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Kern County

Kern County is in , . This huge county extends across a number of geographic regions in California: The majority western portion is in the , the northeastern portion is in the mountains, and the southeastern part is in the and the southwest inti the .
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is a city in Kern County in the of . is famous for being the home of country music singers Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, and has the nickname "the country music capital of the West Coast."…

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is a city in Kern County, California, United States. is located about 30 miles north-northwest of at an elevation of 315 feet.

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is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.

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is a city in the , in Kern County, California, United States. is located 24 miles northwest of , at an elevation of 328 feet.

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is a city in Kern County in the of . The 2015 movie , USA was based on the town's high school cross-country team, which won 24 state championships between 1987 and 2013.

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is a city in Kern County, California. is located 6.5 miles south-southeast of , at an elevation of 883 feet. The population was 1,026 at the 2020 census, down from 1,154 at the 2010 census.

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is a city in Kern County, in a valley within the Mountains which separate the from the .

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is a small community at the eastern foot of the Temblor mountains, in Kern County in the of . It is not much of a vacation destination although there are sites to see including the oil museum, a historic fort and the Carrizo Plains National Monument.

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is a city of 4,200 people in Kern County in the of . has a rich aerospace history because of nearby Edwards Air Force Base, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and Palmdale Regional Airport.

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is a census-designated place in Kern County, in the foothills of the at the southern extreme of the .

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is a town in Kern County in the of , . Located near Interstate 5, it is one of a few places on this part of the freeway that have gas, food or lodging.

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is a small town on Interstate 5 in Kern County in the of .

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is a census-designated place in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, , United States. is located 42 miles northeast of , at an elevation of 2,667 feet.

is a census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States. Its name derives from its location near the border between and Kern Counties.

is a small town that focused on oil and gas development located in Kern County in 's .

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is a corridor along Interstate 5 in Kern County in that descends from the Tehachapi Mountains through Grapevine Canyon. Traditionally has included the route from the town of Lebec down to the town of Grapevine, although for organizational purposes this article also includes the nearby towns of Gorman, Frazier Park, Fort Tejon and Wheeler Ridge.

Kern County

Latitude of center
35.3146° or 35° 18′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
-118.7538° or 118° 45′ 14″ west
Population
909,000
Elevation
1,040 feet (317 metres)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316944830
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5362932
Wiki­data ID
Q108047
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kern County” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kern County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كيرن”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كيرن، كاليفورنيا”
  • Armenian: “Քերն շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Kern”
  • Asturian: “Kern (condáu)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kern qraflığı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kern”
  • Balinese: “County Kern, California”
  • Basque: “Kern konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Kern County, Kalifornien”
  • Bavarian: “Kern County”
  • Belarusian: “акруга Керн”
  • Belarusian: “Керн (акруга)”
  • Belarusian: “Керн”
  • Bengali: “কার্ন কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bengali: “কার্ন কাউন্টি”
  • Bishnupriya: “কের্ন কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “কের্ন কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Кърн”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Kern”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Kern”
  • Cebuano: “Kern County”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی کێرن”
  • Chechen: “Керн”
  • Chinese: “Kern Kūn”
  • Chinese: “克恩县”
  • Chinese: “克恩縣”
  • Chinese: “強縣”
  • Czech: “Kern County”
  • Danish: “Kern County”
  • Dutch: “Kern County”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرن كاونتى ، كاليفورنيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيرن كاونتى”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Kern”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Kern”
  • Estonian: “Kerni maakond”
  • Finnish: “Kernin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Kern”
  • French: “Comté de Kern”
  • Georgian: “კერნის ოლქი”
  • German: “Kern County”
  • Gilaki: “کرن ٚ شأرستان”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία Κέρν”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קרן”
  • Hebrew: “קרן”
  • Hungarian: “Kern megye”
  • Icelandic: “Kern County”
  • Icelandic: “Kern-sýsla”
  • Indonesian: “County Kern, California”
  • Indonesian: “Kern County”
  • Irish: “Contae Kern, California”
  • Irish: “Contae Kern”
  • Italian: “contea di Kern”
  • Italian: “Contea di Kern”
  • Italian: “Kern County”
  • Japanese: “カーン郡”
  • Korean: “컨 군”
  • Korean: “컨군”
  • Ladino: “Kern”
  • Latin: “Kern Comitatus”
  • Latvian: “Kernas apgabals”
  • Limburgan: “Kern County”
  • Low German: “Kern County”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kern County”
  • Marathi: “कार्न काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “کرن شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “کرن شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kern Kūn”
  • Navajo: “Chʼil Naʼatłʼoʼii Bikooh Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kern County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kern County”
  • Norwegian: “Kern County”
  • Ossetian: “Керн (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Керн”
  • Pampanga: “Kern County, California”
  • Pampanga: “Kern County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کرن، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کرن”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Kern”
  • Polish: “Kern County”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Kern”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Kern, California”
  • Romanian: “comitatul Kern”
  • Romanian: “Kern County”
  • Russian: “Керн”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Kern”
  • Serbian: “Kern County”
  • Serbian: “Okrug Kern”
  • Serbian: “Керн”
  • Serbian: “Округ Керн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kern County, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kern County”
  • Slovenian: “Kern County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Kern”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Kern, California”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Kern”
  • Spanish: “Kern County California”
  • Spanish: “Kern County”
  • Spanish: “Kern”
  • Swedish: “Kern County”
  • Tagalog: “Kern County”
  • Tagalog: “Kondado ng Kern, California”
  • Tatar: “Керн (округ, Калифорния)”
  • Tatar: “Керн”
  • Tumbuka: “Kern County, California”
  • Tumbuka: “Kern County”
  • Turkish: “Kern County, CA”
  • Turkish: “Kern County, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Kern County, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Kern County”
  • Turkish: “Kern ilçesi, CA”
  • Turkish: “Kern ilçesi, Calif.”
  • Turkish: “Kern ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Kern ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Керн”
  • Urdu: “کیرن کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Kern”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Kern, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Kern”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Kern, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Kern”
  • Welsh: “Kern County, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Kern County”
  • Western Panjabi: “کرن کاؤنٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “克恩县”
  • Yue Chinese: “強縣”
  • “Kern”

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