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Salinas is in , 20 minutes inland from in a region known as the . Salinas was the home of writer and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck. It claims to be the "Salad Bowl of the World."…
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  • Type: City with 157,000 residents
  • Description: city in California and the county seat of Monterey County, United States
  • Also known as: “Salinas, CA” and “Salinas, California”
  • Postal codes: 93901, 93902, 93905-93908, 93912, and 93915

Places of Interest

Highlights include John Steinbeck House and National Steinbeck Center.

Museum
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The is a historic house and house museum in Salinas, California. The house was the birthplace and family home of author John Steinbeck.

Museum
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The is a museum and memorial dedicated to the author John Steinbeck, located at the California State University, Monterey Bay at Salinas City Center building at One Main Street in Salinas, California, the town where Steinbeck grew up.

Railway station
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is an intermodal transit center in downtown Salinas, California, United States. As a transit hub, the facility is a passenger rail station and bus station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boronda and Spreckels.

Locality
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 1,760 at the 2020 census.

Locality
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Salinas Valley of , , United States. is located 3 miles south of Salinas, at an elevation of 62 ft.

Salinas

Latitude
36.6744° or 36° 40′ 28″ north
Longitude
-121.655° or 121° 39′ 18″ west
Population
157,000
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
IATA airport code
SNS
United Nations Location Code
US SNS
Open location code
848WM8FV+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1684098883
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5391295
Wiki­data ID
Q488125
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Salinas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساليناس”
  • Armenian: “Սալինաս”
  • Asturian: “Salinas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salinas”
  • Basque: “Salinas”
  • Belarusian: “Салінас (Каліфорнія)”
  • Belarusian: “Салінас”
  • Bengali: “সালিনাস”
  • Bulgarian: “Салинас”
  • Catalan: “Salinas”
  • Cebuano: “Salinas”
  • Central Kurdish: “سالیناس”
  • Chechen: “Салинас”
  • Chinese: “市連那”
  • Chinese: “沙連拿斯”
  • Chinese: “萨利纳斯”
  • Chinese: “薩利納斯”
  • Croatian: “Salinas, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Salinas”
  • Czech: “Salinas”
  • Dagbani: “Salinas”
  • Danish: “Salinas”
  • Dutch: “Salinas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساليناس”
  • Esperanto: “Salinas”
  • Estonian: “Salinas”
  • Finnish: “Salinas”
  • French: “Salinas”
  • Galician: “Salinas”
  • Georgian: “სალინასი”
  • German: “Salinas”
  • Gilaki: “ساليناس”
  • Greek: “Σαλίνας”
  • Gujarati: “સેલિનાસ”
  • Haitian: “Salinas, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Salinas”
  • Hebrew: “סלינאס”
  • Hebrew: “סלינס”
  • Hindi: “सालिनास”
  • Hungarian: “Salinas”
  • Icelandic: “Salinas”
  • Indonesian: “Salinas, California”
  • Indonesian: “Salinas”
  • Irish: “Salinas, California”
  • Irish: “Salinas”
  • Italian: “Salinas”
  • Japanese: “サリナス”
  • Kannada: “ಸಲಿನಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “살리나스”
  • Ladin: “Salinas”
  • Latin: “Salina”
  • Latin: “Salinae”
  • Latvian: “Šalina”
  • Latvian: “Salinasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Šalinas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Salinas”
  • Malagasy: “Salinas”
  • Malay: “Salinas, California”
  • Malay: “Salinas”
  • Malayalam: “സലിനാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Salinas”
  • Marathi: “सलीना”
  • Mazanderani: “سالیناس (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سالیناس”
  • Navajo: “Áshįįh”
  • Newari: “सालिनास (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “सालिनास, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “सालिनास”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salinas”
  • Norwegian: “Salinas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salinas”
  • Pampanga: “Salinas, California”
  • Pampanga: “Salinas”
  • Persian: “سالیناس، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “سالیناس”
  • Piemontese: “Salinas”
  • Polish: “Salinas”
  • Portuguese: “Salinas”
  • Romanian: “Salinas, California”
  • Romanian: “Salinas”
  • Russian: “Салинас (Калифорния)”
  • Russian: “Салинас”
  • Scots: “Salinas, Californie”
  • Scots: “Salinas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Salinas, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Salinas”
  • Serbian: “Salinas”
  • Serbian: “Салинас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salinas, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salinas”
  • Silesian: “Salinas”
  • Sinhala: “සලිනාස්”
  • Slovak: “Salinas”
  • Slovenian: “Salinas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالیناس، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Salinas (California)”
  • Spanish: “Salinas”
  • Swahili: “Salinas, California”
  • Swahili: “Salinas”
  • Swedish: “Salinas, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Salinas”
  • Tagalog: “Salinas, California”
  • Tagalog: “Salinas”
  • Talysh: “Salinas”
  • Tamil: “சலினஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Салинас”
  • Telugu: “సలినాస్”
  • Thai: “ซาลีนาส”
  • Turkish: “Salinas, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Salinas”
  • Ukrainian: “Салінас”
  • Urdu: “سالیناس، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Salinas”
  • Uzbek: “Салинас”
  • Venetian: “Salinas”
  • Vietnamese: “Salinas, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Salinas”
  • Volapük: “Salinas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salinas, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salinas”
  • Welsh: “Salinas, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Salinas”
  • Western Panjabi: “سالیناس”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨利纳斯 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨利纳斯（加利福尼亚州）”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙連拿斯”
  • “Salinas”

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