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California


( Flag of California)	( Seal of California)

State nickname: The Golden State

Other U.S. States

Capital

Sacramento

Largest City

Los Angeles

Governor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Official languages

English

Area

- Total
- Land
- Water
- % water

Ranked 3^rd

410,000 km²
404,298 km²
20,047 km²
4.7 %

Population

- 2000 Census

Ranked 1^st

33,871,648

Population density

- 2000 Census

Ranked 12^th

83.85 /km²

Admittance into Union

- Order
- Date

31^st
September 9, 1850

Time zone

UTC-8/ -7

Latitude

32°30'N to 42°N

Longitude

114°8'W to 124°24'W

Width

Length
Elevation
- Highest
- Mean
- Lowest

402.5 km

1,240 km

4,148 meters
884 meters
-86 meters

ISO 3166-2

US-CA

California is a state located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The most populous and third largest state in the U.S., California is both physically and demographically diverse. The state's official nickname is "The Golden State", which may refer to either the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and the subsequent gold rush, or to the golden brown color of much of the state during the summer. California's U.S. Postal abbreviation is CA, and its Associated Press abbreviation is Calif.

Southern California is highly populatedFor the use of the word population in statistics, see statistical population. In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. Populations are studied in, while the larger northern CaliforniaNorthern California (sometimes NorCal refers to the northern portion of the state of California, roughly covering all of those counties except for the eight counties which make up Southern California. Northern California includes the region's largest city is less densely populated. The vast majority of the population lives within 50 miles (80 km) of the Pacific Ocean.

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