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Cities that are not consolidated with or part of any county are independent cities, indicated with two asterisks (**). Only cities are in this list, towns are not included. Example, the town of Plymouth in Massachusetts has a land area of 96.5 square miles, which would place it at number 123.
San Francisco is decidedly a Northern California city and Los Angeles is a Southern California one but areas in between do not often share their confidence in geographic identity. The US Geological Survey defines the geographic center of California about 7.1 miles (11.4 km) driving distance from the United States Forest Service office in the ...
California's major urban areas normally are thought of as two large megalopolises: one in Northern California and one in Southern California, separated from each other by approximately 382 miles or 615 km [1] (the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco), with sparsely inhabited (relatively) Central Coast, Central Valley, and Transverse Ranges in between.
The contiguous urban area is 2,281 square miles (5,910 km 2), [1] whereas the remainder mostly consists of mountain and desert areas. With an estimated population of over 18.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2023), [2] it is the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, behind New York, as well as one of the largest megacities in the world. [6]
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. 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]
With over 39 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km 2), [11] it is the most populous U.S. state, the third-largest by area, and most populated subnational entity in North America. Prior to European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America.
According to the 2000 US Census, Balboa Island was one of the densest communities in Orange County. Approximately 3,000 residents live on just 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2) giving it a population density of 17,621 person per square mile—higher than that of San Francisco. [12]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 180.0 sq mi (466 km 2), making the fourth-largest city in California by land area (after Los Angeles, San Diego and California City). [18] San Jose lies between the San Andreas Fault, the source of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the Calaveras Fault. San Jose is ...