Southern California
Southern California is a megapolitan area in the southern region of the U.S. state of California. The large urban areas containing Los Angeles and San Diego stretch all along the coast from Ventura to the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego.
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Southern California
- Region with 22,000,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 4,590 feet (1,399 metres)
- Description: geographic and cultural region
- Also known as“SoCal”“South California”
- Location
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Latitude of center
34.6874° or 34° 41′ 15″ north
Longitude of center
-116.7847° or 116° 47′ 5″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Southern California” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Suid-Kalifornië”
- Arabic: “كاليفورنيا الجنوبية”
- Armenian: “Հարավային Կալիֆորնիա”
- Asturian: “Sur de California”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Kaliforniya”
- Basque: “Hegoaldeko Kalifornia”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Каліфорнія”
- Bengali: “দক্ষিণ ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Southern California”
- Bulgarian: “Южна Калифорния”
- Catalan: “Califòrnia del Sud”
- Catalan: “Sud de Califòrnia”
- Central Kurdish: “باشووری کالیفۆڕنیا”
- Chinese: “南加利福尼亚州”
- Chinese: “南加利福尼亞州”
- Chinese: “南加州”
- Czech: “Jižní Kalifornie”
- Dutch: “SoCal”
- Dutch: “Southern California”
- Dutch: “Zuid Californie”
- Dutch: “Zuid Californië”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Californie”
- Dutch: “Zuid-Californië”
- Dutch: “Zuidelijk Californie”
- Dutch: “Zuidelijk Californië”
- Esperanto: “Suda Kalifornio”
- Estonian: “Lõuna-California”
- Faroese: “Suðurkalifornia”
- Finnish: “Etelä-Kalifornia”
- French: “Californie du Sud”
- French: “SoCal”
- French: “Sud de la Californie”
- Galician: “Conurbación do sur de California”
- German: “Südkalifornien”
- Greek: “Νότια Καλιφόρνια”
- Hebrew: “דרום קליפורניה”
- Indonesian: “California Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Kalifornia Selatan”
- Italian: “California del Sud”
- Italian: “California meridionale”
- Italian: “SoCal”
- Japanese: “南カリフォルニア”
- Kabiyè: “Kalɩfɔrnii nɛ hadɛ”
- Kirghiz: “Түштүк Калифорния”
- Korean: “남가주”
- Korean: “남부 캘리포니아 주”
- Korean: “남부 캘리포니아”
- Korean: “남캘리포니아”
- Korean: “사우던 캘리포니아”
- Korean: “사우던캘리포니아”
- Korean: “서던 캘리포니아”
- Korean: “서던캘리포니아”
- Korean: “캘리포니아 남부”
- Korean: “캘리포니아 주 남부”
- Latin: “California Meridiana”
- Malay: “California Selatan”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüdkalifornien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør California”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sør-California”
- Norwegian: “Sør-California”
- Ossetian: “Хуссар Калифорни”
- Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਕੈਲੀਫ਼ੋਰਨੀਆ”
- Persian: “کالیفرنیا جنوبی”
- Persian: “کالیفرنیای جنوبی”
- Polish: “Kalifornia Południowa”
- Polish: “Południowa Kalifornia”
- Polish: “Southern California”
- Portuguese: “Califórnia do Sul”
- Portuguese: “SoCal”
- Portuguese: “Southern California”
- Portuguese: “Sul da Califórnia”
- Romanian: “California de Sud”
- Russian: “Южная Калифорния”
- Scots: “SoCal”
- Scots: “Soothren Californie”
- Slovenian: “Južna Kalifornija”
- Slovenian: “So Cal”
- Slovenian: “SoCal”
- Slovenian: “South California”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوترن کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “SoCal”
- Spanish: “Southern California”
- Spanish: “Sur de California”
- Swedish: “Södra Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Sydkalifornien”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு கலிபோர்னியா”
- Thai: “เซาเทิร์นแคลิฟอร์เนีย”
- Turkish: “Güney Kaliforniya”
- Ukrainian: “Південна Каліфорнія”
- Urdu: “جنوبی کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “Southern Całifornia”
- Vietnamese: “miền Nam Ca Li”
- Vietnamese: “miền Nam California”
- Vietnamese: “Miền Nam California”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Ca Li”
- Vietnamese: “Nam California”
- Vietnamese: “SoCal”
- Western Frisian: “Súdlik Kalifornje”
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