| Orange County is a county located in Southern | | | | county sits on the coastal plains of the Los |
| California, U.S.A. With a current estimated | | | | Angeles Basin. The southern half sits on the |
| population of three million, it has the second most | | | | foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. |
| people for any county in the state of California, | | | | The majority of the population of Orange County |
| and has the fifth most people for any county in all | | | | reside in one of two shallow coastal valleys that |
| of the Unites States. Known for its wealth and | | | | are in the basin. These two shallow coastal basins |
| political conservatism, the county, in actual reality | | | | are: the Santa Ana Valley and the Saddleback |
| is neither as consistently wealthy or as politically | | | | Valley. |
| conservative as the stereotypical image it has | | | | The cities in Orange County are connected by a |
| gained suggests. Famous for tourism, Orange | | | | network of freeways. Residents of Orange |
| County is home to Disneyland as well as miles | | | | County typically call these freeways by their |
| upon miles of sandy beaches. Orange County is | | | | route number rather than their formal name. One |
| located right at the center of Southern California's | | | | of the most important Orange County roadways |
| Tech Coast. | | | | is the Santa Ana Freeway, or Interstate 5, which |
| Despite its massive population, Orange County | | | | runs north-south bisecting the length of the |
| has a total area of 2,455 km² which makes | | | | county. It is so important as it connects with |
| it the smallest county in all of Southern California. | | | | another key north-south road, the San Diego |
| Four Hundred and Eleven of those square | | | | Freeway. Orange County is often divided into |
| kilometers are also made up of water. The | | | | "North County" and "South County" by the |
| county is bordered on the north by Los Angeles | | | | residents. This idea is opposed to an East-West |
| County, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the | | | | ision characterized by coastal and inland cities. |
| east by Riverside County, on the northeast by | | | | There is no actual geographical division of North |
| San Bernardino County, and on the south by San | | | | and South County. |
| Diego County. The most northern part of the | | | | |