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Seal Beach

Seal Beach is a city in , . Seal beach is a small town on the coast with a beach front and pier. Main Street is a pleasant place to stroll with a number of restaurants, bars and gift shops.
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  • Type: Town with 24,200 residents
  • Description: city in Orange County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Bay City”, “Seal Beach, CA”, and “Seal Beach, California”
  • Postal code: 90740

Places of Interest

Highlights include Red Car Museum and Alamitos Energy Center.

Museum
The , also known as the Pacific Electric Museum, was a museum in Old Town Seal Beach, California. It operated in Pacific Electric car #1734 and displayed artifacts relating to the company and local history books.

Power station
Photo: gsec, CC BY 2.0.
The , formerly AES Alamitos, is a natural gas-fired power station located in , . It is the second largest power station in California.

Slipway
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a slipway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leisure World and Sunset Beach.

Hamlet
Seal Beach is an active-seniors’ retirement community opened in 1962 that introduced many innovations characterizing later senior property developments. is situated 2 miles northeast of Seal Beach.

Neighborhood
Photo: Regular Daddy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Huntington Beach beachfront community in . It was established on September 8, 1904 and developed as a result of the 1920 discovery of oil in the Huntington Beach Oil Field. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Seal Beach.

Suburb
Photo: Darkest tree, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood in . It is home to many shops, restaurants, salons, and business offices.

Seal Beach

Latitude
33.7424° or 33° 44′ 33″ north
Longitude
-118.1056° or 118° 6′ 20″ west
Population
24,200
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SLH
Open location code
8553PVRV+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1837286676
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5394086
Wiki­data ID
Q593039
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Seal Beach” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيل بيتش”
  • Basque: “Seal Beach”
  • Belarusian: “Сіл-Біч”
  • Bulgarian: “Сийл Бийч”
  • Catalan: “Seal Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Seal Beach”
  • Chechen: “Сил-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Seal Beach”
  • Chinese: “海豹滩”
  • Chinese: “海豹灘”
  • Chinese: “锡尔比奇”
  • Croatian: “Seal Beach”
  • Danish: “Seal Beach”
  • Dutch: “Seal Beach”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيل بيتش”
  • Finnish: “Seal Beach”
  • French: “Seal Beach”
  • German: “Seal Beach”
  • Gilaki: “سیل بیچ”
  • Haitian: “Seal Beach, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Seal Beach”
  • Hebrew: “סיל ביץ‘”
  • Hebrew: “סיל ביץ’”
  • Hebrew: “סיל ביץ”
  • Hungarian: “Seal Beach”
  • Irish: “Seal Beach”
  • Italian: “Seal Beach”
  • Japanese: “シールビーチ”
  • Korean: “실비치”
  • Ladin: “Seal Beach”
  • Malagasy: “Seal Beach, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Seal Beach”
  • Malayalam: “സീൽ ബീച്ച്”
  • Mazanderani: “سیل بیچ (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “سیل بیچ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Seal Beach”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąstííntsoh Shijéʼé”
  • Newari: “सील बीच (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “सील बीच, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “सील बीच”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Seal Beach”
  • Norwegian: “Seal Beach”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Seolhstrand”
  • Persian: “سیل بیچ”
  • Polish: “Seal Beach”
  • Portuguese: “Seal Beach”
  • Russian: “Сил-Бич”
  • Serbian: “Сил Бич”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Seal Beach, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Seal Beach”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیل بیچ”
  • Spanish: “Seal Beach (California)”
  • Spanish: “Seal Beach”
  • Swahili: “Seal Beach, California”
  • Swahili: “Seal Beach”
  • Swedish: “Seal Beach”
  • Tagalog: “Seal Beach, California”
  • Tagalog: “Seal Beach”
  • Tatar: “Сил-Бич”
  • Turkish: “Seal Beach, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Seal Beach”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіл-Біч”
  • Urdu: “سیئل بیچ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Seal Beach”
  • Vietnamese: “Seal Beach, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Seal Beach”
  • Volapük: “Seal Beach”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Seal Beach, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Seal Beach”

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