San Bernardino is a city located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.
The city has been named after the British industrial city of Birmingham and was a way of promoting its destiny as a booming industrial centre in the United States.
San Bernardino spans 81 square miles on the floor of the San Bernardino Valley to the south of the San Bernardino Mountains.
The estimated population of San Bernardino is 222,101, as of 2020, making it the 17th-largest city in California.
The Rolling Stones Played Their First U.S. Concert in San Bernardino.
The governments of Guatemala and Mexico have established consulates in the downtown area of the city.
In 1905, the city of San Bernardino passed its first charter.
The city of San Bernardino, California, occupies much of the San Bernardino Valley, which indigenous tribespeople originally referred to as “The Valley of the Cupped Hand of God”.
The city has a total area of 59.6 square miles, of which 59.2 square miles is land and 0.4 square miles is water.
The elevation of San Bernardino is 1,053 ft above sea level.
San Bernardino is twinned with the following sister cities: Centro, Mexico; Goyang, South Korea; Herzliya, Israel; Ifẹ, Nigeria; Kigali, Rwanda; Mexicali, Mexico; Roxas, Philippines; Tachikawa, Japan; Tauranga, New Zealand; Yushu, China & Zavolzhye, Russia.
San Bernardino Is Bigger Than Switzerland.
San Bernardino was incorporated as a city in 1854 and again in 1886.
The First McDonald’s to ever open was in San Bernardino.
The largest earthquakes in the 1990s in California started in San Bernardino.
