SANSAN

The 'SanSan' megalopolis is a name for a hypothetical chain of metropolitan areas in western California along the coast extending from San Francisco to San Diego. It would contain most of the population of California, with about two-thirds of the total population in the Greater Los Angeles area.
The name was coined, along with the better-known BosWash and equally obscure ChiPitts, in the 1961 book ''Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States'' by French geographer Jean Gottmann, but has not come into 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 Southern California and relatively sparsely populated Central California. The large rural areas between the two main poles of SanSan weaken the argument that they constitute one 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.

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Metropolitan areas in SanSan

Important cities in SanSan

See also

External link

Metropolitan areas in SanSan

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★ 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

★ Yuba City

Important cities in SanSan

★ Los Angeles (pop.3,694,820)

★ Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (pop.1,410,700)

★ San Diego (pop.1,223,400)

★ San Jose (pop.928,821)

★ Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico (pop. 855,000)

★ San Francisco (pop.739,426)

★ Fresno (pop.464,727)

★ Long Beach (pop.461,522)

★ Sacramento (pop.407,018)

★ Oakland (pop.401,392)

★ Santa Ana (pop.337,977)

★ Anaheim (pop.328,014)

★ Riverside (pop. 288,384)

★ Stockton (pop.279,800)

★ Bakersfield (pop.247,057)

★ Modesto (pop.206,300)

★ Oxnard (pop.203,412)

★ San Bernardino (pop.185,401)

★ Chula Vista (pop.173,556)

★ Irvine (pop.152,048)

★ Salinas (pop.151,060)

★ Pasadena (pop.133,936)

★ Visalia (pop.107,555)

★ Santa Barbara (pop.92,325)

See also

★ BosWash

★ ChiPitts

★ Bajalta California

★ Coastal California

★ List of United States metropolitan areas

External link

★ Megalopolis at about.com - Makes a passing reference to SanSan