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Introduction
San Diego
săn dēā´gō [key], city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of
La Jolla
and Spring Valley.
Coronado
is across the bay.
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