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Whittier
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city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
Whittier is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. It serves as a residential and commercial community within the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Whittier is referenced by 1,761 other articles, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, City of Industry and Florence-Graham.
The entry is geolocated on the map in CA.
It sits within the topics 1898 establishments in California, Chicano and Mexican neighborhoods in California and Cities in Los Angeles County, California.
Its subject is documented across 55 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Official name
- Whittier
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Los Angeles County
- Population
- 87306
- Area
- 37.982582
- Elevation
- 367
- Time zone
- Pacific Time Zone
- Shares border with
- La Habra
- Official website
- www.cityofwhittier.org
- Image
- Greenleaf Street in Whittier California.jpg
- Households
- 27093
- Dialing code
- 562
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- twinned administrative body
- Suzhou
- Commons category
- Whittier, California
- topic's main category
- Category:Whittier, California
- postal code
- 90610
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Whittier, California
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Whittier, California
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Whittier, California
- water as percent of area
- 0.1076
- P8168
- Castex
- water area
- 0.040874
- per capita income
- 31421
- date of incorporation
- 1898-02-25
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Encyclopedic overview
Whittier (/wɪtiər/) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Part of the Gateway Cities, the 14.7-square-mile (38.0 km) city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census. Whittier was incorporated in February 1898 and became a charter city in 1955. The city is named for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is home to Whittier College. The city is surrounded by four unincorporated areas sharing the Whittier name, West Whittier-Los Nietos, North Whittier, South Whittier, and East Whittier, which combined are home to a larger population than Whittier proper.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Whittier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.