Bakersfield

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Situated in Kern County, at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, Bakersfield is located around in the middle between Los Angeles and Fresno. It is considered to be the 11th fastest growing city within the state of California, according to the city's official travel website.

Bakersfield was ranked the 11th largest city within California as well as the 58th biggest city within the United States in the year 2010, with a population estimated to be about 338,952. After Fresno and Sacramento, Bakersfield is California's third largest inland municipality. With a population of 800,458, the Bakersfield Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is the 63rd biggest urban area within the nation. Manufacturing, agriculture, as well as petroleum extracting and refining make up the economy in this area.

Just east of Bakersfield is the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada. The Sequoia National Forest is where the city limits ends, situated as the foot of the Greenhorn Mountain Range at Kern canyon entrance. Tejon Ranch, which is located in the Tehachapi Mountains, can be found to the south, and to the west is the Temblor Range. The Carrizo Plain National Monument and the San Andreas Fault are located just behind the Temblor Range, roughly 35 miles (fifty six km) from Bakersfield.

Bakersfield is a big city, with a total area of 114.4 square miles (296 km2). A really small amount of it is water (A mere 1.14%, which equals to approximately 1.3 square miles or 3.4 km2) while the other 98.86% (Approximately 113.1 square miles, or 293 km2) is land. It lies about an hour and a half drive away north of Los Angeles (about one hundred miles or one hundred sixty km) and about four and a half hours southeast of Sacramento (around 300 miles or 480 km)

Rated fifth among the country's top medium sized cities for business by a recent Inc. Magazine, Bakersfield is a corporate hotspot, providing one of the most affordable and popular places on the West Coast. It is advantageously located at the southern end of Great Central Valley in California, where it is considered part of the world's fifth largest economy. The huge work pool as well as existing workplace makes it an ideal location for businesses to situate themselves.

The are various well-known businesses situated in Bakersfield including State Farm Insurance (which employs 1,500 people at its regional bank office), ACS Inc. and Pleasant Holidays call centers, ProSoft Technology, DIVR, Inc., and Lortz Manufacturing, which is a tech firm which creates small components which are utilized in the aerospace and space age industries.