Mexico
Baja California
Tijuana Municipality

Tijuana

Tijuana is a city in , , just across the border from , , USA. The city has grown from a small border town with a salacious reputation during the Prohibition Era in the United States into a large, modern city with a sizable middle class.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Zona Rio and Zona Centro.

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The is a fashionable middle class Tijuana neighborhood known for its shopping, night clubs, and restaurants. It is dominated by the Paseo de los Héroes, a wide, divided and usually very busy street.

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Downtown Tijuana is referred to as the . It includes Revolucion Avenue, which is the main tourist drag. For about 8 blocks, Revolucion is lined with shops, bars, and restaurants, many aimed at tourists.

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Tijuana's is adjacent to the tourist zone in the , to the north, and just south of the border. This zone is primarily residential and also includes the local red light district.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Playas.

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de Tijuana is the beach neighborhood of Tijuana. It includes the Bullring by the Sea, and some decent restaurants, but is mostly residential. The beaches are considered inferior to nearby Rosarito and are not a big attraction.

Places of Interest

Highlights include United States Custom House and San Ysidro Transit Center.

Government building
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The in , California, is a 1933 Spanish Revival–style building located 50 feet north of the Mexico–United States border at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

Railway station
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is a San Diego Trolley station in the neighborhood of , California. The station is the southern terminus of the Blue Line and is located on a short rail spur off the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway main line which hosts the Blue Line to downtown San Diego.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Ysidro and Otay Mesa West.

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is a community of , . Although administratively part of the City of San Diego, is geographically separated from the rest of the city by the entities of and just to the north.

Neighborhood
is a residential neighborhood in the section of , California. It borders Interstate 805 to the east, Interstate 5 to the west, and California State Route 905 to the south.

Suburb
The is a rural community in the section of , California. It neighbors Imperial Beach to the north and west, and to the north, to the east, and the Mexico–United States border to the south.

Tijuana

Latitude
32.5317° or 32° 31′ 54″ north
Longitude
-117.0195° or 117° 1′ 10″ west
Population
1,810,000
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
IATA airport code
TIJ
United Nations Location Code
MX TIJ
Open location code
8544GXJJ+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4145201092
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3981609
Wiki­data ID
Q124739
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tijuana” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tijuana”
  • Albanian: “Tihuana”
  • Albanian: “Tijuana”
  • Arabic: “تيخوانا”
  • Arabic: “تيهوانا”
  • Armenian: “Տիխուանա”
  • Asturian: “Tijuana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tixuana”
  • Balinese: “Tijuana”
  • Basque: “Tijuana”
  • Bavarian: “Tijuana”
  • Belarusian: “Тыхуана”
  • Bengali: “তিহুয়ানা”
  • Bosnian: “Tijuana”
  • Breton: “Tijuana”
  • Bulgarian: “Тихуана”
  • Catalan: “Tijuana”
  • Cebuano: “Tijuana”
  • Central Kurdish: “تیخوانا”
  • Chechen: “Тихуана”
  • Chinese: “Tijuana”
  • Chinese: “提華納”
  • Chinese: “蒂华纳”
  • Chinese: “蒂華納”
  • Croatian: “Tijuana”
  • Czech: “Tijuana”
  • Danish: “Tijuana”
  • Dutch: “Tijuana”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيخوانا”
  • Esperanto: “Tiĥuano”
  • Esperanto: “Tijuana”
  • Esperanto: “Tijuano”
  • Estonian: “Tijuana”
  • Faroese: “Tijuana”
  • Finnish: “Tijuana”
  • French: “Tijuana”
  • Galician: “Tijuana”
  • Georgian: “ტიხუანა”
  • German: “Tijuana”
  • Greek: “Τιχουάνα”
  • Gujarati: “ટિવાના”
  • Hausa: “Tijuana”
  • Hebrew: “טיחואנה”
  • Hindi: “तिजुआना”
  • Hindi: “तिहुवाना”
  • Hungarian: “Tijuana”
  • Iban: “Tijuana”
  • Icelandic: “Tíjúana”
  • Icelandic: “Tíújana”
  • Ido: “Tijuana”
  • Iloko: “Tijuana”
  • Indonesian: “Tijuana, Baja California”
  • Indonesian: “Tijuana”
  • Irish: “Tijuana”
  • Italian: “Tijuana”
  • Japanese: “Tijuana”
  • Japanese: “ティファナ”
  • Japanese: “ティフアナ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tijuana”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tijuana”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿ‍ಯುವಾನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tixuana”
  • Kazakh: “Тихуана қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тихуана”
  • Kikuyu: “Tijuana”
  • Kirghiz: “Тихуана”
  • Korean: “띠후아나”
  • Korean: “티후아나”
  • Ladino: “Tijuana”
  • Latvian: “Tihuana”
  • Lithuanian: “Tichuana”
  • Lombard: “Tijuana”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tijuana”
  • Macedonian: “Тихуана”
  • Malay: “Tijuana”
  • Malayalam: “Tijuana”
  • Malayalam: “ടീഹ്വാന”
  • Maltese: “Tijuana”
  • Marathi: “तिहुआना”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tijuana”
  • Mingrelian: “ტიხუანა”
  • Moksha: “Тихуана”
  • Mongolian: “Тихуана”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tijuana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tijuana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tijuana i Baja California”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tijuana”
  • Norwegian: “Tijuana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tijuana”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tīwana”
  • Ossetian: “Тихуанæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੀਹੁਆਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੀਖ਼ਵਾਨਾ”
  • Persian: “تيجوانا”
  • Persian: “تيخوانا، باخا كاليفرنيا”
  • Persian: “تيخوانا”
  • Persian: “تيهوانا، مكزيك”
  • Persian: “تیجوانا”
  • Persian: “تیخوانا، باخا کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “تیخوانا”
  • Persian: “تیهوانا، مکزیک”
  • Piemontese: “Tijuana”
  • Polish: “Tijuana”
  • Portuguese: “Tijuana”
  • Romanian: “Tijuana, Baja California”
  • Romanian: “Tijuana”
  • Russian: “Тихуана”
  • Scots: “Tijuana, Baja California”
  • Scots: “Tijuana”
  • Serbian: “Tihuana”
  • Serbian: “Tijuana”
  • Serbian: “Тихуана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tihuana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tijuana”
  • Silesian: “Tijuana”
  • Sinhala: “ටිජුවානා”
  • Slovak: “Tijuana”
  • Slovenian: “Tijuana”
  • Spanish: “Tijuana”
  • Swahili: “Tijuana, Baja California”
  • Swedish: “Tijuana”
  • Tagalog: “Tijuana”
  • Tajik: “Тиҳуана”
  • Tamil: “டீயவனா”
  • Tamil: “திஃக்வானா”
  • Tatar: “Тихвана”
  • Telugu: “టిజువానా”
  • Thai: “ติฆัวนา”
  • Thai: “ตีฮัวนา”
  • Turkish: “Tijuana”
  • Turkmen: “Tihuana”
  • Twi: “Tijuana”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіхуана”
  • Urdu: “تیجوانا”
  • Urdu: “تیخوانا”
  • Uzbek: “Tixuana”
  • Veps: “Tihuan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tijuana, Baja California”
  • Vietnamese: “Tijuana”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tijuana”
  • Volapük: “Tijuana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tijuana”
  • Welsh: “Tijuana”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒂华纳”
  • Yakut: “Тиһуана”
  • Yue Chinese: “蒂華納”
  • “Tijuana”

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