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Palm Desert

Palm Desert is a city of 53,000 people in the of between and . It lies in the Coachella Valley at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.
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  • Type: City with 51,200 residents
  • Description: city in Riverside County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Old McDonald Ranch”, “Palm Desert, CA”, “Palm Desert, California”, “Palm Village”, and “Sand Hole”
  • Postal codes: 92211, 92255, 92260, and 92261
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include McCallum Theatre and Palm Desert High School.

Theater building
The is a 1,127-seat theatre and concert venue located on the southern edge of the campus of College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California, US.

School
is a secondary school located in Palm Desert, California. The school is a part of the Desert Sands Unified School District.

Hospital
Photo: Redspork02, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The now known as Eisenhower Health is a nonprofit teaching hospital based in , serving the region of Southeastern .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Indian Wells and Rancho Mirage.

Photo: Patrick Pelster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , United States, in the . Incorporated in 1967, it lies in between the cities of Palm Desert and .

Photo: Patrick Pelster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , United States. The city is a low-density desert community with resorts, golf courses, and country clubs within the section of the .

Palm Desert

Latitude
33.7288° or 33° 43′ 44″ north
Longitude
-116.3826° or 116° 22′ 57″ west
Population
51,200
Elevation
220 feet (67 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PMD
Open location code
8555PJH8+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2256040424
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5380626
Wiki­data ID
Q399976
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Palm Desert” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Palm Desert”
  • Arabic: “بالم ديزرت”
  • Asturian: “Palm Desert”
  • Basque: “Palm Desert”
  • Bavarian: “Palm Desert”
  • Belarusian: “Палм Дэзерт”
  • Belarusian: “Палм-Дэзерт”
  • Bengali: “পাম মরুভুমি”
  • Bosnian: “Palm Desert”
  • Breton: “Palm Desert”
  • Bulgarian: “Палм Дезърт”
  • Catalan: “Palm Desert”
  • Cebuano: “Palm Desert”
  • Chechen: “Палм-Дезерт”
  • Chinese: “Palm Desert”
  • Chinese: “棕榈沙漠”
  • Chinese: “棕櫚沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Palm Desert”
  • Czech: “Palm Desert”
  • Danish: “Palm Desert”
  • Dutch: “Palm Desert”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالم ديسيرت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پالم ديزيرت”
  • Esperanto: “Palm Desert”
  • Esperanto: “Palma Dezerto”
  • Estonian: “Palm Desert”
  • Finnish: “Palm Desert”
  • French: “Palm Desert”
  • Galician: “Palm Desert, California”
  • Galician: “Palm Desert”
  • German: “Palm Desert”
  • Gilaki: “پام دزرت”
  • Greek: “Παλμ Ντέζερτ”
  • Gujarati: “પામ ડેઝર્ટ”
  • Haitian: “Palm Desert, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Palm Desert”
  • Hebrew: “פאלם דזרט”
  • Hindi: “पाम डेजर्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Palm Desert”
  • Icelandic: “Palm Desert”
  • Indonesian: “Palm Desert”
  • Irish: “Palm Desert”
  • Italian: “Palm Desert”
  • Japanese: “パームデザート”
  • Japanese: “パームデザート市”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಮ್ ಡಸರ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “팜데저트”
  • Ladin: “Palm Desert”
  • Latvian: “Palm Desert”
  • Latvian: “Palmdezerta”
  • Lithuanian: “Palm Desert”
  • Low German: “Palm Desert”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palm Desert”
  • Malagasy: “Palm Desert, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Palm Desert”
  • Malay: “Palm Desert”
  • Malayalam: “പാം ഡെസർട്ട്”
  • Marathi: “पाम डिसर्ट”
  • Mazanderani: “پام دزرت (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “پام دزرت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palm Desert”
  • Navajo: “Atʼaʼ Yiltʼąąʼítah Kin”
  • Newari: “पाम डेजर्ट, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “पाम डेजर्ट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palm Desert”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palm Desert”
  • Norwegian: “Palm Desert”
  • Persian: “پالم دزرت، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “پالم دزرت”
  • Persian: “پام دزرت”
  • Polish: “Palm Desert”
  • Portuguese: “Palm Desert, Califórnia”
  • Portuguese: “Palm Desert”
  • Romanian: “Palm Desert”
  • Russian: “Палм-Дезерт”
  • Sardinian: “Palm Desert”
  • Scots: “Palm Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Palm Desert, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Palm Desert”
  • Serbian: “Palm Desert”
  • Serbian: “Палм Дезерт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palm Desert, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palm Desert”
  • Sicilian: “Palm Desert”
  • Silesian: “Palm Desert”
  • Sinhala: “පාම් කාන්තාරය”
  • Slovak: “Palm Desert”
  • Slovenian: “Palm Desert”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالم دزرت، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Palm Desert (California)”
  • Spanish: “Palm Desert”
  • Swahili: “Palm Desert, California”
  • Swahili: “Palm Desert”
  • Swedish: “Palm Desert”
  • Swiss German: “Palm Desert”
  • Tagalog: “Palm Desert, California”
  • Tagalog: “Palm Desert”
  • Talysh: “Palm Dezer”
  • Tamil: “பாம் டெஸெர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Палм-Дезерт”
  • Telugu: “పామ్ డెసర్ట్”
  • Thai: “ปาล์มดีเซิร์ท”
  • Turkish: “Palm Desert, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Palm Desert”
  • Ukrainian: “Палм-Дезерт”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Palm Desert”
  • Urdu: “پالم ڈیزرٹ”
  • Urdu: “پام ڈیزرٹ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Palm Desert”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Palm”
  • Volapük: “Palm Desert”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palm Desert, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palm Desert”
  • Welsh: “Palm Desert”
  • Western Frisian: “Palm Desert”

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