SanSan
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The SanSan megalopolis is a name for a chain of metropolitan areas in western California along the coast extending from San Francisco to San Diego. It contains almost all of the population of California, a little more than 36 million people, excluding only some thinly populated rural and desert areas. The Greater Los Angeles area contains about two-thirds of the total population.
The name was coined, along with the better-known BosWash, in the 1961 book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by French geographer Jean Gottmann, but has not come into wide use, in part because there is not enough need to distinguish SanSan from California as a whole to spur the adoption of a new term.
The Tehachapi Mountains are a natural boundary between Northern California and Southern California and the most obvious obstacle to considering all of California's major urban areas to be a continuous megalopolis.
Much recent urbanization in California has been not on the coast itself or even the first tier of coastal valleys, but closer to the midline of the state in the Central Valley, Antelope Valley, and Inland Empire, still within (long) commuting distance of the coastal cities.
[edit] Metropolitan areas in SanSan
- San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont
- Santa Rosa–Petaluma
- Napa
- Vallejo–Fairfield
- Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville
- Stockton
- San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara
- Santa Cruz–Watsonville
- Modesto
- Merced
- Madera
- Fresno
- Hanford–Corcoran
- Visalia-Porterville
- Bakersfield
- Salinas
- San Luis Obispo–Paso Robles
- Santa Barbara–Santa Maria
- Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura
- Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana
- Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario
- San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos
[edit] Important cities in SanSan
- San Francisco (pop.739,426)
- Oakland (pop.401,392)
- San Jose (pop.928,821)
- Sacramento (pop.407,018)
- Stockton (pop.279,800)
- Modesto (pop.206,300)
- Salinas (pop.151,060)
- Fresno (pop.464,727)
- Bakersfield (pop.247,057)
- Visalia (pop.107,555)
- Santa Barbara (pop.92,325)
- Oxnard (pop.203,412)
- Pasadena (pop.133,936)
- San Bernardino (pop.185,401)
- Los Angeles (pop.3,694,820)
- Riverside (pop. 288,384)
- Anaheim (pop.328,014)
- Long Beach (pop.461,522)
- Santa Ana (pop.337,977)
- Irvine (pop.152,048)
- San Diego (pop.1,223,400)
- Chula Vista (pop.173,556)
- Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (pop.1,410,700)
- Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico (pop. 855,000)
[edit] See also
[edit] External link
- Megalopolis at about.com - Makes a passing reference to SanSan
