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Baja California

Baja California state is the northern half of the peninsula. Known for beaches and the rowdy border city of ---the world's busiest border crossing. The state capital is .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tijuana and Mexicali.

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is a city in Baja California, , just across the border from , , USA. The city has grown from a small border town with a salacious reputation during the Prohibition Era in the United States into a large, modern city with a sizable middle class.

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is the capital of the state of in , directly across the border from , , United States. Its proximity to the United States has made it a very popular tourist destination, especially for day-trippers.

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is a region in outside the city of . It is the premier wine producing region of Mexico. It is a popular tourist destination for wine and Baja Med cuisine, a fusion of Mexican cuisine and Mediterranean cuisine.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ensenada and Guadalupe Island.

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is the city seat of the largest municipality in , on the Pacific Coast south of . It is locally referred to as La Bella Cenicienta del Pacífico.

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or Isla Guadalupe is a volcanic island located 241 km off the west coast of 's Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. According to Seacology's website, is a biosphere reserve.

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is a city of 73,000 people in Baja California on the border with California, about an hour east of . Unlike most US/Mexico border crossings, there is no town on the US side.

Rosarito is a municipality of 127,000 people in , . It has luxury resorts that have the shape of skyscrapers near the sea. It has an extensive and beautiful coastline, sandy beaches, cliffs, a beautiful climate, modern hotels, excellent restaurants, Mexican crafts, popular festivals, and celebrations.

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is a city in , on the coast of the Gulf of California. It has become a resort destination for Americans, Canadians and Mexicans. Its population of 19,000 swells by up to 5,000 during peak periods like U.S. holidays.

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or Vicente Guerrero is a town in , Mexico, approximately 16 km west of , Arizona. The northernmost town in Mexico, has the distinction that a person traveling from it in any of the four cardinal directions would reach a border with the US.

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Bahía de los Ángeles is a coastal bay on the Sea of Cortez along the eastern shore of the Baja California peninsula in the state of , .

is a city in , which is described as the "Lobster Capital of Baja". Many restaurants serve the large pan-fried crustaceans.

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is a beach town of 8,600 people in , . Surfing, dune buggy riding, sailing, fishing, clamming and crabbing are activities.

Baja California

Latitude of center
30.4639° or 30° 27′ 50″ north
Longitude of center
-115.9669° or 115° 58′ 1″ west
Population
3,770,000
Elevation
580 metres (1,903 feet)
Abbreviation
“BCN”
Abbreviation
“BC”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2160052315
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
4017700
Wiki­data ID
Q58731
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Baja California” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Нижняя Калифорния”
  • Afrikaans: “Baja California”
  • Afrikaans: “Neder-Kalifornië”
  • Albanian: “Baja California”
  • Arabic: “باخا كالفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “باها كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “كالفورنيا السفلى”
  • Arabic: “كاليفورنيا السفلى”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باجا كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باخا كالفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باخا كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باها كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “ولاية كالفورنيا السفلى”
  • Arabic: “ولايه باخا كاليفورنيا”
  • Aragonese: “Baixa California”
  • Aragonese: “Baja California del Norte”
  • Aragonese: “Baja California Norte”
  • Aragonese: “Baja California”
  • Aragonese: “Baxa California”
  • Aragonese: “Estau de Baixa California”
  • Armenian: “Բախա Կալիֆոռնիա”
  • Armenian: “Ստորին Կալիֆոռնիա”
  • Asturian: “Baxa California”
  • Aymara: “Baja California Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Kaliforniya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baxa Kaliforniya”
  • Balinese: “Baja California”
  • Basque: “Baja California”
  • Basque: “Kalifornia Beherea”
  • Belarusian: “Баха Каліфорнія”
  • Belarusian: “Ніжняя Каліфорнія”
  • Belarusian: “штат Ніжняя Каліфорнія”
  • Bengali: “বাহা কালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Donja Kalifornija”
  • Breton: “Baja California”
  • Breton: “Kalifornia-Izel”
  • Bulgarian: “Баха Калифорния”
  • Bulgarian: “Долна Калифорния”
  • Catalan: “Baixa Califòrnia del Nord”
  • Catalan: “Baixa Califòrnia”
  • Catalan: “Baja California”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Baixa Califòrnia”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Baja California”
  • Central Kurdish: “باخا کالیفۆرنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “باخا کالیفۆڕنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “باخا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی باخا کالیفورنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی باخا کالیفوڕنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی باخا کالیفۆرنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی باخا کالیفۆڕنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ویلایەتی باخا”
  • Chechen: “Лаха Калифорни”
  • Cherokee: “ᎡᎳᏗ ᎠᏕᎳᏧᏢᎢ”
  • Cheyenne: “Baja California”
  • Chinese: “Baja California Chiu”
  • Chinese: “Baja California Norte”
  • Chinese: “Baja California”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亚州”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亞”
  • Chinese: “下加利福尼亞州”
  • Chinese: “下加州”
  • Chinese: “下加省”
  • Chinese: “北下加利福尼亞州”
  • Cornish: “Baja California”
  • Cornish: “Kaliforni Isel”
  • Corsican: “Bassa California di u Nordu”
  • Corsican: “Bassa California”
  • Croatian: “Baja California Norte”
  • Croatian: “Baja California”
  • Czech: “Baja California”
  • Czech: “Dolní Kalifornie”
  • Danish: “Baja California”
  • Dutch: “Baja California Norte”
  • Dutch: “Baja California”
  • Dutch: “Neder-Californië”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Neder-Californie”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Neder-Californië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باخا كاليفورنيا”
  • Esperanto: “Baja California”
  • Esperanto: “Malsupra Kalifornio”
  • Estonian: “Baja California osariik”
  • Estonian: “Baja California”
  • Finnish: “Baja California”
  • French: “Baja California”
  • French: “Basse Californie”
  • French: “Basse-Californie du Nord”
  • French: “Basse-Californie-du-Nord”
  • French: “Basse-Californie”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California”
  • French: “État de Basse-Californie”
  • French: “MX-BCN”
  • Galician: “Baixa California”
  • Galician: “Baja California”
  • Georgian: “ქვედა კალიფორნია”
  • Georgian: “ქვემო კალიფორნია”
  • German: “Baja California Norte”
  • German: “Baja California”
  • German: “MX-BCN”
  • German: “Niederkalifornien”
  • Greek: “Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια”
  • Gujarati: “બાજા કેલિફોર્નિયા”
  • Hebrew: “באחה קליפורניה הצפונית”
  • Hebrew: “באחה קליפורניה”
  • Hindi: “बाहा कैलिफ़ोर्निया”
  • Hungarian: “Alsó-Kalifornia”
  • Icelandic: “Baja California (fylki)”
  • Icelandic: “Baja California”
  • Ido: “Basa Kalifornia”
  • Iloko: “Amianan a Baja California”
  • Iloko: “Baja California”
  • Indonesian: “Baja California”
  • Interlingua: “Baja California”
  • Irish: “Baja California”
  • Italian: “Baja California”
  • Italian: “Bassa California”
  • Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア州”
  • Japanese: “バハカリフォルニア州”
  • Japanese: “下カリフォルニア”
  • Japanese: “下カリフォルニア州”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಜಾ ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಫೋರ್ನಿಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Төменгі Калифорния”
  • Korean: “바하 칼리포르니아 주”
  • Korean: “바하칼리포르니아”
  • Korean: “바하칼리포르니아노르테”
  • Korean: “바하칼리포르니아주”
  • Korean: “바하캘리포니아 주”
  • Korean: “바하캘리포니아”
  • Ladino: “Basha Kalifornia”
  • Latin: “Basia California”
  • Latin: “California Inferior”
  • Latvian: “Lejaskalifornija”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļu Lejaskalifornija”
  • Lithuanian: “Baja California”
  • Lithuanian: “Žemutinė Kalifornija”
  • Lithuanian: “Žemutinės Kalifornijos valstija”
  • Lithuanian: “Žemutinės Pietų Kalifornijos valstija”
  • Macedonian: “Долна Калифорнија”
  • Malay: “Baja California”
  • Malayalam: “ബാഹാ കാലിഫോർണിയ”
  • Marathi: “बाशा कालिफॉर्निया”
  • Marathi: “बाशा कालिफोर्निया”
  • Marathi: “बाहा कालिफोर्निया”
  • Marathi: “बाहा कॅलिफोर्निया”
  • Mazanderani: “باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baja California Chiu”
  • Navajo: “Ayaaí Ahééháshį́į́h Hahoodzo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baja California (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baja California”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baja California”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baja California”
  • Norwegian: “Baja California”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bassa Califòrnia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat de Bassa Califòrnia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Niðer California”
  • Ossetian: “Дæллаг Калифорни”
  • Pampanga: “Baja California”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਖ਼ਾ ਕਾਲੀਫ਼ੋਰਨੀਆ”
  • Persian: “باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “باها کالیفرنیا”
  • Piemontese: “Bassa Califòrnia”
  • Polish: “Baja California Norte”
  • Polish: “Baja California”
  • Polish: “Dolna Kalifornia”
  • Polish: “Kalifornia Dolna Północna”
  • Polish: “Kalifornia Dolna”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa Califórnia”
  • Portuguese: “Baja California”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Baixa Califórnia”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Baja California”
  • Quechua: “Baja California suyu”
  • Romanian: “Baja California Norte”
  • Romanian: “Baja California”
  • Romansh: “Baja California”
  • Romansh: “California Bassa”
  • Russian: “Баха Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Баха-Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Нижняя Калифорния Северная”
  • Russian: “Нижняя Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Северная Нижняя Калифорния”
  • Sardinian: “Bassa Califòrnia de su Nord”
  • Sardinian: “Bassa Califòrnia”
  • Sardinian: “Califòrnia Bassa”
  • Scots: “Baja California”
  • Serbian: “Baja California”
  • Serbian: “Estado de Baja California”
  • Serbian: “Доња Калифорнија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baja California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Donja Kalifornija”
  • Sicilian: “Baja California”
  • Sicilian: “Bassa California”
  • Sinhala: “බජා කලිෆෝර්ණියාව”
  • Sinhala: “බාජා කැලිෆෝනියා ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Baja California”
  • Slovenian: “Baja California Norte”
  • Slovenian: “Baja California”
  • Slovenian: “Dolnja Kalifornija”
  • Slovenian: “Estado de Baja California”
  • Slovenian: “Kalifornijski polotok”
  • Slovenian: “Spodnja Kalifornija”
  • Spanish: “Baja California”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Baja California”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California”
  • Swahili: “Baja California”
  • Swedish: “Baja California”
  • Tagalog: “Baja California”
  • Tajik: “Калифорнияи Поёнии Шимолӣ”
  • Tamil: “பாகா கலிபோர்னியா”
  • Tamil: “பாஜா காலிஃபோர்னியா”
  • Tatar: “Баха-Калифорния”
  • Tatar: “Түбән Калифорния”
  • Telugu: “బాజా కాలిఫోర్నియా”
  • Thai: “Baja California”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาฮากาลิฟอร์เนีย”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียนอร์เต”
  • Tumbuka: “Baja California,Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Aşağı Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Baja California Norte”
  • Turkish: “Baja California”
  • Ukrainian: “Баха-Каліфорнія”
  • Ukrainian: “Нижня Каліфорнія”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Нижня Каліфорнія”
  • Urdu: “باجا کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “باخا کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Quyi shimoliy Kaliforniya”
  • Venetian: “Basa Całifòrnia”
  • Vietnamese: “Baja California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baja California”
  • Welsh: “Baja California”
  • Western Frisian: “Baja California”
  • Western Frisian: “Leech-Kalifornje”
  • Western Panjabi: “باجا کیلیفورنیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “下加利福尼亚州”
  • Yue Chinese: “下加利福尼亞州”
  • “Baja California”
  • “Tlani California”

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