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Southern California

Southern California
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About Southern California

Southern California is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its densely populated coastal region includes Greater Los Angeles and San Diego County. The region generally contains ten of California's 58 counties: Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Imperial counties.

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There was a couple of groups in Southern California, the very large colony and the Lake Hodges colony, and they were in a battle for six months. It was over a line that was just a few centimetres wide, but it was several kilometres long, and 15 million ants died.

from No Such Thing As A Boomerang Shaped Spaceship, 2024-11-21 at 00:43:06 ยท read transcript

Other times Southern California came up

  1. Maybe the Bering Bridge, whatever. Actually, what this theory posits is that there are these massive kelp forests stretching all the way from Alaska down to Southern California. Down the coast of Canada in the USA, basically, and across from Japan. The theory is early humans settled the Americas basically by following the kelp.

    No Such Thing As A Whale In Your Car, 2026-05-14 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 33.9510, -118.2063

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