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  2. List of fictional settlements - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional settlements, including fictional towns, villages and cities, organized by each city's medium. This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional towns, cities, settlements and villages that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein.

  3. California City, California - Wikipedia

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    FIPS code. 06-09780. GNIS feature IDs. 1660418, 2409960. Website. www .californiacity-ca .gov. California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. It is 100 miles (160 km) north of the city of Los Angeles, and the population was 14,973 at the 2020 census. Covering 203.63 square miles (527.4 ...

  4. House system at the California Institute of Technology

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    Lloyd House is located along the Olive Walk, and is an L-shaped, two-story building. At the intersection of the two branches of the house are "Lower Crotch" and "Upper Crotch," which serve as communal lounge areas. Lloyd is divided into seven alleys: Purple, Kaos, VI (Virgin Islands), Fingal's Cave, Valhalla, Inferno, and Tropic.

  5. California - Wikipedia

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    California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south.

  6. List of places in California (S) - Wikipedia

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    This list of current: cities; towns, unincorporated communities; counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of California.; Information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable are also included.

  7. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    Located somewhere in Mexico, this city that also gives the title the first short story in the series of stories starring "Sir James Winterwood". It is notorious for a terrible curse that plagues this small Mexican town. San Narciso, California Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49: Santa Teresa, California Ross Macdonald: The Moving Target

  8. Alhambra, California - Wikipedia

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    Alhambra ( / ælˈhæmbrə / ⓘ, / ɑːlˈhɑːmbrə / ⓘ, Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; from "Alhambra") is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. It was incorporated on July 11, 1903.

  9. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...