Big Sur

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  • Type: Region with 1,000 residents
  • Description: region of the central coast of California, United States
  • Also known as: Arbolado”, “Big Sur Valley”, and “Big Sur, CA
  • Postal code: 93920

Big Sur

Latitude
36.1437° or 36° 8′ 37″ north
Longitude
-121.5646° or 121° 33′ 53″ west
Population
1,000
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US GSW
Open location code
848W4CVP+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12490666828
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
5328563
Wiki­data ID
Q859413
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Big Sur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Big Sur
  • Arabic: بيج سور
  • Arabic: بيغ سور
  • Arabic: ويكيبيديا:مسابقة مؤسسة الملك عبد العزيز ورجاله للموهبة والإبداع/مقالات/بيغ سور
  • Armenian: Բիգ Սյուր
  • Azerbaijani: Biq-Sur
  • Belarusian: Біг-Сур
  • Belarusian: Біг-Сюр
  • Bengali: বিগ সার
  • Bengali: বিগ সুয়ার
  • Bulgarian: Биг Сър
  • Catalan: Big Sur
  • Cebuano: Big Sur
  • Chinese: 大南方岬
  • Chinese: 大瑟尔
  • Chinese: 大瑟爾
  • Chinese: 大苏尔
  • Chinese: 大蘇爾
  • Czech: Big Sur
  • Danish: Big Sur
  • Dutch: Big Sur
  • Esperanto: Big Sur
  • Finnish: Big Sur
  • French: Big Sur
  • Georgian: ბიგ-სიური
  • German: Big Sur
  • Greek: Μπιγκ Σουρ
  • Hebrew: ביג סאר
  • Hungarian: Big Sur
  • Irish: Big Sur
  • Italian: Big Sur
  • Japanese: ビッグサー
  • Korean: 빅서
  • Macedonian: Биг Сер
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Big Sur
  • Norwegian: Big Sur
  • Persian: بیگ سور
  • Persian: بیگ‌سور
  • Polish: Big Sur
  • Portuguese: Big Sur
  • Russian: Биг-Сур
  • Russian: Биг-Сюр
  • Scottish Gaelic: Big Sur, Calafòrnia
  • Scottish Gaelic: Big Sur
  • Slovenian: Big Sur, Kalifornija
  • Spanish: Big Sur
  • Swedish: Big Sur
  • Turkish: Big Sur
  • Ukrainian: Біг Сюр
  • Ukrainian: Біґ-Сур
  • Ukrainian: Біг-Сюр
  • Venetian: Grando Sud
  • Big Sur

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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 “Big Sur”. Photo: Eric Chan, CC BY 2.0.