California.
America's most populous state, with some 32 million people in 1996, and the third largest in area (almost 160,000 square miles), California displays enormous variety in climate and landscape, from the Mojave Desert in the south to the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the central region to a thousand-mile-long Pacific coastline. This natural diversity is matched by California's complex human history. The first migrants arrived between thirty thousand and fifteen thousand years ago, likely crossing into North America during the Ice Age. The explorer ... ...
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