Compton
Compton is one of the Gateway Cities of Los Angeles, and is mainly known for being the birthplace of rappers Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, NWA and The Game, as well as of professional athletes Serena and Venus Williams.- Type: Town with 96,400 residents
- Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Postal codes: 90220-90224
- Neighbors: Los Angeles and Lynwood
Notable Places in the Area
Compton station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Compton station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.
Compton/Woodley Airport
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
33°53′24″N 118°14′37″W / 33.89000°N 118.24361°W Compton/Woodley Airport is a public airport in Compton, southern Los Angeles County, California, 2 miles southwest of Downtown Compton.
Artesia station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Artesia Station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.
Localities in the Area
Lynwood
Photo: Octaviogonz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lynwood is in the Gateway Cities region of Los Angeles County, California.
Willowbrook
Willowbrook, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California.East Rancho Dominguez
East Rancho Dominguez, also known as East Compton, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California.Compton
- Categories: city in the United States, charter city and locality
- Location: Gateway Cities, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.8949° or 33° 53' 42" northLongitude
-118.2266° or 118° 13' 36" westPopulation
96,400Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)IATA airport code
CPMUnited Nations Location Code
US CPMOpen Location Code
8553VQVF+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 1837323613OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5339066Wikidata ID
Q487119Compton Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Compton, California
- Arabic: كومبتون
- Arabic: كومبتون، كاليفورنيا
- Arabic: كومبتون، لوس أنجليس، كاليفورنيا
- Armenian: Կոմպտոն
- Armenian: Քոմփթոն
- Azerbaijani: Kompton
- Basque: Compton (Kalifornia)
- Basque: Compton
- Belarusian: Комптан
- Bengali: কম্পটন
- Bulgarian: Комптън
- Catalan: Compton
- Cebuano: Compton
- Chechen: Комптон (Калифорни)
- Chechen: Комптон
- Chinese: Compton
- Chinese: 康普頓
- Chinese: 康普顿
- Croatian: Compton, Kalifornija
- Croatian: Compton
- Czech: Compton
- Dagbani: Compton
- Danish: Compton
- Dutch: Compton
- Egyptian Arabic: كومبتون
- English: City of Compton
- English: Compton, CA
- English: Compton, California
- Esperanto: Compton
- Estonian: Compton
- Finnish: Compton
- French: Compton
- Georgian: კომპტონი
- German: Compton
- German: Compton (Kalifornien)
- Greek: Κόμπτον
- Gujarati: કોમ્પટન
- Haitian: Compton, Kalifòni
- Haitian: Compton
- Hebrew: קומפטון
- Hindi: कॉम्प्टन
- Hungarian: Compton
- Indonesian: Compton
- Irish: Compton
- Italian: Compton, California
- Italian: Compton
- Japanese: コンプトン
- Japanese: コンプトン市
- Kannada: ಕಾಂಪ್ಟನ್
- Korean: 콤프턴
- Ladin: Compton
- Latin: Comptonia
- Latvian: Compton
- Latvian: Komptona
- Lithuanian: Komptonas
- Macedonian: Комптон
- Malagasy: Compton, Kalifornia
- Malay: Compton
- Malayalam: കോംറ്റൺ
- Marathi: कॉम्पटन
- Min Nan Chinese: Compton
- Nepali: कम्प्टन, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: कम्प्टन (क्यालिफोर्निया)
- Newari: कम्प्टन, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: कम्प्टन
- Norwegian: Compton
- Norwegian Bokmål: Compton
- Persian: کامپتن، کالیفرنیا
- Persian: کامپتون، کالیفرنیا
- Polish: Compton
- Portuguese: Compton
- Romanian: Compton, California
- Romanian: Compton
- Russian: Комптон
- Scots: Compton, Californie
- Scots: Compton
- Serbian: Compton
- Serbian: Kompton
- Serbian: Комптон
- Serbo-Croatian: Compton, California
- Serbo-Croatian: Compton
- Silesian: Compton
- Sinhala: කොම්ප්ටන්
- Slovak: Compton
- Slovenian: Compton
- South Azerbaijani: کامپتن، کالیفورنیا
- Spanish: Ciudad de Compton
- Spanish: Compton
- Spanish: Compton (California)
- Swahili: Compton
- Swedish: Compton, Kalifornien
- Swedish: Compton
- Tagalog: Compton, California
- Tagalog: Compton
- Tamil: காம்ப்டன்
- Tatar: Комптон (Калифорния)
- Tatar: Комптон
- Telugu: కాంప్టన్
- Thai: คอมพ์ตัน
- Turkish: Compton, Kaliforniya
- Turkish: Compton
- Ukrainian: Комптон
- Urdu: کامپٹن، کیلیفورنیا
- Uzbek: Compton
- Uzbek: Cомптон
- Vietnamese: Compton
- Volapük: Compton
- Waray (Philippines): Compton
- Western Panjabi: کیمپٹن
- Wu Chinese: 康普顿 (加利福尼亚州)
- 康普顿(加利福尼亚州)
Other Places Named Compton
In the Area
- West Rancho DominguezHamlet, 4 km west
- MortonHamlet, 4½ km northeast
- ParamountTown, 5 km east
- WattsSuburb, 5 km north
- North Long BeachSuburb, 5 km southeast
- AthensSuburb, 6 km northwest
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