Sacramento County

Sacramento County is a county of the U.S. state of located in::California. The county seat is the city of county seat of::Sacramento. As of 2000 the population was population:=1,223,499.

Sacramento County covers about area:=994 square miles square miles in the middle of the located in::Central Valley, California's prime agricultural region. The County is bordered by Contra Costa and San Joaquin Counties on the south, Amador and El Dorado Counties on the east, Placer and Sutter Counties on the north, and Yolo and Solano Counties on the west. Sacramento County extends from the low delta lands between the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers north to about ten miles beyond the State Capitol and east to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The southernmost portion of Sacramento County has direct access to the borders::San Francisco Bay.