San Bernardino County, California

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San Bernardino County
County
County of San Bernardino
Images, from top down, left to right: Downtown San Bernardino, Big Bear Lake, Joshua Tree in the Mojave National Preserve, Calico Ghost Town, Bear Mountain

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Location in the state of California

California's location in the United States
Country United States of America
State California
Metropolitan area Inland Empire
Incorporated 1853
Named for City of San Bernardino[1][2][3]
County seat San Bernardino
Largest city San Bernardino (population and area)
Area
• Total 20,105 sq mi (52,070 km2)
• Land 20,057 sq mi (51,950 km2)
• Water 48 sq mi (120 km2)
Population(2010) 2,035,210
• Density 85/sq mi (33/km2)
Time zone Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST) Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7)
Website www.SBCounty.gov
San Bernardino County, officially the County of San Bernardino, is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,035,210,[4] making it the fifth-most populous county in California, and the 12th-most populous in the United States.

The county seatis San Bernardino.[5]
San Bernardino County is included in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, also known as the Inland Empire, as well as theLos Angeles-Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area.
With an area of 20,105 square miles, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the United States by area. It is larger than each of the nine smallest states, larger than the four smallest states combined, and larger than 71 different sovereign nations. The Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska is larger than San Bernardino County, but it is part of Alaska's unorganized borough and thus not a county.
Located in southeast California, the thinly populated deserts and mountains of this vast county stretch from where the bulk of the county population resides in two Census County Divisions, some 1,422,745 people as of the 2010 Census, covering the 450 square miles (1,166 km2) south of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino Valley, to the Nevada border and the Colorado River.

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