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Compton is one of the of , and is mainly known for being the birthplace of rappers Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, NWA, DJ Quik, and The Game, as well as of professional tennis players Serena and Venus Williams.
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  • Type: City with 96,400 residents
  • Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Compton”, “Compton, CA”, and “Compton, California”
  • Postal codes: 90220-90224
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Compton station and Compton/Woodley Airport.

Railway station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision, at its intersection with Compton Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the city of Compton, California.

Aerodrome
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is a public airport in Compton, southern Los Angeles County, , 2 miles southwest of Downtown Compton. It is the oldest continuously operating airport in the Los Angeles basin.

Railway station
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is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision, at its intersection with Artesia Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the city of Compton, California.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lynwood and Willowbrook.

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is in the region of Los Angeles County, . It is probably best known for being the hometown of "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Suburb
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, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Hamlet
, also known as East Compton, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Compton

Latitude
33.8949° or 33° 53′ 42″ north
Longitude
-118.2266° or 118° 13′ 36″ west
Population
96,400
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
IATA airport code
CPM
United Nations Location Code
US CPM
Open location code
8553VQVF+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1837323613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5339066
Wiki­data ID
Q487119
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Compton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كومبتون، لوس أنجليس، كاليفورنيا”
  • Arabic: “كومبتون”
  • Armenian: “Կոմպտոն”
  • Armenian: “Քոմփթոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kompton”
  • Basque: “Compton”
  • Belarusian: “Комптан”
  • Bengali: “কম্পটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Комптън”
  • Catalan: “Compton”
  • Cebuano: “Compton”
  • Chechen: “Комптон”
  • Chinese: “Compton”
  • Chinese: “康普頓”
  • Chinese: “康普顿”
  • Croatian: “Compton, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Compton”
  • Czech: “Compton”
  • Dagbani: “Compton”
  • Danish: “Compton”
  • Dutch: “Compton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كومبتون”
  • Esperanto: “Compton”
  • Estonian: “Compton”
  • Finnish: “Compton”
  • French: “Compton”
  • Georgian: “კომპტონი”
  • German: “Compton (Kalifornien)”
  • German: “Compton”
  • Gilaki: “کامپتن”
  • Greek: “Κόμπτον”
  • Gujarati: “કોમ્પટન”
  • Haitian: “Compton, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Compton”
  • Hausa: “Compton”
  • Hebrew: “קומפטון”
  • Hindi: “कॉम्प्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Compton”
  • Indonesian: “Compton, California”
  • Indonesian: “Compton”
  • Irish: “Compton”
  • Italian: “Compton, California”
  • Italian: “Compton”
  • Japanese: “コンプトン”
  • Japanese: “コンプトン市”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಪ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “콤프턴”
  • Ladin: “Compton”
  • Latin: “Comptonia”
  • Latvian: “Compton”
  • Latvian: “Komptona”
  • Lithuanian: “Komptonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Compton”
  • Macedonian: “Комптон”
  • Malagasy: “Compton, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Compton”
  • Malay: “Compton”
  • Malayalam: “കോംറ്റൺ”
  • Marathi: “कॉम्पटन”
  • Mazanderani: “کامپتن (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “کامپتن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Compton”
  • Newari: “कम्प्टन (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “कम्प्टन, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “कम्प्टन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Compton”
  • Norwegian: “Compton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cumbtūn on Californie”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cumbtūn, Californie”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cumbtūn”
  • Persian: “کامپتن”
  • Persian: “کامپتون، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “کامپتون”
  • Polish: “Compton”
  • Portuguese: “Compton”
  • Romanian: “Compton, California”
  • Romanian: “Compton”
  • Russian: “Комптон”
  • Scots: “Compton, Californie”
  • Scots: “Compton”
  • Serbian: “Compton”
  • Serbian: “Kompton”
  • Serbian: “Комптон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Compton, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Compton”
  • Silesian: “Compton”
  • Sinhala: “කොම්ප්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Compton”
  • Slovenian: “Compton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کامپتن، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Compton (California)”
  • Spanish: “Compton”
  • Swahili: “Compton, California”
  • Swahili: “Compton”
  • Swedish: “Compton, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Compton”
  • Tagalog: “Compton, California”
  • Tagalog: “Compton”
  • Talysh: “Kompton”
  • Tamil: “காம்ப்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Комптон”
  • Telugu: “కాంప్టన్”
  • Thai: “คอมพ์ตัน”
  • Turkish: “Compton, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Compton”
  • Ukrainian: “Комптон”
  • Urdu: “کامپٹن، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Compton”
  • Uzbek: “Cомптон”
  • Vietnamese: “Compton, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Compton”
  • Volapük: “Compton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Compton, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Compton”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیمپٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “康普顿 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “康普顿（加利福尼亚州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “康普顿”
  • Yakut: “Комптон”
  • “Compton”

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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 “Compton”. Photo: Epolk, CC BY 3.0.