Colma
Colma is on the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The city is in San Mateo County and is south of Daly City and west of Brisbane. With 17 cemeteries, Colma is known for having about a thousand times as many dead residents as living ones.
- Type: Village with 1,510 residents
- Description: incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Colma (California)”, “Colma, CA”, “Colma, California”, “School House Station”, “Sutter’s Fort”, and “Sutter’s Mill”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Seton Medical Center and Holy Cross Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Daly City and South San Francisco.
Colma
- Categories: town in California and locality
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.6767° or 37° 40′ 36″ north
Longitude
-122.4584° or 122° 27′ 30″ west
Population
1,510
Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US CQA
Open location code
849VMGGR+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Colma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كولما”
- Basque: “Colma”
- Belarusian: “Колма”
- Bulgarian: “Колма”
- Catalan: “Colma”
- Cebuano: “Colma”
- Chechen: “Колма”
- Chinese: “科尔马”
- Croatian: “Colma”
- Czech: “Colma”
- Danish: “Colma”
- Dutch: “Colma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولما”
- French: “Colma”
- German: “Colma”
- Gilaki: “کولما”
- Haitian: “Colma, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Colma”
- Hungarian: “Colma”
- Irish: “Colma”
- Italian: “Colma”
- Japanese: “コルマ”
- Korean: “콜마”
- Ladin: “Colma”
- Malagasy: “Colma, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Colma”
- Malayalam: “കോൾമ”
- Mazanderani: “کولما (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “کولما”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Colma”
- Newari: “कोल्मा, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “कोल्मा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colma”
- Norwegian: “Colma”
- Persian: “کولما، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “کولما”
- Polish: “Colma”
- Portuguese: “Colma”
- Russian: “Колма”
- Serbian: “Kolma”
- Serbian: “Колма”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colma, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colma”
- Slovak: “Colma”
- Slovenian: “Colma”
- South Azerbaijani: “کولما، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Colma”
- Swedish: “Colma”
- Tagalog: “Colma, California”
- Tagalog: “Colma”
- Tatar: “Колма”
- Thai: “โคลมา (รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย)”
- Thai: “โคลมา”
- Turkish: “Colma”
- Ukrainian: “Колма”
- Urdu: “کولما، کیلیفورنیا”
- Vietnamese: “Colma”
- Volapük: “Colma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Colma, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Colma”
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