Merced
Merced is a city of 86,000 people in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Located along State Route 99 which runs between the agricultural cities of the eastern San Joaquin Valley, Merced is also a gateway to Yosemite via State Route 140.
- Type: City with 83,300 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Merced County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Merced (California)”, “Merced, CA”, “Merced, Ca Li”, “Merced, California”, “Мерcед”, “Мерсед (горад)”, “머시드”, and “默塞德”
- Postal codes: 95340, 95341, 95343, 95344, and 95348
Places of Interest
Highlights: Merced station and Merced Theatre.
Merced station
Railway station
Merced Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.Merced
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, charter city, and locality
- Location: Merced County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.303° or 37° 18′ 11″ north
Longitude
-120.4843° or 120° 29′ 4″ west
Population
83,300
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
IATA airport code
MCE
UN/LOCODE
US MCE
Open location code
849X8G38+57
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Merced” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Merced, Kalifornia”
- Albanian: “Merced”
- Arabic: “ميرسيد”
- Azerbaijani: “Mersed”
- Basque: “Merced”
- Belarusian: “Мерсед”
- Bulgarian: “Мърсед”
- Catalan: “Merced”
- Cebuano: “Merced”
- Chechen: “Мерсед (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Мерсед”
- Chinese: “美熹德”
- Croatian: “Merced”
- Czech: “Merced”
- Dagbani: “Merced”
- Danish: “Merced”
- Dutch: “Merced”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسيد”
- Esperanto: “Merced”
- Finnish: “Merced”
- French: “Merced”
- German: “Merced”
- Gilaki: “مرسد”
- Greek: “Μέρσεντ”
- Haitian: “Merced, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Merced”
- Hebrew: “מרסד”
- Hungarian: “Merced”
- Irish: “Merced”
- Italian: “Merced”
- Japanese: “マーセド”
- Korean: “머세드”
- Ladin: “Merced”
- Malagasy: “Merced, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Merced”
- Malayalam: “മെർസ്ഡ്”
- Mazanderani: “مرسد (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “مرسد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Merced”
- Moksha: “Мэрсэд”
- Navajo: “Shash Bitoʼ Nílį́”
- Newari: “मर्सिड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “मर्सिड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merced”
- Norwegian: “Merced”
- Pampanga: “Merced, California”
- Pampanga: “Merced”
- Persian: “مرسد، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “مرسد”
- Polish: “Merced”
- Portuguese: “Merced”
- Romanian: “Merced, California”
- Romanian: “Merced”
- Russian: “Мерсед”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Merced”
- Serbian: “Mersed”
- Serbian: “Мерсед”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merced, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merced”
- Slovak: “Merced”
- Slovenian: “Merced”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرسد، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Merced”
- Swedish: “Merced”
- Tagalog: “Merced, California”
- Tagalog: “Merced”
- Talysh: “Mersed”
- Tatar: “Мерсед”
- Turkish: “Merced, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Merced”
- Ukrainian: “Мерсед”
- Urdu: “مرسیڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Merced”
- Vietnamese: “Merced, California”
- Vietnamese: “Merced”
- Volapük: “Merced”
- Waray (Philippines): “Merced, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Merced”
- Western Panjabi: “مرسڈ”
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