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Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay is a beautiful and marine-rich area that straddles the border between the rugged and the Bay Area regions of . The area was immortalized by the works of novelist John Steinbeck.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay of the Pacific Ocean in California, United States
  • Also known as: “Bahia de los Pinos”, “Bahia de San Pedro”, “Bahiade los Pinos”, “Baie de Monte-Rey”, “Bay of Monterey”, “Bay von Monterey”, “El Puerto de Monte-Rey”, “Mar de Oest”, “Monterey Harbor”, “Monterey-Bai”, “Pays de Pinos *”, “Puerto de Monterey”, and “San Pedro Bay”
  • Address: CA

Monterey Bay

Latitude
36.8° or 36° 47′ 60″ north
Longitude
-121.9011° or 121° 54′ 4″ west
Open location code
848WQ3XX+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369163651
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
5374363
Wiki­data ID
Q584588
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Satellite Map

Discover Monterey Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Monterey Bay” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Montereyko badia”
  • Bengali: “মন্টারে উপসাগর”
  • Bulgarian: “Монтерей”
  • Catalan: “badia de Monterrey”
  • Catalan: “Badia de Monterrey”
  • Cebuano: “Luok sa Monterrey”
  • Cebuano: “Monterey Bay”
  • Chinese: “蒙特利湾”
  • Chinese: “蒙特利灣”
  • Chinese: “蒙特里湾”
  • Chinese: “蒙特里灣”
  • Chinese: “蒙特雷湾”
  • Chinese: “蒙特雷灣”
  • Czech: “monterejský záliv”
  • Czech: “Záliv Monterey”
  • Danish: “Monterey Bay”
  • Dutch: “Baai van Monterey”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo Monterejo”
  • Finnish: “Montereynlahti”
  • French: “baie de Monterey”
  • French: “Baie de Monterey”
  • German: “Monterey Bay”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος του Μοντερέι”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ מונטריי”
  • Hungarian: “Monterey-öböl Tengeri Rezervátum”
  • Indonesian: “Teluk Monterey”
  • Italian: “baia di Monterey”
  • Italian: “Baia di Monterey”
  • Japanese: “モンテレー湾”
  • Japanese: “モントレー湾”
  • Korean: “몬터레이만”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monterey Bay”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baia de Monterey”
  • Polish: “Monterey Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Monterey”
  • Romanian: “Golful Monterey”
  • Russian: “Монтерей”
  • Slovenian: “Monterey Bay”
  • Slovenian: “zaliv Monterey”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de Monterrey”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Monterrey”
  • Turkish: “Monterey Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтерей”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Monterrey”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒙特雷灣”

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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 “Monterey Bay”. Photo: Ed Bierman, CC BY 2.0.