Compton
Compton is one of the Gateway Cities of Los Angeles, 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.
- Type: City with 96,400 residents
- Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Also known as: “City of Compton”, “Compton (California)”, “Compton (Kalifornien)”, “Compton, CA”, “Compton, California”, “Compton, Californie”, “Cumbtūn, Californie”, “Cомптон”, “Կոմպտոն”, “كومبتون (كاليفورنيا)”, “कम्प्टन (क्यालिफोर्निया)”, and “コンプトン市”
- Postal codes: 90220-90224
- Neighbors: Los Angeles and Lynwood
Places of Interest
Highlights: Compton station and Compton/Woodley Airport.
Compton/Woodley Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lynwood and Willowbrook.
Compton
- Categories: city in the United States, charter city, and locality
- Location: Gateway Cities, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
US CPM
Open location code
8553VQVF+X9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Compton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كومبتون”
- Armenian: “Քոմփթոն”
- Azerbaijani: “Kompton”
- Basque: “Compton”
- Belarusian: “Комптан”
- Bengali: “কম্পটন”
- Bulgarian: “Комптън”
- Catalan: “Compton”
- Cebuano: “Compton”
- Chechen: “Комптон”
- Chinese: “康普頓”
- Chinese: “康普顿”
- Corsican: “Compton”
- 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”
- 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”
- Japanese: “コンプトン”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಂಪ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “콤프턴”
- Ladin: “Compton”
- Latin: “Comptonia”
- 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”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Compton”
- Norwegian: “Compton”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Compton”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cumbtūn on 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”
- Serbian: “Kompton”
- Serbian: “Комптон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Compton, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Compton”
- Silesian: “Compton”
- Sinhala: “කොම්ප්ටන්”
- Slovak: “Compton”
- Slovenian: “Compton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کامپتن، کالیفورنیا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کامپتن”
- 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”
- 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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