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San Joaquin Valley
Kern County

Bakersfield

Bakersfield is a city in in the of . Bakersfield is famous for being the home of country music singers Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, and has the nickname "the country music capital of the West Coast."…
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  • Type: City with 374,000 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Kern County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Alkali City”, “Baker’s Field”, “Bakersfield, CA”, “Bakersfield, California”, and “Kern Island”
  • Postal codes: 93301-93309, 93311-93313, 93380, and 93383-93390

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bakersfield station and Adventist Health Bakersfield.

Railway station
Photo: lhoon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an intermodal facility in Bakersfield, California. It is the southern terminus of Amtrak California's Gold Runner route, with Amtrak Thruway buses continuing to Amtrak stations and bus stops throughout Southern California and Nevada.

Hospital
is a 254-bed hospital in Bakersfield and serving . The medical campus is part of Adventist Health and previously was called San Joaquin Community Hospital.

Hospital
Adventist Health Specialty Bakersfield is a hospital in Bakersfield, , , specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of heart and vascular disease as well as a wide range of other medical and surgical procedures.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Bakersfield and Fruitvale.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , . It is located 4.5 miles west of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 397 feet. was founded in 1891.

Bakersfield

Latitude
35.3739° or 35° 22′ 26″ north
Longitude
-119.0195° or 119° 1′ 10″ west
Population
374,000
Elevation
404 feet (123 metres)
IATA airport code
BFL
United Nations Location Code
US BFL
Open location code
85729XFJ+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1979182884
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5325738
Wiki­data ID
Q49256
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bakersfield” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bakersfield”
  • Albanian: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Albanian: “Bakersfield”
  • Arabic: “بيكرسفيلد”
  • Aragonese: “Bakersfield”
  • Armenian: “Բեյկերսֆիլդ”
  • Armenian: “Բեյքերսֆիլդ”
  • Asturian: “Bakersfield”
  • Azerbaijani: “Beykersfild”
  • Balinese: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Bambara: “Bakersfield”
  • Basque: “Bakersfield”
  • Belarusian: “Бейкерсфілд”
  • Belarusian: “Бэйкерсфілд”
  • Belarusian: “Бэйкерсьфілд”
  • Bengali: “বেকার্সফিল্ড, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bengali: “বেকার্সফিল্ড”
  • Breton: “Bakersfield”
  • Bulgarian: “Бейкърсфийлд”
  • Catalan: “Bakersfield”
  • Cebuano: “Bakersfield”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەیکەرسفیڵد”
  • Chechen: “Бейкерсфилд”
  • Chinese: “碧克斐”
  • Chinese: “貝克斯菲爾德”
  • Chinese: “贝克斯菲尔德”
  • Cornish: “Bakersfield, Kaliforni”
  • Cornish: “Bakersfield”
  • Croatian: “Bakersfield, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Bakersfield”
  • Czech: “Bakersfield”
  • Dagbani: “Bakersfield”
  • Danish: “Bakersfield”
  • Dutch: “Bakersfield”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيكرسفيلد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيكيرزفيلد”
  • Esperanto: “Bakersfield”
  • Estonian: “Bakersfield”
  • Finnish: “Bakersfield”
  • French: “Bakersfield”
  • Galician: “Bakersfield”
  • Georgian: “ბეიკერსფილდი”
  • German: “Bakersfield”
  • Gilaki: “بیکرزفيلد”
  • Greek: “Μπέικερσφιλντ”
  • Gujarati: “બેકર્સફીલ્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Bakersfield, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Bakersfield”
  • Hebrew: “בייקרספילד”
  • Hindi: “बेकर्सफील्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Bakersfield”
  • Icelandic: “Bakersfield”
  • Ido: “Bakersfield, Kalifornia”
  • Ido: “Bakersfield”
  • Indonesian: “Bakersfield, CA”
  • Indonesian: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Indonesian: “Bakersfield”
  • Irish: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Irish: “Bakersfield”
  • Italian: “Bakersfield”
  • Japanese: “ベーカーズフィールド”
  • Japanese: “ベイカーズフィールド”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇಕರ್ಸ್ಫೀಲ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “베이커즈필드”
  • Ladin: “Bakersfield”
  • Latvian: “Beikersfīlda”
  • Limburgan: “Bakersfield”
  • Lithuanian: “Beikersfildas”
  • Lombard: “Bakersfield”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bakersfield”
  • Malagasy: “Bakersfield”
  • Malay: “Bakersfield”
  • Maltese: “Bakersfield”
  • Marathi: “बेकर्सफील्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “بیکرزفیلد (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “بیکرزفیلد”
  • Mongolian: “Бейкерсфилд”
  • Navajo: “Teeł Bił Hahazteel”
  • Newari: “बेकर्सफिल्ड”
  • Newari: “बेकर्सफिल्द, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bakersfield”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakersfield”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bakersfield”
  • Norwegian: “Bakersfield”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bakersfield”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bæceresfeld”
  • Ossetian: “Бейкерсфилд”
  • Pampanga: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Pampanga: “Bakersfield”
  • Persian: “بیکرزفیلد، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “بیکرزفیلد”
  • Polish: “Bakersfield”
  • Portuguese: “Bakersfield”
  • Romanian: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Romanian: “Bakersfield”
  • Russian: “Бейкерсфилд”
  • Scots: “Bakersfield”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bakersfield, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bakersfield”
  • Serbian: “Бејкерсфилд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bakersfield”
  • Silesian: “Bakersfield”
  • Sinhala: “බේකර්ස්ෆීල්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Bakersfield”
  • Slovenian: “Bakersfield”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکرزفیلد”
  • Spanish: “Bakersfield (California)”
  • Spanish: “Bakersfield”
  • Swahili: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Swahili: “Bakersfield”
  • Swedish: “Bakersfield”
  • Tagalog: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Tagalog: “Bakersfield”
  • Talysh: “Bejkersfild”
  • Tamil: “பாக்கேர்ஸ்பிஎல்டு”
  • Tatar: “Бейкерсфилд”
  • Telugu: “బకేర్స్ఫీఎల్డ్”
  • Thai: “เบเกอร์สฟีลด์”
  • Thai: “เบเคอร์สฟิลด์”
  • Turkish: “Bakersfield, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Bakersfield”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейкерсфілд”
  • Urdu: “بیکرزفیلڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Bakersfield”
  • Venetian: “Bakersfield”
  • Vietnamese: “Bakersfield, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Bakersfield”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bakersfield”
  • Volapük: “Bakersfield”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bakersfield, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bakersfield”
  • Welsh: “Bakersfield”
  • Western Mari: “Бейкерсфилд”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیکرزفیلڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝克斯菲尔德 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “贝克斯菲尔德（加利福尼亚州）”
  • Yue Chinese: “碧克斐”

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