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Another fourteen counties were formed through further subdivision from 1861 to 1893. The most recent county to form was Imperial County, in 1907. California is home to San Bernardino County, the largest county in the contiguous United States, as well as Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States.
Rank County State County seat Total area Land area 1 San Bernardino County: California: San Bernardino: 20,105.32 sq mi (52,072.5 km 2) : 20,052.5 sq mi (51,936 km 2) : 2
With an area of 20,105 square miles (52,070 km 2), San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous United States by area, although some of Alaska's boroughs and census areas are larger. The county is close to the size of West Virginia or the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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 Los Angeles metropolitan area has the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world, behind the Greater Tokyo Area and the New York metropolitan area. In 2022, the combined statistical area of Greater Los Angeles (which includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County) had a $1.528 trillion economy.
The Asian-American population in the Bay Area is one of the largest in North America. Asian-Americans make up the plurality in two major counties in the Bay Area: Santa Clara County and Alameda County. [143] The largest Asian-American groups were those of Chinese (7.9%), Filipino (5.1%), Indian (3.3%), Vietnamese (2.5%), and Japanese (0.9% ...
The largest metro areas in California, as of 2010, are Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, the Inland Empire, and Sacramento. [12] From 2006 until 2016, the state lost a net population of about 1 million people from emigration to other states, [ 13 ] yet the population of the state continued to grow due to immigration from ...
The county has the largest Native American population of any U.S. county, originating mostly from Latin American countries. As estimated by the Public Policy Institute of California in 2008, Los Angeles County was home to more than one-third of California's undocumented immigrants, who made up more than ten percent of the population. [47]