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Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km 2) [9] [10] near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region.
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.Its densely populated coastal region includes Greater Los Angeles (the second-most populous urban agglomeration in the United States) [4] [5] and San Diego County (the second-most populous county in California).
Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. [4] Its county seat is Bakersfield. [6]Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, metropolitan statistical area.
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The counties of California are local arms of the State of California, described by the Supreme Court of California as agents ("the county is merely a political subdivision of state government, exercising only the powers of the state, granted by the state…'") and the property they hold is held on behalf of all the people of the state.
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 ...
Bakersfield ranked No. 1 and Sacramento ranked No. 2 on the list of cities with the worst drivers, a large jump from last year when it was ranked seventh worst. Eight California cities made it on ...
The Inland Empire (commonly abbreviated as the IE) is a metropolitan area and region inland of and adjacent to coastal Southern California, centering around the cities of San Bernardino and Riverside, and bordering Los Angeles County and Orange County to the west and San Diego County to the south.