Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz County is in California just south of the Bay Area. The north half of Monterey Bay is part of the county. It is the state's second-smallest county by land area, with only San Francisco County occupying a smaller physical area.Tap on the map to travel |
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Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz is a coastal city in Santa Cruz County, at the north end of Monterey Bay in California, about 40 miles south of San Jose and 75 miles south of San Francisco.
Watsonville
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Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California.
Scotts Valley
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Scotts Valley is a small city in Santa Cruz County in the Santa Cruz Mountains between Santa Cruz and the Silicon Valley.
Destinations
Capitola
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Capitola is a small, charming town on the coast of Monterey Bay in California.
Aptos
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Aptos is an unincorporated town in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
Felton
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Felton is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
Boulder Creek
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Boulder Creek is a small rural mountain community in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park
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Big Basin Redwoods State Park is the oldest state park in California, and one of the best places to see old growth coastal redwood trees near the Bay Area.
Santa Cruz County
- Type: County with 262,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Neighbors: Monterey County and San Benito County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Central Coast, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
37.0501° or 37° 3' 0" northLongitude of center
-121.9906° or 121° 59' 26" westPopulation
262,000Elevation
289 feet (88 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 316944817OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
5393068Wikidata ID
Q108122Santa Cruz County Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Santa Cruz County
- Arabic: Condado han Santa Cruz, California
- Arabic: مقاطعة سانتا كروز
- Arabic: مقاطعه سانتا كروز، كاليفورنيا
- Armenian: Սանտա Կրուս շրջան
- Asturian: Santa Cruz (condáu)
- Asturian: condáu de Santa Cruz
- Azerbaijani: Santa-Kruz qraflığı
- Basque: Santa Cruz konderria (Kalifornia)
- Basque: Santa Cruz konderria
- Bavarian: Santa Cruz County, Kalifornien
- Bavarian: Santa Cruz County
- Belarusian: Санта-Круз (акруга, Каліфорнія)
- Belarusian: Санта-Круз
- Belarusian: акруга Санта-Круз
- Bishnupriya: সান্তা ক্রুজ কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া
- Bishnupriya: সান্তা ক্রুজ কাউন্টি
- Bulgarian: Санта Круз
- Bulgarian: Санта Крус
- Catalan: Comtat de Santa Cruz
- Cebuano: Santa Cruz County
- Central Kurdish: ناوچەی سانتا کروز (کالیفۆرنیا)
- Chechen: Санта-Круз
- Chinese: Santa Cruz Kūn
- Chinese: 圣克鲁斯县
- Chinese: 圣塔克鲁兹县
- Chinese: 聖克魯斯縣
- Chinese: 聖塔克魯茲
- Chinese: 聖塔克魯茲縣
- Chinese: 聖塔克魯茲郡
- Czech: Santa Cruz County
- Danish: Santa Cruz County
- Dutch: Santa Cruz County
- Egyptian Arabic: سانتا كروز كاونتى (كاليفورنيا)
- Egyptian Arabic: سانتا كروز كاونتى
- English: Santa Cruz
- English: Santa Cruz County, CA
- English: Santa Cruz County, California
- Esperanto: Kantono Santa Cruz
- Esperanto: kantono Sankta Kruco
- Esperanto: kantono Santa Cruz
- Estonian: Santa Cruzi maakond
- Finnish: Santa Cruzin piirikunta (Kalifornia)
- French: Comté de Santa Cruz
- French: Santa Cruz
- French: comté de Santa Cruz
- Georgian: სანტა-კრუზის ოლქი
- German: Santa Cruz County
- Greek: Κομητεία Σάντα Κρουζ
- Greek: Σάντα Κρουζ
- Hebrew: מחוז סנטה קרוז
- Hungarian: Santa Cruz megye
- Irish: Contae Santa Cruz, California
- Italian: Contea di Santa Cruz
- Italian: Santa Cruz County
- Italian: contea di Santa Cruz
- Japanese: サンタクルーズ郡
- Japanese: サンタ・クルーズ郡
- Korean: 샌타크루즈 군
- Korean: 샌타크루즈군
- Latin: Santa Cruz Comitatus
- Limburgan: Santa Cruz County
- Lithuanian: Santa Kruzo apygarda
- Low German: Santa Cruz County
- Malayalam: സാന്താ ക്രൂസ് കൗണ്ടി
- Marathi: सांता क्रुझ काउंटी, कॅलिफोर्निया
- Marathi: सांता क्रुझ काउंटी
- Min Nan Chinese: Santa Cruz Kūn
- Northern Frisian: Santa Cruz County (California)
- Northern Frisian: Santa Cruz County
- Norwegian: Santa Cruz County
- Norwegian Bokmål: Santa Cruz County
- Norwegian Bokmål: Santa Cruz County i California
- Pampanga: Santa Cruz County, California
- Pampanga: Santa Cruz County
- Persian: شهرستان سانتا کروز، کالیفرنیا
- Polish: Hrabstwo Santa Cruz
- Portuguese: Condado de Santa Cruz
- Russian: Санта-Круз
- Russian: Санта-Крус
- Sardinian: contea de Santa Cruz
- Scottish Gaelic: Santa Cruz County
- Serbian: Okrug Santa Kruz
- Serbian: Santa Cruz County
- Serbian: Округ Санта Круз
- Serbian: Санта Круз
- Serbo-Croatian: Okrug Santa Cruz
- Serbo-Croatian: Santa Cruz County, California
- Slovenian: Okrožje Santa Cruz
- Slovenian: Santa Cruz County
- Spanish: Condado de Santa Cruz
- Spanish: Santa Cruz County
- Spanish: Santa Cruz County California
- Swedish: Santa Cruz County, Kalifornien
- Swedish: Santa Cruz County
- Tagalog: Kondado ng Santa Cruz, California
- Tagalog: Santa Cruz County
- Tatar: Санта-Круз (округ, Калифорния)
- Tatar: Санта-Круз
- Tumbuka: Santa Cruz County, California
- Turkish: Santa Cruz County, Kaliforniya
- Turkish: Santa Cruz County
- Turkish: Santa Cruz bölgesi
- Ukrainian: Санта-Круз
- Ukrainian: Санта-Крус
- Urdu: سانتا کروز کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا
- Vietnamese: Quận Santa Cruz
- Waray (Philippines): Condado han Santa Cruz
- Welsh: Santa Cruz County, Califfornia
- Welsh: Santa Cruz County
- Western Panjabi: سانتا کروز کاؤنٹی
- Branciforte County
- Quận Santa Cruz, California
- Santa Cruzin piirikunta
- ناوچەی سانتا کروز
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