San Bernardino County, California
San Bernardino County is a county in the U.S. state of California. In the 2010 census, the population was 2,035,210, up from 1,709,434 in the 2000 census. With an area of 20,105 square miles, San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous United States by area; it is larger than each of the nine smallest states, larger than the four smallest states combined, and larger than the nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Costa Rica.
Located in southeast California, the thinly populated deserts and mountains of this vast county stretch from where the bulk of the county population resides, the roughly 480 square miles south of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino Valley, to the Nevada border and the Colorado River.
The county seat is San Bernardino. The county is considered part of the Inland Empire region.
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