Merced County
Merced County is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 281,202.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Merced and Atwater.
Merced
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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.
Atwater
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Atwater is a city on State Route 99 in Merced County, California, United States. Atwater is 8 miles west-northwest of Merced, at an elevation of 151 feet. The population as of the 2020 census was 31,970, up from 28,168 in 2010.
Gustine
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Gustine is a city in Merced County, California. Gustine is located 29 miles west of Merced, at an elevation of 98 feet. At the 2020 census, the city population was 6,110, up from 5,520 at the 2010 census.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Los Banos and Santa Nella.
Los Banos
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Los Banos, also called by the Spanish name Los Baños, is a city in Merced County in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Santa Nella
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Santa Nella is a town of about 2,000 people in Merced County in California's San Joaquin Valley. It's best known as a major rest stop on Interstate 5 and as the home of the iconic Danish-American diner Pea Soup Andersen's.
Hilmar
Hilmar is a small town in the San Joaquin Valley of California. It boasts the world's largest single site cheese plant.Merced County
- Type: County with 281,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Merced”, “Merced County, CA”, and “Merced County, California”
- Neighbors: Fresno County, Madera County, Mariposa County, San Benito County, Stanislaus County, and Tuolumne County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
37.1642° or 37° 9′ 51″ northLongitude of center
-120.7679° or 120° 46′ 4″ westPopulation
281,000Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316944834OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Merced County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Merced County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ميرسيد”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه ميرسيد، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Մերսեդ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Merced”
- Asturian: “Merced (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Mersed qraflığı”
- Basque: “Merced konderria”
- Bavarian: “Merced County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Merced County”
- Belarusian: “Мерсед”
- Bishnupriya: “মার্সিড কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “মার্সিড কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Мърсайд”
- Bulgarian: “Мърсед”
- Catalan: “comtat de Merced”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Merced”
- Cebuano: “Merced County”
- Chechen: “Мерсед”
- Chinese: “Merced Kūn”
- Chinese: “美熹德縣”
- Chinese: “美熹德郡”
- Chinese: “默塞德县”
- Chinese: “默塞德縣”
- Chinese: “默塞德郡”
- Czech: “Merced County”
- Danish: “Merced County”
- Dutch: “Merced County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسيد (مقاطعه فى كاليفورنيا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميرسيد”
- Esperanto: “kantono Merced”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Merced”
- Estonian: “Mercedi maakond”
- Finnish: “Mercedin piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Merced”
- French: “comté de Merced”
- French: “Comté de Merced”
- Georgian: “მერსედის ოლქი”
- German: “Merced County”
- Gilaki: “مرسد ٚ شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מרסד”
- Hungarian: “Merced megye”
- Icelandic: “Merced County”
- Icelandic: “Merced-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Merced, California”
- Irish: “Contae Merced”
- Italian: “contea di Merced”
- Italian: “Contea di Merced”
- Italian: “Merced County”
- Japanese: “マーセド郡”
- Korean: “머시드군”
- Latin: “Merced Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Merced County”
- Lithuanian: “Mersedo apygarda”
- Low German: “Merced County”
- Malayalam: “മെർസ്ഡ് കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “मर्सेड काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “مرسد شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “مرسد شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Merced Kūn”
- Navajo: “Shash Bitoʼ Nílį́ Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Merced County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Merced County”
- Norwegian: “Merced County”
- Pampanga: “Merced County, California”
- Pampanga: “Merced County”
- Persian: “شهرستان مرسد، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان مرسد”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Merced”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Merced”
- Russian: “Мерсед”
- Sardinian: “contea de Merced”
- Serbian: “Merced County”
- Serbian: “Okrug Mersed”
- Serbian: “Мерсед”
- Serbian: “Округ Мерсед”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merced County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Merced County”
- Slovenian: “Merced County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Merced”
- Spanish: “Condado de Merced”
- Spanish: “Merced County California”
- Spanish: “Merced County”
- Swedish: “Merced County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Merced, California”
- Tagalog: “Merced County”
- Tatar: “Мерсед (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Мерсед”
- Tumbuka: “Merced County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Merced County”
- Turkish: “Merced County, CA”
- Turkish: “Merced County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Merced County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Merced County”
- Turkish: “Merced ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Merced ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Merced ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Merced ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Мерсед”
- Urdu: “مرسیڈ کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Merced”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Merced, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Merced”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Merced, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Merced”
- Welsh: “Merced County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Merced County”
- Western Panjabi: “مرکڈ کاؤنٹی”
- “Merced”
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