Top Ten Best Cities in Southern California

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San Luis Obispo
Kern
San Bernardino
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Los Angeles
Orange
Riverside
San Diego
Imperial
The Top Ten
1 Long Beach
2 Los Angeles Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often abbreviated as L.A., is the largest city in California. It has an estimated population of nearly 4 million, and is the second-largest city in the United States, after New York City, and the third-largest city in North America, after Mexico City ...read more.
3 Riverside
4 Santa Ana
5 Anaheim
6 Bakersfield
7 San Diego
8 Oceanside
9 Chula Vista
10 Palmdale
The Contenders
11 Lancaster
12 Burbank
13 Irvine
14 Glendale
15 Inglewood
16 Oxnard
17 Thousand Oaks
18 Simi Valley
19 Santa Clarita
20 Escondido
21 Beverly Hills
22 Encinitas
23 Cathedral City
24 Del Mar
25 Calexico
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