Westminster

Westminster is bordered by the city of Seal Beach on the west, by Garden Grove on the north and east, and by Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley on the south. Santa Ana, the county seat of Orange County, is east of Westminster.

Westminster has one of the largest Vietnamese populations in the US. They settled largely in Little Saigon, and the city is known as the "capital" of overseas Vietnamese with 39,799 Vietnamese Americans, or 43.8% of the total population, as of the 2020 United States census.

In the 1947 court case Mendez v. Westminster, Sylvia Mendez and her family challenged the segregation of Mexican American students in the Westminster School District. The case resulted in a federal ruling that ended school segregation practices in California, marking an important step toward broader desegregation in the United States.

Westminster won the All-America City Award in 1996.

In 2026, Westminster went viral for the decision of its City Council (4-1) and mayor to name a street after Charlie Kirk.