California
San Joaquin Valley
Merced County

Merced

Merced is a city of 86,000 people in the of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 83,300 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Merced County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Merced, CA” and “Merced, California”
  • Postal codes: 95340, 95340, 95341, 95343, 95344, and 95348

Places of Interest

Highlights include Merced Theatre and Merced station.

Theater building
Photo: Mark Miller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located at 301 W. Main Street, at the corner of Main Street and Martin Luther King Way, in Merced, . The theatre is significant both for its role as the social and cultural center of Merced from the Depression through the post World War II era and for its mix of Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

Railway station
Photo: Pedro Xing, CC0.
is an intercity rail station located in Merced, California, United States. The station is served by seven daily round trips of the San Joaquins and is a transfer point between trains and Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System buses serving .

Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Merced Yosemite Regional Airport is located two miles southwest of Merced, in , . The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025 categorized it as a Commercial Service – Nonprimary airport.

Merced

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
United Nations Location Code
US MCE
Open location code
849X8G38+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1957654404
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5372253
Wiki­data ID
Q499189
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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 (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Мерсед”
  • Bulgarian: “Мърсед”
  • Catalan: “Merced”
  • Cebuano: “Merced”
  • Chechen: “Мерсед (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Мерсед”
  • Chinese: “Merced”
  • Chinese: “美熹德”
  • Chinese: “默塞德”
  • Croatian: “Merced”
  • Czech: “Merced”
  • Dagbani: “Merced”
  • Danish: “Merced”
  • Dutch: “Merced”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسيد”
  • Esperanto: “Merced”
  • Finnish: “Merced”
  • French: “Merced”
  • German: “Merced”
  • Gilaki: “مرسد”
  • Haitian: “Merced, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Merced”
  • Hebrew: “מרסד”
  • Hungarian: “Merced”
  • Irish: “Merced”
  • Italian: “Merced”
  • Japanese: “マーセド”
  • Korean: “머세드”
  • Korean: “머시드”
  • 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: “Merced”
  • Serbian: “Mersed”
  • Serbian: “Мерсед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Merced, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Merced”
  • Slovak: “Merced”
  • Slovenian: “Merced”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مرسد، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Merced (California)”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Мерcед”
  • Vietnamese: “Merced, Ca Li”
  • Vietnamese: “Merced, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Merced”
  • Volapük: “Merced”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Merced, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Merced”
  • Western Panjabi: “مرسڈ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Merced”. Photo: Amadscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0.