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El Segundo, California
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<p>El Segundo is a city in <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles_County%2c_California/y0xFvt6t">Los Angeles County, California</a>, United States. Located on <a href="/facts/Santa_Monica_Bay/F5hl5Tx9">Santa Monica Bay</a>, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and is part of the <a href="/facts/South_Bay_(Los_Angeles_County)/NQJSJeAV">South Bay</a> Cities Council of Governments. The population was 17,272 as of the <a href="/facts/2020_United_States_census/dTEm5TRr">2020 census</a>, a 3.7% increase from 16,654 in the <a href="/facts/2010_United_States_census/RoYVI17A">2010 census</a>. A significant center of the oil and aerospace industries in Southern California, roughly three quarters of the city's land is dedicated exclusively to industrial and commercial uses, including a Chevron oil refinery which alone takes up more than a quarter of the entire city. </p>