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This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).
About 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Sacramento, Elk Grove has emerged as a popular place for young families to live and commute to the job centers of the area. 27 Santa Rosa: 175,845 Sonoma County: Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and the Redwood Empire. The county seat of Sonoma County since 1854, it grew as a ...
It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1] California has been inhabited by numerous Native American peoples since antiquity.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
The Central Valley watershed, which incorporates the Sacramento River, San Joaquin River and Tulare Lake regions, is the largest in California, draining over a third of the state – 60,000 square miles (160,000 km 2) – and producing nearly half the total runoff.
Location of California in the United States. California is the most populous and third largest U.S. state by area, located on the West Coast of the United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, California's population is 39,538,223 and has 155,858.33 square miles (403,671.2 km 2) of land.
The largest municipality by population and land area is San Jose with 1,013,240 residents and 178.26 square miles (461.7 km 2). The smallest by population is Colma with 1,507 people, [8] while the smallest by land area is Belvedere at 0.52 square miles (1.3 km 2). [9]
Urban area Country Built-up land area (km 2) Population Urban population density (per km 2) ; Greater Los Angeles United States 87,940 18,316,743 541.1 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (Bay Area)