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San Diego is a large coastal city located in Southern California, located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. In May of 2008, California Department of Finance estimated the city's population at 1,336,865. It is the second largest
city in California and the eighth largest city in the United States, by population. It is the county seat of San Diego County and is the economic center of the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area, the 17th-largest in the United States with a
population of 3,146,274 as of 2008, and the 21st-largest metropolitan area in the Americas when including Tijuana. San Diego's economy is largely composed of agriculture, biotechnology/biosciences, computer sciences, electronics manufacturing,
defense-related manufacturing, financial and business services, ship-repair and construction, software development, telecommunications, and tourism. The presence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center
promotes research in biotechnology.
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