Van Nuys
Van Nuys is a prominent neighborhood in the middle of the San Fernando Valley, a part of the city of Los Angeles in Southern California. Although there are few tourist attractions here, Van Nuys serves as a civic and commercial center for the Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 136,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, United States
- Also known as: “Van Nuys, CA”, “Van Nuys, California”, and “Van Nuys, Los Angeles”
- Postal codes: 91401, 91404-91411, 91470, 91482, 91496, and 91499
Places of Interest
Highlights include Van Nuys station and Valley Presbyterian Hospital.
Van Nuys station
Bus station
Photo: HanSangYoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Van Nuys station is a temporarily closed bus rapid transit station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It has been closed since February 21, 2025, for the G Line Improvements Project, with G Line buses detoured to a temporary stop on Oxnard Street, one block south of the busway.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Cbl62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital is a 350-bed hospital in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1958, architect William Pereira designed the original building.
Van Nuys Branch
Library
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Van Nuys Branch covers two branch library buildings of the Los Angeles Public Library, both located in Van Nuys, central San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sherman Oaks and Valley Glen.
Sherman Oaks
Photo: Cbl62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sherman Oaks a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California. It is known more for its shopping malls than for its places to see.
Valley Glen
Suburb
Photo: Phatblackmama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Valley Glen is a neighborhood in the southeastern section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. Once part of Van Nuys and North Hollywood, it became a separate neighborhood in 1998.
Panorama City
Suburb
Photo: Entertainment Buff, Public domain.
Panorama City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. It has a generally young age range as well as the highest population density in the Valley. Panorama City is situated 2½ miles north of Van Nuys.
Van Nuys
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles and locality
- Location: San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.1866° or 34° 11′ 12″ northLongitude
-118.4487° or 118° 26′ 55″ westPopulation
136,000Elevation
712 feet (217 metres)United Nations Location Code
US VNYOpen location code
85635HP2+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 150956150OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Van Nuys” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فان نويس”
- Armenian: “Վան Նայս”
- Belarusian: “Ван Найз”
- Belarusian: “Ван Нуйс”
- Belarusian: “Ван-Найс”
- Catalan: “Van Nuys”
- Cebuano: “Van Nuys”
- Chinese: “范奈兹”
- Chinese: “范奈茲”
- Czech: “Van Nuys”
- Danish: “Van Nuys”
- Dutch: “Van Nuys”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤان نايس”
- Estonian: “Van Nuys”
- French: “Van Nuys”
- Galician: “Van Nuys”
- German: “Van Nuys”
- Hebrew: “ון נויס”
- Hungarian: “Van Nuys”
- Indonesian: “Van Nuys”
- Interlingua: “Van Nuys”
- Irish: “Van Nuys”
- Italian: “Van Nuys”
- Japanese: “ヴァン・ナイス (ロサンゼルス郡)”
- Japanese: “ヴァン・ナイズ”
- Japanese: “ヴァンナイス”
- Japanese: “ヴァンナイズ”
- Japanese: “ヴァンナイズ地区”
- Japanese: “カリフォルニア州”
- Japanese: “バンナイス (ロサンゼルス)”
- Japanese: “バンナイズ”
- Japanese: “バンノイス”
- Korean: “밴 나이스”
- Korean: “밴나이스”
- Korean: “밴나이즈”
- Lithuanian: “Van Naisas”
- Luxembourgish: “Van Nuys”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Van Nuys”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Van Nuys”
- Norwegian: “Van Nuys”
- Persian: “ون نایز، لسآنجلس”
- Persian: “ون نایز”
- Persian: “ون نویس، لس آنجلس”
- Polish: “Van Nuys”
- Portuguese: “Van Nuys”
- Russian: “Ван-Найс (Калифорния)”
- Russian: “Ван-Найс”
- Scots: “Van Nuys, Californie”
- Scots: “Van Nuys, Los Angeles”
- Scots: “Van Nuys”
- Slovenian: “Van Nuys”
- South Azerbaijani: “وان نویس”
- Spanish: “Van Nuys (California)”
- Spanish: “Van Nuys (Los Ángeles)”
- Spanish: “Van Nuys”
- Swahili: “Van Nuys”
- Swedish: “Van Nuys”
- Turkish: “Van Nuys”
- Ukrainian: “Ван-Найс (Каліфорнія)”
- Ukrainian: “Ван-Найс”
- “Van Nuys”
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