Santa Nella
Santa Nella is a town of about 2,000 people in Merced County in California's San Joaquin Valley. It's best known as a major rest stop on Interstate 5 and as the home of the iconic Danish-American diner Pea Soup Andersen's.- Type: Hamlet with 2,210 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Centinela”, “Santa Nella Village”, “Santa Nella, CA”, “Santa Nella, California”, and “سانتا نلا، کالیفرنیا”
Places of Interest
Highlights: O’Neill Forebay.
O’Neill Forebay
Reservoir
Santa Nella
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Merced County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.0977° or 37° 5′ 52″ north
Longitude
-121.0169° or 121° 1′ 1″ west
Population
2,210
Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)
Open location code
849W3XXM+37
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Santa Nella” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Santa Nella”
- Chechen: “Санта-Нелла”
- Chinese: “聖內拉”
- Croatian: “Santa Nella”
- Dutch: “Santa Nella”
- French: “Santa Nella”
- German: “Santa Nella”
- Gilaki: “سانتا نلا”
- Irish: “Santa Nella”
- Italian: “Santa Nella”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Santa Nella”
- Ladin: “Santa Nella”
- Persian: “سانتا نلا”
- Polish: “Santa Nella”
- Serbian: “Санта Нела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Nella, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Nella”
- South Azerbaijani: “سانتا نلا، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Santa Nella”
- Tatar: “Санта-Нелла”
- Turkish: “Santa Nella”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Нелла”
- Volapük: “Santa Nella”
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Places to explore: Volta and Ingomar.
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