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Capital	Sacramento
Nickname	The Golden State
Motto	Eureka (I have found it)
Statehood	September 9, 1850 (31st)
Origin of State's Name	Named by the Spanish after Califia, a mythical paradise in a Spanish romance written by Montalvo in 1510.
Largest Cities	Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Long Beach
Border States	Arizona, Nevada, Oregon
Area	155,973 sq. mi.; 3rd largest
State Bird	California Valley Quail
State Flower	Golden Poppy (eschscholtzia californica)
State Tree	California redwood (sequoia sempervirens)
State Song	I Love You, California
The name California was first used in 1542 to designate the region by the Spanish expedition led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. It was probably derived from a popular Spanish novel published in 1510 in which a fictional island paradise named California was described. California is the third largest state in area after Alaska and Texas. The discovery of gold and the immigration in 1849 of thousands of "forty-niners" in search of the precious metal helped California's admission into the Union in 1850 as the 31st state. Today, California has the highest population of any state in the nation and is America's principal agricultural state. It is also the home of Hollywood, the center of America's movie and television industry. Many visitors and new residents are attracted by California's outdoor way of life. The warm, dry climate permits outdoor recreation almost the whole year round. The High Sierra Nevada rises near the eastern border. Rocky cliffs and sandy beaches line the shore of the Pacific Ocean in the west. Thick redwood forests cover the Coast Ranges in the northwest. Dramatic deserts stretch across the southeast.

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