Universal City
Universal City is a community in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, most of which is given over to the world's largest motion picture studio and its associated visitor attraction, the popular Universal Studios Hollywood theme park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter with 105,000 residents
- Description: community in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Universal City, CA” and “Universal City, California”
- Postal code: 91608
Places of Interest
Highlights include Universal Studios Hollywood and Campo de Cahuenga.
Universal Studios Hollywood
Theme park
Photo: 林振宇, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park located in Universal City, California, near Hollywood, Los Angeles. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood film studios still in use.
Campo de Cahuenga
Park
Photo: PKM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Campo de Cahuenga is an adobe and memorial park located at the site of the signing of the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga, a ceasefire agreement which ended the American conquest of California.
Jurassic World: The Ride
Photo: Troutfarm27, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jurassic World: The Ride is a dark water ride attraction that is themed to the Jurassic World series at Universal Studios Hollywood. The original Jurassic Park: The Ride, which operated from June 21, 1996, to September 3, 2018, underwent a major refurbishment and reopened as Jurassic World: The Ride on July 12, 2019.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Hollywood and Studio City.
North Hollywood
Photo: Cbl62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley in the city of Los Angeles. Despite the similar name, North Hollywood does not share a border with Hollywood, which is several miles to the southeast.
Studio City
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Studio City is an area in the San Fernando Valley, just to the west of Universal City and about 12 miles NW of Downtown LA. As its name implies, Studio City arose to support the motion picture studios with affordable housing for their employees.
Hollywood Hills
Quarter
The Hollywood Hills is a residential neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It borders Studio City, Universal City and Burbank on the north, Griffith Park on the north and east, Los Feliz on the southeast, Hollywood on the south and Hollywood Hills West on the west.
Universal City
Latitude
34.1419° or 34° 8′ 31″ northLongitude
-118.3584° or 118° 21′ 30″ westPopulation
105,000Elevation
755 feet (230 metres)United Nations Location Code
US UVCOpen location code
85634JRR+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 150958999OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Universal City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يونيفرسال سيتي”
- Armenian: “Յունիվերսալ Սիթի”
- Basque: “Universal City”
- Belarusian: “Юніверсал-Сіці”
- Bhojpuri: “यूनिवर्सल सिटी”
- Bulgarian: “Юнивърсъл Сити”
- Catalan: “Universal City”
- Cebuano: “Universal City”
- Chinese: “环球市”
- Chinese: “環球市”
- Danish: “Universal City”
- Dutch: “Universal City”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يونفيرسال سيتى, كاليفورنيا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يونفيرسال سيتى”
- Esperanto: “Universalurbo”
- French: “Universal City”
- Galician: “Universal City”
- German: “Universal City”
- Greek: “Γιουνιβέρσαλ Σίτι”
- Hebrew: “יוניברסל סיטי”
- Irish: “Universal City”
- Italian: “Universal City”
- Japanese: “ユニヴァーサル・シティ (カリフォルニア州)”
- Japanese: “ユニバーサル・シティ”
- Japanese: “ユニバーサルシティ”
- Korean: “유니버설시티”
- Persian: “یونیورسال سیتی، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “یونیورسال سیتی”
- Polish: “Universal City”
- Portuguese: “Universal City”
- Russian: “Юниверсал-Сити”
- Slovenian: “Universal City”
- Spanish: “Universal City (California)”
- Spanish: “Universal City”
- Swedish: “Universal City, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Universal City”
- Turkish: “Universal City”
- Ukrainian: “Юніверсал-Сіті”
- Urdu: “یونیورسل سٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Volapük: “Universal City”
- Welsh: “Universal City”
- Wu Chinese: “环球市”
- “यूनिवर्सल सिटी, कैलिफोर्निया”
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