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| | Fresno, California |
 | | Fresno, the eighth largest town in California, lies 213mi/341km north of Los Angeles and 184mi/294km south of San Francisco, on the CA 99, roughly in the center of the state. |
 | | Fresno enjoys a Mediterranean climate, with average annual temperatures of 20°C, and has 300 days of sunshine in the year. |
 | | When it received its municipal charter in 1885, Fresno had exactly 3,464 inhabitants, mainly Armenians, Volga Germans, Danes, Swedes, Irish, Scots, English and Portuguese, who had decided, on the basis of newspaper advertisements, to settle in Fresno. |
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