Westwood, Los Angeles
Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 2,020 residents
- Description: neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region of Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as: “Sunset”, “Westwood”, “Westwood Hills”, and “Westwood, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary.
Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
Garden
Photo: Manroot, Public domain.
The Mathias Botanical Garden is a 7-acre botanical garden with over 3,000 species of plants, located on the southeastern corner of the University of California, Los Angeles campus.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
Cemetery
Photo: Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. It includes a crematory for cremation services.
Jules Stein Eye Institute
Hospital
Photo: DocFreeman24, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jules Stein Eye Institute, founded by MCA founder Jules Stein, functions as the department of ophthalmology for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westwood Village and Holmby Hills.
Holmby Hills
Neighborhood
Photo: Atwater Village Newbie, CC BY 2.0.
Holmby Hills is a neighborhood on the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. The neighborhood was developed in the early 20th century by the Janss Investment Company, which developed the rest of Westwood, Los Angeles as well as other "LA" neighborhoods.
Tehrangeles
Neighborhood
Photo: Zereshk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tehrangeles is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States.
Westwood, Los Angeles
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.0669° or 34° 4′ 1″ northLongitude
-118.43994° or 118° 26′ 24″ westPopulation
2,020Elevation
269 feet (82 metres)United Nations Location Code
US 3DCOpen location code
85633H86+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 3833103042OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Westwood, Los Angeles” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وست وود”
- Azerbaijani: “Uestvud”
- Basque: “Westwood”
- Bulgarian: “Уестуд”
- Catalan: “Westwood”
- Cebuano: “Westwood”
- Chinese: “西木區”
- Chinese: “西活”
- Chinese: “韦斯特伍德”
- Dutch: “Westwood”
- French: “Westwood Village”
- French: “Westwood”
- Galician: “Westwood”
- German: “Westwood Village”
- German: “Westwood”
- Greek: “Γουέστγουντ”
- Hebrew: “ווסטווד”
- Irish: “Westwood”
- Italian: “Westwood”
- Japanese: “ウェストウッド”
- Korean: “웨스트우드”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Westwood”
- Norwegian: “Westwood”
- Persian: “وستوود، لسآنجلس”
- Persian: “وستوود”
- Polish: “Westwood”
- Portuguese: “Westwood”
- Romanian: “Westwood, Los Angeles”
- Romanian: “Westwood”
- Russian: “Уэствуд”
- Scots: “Westwood, Los Angeles”
- Slovenian: “Westwood”
- South Azerbaijani: “وزتوود، لوس آنجلس”
- Spanish: “Westwood (Los Ángeles)”
- Spanish: “Westwood”
- Swedish: “Westwood, Los Angeles”
- Turkish: “Westwood, Los Angeles”
- Ukrainian: “Вествуд”
- Ukrainian: “Уествуд”
- Urdu: “ویسٹووڈ، لاس اینجلس”
- Welsh: “Westwood”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include UCLA Terasaki Life Sciences Building and UCLA Plant Growth Center.
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