San Diego

From balmy beaches with a laid-back attitude to a gleaming modern image, San Diego offers much for the tourist to enjoy. Situated on the seacoast, San Diego is the second largest city in the state, with 1.4 million residents, and has long attracted travelers for its ideal climate, miles of beaches, and location on the Mexican border right across from .

Essential Destinations

Top destinations include San Diego International Airport and Downtown San Diego.

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is the primary airport of .

is the thriving central business district of San Diego.

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is an upscale beach neighborhood of 48,000…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Point Loma-Ocean Beach and Mission Beach-Pacific Beach.

Sitting at the mouth of San Diego Bay on a peninsula…

Mission Beach and Pacific Beach are the two most popular beach neighborhoods in San Diego.

San Diego's most beloved green space, Balboa Park…

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The birthplace of San Diego, Old Town is a popular…

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is the northern region of San Diego, consisting mostly of hilly terrain and suburbs.

is the eastern part of the city of San Diego…

is a community of San Diego, .

Places of Interest

Highlights include USS Midway and San Diego Zoo.

Museum
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is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class.

Zoo
The is a zoo in San Diego, California, United States, located in Balboa Park.

Stadium
is a ballpark in San Diego, California.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coronado and Little Italy.

is a picturesque resort town in in .

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in …

Quarter
The is a historic neighborhood in , California.

San Diego

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Latitude
32.7139° or 32° 42′ 50″ north
Longitude
-117.1623° or 117° 9′ 44″ west
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“San Diego” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “San Diego”
  • Albanian: “San Diego”
  • Amharic: “ሳንዲየጎ”
  • Arabic: “سان دييغو”
  • Aragonese: “San Diego”
  • Armenian: “Սան Դիեգո”
  • Asturian: “San Diego, California”
  • Asturian: “San Diego”
  • Azerbaijani: “San-Dieqo”
  • Balinese: “San Diégo”
  • Bambara: “San Diego”
  • Basque: “San Diego”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Дыега”
  • Bengali: “সান ডিয়াগো”
  • Bengali: “সানদিয়াগো”
  • Bengali: “স্যান ডিয়েগো”
  • Bosnian: “San Diego”
  • Breton: “San Diego”
  • Bulgarian: “Сан Диего”
  • Catalan: “San Diego”
  • Cebuano: “San Diego (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, California)”
  • Cebuano: “San Diego”
  • Central Kurdish: “سان دیێگۆ”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Диего”
  • Chinese: “圣地亚哥”
  • Chinese: “圣迭戈”
  • Chinese: “聖地牙哥”
  • Chinese: “聖迭戈”
  • Chuvash: “Сан-Диего”
  • Cornish: “San Diego, Kaliforni”
  • Cornish: “San Diego”
  • Croatian: “San Diego, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “San Diego”
  • Czech: “San Diego”
  • Dagbani: “San Diego”
  • Danish: “San Diego”
  • Dutch: “San Diego”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان دييجو”
  • Emilian: “San Diego”
  • Esperanto: “San-Diego”
  • Estonian: “San Diego”
  • Ewe: “San Diego”
  • Faroese: “San Diego”
  • Finnish: “San Diego”
  • French: “San Diego”
  • Galician: “San Diego”
  • Gan Chinese: “聖地牙哥”
  • Georgian: “სან-დიეგო”
  • German: “San Diego CA”
  • German: “San Diego”
  • Gilaki: “سن ديگؤ”
  • Greek: “Σαν Ντιέγκο”
  • Guarani: “San Diego”
  • Gujarati: “સેન ડિયાગો”
  • Haitian: “San Diego, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “San Diego”
  • Hausa: “San Diego”
  • Hawaiian: “San Diego”
  • Hebrew: “סן דייגו”
  • Hindi: “सैन डिएगो”
  • Hungarian: “San Diego”
  • Icelandic: “San Diego”
  • Ido: “San Diego”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Terbaik Amerika”
  • Indonesian: “San Diego, CA”
  • Indonesian: “San Diego, California”
  • Indonesian: “San Diego”
  • Indonesian: “SD”
  • Indonesian: “tempat kelahiran California”
  • Interlingua: “San Diego”
  • Irish: “San Diego, California”
  • Irish: “San Diego”
  • Italian: “San Diego”
  • Japanese: “サン・ディエゴ”
  • Japanese: “サンディエガン”
  • Japanese: “サンディエゴ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಡಿಯಾಗೋ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Сан-Диего”
  • Kashmiri: “سین ڈِیاگو”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Диего қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Диего, Калифорния”
  • Kazakh: “Сан-Диего”
  • Kikuyu: “San Diego”
  • Korean: “샌디에고”
  • Korean: “샌디에이고”
  • Kurdish: “San Diego”
  • Ladin: “San Diego”
  • Ladino: “San Diego”
  • Latin: “Didacopolis”
  • Latin: “Sanctus Didacus”
  • Latvian: “Sandjego”
  • Limburgan: “San Diego”
  • Lingala: “San Diego”
  • Lithuanian: “San Diegas”
  • Lombard: “San Diego”
  • Luxembourgish: “San Diego”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “San Diego”
  • Macedonian: “Сан Диего”
  • Malagasy: “San Diego”
  • Malay: “San Diego”
  • Malayalam: “സാൻ ഡിയേഗോ”
  • Maltese: “San Diego”
  • Maori: “Hanga Piako, Karapōnia”
  • Maori: “San Diego”
  • Marathi: “सॅन डियेगो”
  • Mazanderani: “سن دیگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “San Diego”
  • Mingrelian: “სან-დიეგო”
  • Moksha: “Сан Диега”
  • Moksha: “Сан-Диего”
  • Mongolian: “Сан-Диего”
  • Nauru: “San Diego”
  • Navajo: “Tóbiníhííyíní”
  • Newari: “स्यान डिएगो (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “स्यान डिएगो, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “स्यान डिएगो”
  • Northern Frisian: “San Diego”
  • Northern Luri: “سان دیگو”
  • Northern Luri: “سانی ویل”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Diego”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Diego”
  • Norwegian: “San Diego”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “San Diego”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Didacusburg”
  • Ossetian: “Сан-Диего”
  • Pampanga: “San Diego, California”
  • Pampanga: “San Diego”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਦੀਏਗੋ”
  • Papiamento: “San Diego, California”
  • Papiamento: “San Diego”
  • Persian: “سان دیگو”
  • Persian: “سن دیگو”
  • Piemontese: “San Diego”
  • Polish: “San Diego”
  • Portuguese: “San Diego”
  • Portuguese: “São Diego”
  • Quechua: “San Diego”
  • Romanian: “San Diego, California”
  • Romanian: “San Diego”
  • Russian: “Сан Диего”
  • Russian: “Сан-Диего, город”
  • Russian: “Сан-Диего, Калифорния”
  • Russian: “Сан-Диего”
  • Sardinian: “San Diego”
  • Saterfriesisch: “San Diego”
  • Scots: “San Diego”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “San Diego, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “San Diego”
  • Serbian: “San Dijego”
  • Serbian: “Сан Дијего”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “San Diego, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “San Diego”
  • Sicilian: “San Diegu”
  • Silesian: “San Diego”
  • Sindhi: “سان ڊياگو”
  • Sinhala: “සැන් දියාගෝ”
  • Slovak: “San Diego”
  • Slovenian: “San Diego”
  • Somali: “San Diego”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سان دیقو”
  • Spanish: “El Lugar de Nacimiento de California”
  • Spanish: “La Mejor Ciudad de Estados Unidos”
  • Spanish: “San Diego (California)”
  • Spanish: “San Diego CA”
  • Spanish: “San Diego”
  • Spanish: “SD”
  • Swahili: “San Diego, California”
  • Swahili: “San Diego”
  • Swedish: “San Diego”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng San Diego”
  • Tagalog: “San Diego, California”
  • Tagalog: “San Diego”
  • Tajik: “Сан Диего”
  • Tamil: “சான் டியாகோ”
  • Tamil: “சான் டியேகோ”
  • Tamil: “ஸேன் டியேகோ”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Диего”
  • Telugu: “శాన్ డియాగో”
  • Telugu: “సాన్ డియాగో”
  • Thai: “แซนดีเอโก”
  • Turkish: “San Diego, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “San Diego”
  • Turkmen: “San-Diýego”
  • Twi: “San Diego”
  • Uighur: “San Diyégo”
  • Uighur: “سان دىيېگۆ”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Дієго”
  • Urdu: “سان ڈیاگو”
  • Urdu: “سان ڈیگو”
  • Uzbek: “San Diego”
  • Venetian: “San Diego”
  • Veps: “San Diego”
  • Vietnamese: “San Diego, California”
  • Vietnamese: “San Diego”
  • Vietnamese: “Sandi”
  • Vietnamese: “SD”
  • Vietnamese: “Xan Điêgô”
  • Vlax Romani: “San Diego”
  • Volapük: “San Diego”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Diego, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Diego”
  • Welsh: “San Diego”
  • Western Armenian: “Սան Տիեկօ”
  • Western Frisian: “San Diego”
  • Western Mari: “Сан-Диего”
  • Western Panjabi: “سان ڈیاگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣迭戈 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣迭戈(加利福尼亚州)”
  • Yakut: “Сан Диего”
  • Yiddish: “סאן דיעגא”
  • Yiddish: “סאַן דיעגא”
  • Yoruba: “San Diego”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖地牙哥”
  • “ma Sansijeko”

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