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Santa Cruz County, California
county in California, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz County is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 270,861.[1] The county seat is Santa Cruz.[2] It was created in 1850.
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