Ventura County
Ventura County is a region of the Central Coast of California, though it is sometimes considered part of Southern California.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Top destinations include Oxnard and Ventura.
Oxnard
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Oxnard is a major transportation hub in Ventura County. With a population of over 200,000 in 2020, Oxnard is Ventura's largest city.
Ventura
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Ventura is a city of 111,000 people in Ventura County, a region of California's Central Coast. Ventura mixes old charm with new modern facilities to blend a rich and wonderful background to living.
Thousand Oaks
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Thousand Oaks is a city in Ventura County in Southern California. It is the largest city in the Conejo Valley, which it shares with Agoura Hills and Westlake Village, nestled within the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Santa Clara Valley
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The Santa Clara Valley is a rural, mainly agricultural, valley in Ventura County. Santa Clara Valley was known as "the Valley of Heart's Delight" for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees and plants.
Simi Valley
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Simi Valley is in Ventura County in Southern California. There isn't much in this Los Angeles suburb but it's possible to drive to many destinations in Southern California within an hour such as Disneyland, Hollywood and Downtown LA.
Agoura Hills
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Agoura Hills and Westlake Village are cities in the Ventura County region. Though they are a part of Los Angeles County, they share the Conejo Valley with Thousand Oaks and are separated from the San Fernando Valley by the Simi Hills and Santa Monica Mountains.
Camarillo
Camarillo is a city in Ventura County, approximately 54 miles north of Los Angeles. Camarillo would be just one of the numerous small cities along the 101 Highway, if it weren't the host to one of the biggest outlet malls in Southern California.
Ojai
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Ojai is a city in Ventura County, California. Located in the Ojai Valley, it is northwest of Los Angeles and east of Santa Barbara. The valley is part of the east–west trending Western Transverse Ranges and is about 10 miles long by 3 miles wide and divided into a lower and an upper valley, each of similar size, surrounded by hills and mountains.
Port Hueneme
Port Hueneme is a small beach city in Ventura County, California, surrounded by the city of Oxnard and the Santa Barbara Channel. Both the Port of Hueneme and Naval Base Ventura County lie within the city limits.
Ventura County
- Type: county of California with 844,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Ventura”, “Ventura County, CA”, and “Ventura County, California”
- Neighbors: Kern County and Santa Barbara County
- Location: Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Ventura County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ventura County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة فينتورا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه فينتورا، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Վենտուրա շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Ventura”
- Asturian: “Ventura (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Ventura qraflığı”
- Balinese: “County Ventura, California”
- Balinese: “County Ventura”
- Basque: “Ventura konderria”
- Bavarian: “Ventura County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Ventura County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Вентура”
- Belarusian: “Вентура”
- Bengali: “ভেনচুরা কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bengali: “ভেনচুরা কাউন্টি”
- Bishnupriya: “ভেন্চুরা কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “ভেন্চুরা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Вентура”
- Catalan: “comtat de Ventura”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Ventura”
- Cebuano: “Ventura County”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی ڤێنتورا، کالیفۆرنیا”
- Chechen: “Вентура”
- Chinese: “Ventura Kūn”
- Chinese: “文图拉县”
- Chinese: “文圖拉縣”
- Corsican: “Cuntea di Ventura”
- Corsican: “Ventura County”
- Croatian: “Okrug Ventura, Kalifornija”
- Croatian: “Ventura, okrug”
- Croatian: “Ventura”
- Czech: “Ventura County”
- Danish: “Ventura County”
- Dutch: “Ventura County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤينتورا كاونتى”
- Esperanto: “kantono Ventura”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Ventura”
- Estonian: “Ventura maakond”
- Finnish: “Venturan piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Ventura”
- French: “Comté de Ventura”
- Galician: “Condado de Ventura”
- Georgian: “ვენტურას ოლქი”
- German: “Ventura County”
- Gilaki: “ونچورا شأرستان”
- Greek: “κομητεία Βεντούρα”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Βεντούρα”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ונטורה”
- Hungarian: “Ventura megye”
- Icelandic: “Ventura County”
- Icelandic: “Ventura-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Ventura, California”
- Irish: “Contae Ventura”
- Italian: “contea di Ventura”
- Italian: “Contea di Ventura”
- Italian: “Ventura County”
- Japanese: “ヴェンチュラ・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “ヴェンチュラ郡”
- Japanese: “ベンチュラ郡”
- Kashmiri: “وینٹورا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Korean: “벤투라군”
- Ladino: “Ventura”
- Latin: “Ventura Comitatus”
- Latvian: “Venturas apgabals”
- Limburgan: “Ventura County”
- Low German: “Ventura County”
- Luxembourgish: “Ventura County”
- Malayalam: “വെഞ്ചുറ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “व्हेंचुरा काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “ونچورا شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ونچورا شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ventura Kūn”
- Navajo: “Chéchʼil Łání Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Ventura County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ventura County”
- Norwegian: “Ventura County”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fennturrasċīr”
- Pampanga: “Ventura County, California”
- Pampanga: “Ventura County”
- Persian: “شهرستان ونتورا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ونتورا”
- Persian: “شهرستان ونچورا”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Ventura”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Ventura”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Ventura, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Ventura”
- Russian: “Вентура”
- Sardinian: “contea de Ventura”
- Scots: “Ventura Coontie”
- Scots: “Ventura Coonty”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ventura County”
- Serbian: “Okrug Ventura”
- Serbian: “Ventura County”
- Serbian: “Вентура”
- Serbian: “Округ Вентура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ventura County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ventura County”
- Silesian: “Hrabstwo Ventura”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Ventura”
- Slovenian: “Ventura County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Ventura, California”
- Spanish: “Condado de Ventura”
- Spanish: “Ventura County”
- Swedish: “Ventura County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Ventura, California”
- Tagalog: “Ventura County”
- Tatar: “Вентура (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Вентура”
- Tumbuka: “Ventura County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Ventura County”
- Turkish: “Ventura County, CA”
- Turkish: “Ventura County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Ventura County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Ventura County”
- Turkish: “Ventura ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Ventura ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Ventura ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Ventura ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Вентура”
- Urdu: “وینٹورا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Ventura”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Ventura, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Ventura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Ventura, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Ventura”
- Welsh: “Ventura County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Ventura County”
- Western Panjabi: “ونچورا کاؤنٹی”
- “Ventura”
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