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Hayward

Hayward is a city in the inner East Bay in the Bay Area region of located next to the San Francisco Bay. Hayward is located near premier tourist locations, first rate educational institutions, and an economic powerhouse, however relatively speaking Hayward does not have as much to offer as its neighbors.
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  • Type: City with 159,000 residents
  • Description: city in Alameda County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Hayward Station”, “Hayward, CA”, “Hayward, California”, “Hayward’s”, “Haywards”, “Haywards Station”, and “Haywood”
  • Postal codes: 94540-94545 and 94557
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Japanese Gardens and Hayward City Hall.

Park
The Hayward are the oldest traditional-style in . The gardens are maintained by the recreation and park district of Hayward.

Town hall
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is the third and current building, located in downtown Hayward, , United States, next to the .

Park
, in Hayward, California, United States, is a public park managed by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District. The park contains an indoor swim center, the Hayward Plunge, which opened in 1936.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castro Valley and Cherryland.

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is an unincorporated town in the inner East Bay in the Bay Area of . It has a population of about 60,000 and is located north of Hayward and east of and south of the Oakland hills.

Village
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , . is located between to the north and the city of Hayward to the south. The population was 15,808 at the 2020 census.

Village
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is a census-designated place in unincorporated , , United States, in the subregion of the .

Hayward

Latitude
37.6688° or 37° 40′ 8″ north
Longitude
-122.0808° or 122° 4′ 51″ west
Population
159,000
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
IATA airport code
HWD
United Nations Location Code
US HWD
Open location code
849VMW99+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150964675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5355933
Wiki­data ID
Q491114
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hayward” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هايوارد”
  • Armenian: “Հեյվորդ”
  • Asturian: “Hayward”
  • Azerbaijani: “Heyvard”
  • Basque: “Hayward”
  • Belarusian: “Гэйўард”
  • Belarusian: “Хейвард”
  • Bengali: “হেওয়ার্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Хейуърд”
  • Catalan: “Hayward”
  • Cebuano: “Hayward”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھەیوارد”
  • Chechen: “Гейвард”
  • Chinese: “Hayward”
  • Chinese: “希活”
  • Chinese: “海沃”
  • Chinese: “海沃德”
  • Croatian: “Hayward, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Hayward”
  • Czech: “Hayward”
  • Dagbani: “Hayward”
  • Danish: “Hayward”
  • Dutch: “Hayward”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هايوارد”
  • Esperanto: “Hayward”
  • Esperanto: “Hejvordo”
  • Finnish: “Hayward”
  • French: “Hayward”
  • Galician: “Hayward”
  • German: “Hayward”
  • Gilaki: “هی‌وارد”
  • Greek: “Χέιγουαρντ”
  • Gujarati: “હેવર્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Hayward, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Hayward”
  • Hebrew: “הייוורד”
  • Hindi: “हेवर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Hayward”
  • Icelandic: “Hayward”
  • Indonesian: “Hayward, California”
  • Indonesian: “Hayward”
  • Irish: “Hayward, California”
  • Irish: “Hayward”
  • Italian: “Hayward”
  • Japanese: “ヘイワード”
  • Kannada: “ಹೇವರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “헤이워드”
  • Ladin: “Hayward”
  • Latvian: “Hejvorda”
  • Lithuanian: “Heivordas”
  • Malagasy: “Hayward, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Hayward”
  • Malay: “Hayward”
  • Malayalam: “ഹേവാർഡ്”
  • Marathi: “हेवर्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “هیوارد (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “هیوارد”
  • Newari: “हेवार्ड (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “हेवार्ड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “हेवार्ड”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hayward”
  • Norwegian: “Hayward”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hayward”
  • Pampanga: “Hayward, California”
  • Pampanga: “Hayward”
  • Persian: “هایوارد(کالیفرنیا)”
  • Persian: “هیوارد، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “هیوارد”
  • Persian: “هیورد، کالیفرنیا”
  • Polish: “Hayward”
  • Portuguese: “Hayward”
  • Russian: “Хейвард (Калифорния)”
  • Russian: “Хейвард”
  • Serbian: “Hayward”
  • Serbian: “Hejvard”
  • Serbian: “Хејвард”
  • Serbian: “Хејворд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hayward, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hayward”
  • Sinhala: “හේවර්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Hayward”
  • Slovenian: “Hayward”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هایوارد، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Hayward (California)”
  • Spanish: “Hayward”
  • Swahili: “Hayward, California”
  • Swahili: “Hayward”
  • Swedish: “Hayward, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Hayward”
  • Tagalog: “Hayward, California”
  • Tagalog: “Hayward”
  • Talysh: “Hejvard”
  • Talysh: “Heyvard”
  • Tamil: “ஹேய்வார்டு”
  • Tatar: “Һәйворд”
  • Tatar: “Һейвард”
  • Telugu: “హైవార్డ్”
  • Thai: “เฮย์เวิร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Hayward, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Hayward”
  • Ukrainian: “Гейвард”
  • Urdu: “ہیورڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “ہیورڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Hayward”
  • Uzbek: “Ҳайwард”
  • Venetian: “Hayward”
  • Vietnamese: “Hayward, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Hayward”
  • Volapük: “Hayward”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hayward, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hayward”
  • Welsh: “Hayward”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہےوارڈ”
  • “Hayward”

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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 “Hayward”. Photo: Skaneverdies, Public domain.