Mojave
Mojave is a city of 4,200 people in Kern County in the Desert region of California. Mojave has a rich aerospace history because of nearby Edwards Air Force Base, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and Palmdale Regional Airport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,240 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States of America
- Also known as: “Mohave”, “Mojave, CA”, and “Mojave, California”
- Postal codes: 93501 and 93502
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mojave Air and Space Port and Mojave Junior Senior High School.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Aerodrome
Photo: Ikluft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mojave Air and Space Port is a general-use public airport with three main areas of activity: flight testing, space industry development, and aircraft heavy maintenance and storage.
Mojave Junior Senior High School
School
Mojave High School, is a nine-month public high school that is part of Clark County School District located in North Las Vegas, Nevada. After a year of sharing a campus at Cheyenne High School on a "double session" schedule where Cheyenne students attended…
National Test Pilot School
Building
The National Test Pilot School is the only civilian test-pilot school in the United States, located in Mojave, California. It is organized as a not-for-profit educational institute under California state law and is governed by a board of trustees.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reefer City.
Reefer City
Locality
Reefer City is a ghost town in Kern County, California. It was located 3.25 miles south-southwest of Mojave, at an elevation of 2762 feet. Reefer City still appeared on maps as late as 1947. Reefer City is situated 3½ miles south of Mojave.
Mojave
Latitude
35.0525° or 35° 3′ 9″ northLongitude
-118.174° or 118° 10′ 26″ westPopulation
4,240Elevation
2,762 feet (842 metres)IATA airport code
MHVUnited Nations Location Code
US MOJOpen location code
85733R2G+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 150971661OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5373965Wikidata ID
Q1943133
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Mojave” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “موهافي”
- Basque: “Mojave”
- Catalan: “Mojave”
- Cebuano: “Mojave”
- Chechen: “Мохаве”
- Chinese: “Mojave”
- Chinese: “莫哈維”
- Croatian: “Mojave”
- Dutch: “Mojave”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موهافى”
- French: “Mojave”
- German: “Mojave, Kalifornien”
- German: “Mojave”
- Gilaki: “موجاوه”
- Irish: “Mojave”
- Italian: “Mojave”
- Japanese: “モハーヴェ”
- Korean: “모하비”
- Ladin: “Mojave”
- Malagasy: “Mojave, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Mojave”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mojave”
- Newari: “मोयाभे, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “मोयाभे”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mojave”
- Persian: “موهاوه، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “موهاوه”
- Polish: “Mojave”
- Portuguese: “Mojave”
- Russian: “Мохаве”
- Serbian: “Мохави”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mojave, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mojave, Kalifornija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mojave”
- Slovenian: “Mohave”
- Slovenian: “Mojave”
- South Azerbaijani: “موهاوه، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Mojave (California)”
- Spanish: “Mojave”
- Swahili: “Mojave, California”
- Tatar: “Мохаве”
- Turkish: “Mojave”
- Ukrainian: “Могаві”
- Ukrainian: “Мохаве”
- Volapük: “Mojave (CA)”
- Volapük: “Mojave (California)”
- Volapük: “Mojave, CA”
- Volapük: “Mojave, California”
- Volapük: “Mojave”
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