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Sacramento County, California
county in California, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sacramento County is a county in the U.S. state of California. It is in the Central Valley, along the Sacramento River. As of 2020, 1,585,055 people lived there.[1] Its county seat is Sacramento, which is also the state capital.
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