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Tulare (c-enicontuːˈlɛəriː) is a city in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 59,278 at the 2010 census.
Just eight miles (13 km) south of Visalia, it is part of the Census Bureau's designation of the Visalia Metropolitan Area. The city is named for the currently dry Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. The city's mission statement is: "To promote a quality of life making Tulare the most desirable community in which to live, learn, play, work, worship and prosper." The Stockton seaport is only 170 mi (273.6 km) away, and the Sacramento port is 207 mi (333.1 km) away. The Los Angeles and San Francisco ports are each approximately 200 mi (321.9 km) away, making Tulare a hub or central location for product movement. Despite this, the expression "out in the tules (toolies)", referring to the tule rush plant that lined the lakeshore, is still common in the dialect of old Californian families and means "beyond far away."
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