Mid-Wilshire
Mid-Wilshire is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is known for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Petersen Automotive Museum, and the Miracle Mile shopping district.Photo: DaveofCali, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles”
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Brea Tar Pits and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
La Brea Tar Pits
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
La Brea Tar Pits comprise an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.
Petersen Automotive Museum
Museum
Photo: Mbodell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Petersen Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest collections, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization specializing in automobile history and related educational programs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miracle Mile and Park La Brea.
Miracle Mile
Neighborhood
Photo: DaveofCali, CC BY 2.0.
Miracle Mile is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California. It contains a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard known as Museum Row. It also contains two Historic Preservation Overlay Zones: the Miracle Mile HPOZ and the Miracle Mile North HPOZ.
Park La Brea
Neighborhood
Park La Brea is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944.
Little Ethiopia
Neighborhood
Photo: Ucla90024, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Ethiopia(Amharic; ትንሿ ኢትዮጵያ; is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles. It is known for its collection of Ethiopian restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques and thrift stores.
Mid-Wilshire
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.05686° or 34° 3′ 25″ northLongitude
-118.3458° or 118° 20′ 45″ westElevation
197 feet (60 metres)Open location code
85633M43+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 7365301515OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Mid-Wilshire” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “中威尔希尔”
- Chinese: “中威爾希爾”
- Chinese: “中威爾榭”
- Chinese: “威尔希尔中部”
- Chinese: “威爾希爾中段”
- Chinese: “威爾希爾中部”
- Dutch: “Mid-Wilshire”
- French: “Mid-Wilshire”
- German: “Mid-Wilshire”
- Italian: “Mid-Wilshire”
- Japanese: “ミッド＝ウィルシャー”
- Japanese: “ミッドウィルシャー”
- Spanish: “Mid-Wilshire (Los Ángeles)”
- Spanish: “Mid-Wilshire”
- Swedish: “Mid-Wilshire”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Park La Brea and Little Ethiopia.
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