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Carson is a major suburb in the region of . Carson is a very ethnically diverse but poorer suburb, with few sights or tourist destinations.
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  • Type: City with 93,800 residents
  • Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Carson, CA” and “Carson, California”
  • Postal codes: 90745-90747 and 90749
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dominguez Channel and Jose Rizal historical marker.

River
is a 15.7-mile-long stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles. The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential.

Memorial
Photo: Sky Harbor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a memorial.

Commercial area
, formerly Carson Mall, is a partially enclosed shopping mall in Carson, California. Opened in 1973, it features as its anchor retailers Burlington, IKEA, JCPenney, Ross Dress For Less, and Target.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Carson and Rancho Dominguez.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community in the region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 22,870 at the 2020 census.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. is located between the cities of , and Carson.

Carson

Latitude
33.8322° or 33° 49′ 56″ north
Longitude
-118.2518° or 118° 15′ 6″ west
Population
93,800
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CRU
Open location code
8553RPJX+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150939397
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5334519
Wiki­data ID
Q494690
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Satellite Map

Discover Carson from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Carson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كارسون”
  • Armenian: “Քարսոն”
  • Basque: “Carson”
  • Belarusian: “Карсан”
  • Bengali: “কারসন”
  • Bulgarian: “Карсън”
  • Catalan: “Carson”
  • Cebuano: “Carson”
  • Chechen: “Карсон”
  • Chinese: “Carson”
  • Chinese: “卡森 (加利福尼亞州)”
  • Chinese: “卡森”
  • Chinese: “卡森市”
  • Croatian: “Carson”
  • Czech: “Carson”
  • Danish: “Carson”
  • Dutch: “Carson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارسون”
  • Esperanto: “Carson”
  • Estonian: “Carson”
  • Finnish: “Carson”
  • French: “Carson”
  • Galician: “Carson”
  • German: “Carson”
  • Gilaki: “کارسن”
  • Greek: “Κάρσον”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્સન”
  • Haitian: “Carson, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Carson”
  • Hebrew: “קרסון”
  • Hindi: “कार्सन”
  • Hungarian: “Carson”
  • Indonesian: “Carson, California”
  • Indonesian: “Carson”
  • Irish: “Carson”
  • Italian: “Carson”
  • Japanese: “カーソン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಸನ್”
  • Korean: “카슨”
  • Ladin: “Carson”
  • Latvian: “Karsona”
  • Lithuanian: “Karsonas”
  • Malagasy: “Carson, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Carson”
  • Malay: “Carson”
  • Malayalam: “കാർസൺ”
  • Marathi: “कार्सन”
  • Mazanderani: “کارسون (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “کارسون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carson”
  • Newari: “कार्सन, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “कार्सन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carson”
  • Norwegian: “Carson”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Carrsūnu on Californie”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Carrsūnu”
  • Persian: “کارسون، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “کارسون”
  • Polish: “Carson”
  • Portuguese: “Carson”
  • Romanian: “Carson, California”
  • Romanian: “Carson”
  • Russian: “Карсон”
  • Serbian: “Carson”
  • Serbian: “Karson”
  • Serbian: “Карсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carson, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carson”
  • Sinhala: “කාසන්”
  • Slovak: “Carson”
  • Slovenian: “Carson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارزون، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Carson (California)”
  • Spanish: “Carson”
  • Swahili: “Carson, California”
  • Swahili: “Carson”
  • Swedish: “Carson, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Carson”
  • Tagalog: “Carson City”
  • Tagalog: “Carson”
  • Tagalog: “City of Carson”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Carson”
  • Tagalog: “Lunsod ng Carson”
  • Talysh: “Karson”
  • Tamil: “கார்ஸன்”
  • Tatar: “Карсон”
  • Telugu: “కార్సన్”
  • Thai: “คาร์สัน”
  • Turkish: “Carson, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Carson”
  • Ukrainian: “Карсон”
  • Urdu: “کارسن، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Carson”
  • Uzbek: “Cарсон”
  • Vietnamese: “Carson, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Carson”
  • Vlax Romani: “Carson”
  • Volapük: “Carson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Carson, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Carson”
  • Welsh: “Carson, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Carson”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارسن”

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