California’s Big Cities
The state of California is 900 miles long and stretches from the Mexican border to the Pacific Ocean. Its varied landscape includes cliff-side beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland, and the Mojave Desert. Some of the state’s most famous big cities include San Francisco and Los Angeles. The latter is home to the entertainment industry, while San Francisco is famous for its cable cars and Golden Gate Bridge.
While the financial problems of many California cities have decreased in the last year, the state’s debt has remained stubbornly high. Twelve of the 15 big cities in the state are still in the red, with 12 of them even getting worse. The nonprofit organization that tracks these issues seeks to present data that are devoid of political bias. Using publicly available data, it has found that the financial burden of California’s large cities is lower than in the rest of the country.
Los Angeles County holds the title for most populous county in the US. Its population is higher than that of 37 US states. California’s size is comparable to that of Sweden. The state is more than 160,000 square miles or 411,000 square kilometers. The state’s climate varies from Mediterranean to subarctic. The climate in California ranges from cool, rainy winters to extremely hot and dry summers.
