California
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Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara is a city and metropolitan area less than 100 miles from but vastly different in pace from its huge neighbor to the south. With a temperate climate and lush natural environs, the "Riviera of the West" is a pleasant day or weekend trip from L.A.
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  • Type: City with 91,200 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “La Laguna de la Concepcion *”, “Santa Barbara, CA”, “Santa Barbara, Calif.”, and “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Postal codes: 93101-93103, 93105-93111, 93120, 93121, 93130, 93140, 93150, 93160, and 93190

Places of Interest

Highlights include Santa Barbara City College and Santa Barbara station.

College
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is a public community college in Santa Barbara, California. It opened in 1909 and is located on a 74-acre campus.

Railway station
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is a passenger rail station in Santa Barbara, California, served by two Amtrak lines, the Coast Starlight and the Pacific Surfliner.

Museum
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The is an art museum located in downtown Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 1941, it is home to both permanent and special collections, the former of which includes Asian, American, and European art that spans 4,000 years from ancient to modern.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montecito and Mission Canyon.

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is an upscale community in that is home to high end resorts and the rich and famous including Oprah Winfrey and Rob Lowe.

Village
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is a census-designated place and an unincorporated suburb of Santa Barbara, California, in , . The population was 2,540 at the 2020 census, up from 2,381 at the 2010 census.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated coastal suburb of Santa Barbara, California, located in Santa Barbara County. It is bounded on the east by Santa Barbara, on the north and west by the unincorporated area of the eastern Goleta Valley, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean.

Santa Barbara

Latitude
34.4221° or 34° 25′ 20″ north
Longitude
-119.7027° or 119° 42′ 10″ west
Population
91,200
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
IATA airport code
SBA
United Nations Location Code
US SBA
Open location code
8562C7CW+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 96885398
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5392952
Wiki­data ID
Q159288
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Santa Barbara” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Santa Barbara, Kalifornië”
  • Afrikaans: “Santa Barbara”
  • Albanian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Arabic: “سانتا باربارا”
  • Aragonese: “Santa Barbara”
  • Armenian: “Սանտա Բարբարա”
  • Asturian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santa-Barbara”
  • Balinese: “County Santa Barbara, California”
  • Balinese: “County Santa Barbara”
  • Basque: “Santa Barbara”
  • Bavarian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Барбара”
  • Bengali: “সান্তা বারবারা”
  • Breton: “Santa Barbara”
  • Bulgarian: “Санта Барбара”
  • Catalan: “Santa Barbara”
  • Catalan: “Santa Bàrbara”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Barbara”
  • Central Kurdish: “سانتا باربارا، کالیفۆرنیا”
  • Chechen: “Санта-Барбара”
  • Chinese: “Santa Barbara”
  • Chinese: “圣巴巴拉”
  • Chinese: “聖塔芭芭拉”
  • Chinese: “聖塔芭芭拉市”
  • Chinese: “聖大巴巴拉”
  • Chinese: “聖芭芭拉”
  • Cornish: “Santa Barbara, Kaliforni”
  • Cornish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Santa Barbara”
  • Croatian: “Santa Barbara, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Czech: “Santa Barbara”
  • Dagbani: “Santa Barbara”
  • Danish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Dutch: “Santa Barbara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتا باربارا”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Barbaro”
  • Esperanto: “Santa Barbara”
  • Estonian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Finnish: “Santa Barbara”
  • French: “Santa Barbara”
  • Galician: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Galician: “Santa Bárbara, California”
  • Galician: “Santa Barbara”
  • Galician: “Santa Bárbara”
  • Georgian: “სანტა-ბარბარა”
  • German: “Santa Barbara”
  • Gilaki: “سانتا باربارا”
  • Greek: “Σάντα Μπάρμπαρα”
  • Gujarati: “સાંતા બાર્બરા”
  • Haitian: “Santa Barbara, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Hebrew: “סנטה ברברה”
  • Hindi: “सांता बारबरा”
  • Hungarian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Icelandic: “Santa Barbara”
  • Ido: “Santa Barbara, Kalifornia”
  • Ido: “Santa Barbara”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Irish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Italian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Japanese: “サンタ・バーバラ”
  • Japanese: “サンタバーバラ”
  • Kabyle: “Santa Barbara”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಂಟ ಬಾರ್ಬರ”
  • Korean: “샌타 바바라”
  • Korean: “샌타 바버라”
  • Korean: “샌타바바라”
  • Korean: “샌타바버라”
  • Ladin: “Santa Barbara”
  • Ladino: “Santa Barbara”
  • Latin: “Barbaropolis”
  • Latin: “Fanum Sanctae Barbarae”
  • Latin: “Sancta Barbara”
  • Latvian: “Santabarbara”
  • Lithuanian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Macedonian: “Санта Барбара”
  • Malagasy: “Santa Barbara, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Santa Barbara”
  • Malay: “Santa Barbara”
  • Malayalam: “സാന്താ ബാർബറ”
  • Maltese: “Santa Barbara”
  • Marathi: “सँटा बार्बरा”
  • Marathi: “सांता बार्बरा”
  • Mazanderani: “سانتا باربارا (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سانتا باربارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Barbara”
  • Moksha: “Санта Барбара”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊ߲ߕߊ߫ ߓߊߙߑߓߙߊ߫߸ ߞߊߟߑߝߐߙߑߣߌ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߛߊ߲ߕߊ߫ ߓߊߙߑߓߙߊ߫”
  • Newari: “स्यान्टा बार्बरा (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “स्यान्टा बार्बरा, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “स्यान्टा बार्बरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Barbara”
  • Norwegian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Barbara”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Bærberaburg”
  • Ossetian: “Сантæ-Барбарæ”
  • Pampanga: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Pampanga: “Santa Barbara”
  • Persian: “سانتا باربارا”
  • Persian: “سانتاباربارا”
  • Persian: “سنتا باربارا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “سنتا باربارا”
  • Persian: “سنتاباربارا”
  • Polish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Barbara”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Bárbara”
  • Quechua: “Santa Bárbara”
  • Romanian: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Romanian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Russian: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Russian: “Санта-Барбара”
  • Scots: “Santa Barbara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santa Barbara”
  • Serbian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Serbian: “Санта Барбара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Silesian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්ටා බාබරා”
  • Slovak: “Santa Barbara”
  • Slovenian: “Santa Barbara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنتا باربارا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Santa Bárbara (California)”
  • Spanish: “Santa Bárbara”
  • Swahili: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Swahili: “Santa Barbara”
  • Swedish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Tagalog: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Tagalog: “Santa Barbara”
  • Tajik: “Санта Барбара”
  • Talysh: “Santa Barbara”
  • Tamil: “ஸான்டா பார்பரா”
  • Tatar: “Санта-Барбара”
  • Telugu: “సాంటా బార్బరా”
  • Thai: “Santa Barbara”
  • Thai: “แซนตาบาร์บารา”
  • Turkish: “Santa Barbara, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Santa Barbara”
  • Ukrainian: “Санта-Барбара”
  • Urdu: “سانتا باربرا، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Santa Barbara”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Barbara”
  • Volapük: “Santa Barbara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santa Barbara, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santa Barbara”
  • Welsh: “Santa Barbara”
  • Western Armenian: “Սանթա Պարպարա”
  • Western Frisian: “Santa Barbara”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانٹا باربرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣巴巴拉 (加利福尼亚州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣巴巴拉（加利福尼亚州）”
  • Yakut: “Санта Барбара (куорат)”
  • Yakut: “Санта Барбара”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖塔芭芭拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Santa Barbara”
  • “Santa Barbara”
  • “Santa Bárbara”
  • “Santa Bàrbara”
  • “Santa Bàrbara (Califòrgna)”

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