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  2. Sacramento, California - Wikipedia

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    Sacramento is the fastest-growing major city in California, [13] owing to its status as a notable political center on the West Coast and as a major educational hub, home of California State University, Sacramento and UC Davis.

  3. History of Sacramento, California - Wikipedia

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    The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior.

  4. Sacramento, California - Simple English Wikipedia, the free...

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    Sacramento is the capital of the U.S. state of California. The governor and legislature of California are in Sacramento. About 520,000 people live in Sacramento. About 2,000,000 live in and around Sacramento. Sacramento comes from Spanish and Portuguese for holy rite.

  5. Sacramento County, California - Wikipedia

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    Sacramento County (/ ˌ s æ k r ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. [6] Its county seat is Sacramento, [7] which has been the state capital of California since 1854. Sacramento County is the central county of the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.

  6. Sacramento, Capital Of California - WorldAtlas

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    Established as the US State of California’s Capital and ranked as California’s sixth-largest city, Sacramento serves as the cultural and economic hub of the larger Sacramento Metropolitan Area.

  7. Sacramento | History, Population, Map, & Facts | Britannica

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    Sacramento, city, capital of California, U.S., and seat of Sacramento county, in the north-central part of the state. It is situated in the Sacramento Valley along the Sacramento River at its confluence with the American River, about 90 miles northeast of San Francisco and 45 miles north of Stockton.

  8. Sacramento, California - Wikimedia Commons

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    English: Sacramento is the capital of the US state of California. The Sacramento skyline, as seen from The Ziggurat in West Sacramento, California.

  9. Sacramento, California - Wikiwand

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    Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American River...

  10. Sacramento metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Sacramento is the largest city in the metropolitan area, home to approximately 500,000 people, making it the sixth-largest city in California and the 35th largest in the United States. It has been the state capital of California since 1851 and has played an important role in the history of California.

  11. Sacramento – Travel guide at Wikivoyage

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    Sacramento is the state capital of California in the United States. It is the regional center for the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area, which dominates much of the surrounding Sacramento Valley and stretches into parts of Gold Country.