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List of cities and towns in California
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California is a state in the Western United States. It is the state with the most people, as 39,538,223 people lived there in 2020.[1]
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California is split into 58 counties and has 482 municipalities.[2] One county, San Francisco, is a city-county, which means it is both a municipality and county. In California law, there is no difference between a city and town. This means municipalities can use either name.[3]
The largest municipality by population is Los Angeles, which had 3,898,747 people living there in 2020. The smallest is Amador City, with 200 people living there in 2020.[1]