San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States.
It is the county seat of San Diego County and is the economic center of the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos
metropolitan area, the 17th-largest metro area in the U.S. with a population of 2.9 million as of 2006.
It is home to miles of beaches, a mild Mediterranean climate and 16 military facilities hosting the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Marine Corps.
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the affiliated UCSD Medical Center combined with nearby research institutes in the Torrey Pines area of La Jolla make the area influential in biotechnology research. San Diego's economy is largely composed of agriculture, biotechnology/biosciences, computer sciences, electronics manufacturing, defense-related manufacturing, financial and business services, ship-repair and construction, software development, telecommunications, and tourism.
The city of San Diego itself has deep canyons separating its mesas, creating small pockets of natural
parkland scattered throughout the city. The same canyons give parts of the city a highly segmented feel,
creating literal gaps between otherwise proximal neighborhoods and contributing to a low-density,
car-centered built environment.
Downtown San Diego is located on San Diego Bay. Balboa Park lies on a mesa to the northeast. It is surrounded
by several dense urban communities and abruptly ends in Hillcrest to the north. The Coronado and Point
Loma peninsulas separate San Diego Bay from the ocean. Ocean Beach is on the west side of Point Loma.
Mission Beach and Pacific Beach lie between the ocean and Mission Bay, a man-made aquatic park.
La Jolla, an affluent community, lies north of Pacific Beach. Mount Soledad in La Jolla offers
views from northern San Diego County to Mexico.
Mountains rise to the east of the city, and beyond the mountains are desert areas. Cleveland National
Forest is a half-hour drive from downtown San Diego. Numerous farms are found in the valleys northeast
and southeast of the city. San Diego County has one of the highest count of animal and plant species
that are on the endangered species list than other counties in the United States.
The three largest sectors of San Diego's economy are defense, manufacturing, and tourism respectively.
Several areas of San Diego (in particular La Jolla and surrounding Sorrento Valley areas) are home to offices and research facilities for numerous biotechnology companies.
San Diego is also home to companies that develop wireless cellular technology.
The economy of San Diego is influenced by its port, which includes the only major submarine and shipbuilding yards on the West Coast, as well as the largest naval fleet in the world.
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