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 Mid-Wilshire area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 Saint Sophia Cathedral, Los Angeles and MacArthur Park.
Saint Sophia Cathedral, Los Angeles
Church
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox church built in 1952, in what was then the Greek section of Central Los Angeles, California. It is located at West 15th Street and South Normandie Avenue in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter…
MacArthur Park
Park
Photo: Wurzeller, Public domain.
MacArthur Park is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, 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.
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Synagogue
Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, known from 1862 to 1933 as Congregation B'nai B'rith, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, in the Wilshire Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wilshire and Northwest Los Angeles.
Wilshire
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Greater Wilshire is an area of Los Angeles. Its boundaries are Melrose Avenue/Hollywood to the north, La Cienega Blvd/West Hollywood to the west, the 10 Freeway to the south, and Hoover Street/Westlake to the east.
Northwest Los Angeles
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Northwest Los Angeles 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.
Hollywood
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
No trip to Los Angeles is complete without a visit to its most famous district: Hollywood, best known as the self-declared entertainment capital of the world.
Koreatown
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles, Koreatown, tourism, tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.0618° or 34° 3′ 43″ northLongitude
-118.3054° or 118° 18′ 20″ westPopulation
124,000Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)Open location code
85633M6V+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 150968103OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“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)”
- 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”
- “Koreatown”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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