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South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles is a large region of made up of the neighborhoods south of This is a relatively impoverished area of the city, infamous for gang violence and for being the epicenter of major race riots in the 1960s and 1990s.
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  • Type: Region
  • Description: districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles
  • Also known as: “South Central”, “South Central L.A.”, “South Central, Los Angeles”, and “South L.A.”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Harbor Freeway station and Vermont/Athens station.

Bus station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a transit center located on the Harbor Transitway, within the Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange of Interstate 105 and Interstate 110 near Figueroa Street in the neighborhood of South Los Angeles.

Railway station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a below-grade light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is situated in the median of Interstate 105 and named after Vermont Avenue and the community where it is located.

Railway station
Photo: HanSangYoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an elevated light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located in the median of Interstate 105, above Avalon Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the neighborhood of Green Meadows.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Athens and Athens.

Quarter
is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 9,393 at the 2020 census. It is an unincorporated community within the 2nd Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of .

Suburb
is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, a part of the South Los Angeles area, just east of . The population was 33,913 at the 2020 census, up from 31,853 at the 2010 census.

South Los Angeles

Latitude
33.92829° or 33° 55′ 42″ north
Longitude
-118.27881° or 118° 16′ 44″ west
Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)
Open location code
8553WPHC+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150971646
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
5397675
Wiki­data ID
Q587064
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Satellite Map

Discover South Los Angeles from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“South Los Angeles” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Sud de Los Angeles”
  • Chinese: “中南部洛杉磯”
  • Chinese: “南洛杉矶”
  • Chinese: “南洛杉磯區”
  • Chinese: “南落砂机”
  • Chinese: “洛杉磯中南部”
  • Chinese: “洛杉磯南部”
  • Dutch: “South Central”
  • Dutch: “South Los Angeles”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Los-Anĝeleso”
  • Finnish: “South Los Angeles”
  • French: “South Los Angeles”
  • German: “South Los Angeles”
  • Hebrew: “דרום לוס אנג’לס”
  • Hebrew: “החלק הדרומי של מרכז העיר”
  • Italian: “South Los Angeles”
  • Japanese: “サウス・ロサンゼルス”
  • Japanese: “サウス・ロス・アンジェルス”
  • Japanese: “サウスセントラル”
  • Japanese: “ロサンゼルス南部”
  • Japanese: “南エリア”
  • Japanese: “南ロス・アンジェルス”
  • Limburgan: “Zuid-Los Angeles”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “South Los Angeles”
  • Norwegian: “South Central”
  • Norwegian: “South Los Angeles”
  • Persian: “لس‌آنجلس جنوبی”
  • Polish: “South Los Angeles”
  • Portuguese: “Los Angeles meridional”
  • Portuguese: “South Los Angeles”
  • Russian: “Южный Лос-Анджелес”
  • Scots: “South Los Angeles”
  • Slovenian: “South Los Angeles”
  • Spanish: “Sur de Los Ángeles”
  • Swedish: “South Central”
  • Swedish: “South Los Angeles”
  • Turkish: “South Los Angeles”
  • Ukrainian: “Південний Лос-Анджелес”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی لاس اینجلس”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Los Angeles”

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