Torrance
Torrance is a city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, in Southern California. Even though it is one of the larger suburbs of Los Angeles, it is overlooked by the throngs of tourists that visit LA.
Photo: Cardinalngold, Public domain.- Type: City with 142,000 residents
- Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Torrance, CA” and “Torrance, California”
- Postal codes: 90501-90510
- Neighbors: Gardena, Lawndale, and Los Angeles
Places of Interest
Highlights include Madrona Marsh and Little Company of Mary Hospital.
Madrona Marsh
Nature reserve
The Madrona Marsh Preserve, in the city of Torrance in the South Bay region of Southern California, is a seasonal Delta wetland with vernal pools. The 43 acres was a former site of oil wells and is one of the few natural areas remaining within an urban landscape.
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Hospital
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center is a Roman Catholic hospital in Torrance, California, United States. The hospital was founded by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, and is part of the Providence Health & Services system.
Torrance High School
School
Torrance High School is a high school located in Torrance, California. Founded in 1917, it is one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in California and is the oldest of the five high schools in the Torrance Unified School District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redondo Beach and Lomita.
Redondo Beach
Lomita
Town
Walteria
Quarter
Walteria is a neighborhood in south Torrance in southern California, United States. It is bounded by Crenshaw Boulevard on the east, Pacific Coast Highway on the north, Vista Montana to the west; and approximately Newton Street, Blair Way, Winlock Road and Rolling Hills Way to the south.
Torrance
- Categories: city of California, big city, charter city, and locality
- Location: South Bay, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.8371° or 33° 50′ 14″ north
Longitude
-118.3414° or 118° 20′ 29″ west
Population
142,000
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
IATA airport code
TOA
United Nations Location Code
US TOA
Open location code
8553RMP5+VF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Torrance” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توررانسي”
- Armenian: “Տորրանս”
- Asturian: “Torrance, California”
- Asturian: “Torrance”
- Basque: “Torrance”
- Belarusian: “Торанс”
- Bengali: “টরেন্স”
- Bulgarian: “Торънс”
- Catalan: “Torrance”
- Cebuano: “Torrance”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆرانس”
- Chechen: “Торренс”
- Chinese: “托倫斯”
- Chinese: “托兰斯”
- Chinese: “托蘭斯”
- Croatian: “Torrance, Kalifornija”
- Croatian: “Torrance”
- Czech: “Torrance”
- Dagbani: “Torrance”
- Danish: “Torrance”
- Dutch: “Torrance”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورانسى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توررانس”
- Esperanto: “Torrance”
- Finnish: “Torrance”
- French: “Torrance”
- German: “Torrance”
- Gilaki: “تؤرانس”
- Greek: “Τόρανς”
- Gujarati: “ટોરેન્સ”
- Haitian: “Torrance, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Torrance”
- Hebrew: “טוראנס”
- Hebrew: “טורנס”
- Hindi: “टोररेंस”
- Hungarian: “Torrance”
- Indonesian: “Torrance, California”
- Indonesian: “Torrance”
- Irish: “Torrance, California”
- Irish: “Torrance”
- Italian: “Torrance”
- Japanese: “トーランス”
- Japanese: “トーランス市”
- Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ರೆನ್ಸ್”
- Kashmiri: “ٹورَنٛس، کیلیفورنیا”
- Kazakh: “Торранс”
- Korean: “토런스”
- Ladin: “Torrance”
- Latvian: “Torrance”
- Latvian: “Torrensa”
- Lithuanian: “Torensas”
- Lithuanian: “Torrance”
- Malagasy: “Torrance, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Torrance”
- Malay: “Torrance”
- Marathi: “टॉरन्स”
- Marathi: “टोरान्स”
- Mazanderani: “تورنس (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “تورنس”
- Newari: “टोरान्स, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “टोरान्स”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Torrance”
- Norwegian: “Torrance”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Torratūn on Californie”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Torratūn”
- Persian: “تورانس، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “تورانس”
- Persian: “تورنس”
- Polish: “Torrance”
- Portuguese: “Torrance”
- Romanian: “Torrance, California”
- Romanian: “Torrance”
- Russian: “Торранс”
- Russian: “Торренс”
- Scots: “Torrance”
- Serbian: “Torans”
- Serbian: “Torrance”
- Serbian: “Торанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torrance, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Torrance”
- Silesian: “Torrance”
- Sinhala: “ටොරන්ස්”
- Slovak: “Torrance”
- Slovenian: “Torrance”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورانس، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Torrance (California)”
- Spanish: “Torrance”
- Swahili: “Torrance, California”
- Swahili: “Torrance”
- Swedish: “Torrance”
- Tagalog: “Torrance, California”
- Tagalog: “Torrance”
- Talysh: “Torrans”
- Tamil: “டாரன்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Торанс”
- Telugu: “టొర్రన్స్”
- Thai: “ทอร์รันซ์”
- Thai: “ทอรแรนซ”
- Turkish: “Torrance, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Torrance”
- Ukrainian: “Торренс”
- Urdu: “ٹورنس، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Torrance”
- Uzbek: “Торранcе”
- Venetian: “Torrance”
- Vietnamese: “Torrance, California”
- Vietnamese: “Torrance”
- Volapük: “Torrance”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torrance, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Torrance”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹورینس”
- Yakut: “Торранс”
- “Torrance”
- “Torrance (Califòrgna)”
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