Folsom
Folsom is a city of 82,000 people in Sacramento County in California. 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.
- Type: City with 66,100 residents
- Description: city in Sacramento County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Folsom (California)”, “Folsom City”, “Folsom, CA”, “Folsom, California”, “Granite City”, “Фолсом (Калифорния)”, “फोल्सम (क्यालिफोर्निया)”, and “フォルサム (カリフォルニア州)”
- Postal codes: 95630 and 95763
Places of Interest
Highlights: Folsom State Prison and Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary.
Folsom State Prison
Prison
Photo: Vidor, Public domain.
Folsom
- Categories: city of California, charter city, and locality
- Location: Sacramento County, Sacramento Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.678° or 38° 40′ 41″ north
Longitude
-121.1761° or 121° 10′ 34″ west
Population
66,100
Elevation
220 feet (67 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US FOU
Open location code
84CWMRHF+5H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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: “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: “フォルソム”
- Korean: “폴섬”
- Ladin: “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”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Folsom”
- Norwegian: “Folsom”
- Persian: “فولسوم، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “فولسوم”
- Polish: “Folsom”
- Portuguese: “Folsom”
- Russian: “Фолсом”
- Serbian: “Folsom”
- Serbian: “Фолсом”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Folsom, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Folsom”
- Slovak: “Folsom”
- Slovenian: “Folsom”
- South Azerbaijani: “فولسوم، کالیفورنیا”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Folsom, California”
- Vietnamese: “Folsom”
- Volapük: “Folsom”
- Waray (Philippines): “Folsom, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Folsom”
- “Folsom”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Old Town Folsom and Folsom Junction.
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