Big Sur
Big Sur is a region on the Central Coast of California. It contains vast wildernesses and breathtaking views as it stretches 72 miles along the rugged Pacific Ocean.
Photo: Calilover, Public domain.
- Type: Region with 1,000 residents
- Description: region in Monterey County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Arbolado”, “Big Sur Valley”, “Big Sur, CA”, “Big Sur, California”, “Біг-Сюр”, “بيج سور”, “ويكيبيديا:مسابقة مؤسسة الملك عبد العزيز ورجاله للموهبة والإبداع/مقالات/بيغ سور”, “বিগ সুয়ার”, “大瑟爾”, and “大苏尔”
- Postal code: 93920
Big Sur
- Categories: unincorporated community and locality
- Location: Monterey County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.1437° or 36° 8′ 37″ north
Longitude
-121.5646° or 121° 33′ 53″ west
Population
1,000
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US GSW
Open location code
848W4CVP+F5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=region
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Big Sur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Big Sur”
- Arabic: “بيغ سور”
- Armenian: “Բիգ Սյուր”
- Azerbaijani: “Biq-Sur”
- Belarusian: “Біг-Сур”
- Bengali: “বিগ সার”
- Bulgarian: “Биг Сър”
- Catalan: “Big Sur”
- Cebuano: “Big Sur”
- Chinese: “大南方岬”
- Chinese: “大瑟尔”
- 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”
- Urdu: “بگ سور”
- Venetian: “Grando Sud”
- “Big Sur”
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