Bakersfield, California: City and county seat of Kern County, California, United States
Bakersfield is a large city in the state of California, in the United States.
It the county seat of Kern County, in the southern part of the Central Valley. In the 2020 census, 403,455 people lived there. As of 2020, Bakersfield is the 9th largest city in California, the 3rd largest inland city in California, and the 48th largest in the United States. It is also the 2nd largest in the United States that is not directly connected to an interstate. Agriculture, petroleum processing, and manufacturing are the main economy of the city.
State Route 99, State Route 58, and State Route 178 run through or pass by the city. One major rail station, Bakersfield Station, is in the city. Meadows Field Airport is the airport that serves Bakersfield, and the rest of Kern County.
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