Koreatown

Koreatown is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Sixth and Alexandria streets. Koreans began immigrating in larger numbers in the 1960s and found housing in the area.
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  • Type: Suburb with 124,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Los Angeles
  • Also known as: “Koreatown, Los Angeles” and “Ktown”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre and Saint Sophia Cathedral.

Theater building
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The Pellissier Building and adjoining Wiltern Theatre is a 12-story, 155-foot Art Deco landmark at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in , California.

Church
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Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox church built in 1952, in what was then the Greek section of Central Los Angeles, . It is located at West 15th Street and South Normandie Avenue in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter…

Park
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is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the neighborhood of , California, United States. In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur, and later designated City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilshire and Northwest Los Angeles.

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Greater is an area of . Its boundaries are Melrose Avenue/Hollywood to the north, La Cienega Blvd/ to the west, the 10 Freeway to the south, and Hoover Street/ to the east.

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Northwest is a region of the city that roughly comprises the neighborhoods of East Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Elysian Park, Westlake/MacArthur Park, and the spacious Griffith Park.

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No trip to is complete without a visit to its most famous district: , best known as the self-declared entertainment capital of the world.

Koreatown

Latitude
34.0618° or 34° 3′ 43″ north
Longitude
-118.3054° or 118° 18′ 20″ west
Population
124,000
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
Open location code
85633M6V+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150968103
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
5363748
Wiki­data ID
Q872664
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Koreatown” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Koreatown”
  • Cebuano: “Koreatown”
  • Chinese: “洛杉磯韓國城”
  • Chinese: “韓國城”
  • Chinese: “韩国城”
  • Czech: “Koreatown”
  • Esperanto: “Korea Kvartalo”
  • French: “Koreatown”
  • German: “Koreatown”
  • Greek: “Koreatown”
  • Greek: “Κορίαταουν”
  • Hebrew: “קוריאה טאון”
  • Italian: “Koreatown”
  • Japanese: “コリア・タウン”
  • Japanese: “コリアタウン (ロサンゼルス)”
  • Japanese: “コリアタウン”
  • Korean: “LA 코리아 타운”
  • Korean: “LA 코리아타운”
  • Korean: “LA 한인 타운”
  • Korean: “LA 한인촌”
  • Korean: “LA 한인타운”
  • Korean: “LA코리아타운”
  • Korean: “LA한인촌”
  • Korean: “LA한인타운”
  • Korean: “로스앤젤레스 코리아 타운”
  • Korean: “로스앤젤레스 코리아타운”
  • Korean: “로스앤젤레스 한인 타운”
  • Korean: “로스앤젤레스 한인촌”
  • Korean: “로스앤젤레스 한인타운”
  • Korean: “코리아타운”
  • Polish: “Koreatown”
  • Russian: “Корейский квартал (Лос-Анджелес)”
  • Russian: “Корейский квартал”
  • Slovak: “Koreatown”
  • Slovenian: “Koreatown”
  • Spanish: “Koreatown (Los Ángeles)”
  • Spanish: “Koreatown”
  • Turkish: “Koreatown, Los Angeles”
  • Urdu: “کوریا ٹاؤن، لاس اینجلس”
  • “Koreatown”

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