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Name the US cities bordering the Pacific coast. Bordering means the US Census city boundary intersects with the US Census Pacific coast boundary.

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rickele

1 year ago

I was kinda surprised by what estuarine, bayside, and soundside cities in WA and OR were included or excluded, and yet no such cities in CA were included. For instance, Hoquaim was included, but not Aberdeen. Several Puget Sound municipalities were included, but despite having an actual port that has ocean-going ships taking logs to Asia, Olympia was not. Bainbridge Island, yes. Bremerton, no.

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to rickele

Yeah I went by the boundary files per the directions. Also if a place is unincorporated it’s generally not included on my city quizzes… not sure if that applies to the ones you are thinking of.

ccmarvmd

2 years ago

I think the San Francisco coordinates are slightly off, it appears to me like its in the water here

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to ccmarvmd

That’s actually the centroid of the city as it has a lot of water area…I use a land based coordinate on most quizzes however.