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Whittier is a city of 86,000 in Los Angeles County in . It was founded by Quakers in 1887 and incorporated in 1898.
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  • Type: Town with 84,000 residents
  • Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Whittier, CA” and “Whittier, California”
  • Postal codes: 90601-90610
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital and Whittier High School.

Hospital
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PIH Health Hospital - Whittier is a community hospital in Whittier, California. It has 548 licensed beds as of 2013. Founded in 1959 as , it has been managed by the nonprofit InterHealth Corporation since the mid-1980s.

School
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is a high school located in Whittier, California. It was the original school of the Whittier Union High School District. It is the alma mater of President Richard Nixon and John Lasseter, founder of .

House
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The is a Victorian house in Whittier, California that was built in 1888 by Orin Jordan. Also known as the "Old Jordan House" and the "Whitaker Home", the house is located at 8310 S.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Fe Springs and West Whittier-Los Nietos.

Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the of southeast Los Angeles County. The population was 19,219 at the 2020 census, up from 16,223 at the 2010 census.

Suburb
is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States, near the San Gabriel River and the San Gabriel River Freeway.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California just south of the city of Whittier. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined as a census-designated place. is situated 2½ miles south of Whittier.

Whittier

Latitude
33.9749° or 33° 58′ 30″ north
Longitude
-118.0339° or 118° 2′ 2″ west
Population
84,000
Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US WHR
Open location code
8553XXF8+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150963169
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5409059
Wiki­data ID
Q838791
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Whittier” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويتير”
  • Armenian: “Ուիթեր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uittyer”
  • Basque: “Whittier”
  • Bengali: “হুইটার”
  • Bulgarian: “Уитиър”
  • Catalan: “Whittier”
  • Cebuano: “Whittier”
  • Chechen: “Виттиер”
  • Chinese: “Whittier”
  • Chinese: “惠提尔”
  • Chinese: “惠提爾”
  • Chinese: “惠蒂尔”
  • Croatian: “Whittier”
  • Czech: “Whittier”
  • Dagbani: “Whittier”
  • Danish: “Whittier”
  • Dutch: “Whittier”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويتير”
  • Esperanto: “Whittier”
  • Estonian: “Whittier”
  • Finnish: “Whittier”
  • French: “Whittier”
  • Galician: “Whittier”
  • German: “Whittier”
  • Gilaki: “ويتير”
  • Greek: “Γουίτιερ”
  • Gujarati: “વ્હિટીઅર”
  • Haitian: “Whittier, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Whittier”
  • Hebrew: “ויטייר”
  • Hindi: “व्हीटीयर”
  • Hungarian: “Whittier”
  • Indonesian: “Whittier”
  • Irish: “Whittier”
  • Italian: “Whittier”
  • Japanese: “ウィッティア”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಟ್ಟಿಯರ್”
  • Korean: “휘티어”
  • Ladin: “Whittier”
  • Latvian: “Vitera”
  • Lithuanian: “Vitjeris”
  • Malagasy: “Whittier, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Whittier”
  • Malay: “Whittier”
  • Malayalam: “വിറ്റിയർ”
  • Malayalam: “വൈറ്റിയർ”
  • Marathi: “व्हाईटियर”
  • Mazanderani: “وایتیر (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “وایتیر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Whittier”
  • Newari: “व्हिटियर, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “व्हिटियर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whittier”
  • Norwegian: “Whittier”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hwīttāwere on Californie”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hwīttāwere”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hƿīttāƿere on Californie”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hƿīttāƿere”
  • Persian: “وایتیر، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “وایتیر”
  • Polish: “Whittier”
  • Portuguese: “Whittier”
  • Romanian: “Whittier”
  • Russian: “Уиттиер”
  • Russian: “Уиттьер”
  • Serbian: “Vitijer”
  • Serbian: “Whittier”
  • Serbian: “Витијер”
  • Serbian: “Витир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Whittier, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Whittier”
  • Silesian: “Whittier”
  • Sinhala: “විටියර්”
  • Slovak: “Whittier”
  • Slovenian: “Whittier”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وایتیر، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Whittier (California)”
  • Spanish: “Whittier”
  • Swahili: “Whittier, California”
  • Swahili: “Whittier”
  • Swedish: “Whittier, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Whittier”
  • Tagalog: “Whittier, California”
  • Tagalog: “Whittier”
  • Tamil: “வ்ஹிட்டியர்”
  • Tatar: “Виттиер (Калифорния)”
  • Tatar: “Виттиер”
  • Telugu: “వైటియర్”
  • Thai: “วิททิเออร์”
  • Turkish: “Whittier, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Whittier”
  • Ukrainian: “Вітт’єр”
  • Ukrainian: “Віттіер”
  • Urdu: “وائٹیئر، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “ویڑیئر، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Whittier”
  • Uzbek: “Wҳиттиер”
  • Vietnamese: “Whittier, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Whittier”
  • Volapük: “Whittier”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Whittier, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Whittier”
  • Western Panjabi: “وائٹئر”
  • “Whittier”

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