Lynwood

Lynwood is in the region of Los Angeles County, . It is probably best known for being the hometown of "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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  • Type: Town with 71,100 residents
  • Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Lynwood, CA”, “Lynwood, California”, and “Lynwood, USA”
  • Postal code: 90262
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lynwood station and St. Francis Medical Center.

Railway station
Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.
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 Long Beach Boulevard, in the city of Lynwood, California, after which the station is named.

Hospital
is a for-profit in Lynwood, California, United States, owned by Prime Healthcare Services.

School
, also known as Firebaugh High School or just FHS, is one of the three high schools in Lynwood, California. The others are and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Compton and Willowbrook.

Photo: Epolk, CC BY 3.0.
is one of the of , and is mainly known for being the birthplace of rappers Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, NWA, DJ Quik, and The Game, as well as of professional tennis players Serena and Venus Williams.

Suburb
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, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. is situated 2½ miles west of Lynwood.

Hamlet
, also known as East Compton, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Lynwood

Latitude
33.9248° or 33° 55′ 29″ north
Longitude
-118.2024° or 118° 12′ 9″ west
Population
71,100
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
Open location code
8553WQFX+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150932285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5369367
Wiki­data ID
Q849619
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Lynwood” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لينووود”
  • Armenian: “Լինվուդ”
  • Asturian: “Lynwood”
  • Azerbaijani: “Linvud”
  • Basque: “Lynwood”
  • Belarusian: “Лінвуд”
  • Belarusian: “Лінўуд”
  • Bengali: “লেনউড”
  • Bulgarian: “Линуд”
  • Catalan: “Lynwood”
  • Cebuano: “Lynwood”
  • Chechen: “Линнвуд”
  • Chinese: “Lynwood”
  • Chinese: “林伍德”
  • Croatian: “Lynwood”
  • Czech: “Lynwood”
  • Danish: “Lynwood”
  • Dutch: “Lynwood”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لينووود, لوس انجليس, كاليفورنيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لينووود”
  • Esperanto: “Lynwood”
  • Finnish: “Lynwood”
  • French: “Lynwood”
  • German: “Lynwood”
  • Gilaki: “لین‌وۊد”
  • Greek: “Λίνγουντ”
  • Gujarati: “લિનવૂડ”
  • Haitian: “Lynwood, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Lynwood”
  • Hebrew: “לינווד”
  • Hindi: “लिनवुड”
  • Hungarian: “Lynwood”
  • Iloko: “Lynwood”
  • Indonesian: “Lynwood”
  • Irish: “Lynwood”
  • Italian: “Lynwood”
  • Japanese: “リンウッド”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿನ್ ವುಡ್”
  • Korean: “린우드”
  • Ladin: “Lynwood”
  • Latin: “Lynwood”
  • Latvian: “Linvuda”
  • Lithuanian: “Linvudas”
  • Malagasy: “Lynwood, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Lynwood”
  • Malay: “Lynwood”
  • Malayalam: “ലിൻവുഡ്”
  • Marathi: “लिनवुड”
  • Mazanderani: “لینوود (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “لینوود”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lynwood”
  • Newari: “लीनवूड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “लीनवूड”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lynwood”
  • Norwegian: “Lynwood”
  • Persian: “لینوود، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “لینوود”
  • Polish: “Lynwood”
  • Portuguese: “Lynwood”
  • Romanian: “Lynwood, California”
  • Romanian: “Lynwood”
  • Russian: “Линвуд (Калифорния)”
  • Russian: “Линвуд”
  • Scots: “Lynwood”
  • Serbian: “Linvud”
  • Serbian: “Lynwood”
  • Serbian: “Линвуд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynwood, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynwood”
  • Silesian: “Lynwood”
  • Sinhala: “ලින්වුඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Lynwood”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لینوود، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Lynwood (California)”
  • Spanish: “Lynwood”
  • Swahili: “Lynwood, California”
  • Swahili: “Lynwood”
  • Swedish: “Lynwood, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Lynwood”
  • Tagalog: “Lynwood, California”
  • Tagalog: “Lynwood”
  • Tamil: “லின்வுட்”
  • Tatar: “Линнвуд”
  • Telugu: “లైనఁవూడ్”
  • Thai: “ลินวูด”
  • Turkish: “Lynwood, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Lynwood”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінвуд”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліннвуд”
  • Urdu: “لینووڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Lynwood”
  • Volapük: “Lynwood”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lynwood, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lynwood”
  • Yoruba: “Lynwood, California”
  • Yoruba: “Lynwood”
  • “Lynwood”

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