"SoCal" redirects here. For other uses, see SoCal (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Baja California or Baja California Sur.
Place in California, United States
Southern California
Images top to bottom, left to right: Hermosa Beach Pier, Disneyland Resort, Village of La Jolla, Santa Monica Pier, Surfer at Black's Beach, Hollywood Sign, Downtown Los Angeles, San Diego Skyline
Red: The ten counties of Southern California
Country
United States
State
California
Counties
Imperial Kern Los Angeles Orange Riverside San Bernardino San Diego San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Ventura
Largest city
Los Angeles
Area
(10-county)[1]
• Total
56,505 sq mi (146,350 km2)
Population
(2020)[2]
• Total
23,762,904
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area (the second most populous urban agglomeration in the United States)[3][4] as well as the Inland Empire (another large metropolitan area). The region generally contains ten of California's 58 counties: Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties.
Although geographically smaller than Northern California in land area, Southern California has a higher population, with 23.76 million residents as of the 2020 census. The sparsely populated desert region of California occupies a significant portion (part of which has even been proposed to be split into a new county due to cultural, economic and geographic differences relative to the rest of the more urban region) of the area: the Colorado Desert, along with the Colorado River, is located on Southern California's eastern border with Arizona, and the Mojave Desert shares a border with Nevada to the northeast. Southern California's southern border with Baja California is part of the Mexico–United States border.
^"Square Mileage by County". California State Association of Counties. Archived from the original on February 27, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
^"State Population Totals and Components of Change: 2010-2019". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on January 26, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^"Figures Show California's Motoring Supremacy". Touring Topics. 8 (2). Los Angeles, California: Automobile Club of Southern California: 38–39. March 1916. Archived from the original on March 15, 2023. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
^Cooley, Timothy J. (2014). Surfing about Music. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-52095-721-3. Archived from the original on March 15, 2023. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
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