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About California

Capital Sacrament

Entity Condition

Total 423,971 km²

Population ( 2009 )  36,961,664 inhab.

Demonym Californian, -a

It is a federated state of the United States located on the country’s southwestern coast. It has a population of 38 million inhabitants and occupies an area of ​​410,000 km². With these data, California is the most populous state in the United States and the third largest (after Alaska and Texas ).

California’s population is 36,132,147 (in 2005), making it the most populous state in the country. 48% of the population lives in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and 20% in San Francisco. It is the third largest state, with an area of ​​410,000 square kilometers.

Currently, the state of California has a population of 36,457,549 people, of which:

• 42.8% are non-Hispanic white.
• 35.9% are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
• 12.3% are Asian.
• 6.2% are black or African American.
• The rest are people of other races or two or more races.

The official language is English, spoken at home by 60.5% of the Californian population. Spanish is the second language of several speakers, with 35.8% of the population. The other languages, such as Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese, reach up to 6.08% of the total.

The state’s indigenous languages, with barely tens of thousands of speakers belonging mainly to the Hokano and Penutio groups, are threatened languages: many of them are spoken only by the older bilingual generations. In contrast, many Amerindian children are monolingual in English.