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El Cajon

El Cajon is a city in , United States, 17 mi east of . The city takes its name from Rancho El Cajón, which was named for the box-like shape of the valley that surrounds the city, and the origin of the city's common nickname "the Box".
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  • Type: City with 106,000 residents
  • Description: city in San Diego County, California, United States of America
  • Also known as: “El Cajon, CA”, “El Cajon, California”, and “Elcajon”
  • Postal codes: 92019-92022

Places of Interest

Highlights include El Cajon Transit Center and Gillespie Field.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a San Diego Trolley station served by the Copper, Green and Orange lines in the suburb of El Cajon, California. The station is a major commuter center for the large suburb and is the convergence of multiple local and regional bus routes operated by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and Greyhound Lines.

Aerodrome
is a county-owned public in El Cajon, California. It is located 11.5 miles northeast of .

Railway station
is a San Diego Trolley station served by the Copper Line in the suburb of El Cajon, California. The station serves the surrounding residential community, the Parkway Plaza shopping mall, and other commercial properties in the area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Mesa and Bostonia.

Photo: Stickpen, Public domain.
is a city in , United States, located nine miles east of in . The population was 61,121 at the 2020 census, up from 57,065 at the 2010 census.

Neighborhood
is both a neighborhood in , comprising part of the northeastern portion of the city of El Cajon, as well as adjacent unincorporated community.

Town
is a census-designated place in . The population was 22,380 at the 2020 census, up from 20,631 at the 2010 census.

El Cajon

Latitude
32.7948° or 32° 47′ 41″ north
Longitude
-116.9625° or 116° 57′ 45″ west
Population
106,000
Elevation
436 feet (133 metres)
IATA airport code
CJN
United Nations Location Code
US CJN
Open location code
8545Q2VP+WX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150947968
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5345529
Wiki­data ID
Q369947
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“El Cajon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الكاخون”
  • Arabic: “الكاهون”
  • Asturian: “El Cajon”
  • Basque: “El Cajon”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Кахон”
  • Bengali: “এল কাজন”
  • Bulgarian: “Ел Кахон”
  • Catalan: “El Cajon”
  • Cebuano: “El Cajon”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێڵ کاجۆن”
  • Chechen: “Эль-Кахон”
  • Chinese: “El Cajon”
  • Chinese: “埃尔卡洪”
  • Chinese: “埃爾卡洪”
  • Croatian: “El Cajon”
  • Czech: “El Cajon”
  • Danish: “El Cajon”
  • Dutch: “El Cajon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الكاهون”
  • Esperanto: “El Cajon”
  • Finnish: “El Cajon”
  • French: “El Cajon”
  • German: “El Cajon”
  • Gilaki: “ال کاخؤن”
  • Greek: “Ελ Καγιόν”
  • Gujarati: “અલ કજોન”
  • Haitian: “El Cajon, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “El Cajon”
  • Hebrew: “אל קאג’ון”
  • Hindi: “एल कायों”
  • Hungarian: “El Cajon”
  • Indonesian: “El Cajon, California”
  • Indonesian: “El Cajon”
  • Irish: “El Cajon, California”
  • Irish: “El Cajon”
  • Italian: “El Cajon”
  • Japanese: “エル・カホン”
  • Japanese: “エルカホン”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಕಾಜೊನ್”
  • Korean: “엘카혼”
  • Ladin: “El Cajon”
  • Latvian: “Elkahona”
  • Lithuanian: “Elkachona”
  • Malagasy: “El Cajon, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “El Cajon”
  • Malay: “El Cajon”
  • Malayalam: “എൽ കാജൻ”
  • Marathi: “अल कझोन”
  • Mazanderani: “ال کاجون (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “ال کاجون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “El Cajon”
  • Navajo: “Tsétah Tééh”
  • Newari: “एल क्यायों (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “एल क्यायों, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “एल क्यायों”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “El Cajon”
  • Norwegian: “El Cajon”
  • Persian: “ال کاجون، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “ال کاجون”
  • Polish: “El Cajon”
  • Portuguese: “El Cajon”
  • Russian: “Эль Кахон”
  • Russian: “Эль-Кахон”
  • Serbian: “Ел Кахон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “El Cajon, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “El Cajon”
  • Sinhala: “එල් කැජොන්”
  • Slovak: “El Cajon”
  • Slovenian: “El Cajon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ال کاجون، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “El Cajon (California)”
  • Spanish: “El Cajón”
  • Swahili: “El Cajon, California”
  • Swahili: “El Cajon”
  • Swedish: “El Cajon”
  • Tagalog: “El Cajon”
  • Talysh: “El Kahon”
  • Tamil: “எல் கஜோன்”
  • Tatar: “Эл-Кахон”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్ కజోన్”
  • Thai: “เอลคาโฮน”
  • Turkish: “El Cajon, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “El Cajon”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Кахон”
  • Urdu: “ایل کاہون، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “El Cajon”
  • Vietnamese: “El Cajon, California”
  • Vietnamese: “El Cajon”
  • Volapük: “El Cajon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “El Cajon, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “El Cajon”
  • Welsh: “El Cajon, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “El Cajon”
  • Western Panjabi: “ال کاجون”
  • “El Cajon”

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