San Diego
From balmy beaches with a laid-back attitude to a gleaming modern image, San Diego offers much for the tourist to enjoy. Situated on the Southern California seacoast, San Diego is the second largest city in the state, with 1.4 million residents, and has long attracted travelers for its ideal climate, miles of beaches, and location on the Mexican border right across from Tijuana.Photo: Michael Seljos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Downtown San Diego
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Downtown San Diego is the thriving central business district of San Diego.
La Jolla
La Jolla is an upscale beach neighborhood of 48,000 people in San Diego that, while part of the city, is often viewed as its own distinct community.Balboa Park-Hillcrest
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San Diego's most beloved green space, Balboa Park is a massive urban park in the heart of the city just north of Downtown San Diego.
Destinations
Mission Beach-Pacific Beach
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Mission Beach and Pacific Beach are the two most popular beach neighborhoods in San Diego.
Old Town-Mission Valley
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The birthplace of San Diego, Old Town is a popular tourist district of historic buildings and…
Point Loma-Ocean Beach
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Sitting at the mouth of San Diego Bay on a peninsula west of the city's airport, Point Loma offers…
North San Diego
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North San Diego is the northern region of San Diego, consisting mostly of hilly terrain and suburbs.
Mid-City
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Mid-City is the eastern part of the city of San Diego, bordered by I-8 and Mission Valley to the north, National City to the south, Downtown, Balboa Park and Hillcrest to the west, and La Mesa to the east.
Notable Places in the Area
USS Midway
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USS Midway is an aircraft carrier, formerly of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class.
San Diego Zoo
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The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, housing 4,000 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies on 100 acres of Balboa Park leased from the City of San Diego.
Localities in the Area
Coronado
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Coronado is a picturesque resort town in San Diego County in Southern California.
Little Italy
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Little Italy is a neighborhood in Downtown San Diego, California, that was originally a predominantly Italian and Portuguese fishing neighborhood.
Gaslamp Quarter
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The Gaslamp Quarter is a 16½-block neighborhood in the downtown area of San Diego, California.
San Diego
- Type: City with 1,390,000 residents
- Description: city in San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California
- Postal codes: 92101-92117, 92119-92124, 92126-92132, 92134-92140, 92142, 92145, 92147, 92149, 92150, 92152-92155, 92158-92161, 92163, 92165-92172, 92174-92177, 92179, 92182, 92186, 92187, 92190-92193 and 92195-92199
- Categories: city in the United States, border town, big city, million city, charter city, county seat and locality
- Location: San Diego County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.7139° or 32° 42' 50" northLongitude
-117.1623° or 117° 9' 44" westPopulation
1,390,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open Location Code
8544PR7Q+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 1824135555OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5391811Wikidata ID
Q16552San Diego Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: San Diego
- Akan: San Diego
- Albanian: San Diego
- Amharic: ሳንዲየጎ
- Arabic: San Diego, California
- Arabic: سان دييغو
- Armenian: Սան Դիեգո
- Asturian: San Diego, California
- Asturian: San Diego
- Azerbaijani: San-Dieqo
- Balinese: San Diégo
- Bambara: San Diego
- Basque: San Diego
- Belarusian: Сан-Дыега
- Bengali: সান ডিয়াগো
- Bengali: সানদিয়াগো
- Bengali: স্যান ডিয়েগো
- Bosnian: San Diego
- Breton: San Diego
- Bulgarian: Сан Диего
- Catalan: San Diego
- Cebuano: San Diego (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, California)
- Cebuano: San Diego
- Central Kurdish: سان دییگۆ
- Chechen: Сан-Диего
- Chinese: San Diego
- Chinese: 圣地亚哥
- Chinese: 圣迭戈
- Chinese: 聖地牙哥
- Chinese: 聖迭戈
- Chuvash: Сан-Диего
- Cornish: San Diego, Kaliforni
- Croatian: San Diego, Kalifornija
- Czech: San Diego
- Dagbani: San Diego
- Danish: San Diego
- Dutch: San Diego
- Egyptian Arabic: سان دييجو
- English: America's Finest City
- English: SD
- English: San Diego, CA
- English: San Diego, California
- English: Sandi
- English: the birthplace of California
- Esperanto: San-Diego
- Estonian: San Diego
- Faroese: San Diego
- Finnish: San Diego
- French: San Diego
- Galician: San Diego, California
- Galician: San Diego
- Gan Chinese: 聖地牙哥 (加利福尼亞州)
- Gan Chinese: 聖地牙哥
- Georgian: სან-დიეგო
- German: San Diego
- German: San Diego CA
- Greek: Σαν Ντιέγκο
- Guarani: San Diego (California)
- Guarani: San Diego
- Gujarati: સેન ડિયાગો
- Haitian: San Diego, Kalifòni
- Hebrew: סן דייגו
- Hindi: सैन डिएगो
- Hungarian: San Diego
- Icelandic: San Diego
- Ido: San Diego
- Indonesian: Kota Terbaik Amerika
- Indonesian: SD
- Indonesian: San Diego, CA
- Indonesian: San Diego, California
- Indonesian: San Diego
- Indonesian: tempat kelahiran California
- Interlingua: San Diego
- Irish: San Diego, California
- Irish: San Diego
- Italian: San Diego
- Japanese: サンディエガン
- Japanese: サンディエゴ
- Japanese: サン・ディエゴ
- Kannada: ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಡಿಯಾಗೋ
- Kazakh: Сан-Диего, Калифорния
- Kazakh: Сан-Диего
- Kazakh: Сан-Диего қаласы
- Kikuyu: San Diego
- Korean: 샌디에고
- Korean: 샌디에이고
- Kurdish: San Diego
- Ladin: San Diego
- Ladino: San Diego
- Latin: Didacopolis
- Latin: Sanctus Didacus
- Latvian: Sandjego
- Limburgan: San Diego
- Lingala: San Diego
- Lithuanian: San Diegas
- Lombard: San Diego, California
- Luxembourgish: San Diego
- Macedo-Romanian: San Diego
- Macedonian: Сан Диего
- Malagasy: San Diego
- Malay: San Diego
- Malayalam: സാൻ ഡിയേഗോ
- Maori: San Diego, Karapōnia
- Marathi: सॅन डियेगो
- Min Nan Chinese: San Diego
- Mingrelian: სან-დიეგო
- Moksha: Сан-Диего
- Mongolian: Сан-Диего
- Nauru: San Diego
- Navajo: Tóbiníhííyíní
- Nepali: स्यान डिएगो, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: स्यान डिएगो (क्यालिफोर्निया)
- Newari: स्यान डिएगो, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: स्यान डिएगो
- Northern Frisian: San Diego (California)
- Northern Frisian: San Diego
- Northern Luri: سان دیگو
- Northern Luri: سانی ویل، کالیفرنیا
- Norwegian: San Diego
- Norwegian Bokmål: San Diego
- Norwegian Nynorsk: San Diego
- Occitan (post 1500): San Diego
- Ossetian: Сан-Диего
- Pampanga: San Diego, California
- Panjabi: ਸਾਨ ਦੀਏਗੋ
- Papiamento: San Diego, California
- Persian: سان دیگو
- Persian: سن دیگو
- Piemontese: San Diego
- Polish: San Diego
- Portuguese: San Diego
- Portuguese: São Diego
- Quechua: San Diego
- Romanian: San Diego
- Russian: Сан-Диего, Калифорния
- Russian: Сан-Диего, город
- Russian: Сан-Диего
- Russian: Сан Диего
- Sardinian: San Diego
- Saterfriesisch: San Diego
- Scots: San Diego
- Scottish Gaelic: San Diego, Calafòrnia
- Scottish Gaelic: San Diego
- Serbian: Сан Дијего
- Serbo-Croatian: San Diego, California
- Serbo-Croatian: San Diego
- Sicilian: San Diegu
- Silesian: San Diego
- Sinhala: සැන් දියාගෝ
- Slovak: San Diego
- Slovenian: San Diego
- Somali: San Diego
- South Azerbaijani: سان دیقو
- Spanish: El Lugar de Nacimiento de California
- Spanish: La Mejor Ciudad de Estados Unidos
- Spanish: SD
- Spanish: San Diego
- Spanish: San Diego (California)
- Spanish: San Diego CA
- Swahili: San Diego, California
- Swedish: San Diego
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng San Diego
- Tagalog: San Diego, California
- Tagalog: San Diego
- Tajik: Сан Диего
- Tamil: சான் டியாகோ
- Tamil: சான் டியேகோ
- Tamil: ஸேன் டியேகோ
- Tatar: Сан-Диего
- Telugu: శాన్ డియాగో
- Telugu: సాన్ డియాగో
- Thai: แซนดีเอโก
- Turkish: San Diego, Kaliforniya
- Turkish: San Diego
- Turkmen: San-Diýego
- Twi: San Diego
- Uighur: San Diyégo
- Uighur: سان دىيېگۆ
- Ukrainian: SD
- Ukrainian: San Diego, California
- Ukrainian: Сан-Дієго
- Ukrainian: Сан-Дієґо
- Urdu: سان ڈیاگو
- Urdu: سان ڈیگو
- Uzbek: San Diego
- Venetian: San Diego
- Veps: San Diego
- Vietnamese: SD
- Vietnamese: San Diego, California
- Vietnamese: San Diego
- Vietnamese: Sandi
- Vietnamese: Xan Điêgô
- Vlax Romani: San Diego
- Volapük: San Diego
- Waray (Philippines): San Diego, California
- Welsh: San Diego
- Western Frisian: San Diego
- Western Mari: Сан-Диего
- Western Panjabi: سان ڈیاگو
- Wu Chinese: 圣迭戈 (加利福尼亚州)
- Yakut: Сан Диего
- Yiddish: סאַן דיעגא
- Yiddish: סאן דיעגא
- Yoruba: San Diego
- Yue Chinese: 聖地牙哥
- Davis' Folly
- Graytown
- New San Diego
- San Miguel
- 圣迭戈(加利福尼亚州)
Popular Destinations in San Diego County
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page San Diego. Photo: William Toti, CC BY 2.0.