քոստա շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Contra Costa”
  • Asturian: “Contra Costa (condáu)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kontra-Kosta qraflığı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kontra-Kosta”
  • Basque: “Contra Costa konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Contra Costa County, Kalifornien”
  • Bavarian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Belarusian: “акруга Контра-Коста”
  • Belarusian: “Контра-Коста (акруга)”
  • Belarusian: “Контра-Коста”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোন্ট্রা কোস্টা কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “কোন্ট্রা কোস্টা কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Контра Коста”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Contra Costa”
  • Cebuano: “Contra Costa County”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی کۆنترا کۆستا”
  • Chechen: “Контра-Коста”
  • Chinese: “Contra Costa Kūn”
  • Chinese: “康他哥斯大縣”
  • Chinese: “康他哥斯大郡”
  • Chinese: “康彻科斯塔县”
  • Chinese: “康特拉科斯塔县”
  • Chinese: “康特拉科斯塔縣”
  • Czech: “Contra Costa County”
  • Danish: “Contra Costa County”
  • Dutch: “Contra Costa County”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كونترا كوستا كاونتى”
  • Esperanto: “Contra Costa”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Contra Costa”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Contra Costa”
  • Finnish: “Contra Costan piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Contra Costa”
  • French: “Comté de Contra Costa”
  • Galician: “Condado de Contra Costa”
  • Gan Chinese: “康特拉科斯塔縣”
  • Georgian: “კონტრა-კოსტის ოლქი”
  • German: “Contra Costa County”
  • Gilaki: “کنترا کوستا شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κόντρα Κόστα”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קונטרה קוסטה”
  • Hungarian: “Contra Costa megye”
  • Icelandic: “Contra Costa County”
  • Icelandic: “Contra Costa-sýsla”
  • Icelandic: “Contra Costa”
  • Indonesian: “County Contra Costa”
  • Irish: “Contae Contra Costa, California”
  • Irish: “Contae Contra Costa”
  • Italian: “contea di Contra Costa”
  • Italian: “Contea di Contra Costa”
  • Italian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Japanese: “コントラ・コスタ郡”
  • Japanese: “コントラコスタ郡”
  • Korean: “컨트라코스타군”
  • Latin: “Contra Costa Comitatus”
  • Limburgan: “Contra Costa County”
  • Lithuanian: “Kontra Kostos apygarda”
  • Low German: “Contra Costa County”
  • Malayalam: “കോൺട്രാ കോസ്റ്റ കൗണ്ടി”
  • Marathi: “काँत्रा कॉस्टा काउंटी”
  • Marathi: “काँत्रा कॉस्ता काउंटी”
  • Marathi: “कॉन्ट्रा कोस्टा काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “کنترا کوستا شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “کنترا کوستا شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Contra Costa Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Contra Costa County”
  • Norwegian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Contra Costa”
  • Pampanga: “Contra Costa County, California”
  • Pampanga: “Contra Costa County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کنترا کوستا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کنترا کوستا”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Contra Costa”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Contra Costa”
  • Russian: “Контра-Коста”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Contra Costa”
  • Serbian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Serbian: “Okrug Kontra Kosta”
  • Serbian: “Контра Коста”
  • Serbian: “Округ Контра Коста”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Contra Costa County, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Slovenian: “Contra Costa County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Contra Costa”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Contra Costa”
  • Spanish: “Contra Costa County California”
  • Spanish: “Contra Costa County”
  • Swedish: “Contra Costa County”
  • Tagalog: “Contra Costa County”
  • Tagalog: “Kondado ng Contra Costa, California”
  • Tatar: “Контра-Коста (округ, Калифорния)”
  • Tatar: “Контра-Коста”
  • Tumbuka: “Contra Costa County, California”
  • Tumbuka: “Contra Costa County”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa County, CA”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa County, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa County, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa County”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa ilçesi, CA”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa ilçesi, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa İlçesi, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Contra Costa ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Контра-Коста”
  • Urdu: “کونٹرا کوسٹا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Contra Costa”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Contra Costa, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Contra Costa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Contra Costa, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Contra Costa”
  • Welsh: “Contra Costa County, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Contra Costa County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کونٹرا کوسٹا کاؤنٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “康特拉科斯塔县”
  • Yue Chinese: “康他哥斯大縣”
  • “Contra Costa”

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