Whittier
Whittier is a city of 86,000 in Los Angeles County in Southern California. It was founded by Quakers in 1887 and incorporated in 1898. Historic clock on the National Bank of Whittier Building at Philadelphia Street and Greenleaf Avenue…Photo: Northwalker, CC0.
- Type: Town with 84,000 residents
- Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Postal codes: 90601-90610
- Neighbors: La Habra, Pico Rivera and Santa Fe Springs
Notable Places in the Area
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
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PIH Health Hospital - Whittier is a hospital in Whittier, California.
Whittier High School
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Whittier High School is a high school located in Whittier, California.
Orin Jordan House
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The Orin Jordan House is a Victorian house in Whittier, California that was built in 1888 by Orin Jordan.
Localities in the Area
Santa Fe Springs
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Santa Fe Springs is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
West Whittier-Los Nietos
West Whittier-Los Nietos is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, near the San Gabriel River and the San Gabriel River Freeway.South Whittier
South Whittier is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California just south of the city of Whittier. South Whittier is situated 2½ miles south of Whittier.Whittier
- 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
33.9749° or 33° 58' 30" northLongitude
-118.0339° or 118° 2' 2" westPopulation
84,000Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WHROpen Location Code
8553XXF8+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 150963169OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5409059Wikidata ID
Q838791Whittier Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Whittier, California
- Arabic: ويتير
- Armenian: Ուիթեր
- Azerbaijani: Uittyer
- Basque: Whittier (Kalifornia)
- Basque: Whittier
- Bengali: হুইটার
- Bulgarian: Уитиър
- Catalan: Whittier
- Cebuano: Whittier
- Chechen: Виттиер (Калифорни)
- Chechen: Виттиер
- Chinese: Whittier
- Chinese: 惠提尔
- Chinese: 惠提爾
- Chinese: 惠蒂尔
- Croatian: Whittier (Kalifornija)
- Croatian: Whittier
- Czech: Whittier
- Dagbani: Whittier
- Danish: Whittier
- Dutch: Whittier
- Egyptian Arabic: ويتير
- English: Whittier, CA
- English: Whittier, California
- Esperanto: Whittier
- Estonian: Whittier
- Finnish: Whittier
- French: Whittier
- Galician: Whittier
- German: Whittier
- 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 (California)
- Ladin: Whittier
- Latvian: Vitera
- Lithuanian: Vitjeris
- Malagasy: Whittier, Kalifornia
- Malay: Whittier
- Malayalam: വിറ്റിയർ
- Malayalam: വൈറ്റിയർ
- Marathi: व्हाईटियर
- Min Nan Chinese: Whittier
- Nepali: व्हिटियर, क्यालिफोर्निया
- Newari: व्हिटियर
- Norwegian: Whittier
- Norwegian Bokmål: Whittier
- Persian: وایتیر
- Persian: وایتیر، کالیفرنیا
- Polish: Whittier
- Portuguese: Whittier
- Romanian: Whittier
- Russian: Уиттиер
- Russian: Уиттьер
- Serbian: Vitijer
- Serbian: Whittier
- Serbian: Витир
- Serbian: Витијер
- Serbo-Croatian: Whittier, California
- Serbo-Croatian: Whittier
- Silesian: Whittier (Kaliforńijo)
- Silesian: Whittier
- Sinhala: විටියර්
- Slovak: Whittier
- Slovenian: Whittier
- South Azerbaijani: وایتیر، کالیفورنیا
- Spanish: Whittier
- Spanish: 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
- Volapük: Whittier
- Waray (Philippines): Whittier
- Western Panjabi: وائٹئر
- Whittier (Califòrgna)
Other Places Named Whittier
Localities in the Area
- East WhittierSuburb
- VallaHamlet
- Los NietosHamlet, 2 miles west
- Friendly HillsSuburb, 2½ miles southeast
- Los Nietos JunctionHamlet, 2½ miles southwest
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