Imperial County
Imperial County is in the California Desert at the extreme southeast corner of the state. Locally this area is known as the Imperial Valley.Photo: Spacenut525, Public domain.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include El Centro and Calexico.
El Centro
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El Centro is the largest city in Imperial County in California. Its name is Spanish for "the center".
Calexico
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Calexico is a city in Imperial County in California, located just across the U.S.-Mexican border from Mexicali.
Calipatria
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Calipatria is a city in Imperial County, California. Calipatria is located 23 miles north of El Centro. It is part of the El Centro Metropolitan Area. The population was 6,515 at the 2020 census, down from 7,710 at the 2010 census, up from 7,289 at the 2000 census, including 4000 inmates at Calipatria State Prison.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Imperial and Brawley.
Imperial
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Imperial is a city in Imperial County, California, 4 miles north of El Centro. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 20,263. It is part of the El Centro metropolitan area.
Brawley
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Brawley is a city in Imperial County, California, United States within the Imperial Valley. The population was 26,416 at the 2020 census, up from 24,953 at the 2010 census.
Bombay Beach
Bombay Beach is a census-designated place in Imperial County, California, United States. It is located on the Salton Sea, 4 miles west-southwest of Frink and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet below sea level.
Salton City
Salton City is a community along the shores of the Salton Sea in Imperial County in the California Desert. Despite being developed as a planned resort town with infrastructure meant to support 40,000 residents, fewer than 1,000 people lived in the area as of the 2000 census, leading some to refer to it as a modern ghost town.Niland
Niland is a census-designated place in Imperial County, California, United States. The town is located 8 miles north of Calipatria, 2 miles southeast of the Salton Sea.
Slab City
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Slab City is a community of snow birds, military veterans, anarchists, neo-libertarians and others squatting off-grid in the Sonoran desert near the Salton Sea in southeastern California.
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Imperial County
- Type: County with 180,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “County of Imperial, California”, “Imperial”, “Imperial County, CA”, and “Imperial County, California”
- Neighbors: Riverside County and San Diego County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Desert, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
33.0305° or 33° 1′ 50″ northLongitude of center
-115.3596° or 115° 21′ 34″ westPopulation
180,000Elevation
-56 feet (-17 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316944826OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Imperial County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Imperial County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة إمبيريال”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه إمبيريال، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Իմպերիալ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu d’Imperial”
- Asturian: “Imperial (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “İmperial qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “İmperial”
- Basque: “Imperial konderria”
- Bavarian: “Imperial County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Imperial County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Імпірыял”
- Belarusian: “Імпірыял (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Імпірыял”
- Belarusian: “Імпэрыял”
- Bengali: “ইম্পেরিয়াল কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bengali: “ইম্পেরিয়াল কাউন্টি”
- Bishnupriya: “ইম্পেরিয়েল কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “ইম্পেরিয়েল কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Импириъл”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Imperial”
- Cebuano: “Imperial County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ئیمپێریەل”
- Chechen: “Империал”
- Chinese: “Imperial Kūn”
- Chinese: “因皮里尔县”
- Chinese: “帝國縣”
- Czech: “Imperial County”
- Danish: “Imperial County”
- Dutch: “Imperial County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعه امبيريال”
- Esperanto: “kantono Imperial”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Imperial”
- Estonian: “Imperiali maakond”
- Finnish: “Imperialin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte d’Imperial”
- French: “comté d’Imperial”
- French: “Comté d’Imperial”
- French: “Imperial County”
- Georgian: “იმპერიალის ოლქი”
- German: “Imperial County”
- Gilaki: “ایمپریال ٚ شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “אימפריאל”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אימפריאל”
- Hungarian: “Imperial megye”
- Icelandic: “Imperial County”
- Icelandic: “Imperial-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Imperial, California”
- Irish: “Contae Imperial”
- Italian: “contea di Imperial”
- Italian: “Contea di Imperial”
- Italian: “Imperial County”
- Japanese: “インペリアル・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “インペリアル郡”
- Korean: “임페리얼군”
- Ladino: “Imperial”
- Latin: “Imperial Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Imperial County”
- Lithuanian: “Imperialo apygarda”
- Low German: “Imperial County”
- Malayalam: “ഇമ്പീരിയൽ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “इंपीरियल काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “ایمپریال شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ایمپریال شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Imperial Kūn”
- Navajo: “Séí Dah Daaskʼid Hótsxaa Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Imperial County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Imperial County”
- Norwegian: “Imperial County”
- Occitan (post 1500): “comtat d’Imperial”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat dImperial”
- Pampanga: “Imperial County, California”
- Pampanga: “Imperial County”
- Persian: “شهرستان امپریال”
- Persian: “شهرستان ایمپریال، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ایمپریال”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Imperial”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Imperial”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Imperial, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Imperial”
- Romanian: “Imperial County”
- Russian: “Импириал”
- Sardinian: “contea de Imperial”
- Serbian: “Округ Импиријал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Imperial County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Imperial County”
- Slovenian: “Imperial County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Imperial”
- Spanish: “Condado de Imperial”
- Spanish: “Imperial County California”
- Spanish: “Imperial County”
- Swedish: “Imperial County”
- Tagalog: “Imperial County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Imperial, California”
- Tagalog: “Kondehan ng Imperial”
- Tajik: “Империал”
- Tatar: “Империал (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Империал”
- Tumbuka: “Imperial County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Imperial County”
- Turkish: “Imperial County, CA”
- Turkish: “Imperial County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Imperial County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Imperial County”
- Turkish: “Imperial ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Imperial ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Imperial ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Imperial ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Імперіал”
- Urdu: “امپیریل کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Imperial”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Imperial, Ca Li”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Imperial, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Imperial”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Imperial, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Imperial”
- Welsh: “Imperial County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Imperial County”
- Western Panjabi: “امپیریل کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “因皮里尔县 (加利福尼亚州)”
- Wu Chinese: “因皮里尔县（加利福尼亚州）”
- Yue Chinese: “帝國縣”
- “Imperial”
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