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California's Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California. It is 40 to 60 miles (60 to 100 km) wide and stretches approximately 450 miles (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast.
Lying between the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada, the Central Valley stretches for nearly 500 miles from north to south. The valley is about 45 miles wide, 120 miles wide if the gently sloping foothills are included.