Slab City
Slab City is a community of snow birds, military veterans, anarchists, neo-libertarians and others squatting off-grid in the Sonoran desert near the Salton Sea in southeastern California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: taylorandayumi, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Fedcba098, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 200 residents
- Description: community in California
- Also known as: “Camp Dunlap”, “Slab City CA.”, “Slab City, CA”, “Slab City, California”, and “The Slabs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salvation Mountain.
Salvation Mountain
Work of art
Photo: Joe Decruyenaere, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by artist Leonard Knight in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City community, and several miles from the Salton Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Niland.
Niland
Niland is a census-designated place in Imperial County, California, United States. The town is located 8 miles north of Calipatria, 2 miles southeast of the Salton Sea.
Slab City
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Imperial County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.258° or 33° 15′ 29″ northLongitude
-115.4628° or 115° 27′ 46″ westPopulation
200Named after
concrete slabOpen location code
85567G5P+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 8641401494OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q1017618
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Slab City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سلاب سيتي”
- Bulgarian: “Слаб сити”
- Catalan: “Slab City”
- Chinese: “斯拉布城”
- Czech: “Slab City”
- Dutch: “Slab City”
- French: “Slab City”
- German: “Slab City”
- Greek: “Σλαμπ Σίτι”
- Hebrew: “סלאב סיטי”
- Irish: “Slab City”
- Italian: “Slab City”
- Japanese: “スラブシティ”
- Malay: “Slab City”
- Persian: “اسلب سیتی، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “اسلب سیتی”
- Russian: “Слэб Сити”
- Russian: “Слэб-Сити”
- Spanish: “Slab City, California”
- Spanish: “Slab City”
- Swedish: “Slab City”
- Turkish: “Slab City, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Slab City”
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