Detailed profiles for cities and towns in California

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Los Angeles
California
  Population
3,694,834
  Median Home Value
$221,600
Los Angeles (IPA: /lsndls/;or /los anxeles/ in Spanish) is the largest city in the state of California and the second-largest in the United States.[1] Often abbreviated as L.A., it is rated an alpha world city, having an estimated population of 3.8million....
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San Diego
California
  Population
1,223,341
  Median Home Value
$233,100
San Diego (pronounced /sndiego/) is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has an estimated population of 1,256,951.[1] It is the second largest city in California and t....
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San Jose
California
  Population
893,889
  Median Home Value
$394,000
San Jose (IPA: /snhoze/) (meaning St. Joseph in Spanish) or San Jos is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. San Jose is located in Silicon Valley, at the southern en....
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San Francisco
California
  Population
776,733
  Median Home Value
$396,400
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 14th most populous city in the United States, with a 2006 estimated population of 744,041.[4] One of the most densely populated major cities in the US,[6] San Fran....
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Long Beach
California
  Population
461,381
  Median Home Value
$210,000
Long Beach is a city located in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It borders Orange County on its southeast edge. It is about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. Long Beach is the 35th-largest city in the nat....
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Fresno
California
  Population
427,224
  Median Home Value
$97,300
Fresno is the sixth-largest city in California and the county seat of Fresno County, with an official Census Bureau estimated population of 581,036. It is located in the centre of the expansive Central Valley,[3] approximately 200 miles north of Los Angel....
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Sacramento
California
  Population
407,075
  Median Home Value
$128,800
Sacramento is the capital of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. Located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River's confluence in California's expansive Central Valley, it is the seventh most popul....
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Oakland
California
  Population
399,477
  Median Home Value
$235,500
Oakland (IPA: /oklnd/), founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California[1] and the county seat of Alameda County. Oakland is located in Northern California in the San Francisco Bay Area, the sixth-most-populous metropolitan are....
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Santa Ana
California
  Population
337,512
  Median Home Value
$184,500
Santa Ana is the most populous city in Orange County, California and is the county seat. It lies approximately 10miles (16km) inland from the Pacific Ocean, on the largely seasonal Santa Ana River. The Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5) runs through the cit....
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Anaheim
California
  Population
327,357
  Median Home Value
$213,800
Anaheim is a city in Orange County. As of 2007, the city population was 345,556,[1] making it the tenth-largest city in California[1] and 54th-largest in the United States. The city anticipates that the population will surpass 400,000 by 2014 due to rapid....
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