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Kern County
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county in California, United States
Kern County is a county located in California in the United States. It is significant as a major agricultural and oil-producing region in the state's southern San Joaquin Valley.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Kern River
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- California
- Contains
- Taft
- Capital
- Bakersfield
- Population
- 909235
- Area
- 21138
- Time zone
- Pacific Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Santa Barbara County
- Official website
- www.kerncounty.com
- Image
- Aerial-TehachapiWindFarm.jpg
- Households
- 273556
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- contains settlement
- Inyokern
- Commons category
- Kern County, California
- topic's main category
- Category:Kern County, California
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kern County, California
- inception
- 1866-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kern County, California
- water as percent of area
- 0.38
- native label
- Kern County
- per capita income
- 23855
- topic has template
- Template:Kern County, California
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Encyclopedic overview
Kern County is located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield.
Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley. Covering 8,161.42 square miles (21,138.0 km), it ranges west to the southern slope of the Coast Ranges, and east beyond the southern slope of the eastern Sierra Nevada into the Mojave Desert, at the city of Ridgecrest. Its northernmost city is Delano, and its southern reach extends to just beyond Frazier Park, and the northern extremity of the parallel Antelope Valley.
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