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Folsom

Folsom is a city of 82,000 people in in . Folsom is home to Folsom Lake College, Folsom Dam, Folsom Prison and a historic district. Folsom is also home to the largest private employer in the Sacramento area, Intel.
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  • Type: City with 66,100 residents
  • Description: city in Sacramento County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Folsom City”, “Folsom, CA”, “Folsom, California”, and “Granite City”
  • Postal codes: 95630 and 95763

Places of Interest

Highlights include Folsom State Prison and Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary.

Prison
Photo: Vidor, Public domain.
Folsom California State Prison is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, United States, approximately 20 miles northeast of the state capital of .

Zoo
The is a zoo and animal sanctuary located in the city of Folsom, California, in the United States, which has been open since 1963.

Park
Photo: The Oaked Ridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historical site preserving an 1895 alternating current hydroelectric power station—one of the first in the United States.

Folsom

Latitude
38.678° or 38° 40′ 41″ north
Longitude
-121.1761° or 121° 10′ 34″ west
Population
66,100
Elevation
220 feet (67 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US FOU
Open location code
84CWMRHF+5H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150967366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5349705
Wiki­data ID
Q984155
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Folsom” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فولسوم”
  • Basque: “Folsom”
  • Bulgarian: “Фолсъм”
  • Catalan: “Folsom”
  • Cebuano: “Folsom”
  • Chechen: “Фолсом”
  • Chinese: “Folsom”
  • Chinese: “佛森”
  • Croatian: “Folsom”
  • Czech: “Folsom”
  • Danish: “Folsom”
  • Dutch: “Folsom”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فولسوم”
  • Estonian: “Folsom”
  • French: “Folsom”
  • Galician: “Folsom”
  • German: “Folsom”
  • Gilaki: “فؤلسؤم”
  • Haitian: “Folsom, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Folsom”
  • Hungarian: “Folsom”
  • Irish: “Folsom”
  • Italian: “Folsom”
  • Japanese: “フォルサム (カリフォルニア州)”
  • Japanese: “フォルソム”
  • Korean: “폴섬”
  • Ladin: “Folsom”
  • Latvian: “Folsom”
  • Latvian: “Folsoma”
  • Macedonian: “Фолсом”
  • Malagasy: “Folsom, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Folsom”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോൾസം”
  • Mazanderani: “فولسوم (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “فولسوم”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Folsom”
  • Navajo: “Dáʼdeestłʼin Hótsaa”
  • Newari: “फोल्सम (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “फोल्सम, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “फोल्सम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Folsom”
  • Norwegian: “Folsom”
  • Persian: “فولسوم، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “فولسوم”
  • Polish: “Folsom”
  • Portuguese: “Folsom”
  • Russian: “Фолсом (Калифорния)”
  • Russian: “Фолсом”
  • Serbian: “Folsom”
  • Serbian: “Фолсом”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Folsom, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Folsom”
  • Slovak: “Folsom”
  • Slovenian: “Folsom”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فولسوم، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Folsom (California)”
  • Spanish: “Folsom”
  • Swedish: “Folsom, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Folsom”
  • Tagalog: “Folsom, California”
  • Tagalog: “Folsom”
  • Tatar: “Фолсом”
  • Turkish: “Folsom, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Folsom”
  • Ukrainian: “Фолсом”
  • Urdu: “فولسوم، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Folsom”
  • Uzbek: “Фолсом”
  • Vietnamese: “Folsom, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Folsom”
  • Volapük: “Folsom”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Folsom, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Folsom”
  • “Folsom”

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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 “Folsom”. Photo: The Oaked Ridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.