Workers, Dishes and Trees

One-third of California workers were foreign born in 2006.

Chop suey is not a native Chinese dish; it was invented by Chinese immigrants in California.

The General Sherman, a giant sequoia about 3,500 years old, in California's Sequoia National Park, is the largest plant in the world. The tree is more than 270 feet tall and has a circumference of more than 100 feet.