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California's Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California.

It is wide and stretches approximately from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast.

It covers approximately, about 11% of California's total land area (or about the size of Denmark).

Bounded by the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges to the west, it is California's single most productive agricultural region and one of the most productive in the world, providing more than half of the fruits, vegetables and nuts grown in the United States.

More than 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of the valley are irrigated via an extensive system of reservoirs and canals.

The valley also has many major cities, including the state capital Sacramento; as well as Redding, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield.

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley.

Its estimated 2014 population of 485,199 made it the sixth-largest city in California, and the 35th largest city in the United States.

Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783.

Its metropolitan area is the fourth largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area, and is the 27th largest in the United States.

In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for Time magazine named Sacramento "America's Most Diverse City".

Modesto (Spanish for "modest"), officially the City of Modesto, is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States.

With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, it is the 18th largest city in the state of California and forms part of the Modesto-Merced combined Statistical Area.

The Modesto Census County Division, which includes the cities of Ceres and Riverbank, had a population of 312,842.

Stockton is the county seat of San Joaquin County located in the Northern portion of the U.S. State of California and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, an extension of the Bay Area.

Stockton was founded by Captain Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses.

The city is named after Robert F. Stockton, and it was the first community in California to not have a name of Spanish or Native American origin.

The city is located on the San Joaquin River in the northern San Joaquin Valley and had an estimated population of 315,592 as of 2016.

Stockton is the 13th largest city in California and the 63rd largest city in the United States.

It was named an All-America City in 1999, 2004 and again in 2015.

Merced (Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County in the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California.

As of 2014, the city had a population of 81,743.

Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager government.

It is named after the Merced River, which flows nearby.