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Benicia

Benicia is a city in in the Bay Area of . Although its service was short, Benicia was the third city to serve as state capital of California.
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  • Type: Town with 28,200 residents
  • Description: city in Solano County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Benecia”, “Benicia, CA”, “Benicia, California”, and “Francisca”
  • Postal code: 94510
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Benicia Capitol State Historic Park and Forester.

Park
Photo: Epolk, Public domain.
is a state park in Benicia, California, United States. The park is dedicated to 's third capitol building, where the California State Legislature convened from February 3, 1853, to February 24, 1854, when they voted to move the state capital to .

Disaster remains
Photo: Rob Hodgkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The was a schooner vessel constructed in in November 1900. The construction was overseen by Captain Otto Daeweritz who served as the only captain of the vessel during the 's 75 year history.

Railway station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an Amtrak passenger train station in , United States. Located at the west end of downtown Martinez, the station has one side platform and one island platform, which serve three of the four tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Benicia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Martinez and Port Costa.

Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
is in the outer East Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area in . has easy access to nature, so it's no wonder the famed naturalist John Muir decided to settle here.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a small town and census-designated place in , , located in the region of the .

Village
Photo: Federico Pizano, CC BY 3.0.
is a census-designated place in , in the East Bay sub-region of the , . The population was 3,242 at the 2020 census. is situated 3½ miles west of Benicia.

Benicia

Latitude
38.0494° or 38° 2′ 58″ north
Longitude
-122.1586° or 122° 9′ 31″ west
Population
28,200
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US BNC
Open location code
84CV2RXR+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150968531
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5327550
Wiki­data ID
Q817301
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Benicia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بنيسيا”
  • Basque: “Benicia”
  • Bulgarian: “Бениша”
  • Bulgarian: “Бъниша”
  • Catalan: “Benicia”
  • Cebuano: “Benicia”
  • Chechen: “Бениша”
  • Chinese: “Benicia”
  • Chinese: “貝尼夏”
  • Chinese: “贝尼西亚”
  • Croatian: “Benicia”
  • Czech: “Benicia”
  • Danish: “Benicia”
  • Dutch: “Benicia (Californië)”
  • Dutch: “Benicia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بنيسيا”
  • French: “Benicia”
  • German: “Benicia”
  • Gilaki: “بنيسيا”
  • Haitian: “Benicia, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Benicia”
  • Hungarian: “Benicia”
  • Irish: “Benicia”
  • Italian: “Benicia, California”
  • Italian: “Benicia”
  • Japanese: “ベニーシャ”
  • Japanese: “ベニシア”
  • Ladin: “Benicia”
  • Malagasy: “Benicia, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Benicia”
  • Malayalam: “ബെനീസിയ”
  • Mazanderani: “بنیسیا (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “بنیسیا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Benicia”
  • Newari: “बेनिसिया (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “बेनिसिया, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “बेनिसिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Benicia”
  • Norwegian: “Benicia”
  • Pampanga: “Benicia, California”
  • Pampanga: “Benicia”
  • Persian: “بنیسیا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “بنیسیا”
  • Polish: “Benicia”
  • Portuguese: “Benicia (Califórnia)”
  • Portuguese: “Benicia”
  • Romanian: “Bencia, California”
  • Romanian: “Bencia”
  • Russian: “Бениша”
  • Serbian: “Benicia, California”
  • Serbian: “Бениша”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Benicia, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Benicia, Kalifornija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Benicia”
  • Slovak: “Benicia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنیسیا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Benicia (California)”
  • Spanish: “Benicia”
  • Swahili: “Benicia, California”
  • Swahili: “Benicia”
  • Swedish: “Benicia, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Benicia”
  • Tagalog: “Benicia, California”
  • Tagalog: “Benicia”
  • Tatar: “Бениша”
  • Telugu: “బెనీషియా”
  • Turkish: “Benicia”
  • Ukrainian: “Беніша”
  • Urdu: “بینیشا، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Benicia (CA)”
  • Volapük: “Benicia (California)”
  • Volapük: “Benicia, CA”
  • Volapük: “Benicia, California”
  • Volapük: “Benicia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Benicia, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Benicia”
  • “Benicia”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Benicia”. Photo: Ingrid Taylar, CC BY 2.0.