Madera
Madera is a city in and the county seat of Madera County, located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Founded in 1876 as a timber settlement at the terminus of a major log flume, the city grew around the lumber trade before transitioning to an agriculture-based economy during the 20th century.
- Type: City with 65,700 residents
- Description: county seat of Madera County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Madera (California)”, “Madera, CA”, “Madera, California”, “Мадейра”, and “馬德拉市”
- Postal codes: 93637-93639
Places of Interest
Highlights: Madera Community Hospital and Madera High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkwood and Madera Acres.
Parkwood
Locality
Parkwood is a census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Madera Acres
Locality
Madera Acres is a census-designated place in Madera County, California, United States.
Madera
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Madera County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.9623° or 36° 57′ 44″ north
Longitude
-120.0595° or 120° 3′ 34″ west
Population
65,700
Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)
IATA airport code
MAE
UN/LOCODE
US MAE
Open location code
848XXW6R+W6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Madera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماديرا”
- Armenian: “Մադերա”
- Basque: “Madera”
- Belarusian: “Мадэра”
- Bulgarian: “Мадера”
- Catalan: “Madera”
- Cebuano: “Madera”
- Chechen: “Мадера”
- Chinese: “馬德拉”
- Chinese: “马德拉”
- Croatian: “Madera”
- Czech: “Madera”
- Danish: “Madera”
- Dutch: “Madera”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماديرا”
- Esperanto: “Madera”
- Esperanto: “Madero”
- Estonian: “Madera”
- French: “Madera”
- German: “Madera”
- Gilaki: “مادرا”
- Haitian: “Madera, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Madera”
- Hebrew: “מאדרה”
- Hungarian: “Madera”
- Irish: “Madera”
- Italian: “Madera”
- Japanese: “マデラ”
- Korean: “마데라”
- Ladin: “Madera”
- Malagasy: “Madera, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Madera”
- Malayalam: “മഡേറ”
- Mazanderani: “مادرا (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “مادرا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Madera”
- Navajo: “Tsineheeshjíʼí”
- Newari: “मादेरा, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “मादेरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madera”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madera”
- Norwegian: “Madera”
- Pampanga: “Madera, California”
- Pampanga: “Madera”
- Persian: “مادرا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “مادرا”
- Polish: “Madera”
- Portuguese: “Madera”
- Romanian: “Madera, California”
- Romanian: “Madera”
- Russian: “Мадера”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Madera”
- Serbian: “Madera”
- Serbian: “Мадера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madera, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madera”
- Silesian: “Madera”
- Slovak: “Madera”
- Slovenian: “Madera”
- South Azerbaijani: “مئیدرا، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Madera”
- Swedish: “Madera, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Madera”
- Tagalog: “Madera, California”
- Tagalog: “Madera”
- Tatar: “Мадера”
- Turkish: “Madera, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Madera”
- Ukrainian: “Мадера”
- Urdu: “مادیرا، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Madera”
- Volapük: “Madera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Madera, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Madera”
- Welsh: “Madera”
- “Madera”
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