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Imperial Beach

Imperial Beach is a beach city in , United States, with a population of 26,137 as of the 2020 census. It is in the area of San Diego County, 14.1 miles south of and 5 miles northwest of downtown , Mexico.
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  • Type: City with 26,100 residents
  • Description: city in San Diego County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Imperial Beach”, “Imperial Beach, CA”, and “Imperial Beach, California”
  • Postal codes: 91932 and 91933

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palm Avenue station and Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Railway station
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is a station on the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley located in the neighborhood of . The stop serves a variety of purposes, holding the function of commuter center with a park and ride lot and providing access to the nearby commercial and residential areas.

Nature reserve
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is a natural reserve in Imperial Beach, California, and . It encompasses the Tijuana River Estuary, located on the Mexico–United States border.

Railway station
Photo: Vrysxy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a station on the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley located in the city of . The stop serves a variety of purposes, holding the function of commuter center with a park and ride lot and providing access to the nearby commercial, industrial, and residential areas, as well as Southwestern Community College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South San Diego and Egger Highlands.

Suburb
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is a district within , and is in the larger region of southwestern . It is a practical exclave of San Diego, having no land connection with the rest of the city.

Neighborhood
is a residential neighborhood in the section of , California. It neighbors and to the east, to the north, Imperial Beach to the southwest and Chula Vista to the northeast.

Quarter
is a residential neighborhood in the section of , California, part of the Otay Mesa-Nestor community planning area. It neighbors and to the east, to the north, to the southeast and the Tijuana River Valley to the south.

Imperial Beach

Latitude
32.5839° or 32° 35′ 2″ north
Longitude
-117.113° or 117° 6′ 47″ west
Population
26,100
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
NRS
United Nations Location Code
US NRS
Open location code
8544HVMP+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150969851
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5359054
Wiki­data ID
Q917531
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Imperial Beach” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إمبيريال بيتش”
  • Basque: “Imperial Beach”
  • Bulgarian: “Импириъл Бийч”
  • Catalan: “Imperial Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Imperial Beach”
  • Chechen: “Империал-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Imperial Beach”
  • Chinese: “因皮里尔比奇”
  • Chinese: “因皮里尔滩”
  • Chinese: “因皮里爾比奇”
  • Croatian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Czech: “Imperial Beach”
  • Danish: “Imperial Beach”
  • Dutch: “Imperial Beach”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امبيريال بيتش”
  • Finnish: “Imperial Beach”
  • French: “Imperial Beach”
  • German: “Imperial Beach”
  • Gilaki: “ایمپریال بیچ”
  • Haitian: “Imperial Beach, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Hebrew: “אימפריאל ביץ‘”
  • Hebrew: “אימפריאל ביץ’”
  • Hebrew: “אימפריאל ביץ”
  • Hungarian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Irish: “Imperial Beach”
  • Italian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Japanese: “インペリアル・ビーチ”
  • Korean: “임피리얼비치”
  • Ladin: “Imperial Beach”
  • Malayalam: “ഇമ്പീരിയൽ ബീച്ച്”
  • Mazanderani: “ایمپریال بیچ (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “ایمپریال بیچ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Imperial Beach”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąh Hatsoh”
  • Newari: “इम्पेरियल बीच (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “इम्पेरियल बीच, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “इम्पेरियल बीच”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Imperial Beach”
  • Norwegian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Persian: “ایمپریال بیچ، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “ایمپریال بیچ”
  • Polish: “Imperial Beach”
  • Portuguese: “Imperial Beach”
  • Serbian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Serbian: “Impirijal Bič”
  • Serbian: “Импиријал Бич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Imperial Beach, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Imperial Beach”
  • Slovak: “Imperial Beach”
  • Spanish: “Imperial Beach (California)”
  • Spanish: “Imperial Beach”
  • Swahili: “Imperial Beach, California”
  • Swahili: “Imperial Beach”
  • Swedish: “Imperial Beach”
  • Tagalog: “Imperial Beach, California”
  • Tagalog: “Imperial Beach”
  • Tatar: “Империал-Бич”
  • Turkish: “Imperial Beach, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Imperial Beach”
  • Ukrainian: “Імперіал-Біч”
  • Urdu: “امپیریل بیچ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Imperial Beach”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Imperial Beach, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Imperial Beach”

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