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Santa Monica

Anchoring the of Los Angeles County, Santa Monica is a beachfront city popular with tourists for its expansive beach and its famous pier, which are among the most popular coastal attractions in .
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  • Type: City with 89,700 residents
  • Description: beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Santa Monica, CA” and “Santa Monica, California”
  • Postal codes: 90401-90411
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Santa Monica Pier and Pacific Park.

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The is a large at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, United States. It contains a small amusement park, concession stands, and areas for views and fishing.

Theme park
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is an oceanfront amusement park located in Santa Monica, California. The park, located on the , looks directly out on the Pacific Ocean, in the direction of .

Railway station
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is an at-grade light rail station in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located near the intersection of 4th Street and Colorado Avenue in downtown Santa Monica, California. It is the E Line's western terminus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Venice and Brentwood.

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, also sometimes referred to as Beach, is a district of in . Its colorful Boardwalk is a great scene: free, fun, and funky, making the "short list" of things to do in Los Angeles.

Suburb
is a primarily residential neighborhood in the , part of the Westside area of the .

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in , on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. The short-lived City of grew around the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, later the Veterans Home, and was incorporated as a city in 1899.

Santa Monica

Latitude
34.0195° or 34° 1′ 10″ north
Longitude
-118.4912° or 118° 29′ 28″ west
Population
89,700
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
IATA airport code
SMO
United Nations Location Code
US SMO
Open location code
85632G95+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1792515162
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5393212
Wiki­data ID
Q47164
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Santa Monica” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Santa Monica, Kalifornië”
  • Afrikaans: “Santa Monica”
  • Arabic: “Santa Monica”
  • Arabic: “سانتا مونيكا”
  • Aragonese: “Santa Monica”
  • Armenian: “Սանտա Մոնիկա”
  • Asturian: “Santa Monica (California)”
  • Asturian: “Santa Monica”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santa-Monika”
  • Balinese: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Balinese: “Santa Monica”
  • Basque: “Santa Monica”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Моніка”
  • Bengali: “সান্তা মনিকা”
  • Bosnian: “Santa Monica”
  • Bulgarian: “Санта Моника”
  • Catalan: “Santa Monica”
  • Catalan: “Santa Mónica”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Monica”
  • Central Kurdish: “سانتا مۆنیکا، کالیفۆرنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “سانتا مۆنیکا”
  • Chechen: “Санта-Моника”
  • Chinese: “Santa Monica”
  • Chinese: “圣塔莫尼卡”
  • Chinese: “圣莫尼卡”
  • Chinese: “聖塔摩尼卡”
  • Chinese: “聖塔莫尼卡”
  • Chinese: “聖塔蒙尼卡”
  • Chinese: “聖莫尼卡”
  • Croatian: “Santa Monica, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Santa Monica”
  • Czech: “Santa Monica”
  • Dagbani: “Santa Monica”
  • Danish: “Santa Monica”
  • Dutch: “Santa Monica”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتا مونيكا”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Moniko”
  • Esperanto: “Santa Monica”
  • Estonian: “Santa Monica”
  • Faroese: “Santa Monica”
  • Finnish: “Santa Monica”
  • French: “Santa Monica”
  • Galician: “Santa Monica”
  • Georgian: “სანტა-მონიკა”
  • German: “Santa Monica”
  • Gilaki: “سانتا مؤنیکا”
  • Greek: “Σάντα Μόνικα”
  • Gujarati: “સાન્ટા મોનિકા”
  • Haitian: “Santa Monica, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Santa Monica”
  • Hebrew: “סנטה מוניקה”
  • Hindi: “सांता मोनिका”
  • Hungarian: “Santa Monica”
  • Icelandic: “Santa Monica”
  • Ido: “Santa Monica”
  • Iloko: “Santa Monica”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Indonesian: “Santa Monica”
  • Irish: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Irish: “Santa Monica”
  • Italian: “Santa Monica”
  • Japanese: “サンタ・モニカ”
  • Japanese: “サンタモニカ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Santa Monica”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಂತಾ ಮೋನಿಕಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Санта-Моника”
  • Korean: “산타 모니카”
  • Korean: “산타모니카”
  • Korean: “샌타 모니카”
  • Korean: “샌타모니카”
  • Ladin: “Santa Monica”
  • Latin: “Monicopolis”
  • Latin: “Sancta Monica”
  • Latvian: “Santamonika”
  • Lithuanian: “Santa Monica”
  • Lithuanian: “Santa Monika”
  • Low German: “Santa Monica”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santa Monica”
  • Macedonian: “Санта Моника”
  • Malagasy: “Santa Monica, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Santa Monica”
  • Malay: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Malay: “Santa Monica”
  • Marathi: “सांता मोनिका”
  • Mazanderani: “سانتا مونیکا (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سانتا مونیکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Monica”
  • Mongolian: “Санта-Моника”
  • Newari: “स्यान्टा मोनिका (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “स्यान्टा मोनिका, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “स्यान्टा मोनिका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Monica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santa Monica”
  • Norwegian: “Santa Monica”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Monica”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Monicaburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Monicastrand on Californie”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Monicastrand”
  • Persian: “سانتا مونیکا”
  • Persian: “سنتا مونیکا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “سنتا مونیکا”
  • Piemontese: “Santa Monica”
  • Polish: “Santa Monica”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Mônica, California”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Mónica”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Mônica”
  • Romanian: “Santa Monica”
  • Russian: “Санта-Моника”
  • Scots: “Santa Monica, Californie”
  • Scots: “Santa Monica”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santa Mónica, Calafòrnia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santa Mónica”
  • Serbian: “Santa Monica”
  • Serbian: “Санта Моника”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Monica”
  • Silesian: “Santa Monica”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්ටා මොනිකා”
  • Slovak: “Santa Monica”
  • Slovenian: “Santa Monica”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سنتا مونیکا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Santa Mónica (California)”
  • Spanish: “Santa Mónica”
  • Swahili: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Swahili: “Santa Monica”
  • Swedish: “Santa Monica”
  • Tagalog: “Santa Monica”
  • Tajik: “Санта-Моника”
  • Talysh: “Santa Monika”
  • Tamil: “சாண்டா மோனிகா”
  • Tamil: “சாந்தா மொனிக்கா”
  • Tamil: “சான்ரா மொனிக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Санта-Моника”
  • Telugu: “శాంటా మోనికా”
  • Thai: “Santa Monica”
  • Thai: “ซานตา โมนิก้า”
  • Thai: “ซานตาโมนิกา”
  • Thai: “แซนตามอนิกา”
  • Thai: “แซนทาโมนิกา”
  • Turkish: “Santa Monica, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Santa Monica”
  • Ukrainian: “Санта-Моніка”
  • Urdu: “سانتا مونیکا، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “سانٹا مونیکا”
  • Uzbek: “Santa Monica”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Monica, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Santa Monica”
  • Volapük: “Santa Monica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santa Monica, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santa Monica”
  • Welsh: “Santa Monica, Califfornia”
  • Welsh: “Santa Monica”
  • Western Armenian: “Սանթա Մոնիքա”
  • Western Frisian: “Santa Monica”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانٹا مونیکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣莫尼卡”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖塔蒙尼卡”
  • “Santa Monica”
  • “Santa Mònica”
  • “Santa Mònica (Califòrgna)”

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