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National City is a city in the region of southwestern , United States. The population was 56,173 at the 2020 United States census, down from 58,582 at the 2010 census.
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  • Type: City with 56,200 residents
  • Description: city in San Diego County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “National City, CA”, “National City, California”, “National Ranch”, and “Rancho de la Nacion *”
  • Postal codes: 91950 and 91951

Places of Interest

Highlights include National City station and 24th Street station.

Railway station
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is a former railway station in National City, California. The California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, chose National City as the West Coast base of operations at the terminus of their planned transcontinental railroad.

Railway station
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is a station on the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley in National City, California. The stop serves both as a commuter center with a park and ride lot and to provide access to the dense nearby retail area.

Railway station
Photo: Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a station on the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley located in National City, California. Surrounded by an industrial area, the primary focus of this station is to serve as a commuter lot, as it is easily accessible from Interstate 5.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chula Vista and Lincoln Acres.

Photo: Roman Eugeniusz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large city in in . Originally a farming and dairy city in the early 20th century, by the early 21st century the city had grown tremendously with the addition of several prominent suburbs and business districts.

Village
is an unincorporated community of located wholly within the boundaries of the incorporated city of National City. It has a population of approximately 2,100 residents, and residents may keep livestock.

Neighborhood
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is a small neighborhood in southeastern , California, United States. It is bordered by National City to the west, to the east, and to the north.

National City

Latitude
32.6781° or 32° 40′ 41″ north
Longitude
-117.0992° or 117° 5′ 57″ west
Population
56,200
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US NLN
Open location code
8544MWH2+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150939407
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5376200
Wiki­data ID
Q430316
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“National City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناشيونال سيتي”
  • Basque: “National City”
  • Bulgarian: “Нешънъл Сити”
  • Catalan: “National City”
  • Cebuano: “National City”
  • Chechen: “Нейшенал-Сити”
  • Chinese: “National City”
  • Chinese: “納雄耐爾城”
  • Chinese: “纳雄耐尔城”
  • Croatian: “National City”
  • Czech: “National City”
  • Danish: “National City”
  • Dutch: “National City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناشنال سيتى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناشونال سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Urbo”
  • French: “National City”
  • German: “National City”
  • Gilaki: “نشنال سيتي”
  • Greek: “Νάσιοναλ Σίτυ”
  • Haitian: “National City, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “National City”
  • Hebrew: “נשיונל סיטי (קליפורניה)”
  • Hebrew: “נשיונל סיטי, קליפורניה, ארצות הברית”
  • Hebrew: “נשיונל סיטי, קליפורניה”
  • Hebrew: “נשיונל סיטי”
  • Hungarian: “National City”
  • Irish: “National City”
  • Italian: “National City”
  • Japanese: “ナショナル・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ナショナルシティ”
  • Korean: “내셔널시티”
  • Ladin: “National City”
  • Malagasy: “National City, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “National City”
  • Malayalam: “നാഷണൽ സിറ്റി”
  • Mazanderani: “نشنال سیتی (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “نشنال سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “National City”
  • Navajo: “Tółikan Nílíní”
  • Newari: “न्यासनल सिटी, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “न्यासनल सिटी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “National City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “National City”
  • Norwegian: “National City”
  • Persian: “نشنال سیتی، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “نشنال سیتی”
  • Polish: “National City”
  • Portuguese: “National City”
  • Russian: “Нашенал-Сити (Калифорния)”
  • Russian: “Нашенал-Сити”
  • Serbian: “Нашонал Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “National City, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “National City”
  • Slovenian: “National City”
  • Spanish: “National City (California)”
  • Spanish: “National City”
  • Swahili: “National City, California”
  • Swahili: “National City”
  • Swedish: “National City, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “National City”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng National, California”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng National”
  • Tatar: “Нейшенал-Сити”
  • Turkish: “National City, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “National City”
  • Ukrainian: “Нейшенал-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “نیشنل سٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “National City”
  • Volapük: “National City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “National City, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “National City”

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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 Wikipedia page “National City”. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS, Public domain.