Baja California (state) (Alternity)

Baja California (BA), often called simply Baja, is a state located on the Baja Peninsula in the West Coast region of the United States. Admitted to the Union as the 40th state on September 27, 1864, Baja California is the southernmost of the contiguous 'lower 55', and contains one of the driest climates in the US, with much of the state's population of 6,361,000 located in coastal cities like San Pedro (pop. 1,340,000), San Lucas, and La Paz, while much of the remainder lives in the northern city of Tijuana, located just south of the California border.

In Popular Culture

 * The hit 1989 American horror film Baja, and its 1997 sequel Baja II are set in the fictional towns of Upperton and Lucaston respectively, along the Pacific Coast.