Most populous state in the USA?

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California is known as the most populous state in the entire United States. It is a home to Hollywood's stars, Silicon Valley's technology, Napa Valley's wines and ancient Redwood and Sequoia forests. Nearly three in 10 Californians were born outside the U.S., with just over half of immigrants coming from Latin America and 39 percent from Asia. Since 2006, though, Asian immigrants have outnumbered Latinos, a trend that is expected to continue through 2030.

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 It has a very interesting history too. The Golden State also is one of the country's wealthiest and most socially and politically influential, and has been since it became a state nearly 170 years ago. Mexico ceded California to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican-American War, and it was officially annexed as a free, non-slave state in the Compromise of 1850. During the California Gold Rush from 1848 to 1858, about 300,000 people flocked to the Western state to try to strike it rich in the mines. Because the state became a land of economic opportunity for settlers, the city's shipping, agriculture, construction and transportation industries boomed.
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California’s high-income earners, from film and television celebrities in Los Angeles to tech giants in Silicon Valley, are heavily taxed in the state, which hosts the largest entertainment and fashion industries in the country. Los Angeles is the state's largest city, with nearly three times the number of residents as the second largest, San Diego. Next up are San Jose, San Francisco and Fresno, the largest inland city in the state. Each of these cities is popular with immigrants.
California has some of the country's best universities, including Stanford, University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology and the University of California campuses at Berkeley and Los Angeles. It also is home to some of the nation's most beautiful landscapes. Yosemite National Park, which U.S. News ranks as a top hiking, adventure and family vacation spot, draws in millions of people each year to revel in the park’s towering waterfalls, massive rock formations and sprawling forests, including a stand of ancient great Sequoias. More than 5 million people visited Yosemite in 2016.