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6 days ago · The history of California can be divided into the Native American period (about 10,000 years ago until 1542), the European exploration period (1542–1769), the Spanish colonial period (1769–1821), the Mexican period (1821–1848), and United States statehood (September 9, 1850–present). California was one of the most culturally and ...
2 days ago · California, constituent state of the United States of America. It was admitted as the 31st state of the union on September 9, 1850, and by the early 1960s it was the most populous U.S. state. No version of the origin of California’s name has been fully accepted, but there is wide support for the contention that it derived from an early 16th ...
- The Trinity Alps, a subrange of the Klamath Mountains, northern California, U.S.
- Salton Sea, Colorado Desert, southern California.
- Manzanar Relocation Centre (an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II), near Lone Pine, Calif. Photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943.
- Lanterns hanging in Chinatown, San Francisco.
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4 days ago · The University of California ( UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.
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3 days ago · Coordinates: 33.67°N 117.78°W. Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States.
- United States
- Greater Los Angeles
- August 1, 1889
- California
3 days ago · Sacramento, city, capital of California, U.S., and seat (1850) of Sacramento county, in the north-central part of the state.
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2 days ago · Coordinates: 34°3′N 118°15′W. Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles ( Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles ), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states.
2 days ago · California is the third largest state in the United States, bounded by the Pacific Ocean in the west and bordered by Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona; it shares a border with Mexico in the south. The United States acquired the area from Mexico in 1848, with generally the same boundary as California today.
