Mid City
Mid City is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. Attractions include restaurants and a post office named for singer Ray Charles, who had his recording studio in Mid City.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 83,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Also known as: “Mid City, California”, “Mid City, Los Angeles”, “Mid City, Los Angeles, California”, “Mid-City”, and “Mid-City, Los Angeles”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Los Angeles County Museum of Art and La Brea Tar Pits.
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.
La Brea Tar Pits
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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.
Petersen Automotive Museum
Museum
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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 Culver City and Wilshire.
Culver City
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Culver City is a city on the Westside of Los Angeles County. It was given the moniker the "Heart of Screenland" during the 1930s and 1940s when it was responsible for half of America's motion picture production; today it remains home to Sony Pictures Studios and Culver Studios.
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.
Beverly Hills
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Beverly Hills is an enclaved city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, surrounded almost entirely by Los Angeles. Since the 1950s Beverly Hills has marketed itself as a high-end shopping venue and home of the rich and famous, which still rings true today – its reputation has even been the basis of a few popular TV shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies and Beverly Hills, 90210.
Mid City
- Categories: neighborhood, district or neighborhood of Los Angeles, and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.0415° or 34° 2′ 30″ northLongitude
-118.3604° or 118° 21′ 37″ westPopulation
83,000Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)Open location code
85632JRQ+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 7365301464OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
13157343Wikidata ID
Q6840673
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Mid City” goes by many names.
- French: “Mid-City”
- Spanish: “Mid City (Los Ángeles)”
- Spanish: “Mid City”
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