Westchester
Westchester is a neighborhood of Los Angeles on the West Side of Los Angeles County in Southern California. While it's not a part of Westchester, the community of Playa Vista is also covered in this article.Photo: InSapphoWeTrust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighborhood in Los Angeles, California
- Also known as: “Westchester, Los Angeles”
- Neighbors: Playa del Rey
Places of Interest
Highlights include Los Angeles International Airport and Loyola Marymount University.
Los Angeles International Airport
Photo: Flobrio, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary airport serving Los Angeles. LAX—as the airport is more commonly known—is on the West Side of Los Angeles in the suburb of Westchester.
Loyola Marymount University
University
Photo: Mishigaki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Loyola Marymount University, formerly St. Vincent's College, is a private Jesuit and Marymount research university in Los Angeles, California. LMU enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it the largest Catholic university on the West Coast of the United States.
Otis College of Art and Design
College
Otis College of Art and Design is a private art and design school in Los Angeles, California, United States. Established in 1918, it was the city's first independent professional school of art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Playa del Rey and Inglewood.
Playa del Rey
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Playa del Rey offers beautiful beaches overlooking the Pacific Ocean just a few miles north of Los Angeles International Airport.
Inglewood
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inglewood is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California. Sandwiched between South Los Angeles and Los Angeles International Airport, it is a somewhat impoverished area.
Playa Vista
Quarter
Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Playa Vista is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, United States. The area was the headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1941 to 1985 and the site of the construction of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" aircraft.
Westchester
- Categories: neighborhood, district or neighborhood of Los Angeles, and locality
- Location: Westside, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.9597° or 33° 57′ 35″ northLongitude
-118.4006° or 118° 24′ 2″ westElevation
125 feet (38 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WQHOpen location code
8553XH5X+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 150941906OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
5408295Wikidata ID
Q4272085
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Westchester” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “威斯徹斯特”
- Dutch: “Westchester”
- French: “Westchester”
- Hebrew: “וסטצ’סטר”
- Italian: “Westchester”
- Japanese: “ウィンチェスター”
- Japanese: “ウェストチェスター”
- Korean: “웨스트체스터”
- Polish: “Westchester”
- Scots: “Westchester, Los Angeles”
- Scots: “Westchester”
- Spanish: “Westchester (Los Ángeles)”
- Spanish: “Westchester”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ چیسٹر، لاس اینجلس”
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