Facts About California

California boasts one of the longest coastlines in the United States.

California is the third largest state by area in the US and the most populous. It is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The capital city of California is Sacramento. San Diego is the largest city in the state, followed by Los Angeles by area and population. California is popularly called the Golden State.

Facts About the State of California

• California has the most national parks in the US. It has nine of the 59 national parks in the United States. After California, the state with the second largest number of parks is the State of Alaska which has eight national parks.
• Of the ten cities with the highest unemployment rates in the US, eight are cities in California.
• California raises more turkeys than any other state in the United States.
• The eighth smallest county in California called the Alpine has no schools, banks, traffic lights, or ATM machines.
• Fallbrook grows more avocados than any other area that makes it known as the Avocado Capital. It hosts the annual avocado festival.
• Indigenous tribes such as the Yuma, Pomo, Paiute, Maidu, and Hupa originally inhabited the state of California.
• California is the only state that has hosted the Olympics twice. It has hosted both winter and summer Olympics.
• California is the only state to have ever achieved a trillion dollar economy. The country even surpassed France in 2015 as the world's sixth largest economy.
• Early Spanish explorers named California after "Queen of Calafia" a popular character in a Spanish novel called "Las sergas de Esplandian" published in July 1510.
• Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in California in San Bernardino.
• The State of California plays host to major innovative industries such as Disneyland, Barbie dolls, Apple computers, and fortune cookies.
• California is one of the largest wine-producing states in the United States. It produces 17 million gallons of wine every year.
• The State of California grows half of all fruits and vegetables in the United States such as avocados, peaches, grapes, lemons, tangerines, plums, plums, kiwifruit, dates, and onions.
• The state of California is home to the oldest tree on earth called Methuselah. People believe the tree is about 4,650 years old. Methuselah is a pine tree located in the White Mountains of California.
• California is home to the hottest place on earth called Death Valley. In July 1913, Death Valley's Furnace Creek ranch recorded a temperature of 56.7 °C. This temperature is the highest temperature ever recorded in the world.
• The state fish of California is the Golden Trout.
• San Francisco Bay in California is known as the largest landlocked port in the world.
• The California tree known as the Redwood is the largest and tallest living organism in the entire world.
• California has the best views of the US at Mount Diablo State Park. From the highest point of 3,849 feet one can see a wider area of ​​the earth's surface than any other peak except the peak of Mount Kilimajaro in Africa.