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San Diego
San Diego, California's second-largest city (2020 population 1,430,483), county seat founded 1769 and chartered 1850; economy of defense, life sciences, and tourism; faces a $318 million structural city budget deficit.
San Diego Bay
San Diego Bay is a crescent-shaped natural harbor in southern California, 18 miles long behind the Silver Strand. Entered by Cabrillo in 1542, settled in 1769, managed since 1962 by the Port of San Diego, and home to the Navy's Third Fleet.
San Diego Chargers
San Diego Chargers, the 1961-2016 name of the Los Angeles Chargers AFL/NFL franchise; 1963 AFL champions, one Super Bowl appearance (XXIX), Qualcomm Stadium home, relocated to Los Angeles in 2017.
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), also Comic-Con International, is the annual summer pop culture convention in San Diego, founded in 1970, with about 135,000 attendees, Hall H studio panels, the Eisner Awards, and WonderCon as a sister event.
San Diego Convention Center
The San Diego Convention Center, also called SDCC, is a bayfront convention center in downtown San Diego's Marina District. Opened November 1989, designed by Arthur Erickson, expanded in 2001; hosts Comic-Con through 2030 and generated a record $1.57 billion regional impact in FY 2025.
San Diego County Water Authority
The San Diego County Water Authority is a public wholesale water agency created by California in 1944, selling water to 22 member agencies serving 3.3 million people.
San Diego County, California
San Diego County, California: southwesternmost California county on the Mexico border, established 1850, second most populous of 58 counties, 3.28 million residents, $8.63 billion FY 2025-26 budget, $266.9 billion regional economy.
San Diego FC
San Diego FC, also known as San Diego Football Club, is a Major League Soccer expansion club that began play in 2025 at Snapdragon Stadium.
San Diego Fleet
San Diego Fleet, 2019 Alliance of American Football (AAF) team at SDCCU Stadium coached by Mike Martz; went 3-5, averaged 19,154 fans, folded April 2, 2019 with the league's bankruptcy.
San Diego Gas & Electric
San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is a regulated utility providing electricity and natural gas to 3.7 million people in San Diego and southern Orange County, California.
San Diego Gulls
San Diego Gulls, AHL professional hockey team in San Diego, California; Anaheim Ducks' primary affiliate since 2015-16 at Pechanga Arena; name revived from WHL (1966-74), IHL, WCHL, and ECHL predecessors.
San Diego International Airport
San Diego International Airport, historically known as Lindbergh Field, is the primary airport serving San Diego, California, and the busiest single-runway airport in the United States.
San Diego Loyal SC
San Diego Loyal SC (SD Loyal), USL Championship men's soccer club in San Diego co-founded by Landon Donovan and Warren Smith, played 2019-2023 at Torero Stadium and folded after 2023 over the lack of a permanent stadium.
San Diego mayoral elections
San Diego mayoral elections are the recurring citywide contests that choose San Diego's mayor, held under a nonpartisan two-round system since 1909, with Democrat Todd Gloria holding the office since 2020.
San Diego Padres
San Diego Padres, MLB National League West franchise founded in the 1969 expansion, also called the Friars. Two pennants (1984, 1998), no World Series title, plays at Petco Park since 2004, sold in 2026 for a record $3.9 billion.
San Diego serial murders
San Diego serial murders: the Torrey Pines State Beach killings of Barbara Nantais (1978) and Claire Hough (1984), the Kevin Brown DNA controversy, and related San Diego County serial-homicide cases and methods.
San Diego Stadium
San Diego Stadium (later Jack Murphy, Qualcomm, SDCCU Stadium) was a 1967 multi-purpose stadium in Mission Valley, San Diego, home of the Chargers, Padres, and SDSU Aztecs; demolished 2020–21 and replaced by Snapdragon Stadium.
San Diego State Aztecs football
San Diego State Aztecs football is the SDSU college football program, playing since 1921, famed for the Don Coryell era and three small-college titles, based at Snapdragon Stadium, and a Pac-12 member since July 1, 2026 after leaving the Mountain West.
San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball
San Diego State Aztecs men's basketball (SDSU) is the Division I program at San Diego State University, 2023 NCAA runner-up, 16 Mountain West titles, coached by Brian Dutcher, moving to the Pac-12 in 2026.
San Diego State University
San Diego State University (SDSU), founded March 13, 1897 as the San Diego Normal School, is a California State University public research university in San Diego. It became an R1 institution in February 2025, the only one in the CSU system, with 41,184 students in fall 2025.
San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a national supercomputing center at UC San Diego, founded in 1985 with National Science Foundation funding for academic researchers.
San Diego Trolley
The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system in San Diego, California, opened in 1981 as the first modern light rail system in the United States.
San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is a 140-acre wildlife park in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, founded in 1916 and home to more than 12,000 animals of over 680 species.
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly Wild Animal Park): 1,800-acre open-range zoo in Escondido, California, run by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance; 3,000+ animals, 293+ species, condor breeding headquarters, and the 2026 Elephant Valley exhibit.
San Diego–Tijuana
San Diego–Tijuana binational metropolitan region on the US–Mexico border; largest such metro area, 5.1 million people, San Ysidro busiest land crossing, Tijuana River sewage crisis.
San Dimas mine
The San Dimas mine is an underground silver and gold mine near Tayoltita on the Durango–Sinaloa border in Mexico, mined since 1757 and owned by First Majestic Silver.
San Dimas, California
San Dimas, California: a San Gabriel Valley city in Los Angeles County, incorporated August 4, 1960, population about 34,924. Formerly Mud Springs, a citrus town born with the 1887 Santa Fe Railroad; council-manager government.
San Felipe de Los Alzati
San Felipe de Los Alzati, an INAH archaeological zone near Zitácuaro, Michoacán, on Cerro Zirahuato; a Matlatzinca-founded, Purépecha frontier post against the Mexica, home of Michoacán's tallest ancient structure.
San Felipe incident
The San Felipe incident (サン・フェリペ号事件) was the 1596 wreck of the Spanish galleon San Felipe in Japan, followed by the crucifixion of 26 Christians at Nagasaki in 1597.
San Felipe, Yaracuy
San Felipe, Yaracuy: capital of Yaracuy state, Venezuela, founded as San Felipe El Fuerte by Royal Cédula in 1729, destroyed by the 26 March 1812 earthquake, later rebuilt; ruins preserved in its archaeological park.