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Fresno is located at 36°46`54?N, 119°47`32?W (36.781549, -119.792113).

The US Census Bureau reports Fresno as having a total area of 104.8 sq miles (271.4 km²) with 99.58% land covering 104.4 sq miles (270.3 km²), and .042% water, 0.4 sq miles (1.1 km²).

Because it sits at the junction of Highways 41 and 99 (41 is the park`s southern access road, and 99 branches east from Interstate 5 to serve the citified centers of the San Joaquin Valley), the city is a major gateway for visitors coming from Los Angeles. The city also serves as an entrance into Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks via Highway 180.

Fresno has three large public parks, two located in the city limits and one in county land to the southwest. Woodward Park, which features the Shinzen Japanese Gardens, numerous picnic areas and several miles of trails, is located in North Fresno and is adjacent to the San Joaquin River Parkway. Roeding Park, located near Downtown Fresno, is home to the Chaffee Zoological Gardens, and Rotary Playland and Storyland. Kearney Park is the largest of the Fresno region`s park system and is home to historic Kearney Mansion and plays host to the annual Civil War Revisited, the largest reenactment of the Civil War in the west coast of the U.S.

Fresno serves as the economic hub of Fresno County and California`s Central Valley. While the unincorporated area and rural cities surrounding Fresno remain predominantly tied to large-scale agriCulture production, citified/subcitified Fresno has undergone significant economic transformation in recent years.

Agriculture`s decreasing role in the citified economy is reflected in the decreasing reliance on agriCulture employment in the County. Currently, just twenty percent of employment results from agriculture, a significant decrease from just 20 years ago. This transformation has led to increased friction between rural and citified interests, as land is converted to non-agriCulture use and resources such as water go increasingly to more citified uses such as industry and housing.