Amboy
Amboy is a ghost town along Route 66 in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. Nearby is Amboy Crater, a popular tourist attraction since the Route 66 days, a 6,000-year-old cinder cone volcano and one of the youngest volcanic fields in the U.S.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: ghost town in San Bernardino County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Amboy, CA” and “Amboy, California”
- Postal code: 92304
Places of Interest
Highlights: Roy’s Motel and Café.
Amboy
- Categories: ghost town, unincorporated community, and locality
- Location: San Bernardino County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.5578° or 34° 33′ 28″ north
Longitude
-115.7444° or 115° 44′ 40″ west
Elevation
630 feet (192 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US OPP
Open location code
8566H754+46
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Amboy” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “安博伊”
- Dutch: “Amboy”
- French: “Amboy”
- German: “Amboy”
- Irish: “Amboy”
- Italian: “Amboy”
- Japanese: “アムボーイ”
- Ladin: “Amboy”
- Luxembourgish: “Amboy”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amboy”
- Persian: “امبوی”
- Polish: “Amboy”
- Russian: “Амбой”
- South Azerbaijani: “آمبوی، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Amboy”
- Turkish: “Amboy”
- Urdu: “ایمبوئے، کیلیفورنیا”
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