San Diego ( /ˌsæn diːˈeɪɡoʊ/), named after Saint Didacus (Spanish: San Diego de Alcalá), is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California, with a 2010 population of 1,307,402 on a land area of 372.1 square miles (963.7 km2). The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. The urban area of San Diego extends beyond the administrative city limits and has a total 2010 population of 2,880,000, making it the third-largest urban area in California. San Diego is also the county seat of San Diego County, the 5th largest county, by population, in the United States.Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission of San Diego, founded in 1769, were the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821 San Diego became part of newly independent Mexico, and in 1850 became part of the United States with the admission of California to the union.The city is the economic center of the San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos metropolitan area and of the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area, a critical commercial link in the United States with a 2002 GDP of $136.3 billion. San Diego's main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, and manufacturing. The presence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology.The city was rated the fifth-best place to live in the United States in 2006 by Money magazine.
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