Pacific states
The West Pacific States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau. There are five states in this division - Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington - and, as its name suggests, they all have coastlines on the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific States division is one of two divisions of the United States Census Bureau's Western region, the other being the Mountain States.
Despite being slotted into the same region by the Census Bureau, the Pacific, and Mountain divisions are vastly different from one another in many vital respects, most notably in the arena of politics; while nearly all of the Mountain states are regarded as being conservative "red states", four out of five of the Pacific states are clearly counted among the liberal "blue states".Territories
Although not states, the three inhabited pacific U.S. territories and the pacific U.S. Minor Outlying Islands are sometimes grouped with Pacific states in statistics.
| City | City Population |
Los Angeles | 3,990,456 |
San Francisco | 883,305 |
Seattle | 744,955 |
San Diego | 1,425,976 |
San Jose | 1,030,119 |
Oakland | 428,827 |
Portland | 653,115 |
Sacramento | 501,529 |
Fresno | 530,093 |
Long Beach | 467,354 |
