Ch. 7 Megalopolis

Sacramento Metropolitan Area

No city or metropolitan area in California's Central Valley can compete with the population numbers of that found in Megalopolis. The closest comparison is that of Baltimore- Towson, MD with 2,690,886 people in 2010 and the Sacramento Metropolitan Area of the Central Valley with a population of 2,461,780. 

"The Sacramento metropolitan area experienced a growth of nearly 20% in the last decade. The 2010 United States Census estimates for the region totaled a population of 2,461,780, making it the 4th largest metropolitan region in California and 18th largest in the United States (Wikipedia)."

The principle cities of the Sacramento Metropolitan Area are:

• Sacramento
• Arden-Arcade
• Roseville
• Yuba City
• South Lake Tahoe
• Truckee

California is the most populous state in America and therefore has the "largest number of representatives in the U.S. government, home of the California State Capitol and the secondary location of Supreme Court of California and was the original terminus for the First Transcontinental Railroad (Wikipedia)."  

Because of this, the tertiary sector is most dominant in this area. This is contrasting from the rest of the Central Valley that is heavily invested in the primary sector through agriculture.