Monterey County
Monterey County contains a sizable part of the Central Coast of California and the southern half of Monterey Bay. The area is known for its wildlife and rugged coastline, much of it protected in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the largest US national marine sanctuary and home to a fantastic number of mammals, seabirds, fishes, invertebrates and plants.
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Essential Destinations
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Monterey
Monterey is a city in the Monterey County area of Monterey Bay in California.
Destinations to Discover
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Pacific Grove
Pacific Grove is in Monterey County in the Central Coast region of California.
Soledad
Soledad is a city in Monterey County in the Central Coast region of California.
King City
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Monterey County
- Type: County with 439,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “1位”, “Condado de Monterey (California)”, “kantono Monterey”, “kantono Montoreĝo”, “Monterey”, “Monterey (condáu)”, “Monterey County California”, “Monterey County, CA”, “Monterey County, Calif.”, “Monterey County, California”, “Monterey County, Kaliforniya”, “Monterey ilçesi, CA”, “Monterey ilçesi, Calif.”, “Monterey ilçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Monterey İlçesi, Kaliforniya”, “Okrožje Monterey”, “Мантэрэй (акруга, Каліфорнія)”, “Монтереј”, “Монтеррей”, “مقاطعه مونتيري، كاليفورنيا”, “モントレー・カウンティ”, “モントレイ郡”, “蒙特利.”, “蒙特瑞縣”, and “蒙特雷郡”
- Neighbors: Fresno County, Kings County, San Benito County, San Luis Obispo County, and Santa Cruz County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
36.2231° or 36° 13′ 23″ north
Longitude of center
-121.3877° or 121° 23′ 16″ west
Population
439,000
Elevation
1,175 feet (358 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Monterey County” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Monterey County”
- Albanian: “Monterey County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة مونتيري”
- Armenian: “Մոնտերե շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Monterey”
- Azerbaijani: “Monterey qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Monterey”
- Basque: “Monterey konderria”
- Bavarian: “Monterey County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Monterey County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Мантэрэй”
- Belarusian: “Мантэрэй”
- Bishnupriya: “মোন্টোরি কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “মোন্টোরি কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Монтерей”
- Catalan: “comtat de Monterey”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Monterey”
- Cebuano: “Monterey County”
- Central Kurdish: “شارستانی مۆنتری، کالیفۆرنیا”
- Chechen: “Монтерей”
- Chinese: “蒙特瑞郡”
- Chinese: “蒙特雷县”
- Chinese: “蒙特雷縣”
- Czech: “Monterey County”
- Danish: “Monterey County”
- Dutch: “Monterey County”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Monterey”
- Esperanto: “kantono Montoreĝo (Monterey)”
- Estonian: “Monterey maakond”
- Finnish: “Montereyn piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Monterey”
- French: “Comté de Monterey”
- Georgian: “მონტერეის ოლქი”
- German: “Monterey County”
- Gilaki: “مونتری ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Μοντερέι”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Μοντερέι”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מונטריי”
- Hungarian: “Monterey megye”
- Icelandic: “Monterey-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Monterey, California”
- Irish: “Contae Monterey”
- Italian: “contea di Monterey”
- Italian: “Contea di Monterey”
- Japanese: “モントレー郡”
- Korean: “몬터레이군”
- Latin: “Monterey Comitatus”
- Latin: “Montis Regis Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Monterey County”
- Low German: “Monterey County”
- Malayalam: “മോണ്ടെറി കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “माँटेरे काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “مونتری شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “مونتری شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Monterey Kūn”
- Navajo: “Áshįįh Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Monterey County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monterey County”
- Norwegian: “Monterey County”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Monterey”
- Pampanga: “Monterey County, California”
- Pampanga: “Monterey County”
- Persian: “شهرستان مونتری، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان مونتری”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Monterey”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Monterey”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Monterey, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Monterey”
- Russian: “Монтерей”
- Sardinian: “contea de Monterey”
- Serbian: “Okrug Monterej”
- Serbian: “Округ Монтереј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monterey County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monterey County”
- Slovenian: “Monterey County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Monterrey”
- Spanish: “Monterrey”
- Swedish: “Monterey County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Monterey, California”
- Tagalog: “Monterey County”
- Tatar: “Монтерей (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Монтерей”
- Tumbuka: “Monterey County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Monterey County”
- Turkish: “Monterey County”
- Turkish: “Monterey ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Монтерей”
- Urdu: “مونٹیری کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Monterey”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Monterey, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Monterey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Monterey, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Monterey”
- Welsh: “Monterey County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Monterey County”
- Western Panjabi: “مونٹیری کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “蒙特雷县”
- Yue Chinese: “滿地利縣”
- “Monterey”
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