Riverside County
Riverside County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Riverside and Palm Springs.
Riverside
Palm Springs
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Palm Springs is a resort city in the California desert. It became a destination during the 1950s and 1960s when Hollywood movie stars flocked there in droves.
Corona
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Corona is a city in Riverside County in Southern California. It is a diverse city with different types of people, and is generally considered a "privileged suburb" of Los Angeles.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Moreno Valley and Indian Wells.
Moreno Valley
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Moreno Valley is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and is part of the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Riverside County by population and one of the Inland Empire's population centers.
Indian Wells
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Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley. Incorporated in 1967, it lies in between the cities of Palm Desert and La Quinta.
Temecula
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Temecula is a city in Riverside County in Southern California. Temecula is known for its wine and Balloon and Wine Festival.
Palm Desert
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Palm Desert is a city of 53,000 people in the desert of California between Palm Springs and Indio. It lies in the Coachella Valley at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.
Indio
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Indio is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. Indio is approximately 125 miles east of Los Angeles, 23 miles east of Palm Springs, and 98 miles west of Blythe, California.
Rancho Mirage
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Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The city is a low-density desert community with resorts, golf courses, and country clubs within the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert.
Hemet
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Hemet is a city in the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California, United States. It covers a total area of 29.3 square miles, about half of the valley, which it shares with the neighboring city of San Jacinto.
Perris
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Perris is in Riverside County. It is known for Lake Perris, an artificial lake, skydiving, Southern California Railway Museum, and its sunny dry climate.
La Quinta
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La Quinta is a city in Riverside County in Southern California. It is a desert resort city about 30 minutes southeast of Palm Springs. La Quinta is one of the nation's leading golf destinations, having 28 golf courses within the city limits.
Cathedral City
Cathedral City, colloquially known as "Cat City", is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.Coachella
Coachella is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. It is the namesake and easternmost city of the Coachella Valley, in Southern California's Colorado Desert.Blythe
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Blythe is a city in eastern Riverside County, California, United States. It is in the Palo Verde Valley of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River, approximately 224 miles east of Los Angeles and 150 miles west of Phoenix.
Desert Hot Springs
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Desert Hot Springs is a town in Riverside County in the California Desert. Most visitors are here to chill in the desert, and relax at one of the many hotel/spas.
Beaumont
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Beaumont is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located at the summit of the San Gorgonio Pass, between the San Bernardino Mountains and Mount San Gorgonio to the north, and the San Jacinto Mountains to the south.
Lake Elsinore
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Lake Elsinore is a city in western Riverside County, California, United States. Established as a city in 1888, it is on the shore of Lake Elsinore, a natural freshwater lake about 3,000 acres in size.
Norco
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Norco is a city of 27,000 people in California. As a horse community, there are few sidewalks in the city of Norco; instead there are horse trails, and riders can ride to town and tie their horses at the many hitching rails and corrals placed close to businesses.
Banning
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Banning is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. Its population was 29,505 as of the 2020 census, down from 29,603 at the 2010 census.
Idyllwild
Idyllwild is a city in Riverside County in Southern California. It is situated at mile high elevation in the San Jacinto mountains. Visitors are attracted by alpine scenery, rock climbing, hiking, shopping, and outdoor camping.Jurupa Valley
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Rubidoux was a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, until July 1, 2011, when it became a neighborhood of the newly formed city of Jurupa Valley.
Riverside County
- Type: County with 2,420,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “County of Riverside”, “Riverside”, “Riverside County, CA”, and “Riverside County, California”
- Neighbors: Imperial County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, and San Diego County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
33.722° or 33° 43′ 19″ northLongitude of center
-116.0372° or 116° 2′ 14″ westPopulation
2,420,000Elevation
2,831 feet (863 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316944809OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Riverside County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Riverside County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ريفيرسايد”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ريفيرسيدي، كاليفورنيا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه ريفيرسايد، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Ռիվերսայդ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Riverside”
- Asturian: “Riverside (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Riversayd qraflığı”
- Azerbaijani: “Riversayd”
- Basque: “Riverside konderria”
- Bavarian: “Riverside County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Riverside County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Рыверсайд”
- Belarusian: “Рыверсайд (акруга, Каліфорнія)”
- Belarusian: “Рыверсайд”
- Bengali: “রিভারসাইড কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bengali: “রিভারসাইড কাউন্টি”
- Bishnupriya: “রিভারসাইড কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “রিভারসাইড কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Ривърсайд”
- Catalan: “comtat de Riverside”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Riverside”
- Cebuano: “Riverside County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ڕیڤەرساید”
- Chechen: “Риверсайд”
- Chinese: “Riverside Kūn”
- Chinese: “河濱縣”
- Chinese: “河濱郡”
- Chinese: “里弗賽德縣”
- Chinese: “里弗赛德县”
- Czech: “Riverside County”
- Danish: “Riverside County”
- Dutch: “Riverside County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريڤيرسايد كاونتى ، كاليفورنيا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريڤيرسايد كاونتى”
- Esperanto: “kantono Riverside”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Riverside”
- Estonian: “Riverside’i maakond”
- Estonian: “Riversidei maakond”
- Finnish: “Riversiden piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Riverside”
- French: “comté de Riverside”
- French: “Comté de Riverside”
- French: “Riverside County”
- Georgian: “რივერსაიდის ოლქი”
- German: “Riverside County”
- Gilaki: “ريورساید ٚ شأرستان”
- Gilaki: “ریورساید ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Ρίβερσαϊντ”
- Greek: “κομητεία Ρίβερσαϊτ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ריברסייד”
- Hebrew: “עמק ריברסייד”
- Hebrew: “ריברסייד”
- Hungarian: “Riverside megye”
- Icelandic: “Riverside County”
- Icelandic: “Riverside-sýsla”
- Indonesian: “County Riverside, California”
- Indonesian: “County Riverside”
- Irish: “Contae Riverside, California”
- Irish: “Contae Riverside”
- Italian: “contea di Riverside”
- Italian: “Contea di Riverside”
- Italian: “Riverside County”
- Japanese: “リヴァーサイド郡”
- Japanese: “リバーサイド郡”
- Korean: “리버사이드 군”
- Korean: “리버사이드군”
- Ladino: “Riverside”
- Latin: “Comitas Riversidii”
- Latin: “Riverside Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Riverside County”
- Lithuanian: “Riversaido apygarda”
- Low German: “Riverside County”
- Marathi: “रिव्हरसाइड काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “ریورساید شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ریورساید شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Riverside Kūn”
- Navajo: “Tábąąhkin Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Riverside County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riverside County”
- Norwegian: “Riverside County”
- Occitan (post 1500): “comtat de Riverside”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Riverside”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēasċorasċīr (Californie)”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēasċorasċīr”
- Pampanga: “Riverside County, California”
- Pampanga: “Riverside County”
- Persian: “شهرستان ریورساید، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ریورساید”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Riverside”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Riverside”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Riverside, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Riverside”
- Russian: “Риверсайд”
- Sardinian: “contea de Riverside”
- Serbian: “Okrug Riversajd”
- Serbian: “Riverside County”
- Serbian: “Округ Риверсајд”
- Serbian: “Риверсајд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Riverside County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Riverside County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Riverside”
- Slovenian: “Riverside County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Riverside (California)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Riverside”
- Swedish: “Riverside County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Riverside, California”
- Tagalog: “Riverside County”
- Tajik: “Риверсайд”
- Tatar: “Риверсайд (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Риверсайд”
- Tumbuka: “Riverside County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Riverside County”
- Turkish: “Riverside County, CA”
- Turkish: “Riverside County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Riverside County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Riverside County”
- Turkish: “Riverside ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Riverside ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Riverside ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Riverside ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Ріверсайд”
- Urdu: “رورسائیڈ کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Riverside”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Riverside, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Riverside”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Riverside, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Riverside”
- Welsh: “Riverside County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Riverside County”
- Western Panjabi: “رورسائڈ کاؤنٹی”
- Wu Chinese: “里弗赛德县”
- Yue Chinese: “河濱縣”
- “Riverside”
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