• San Diego produces more avocados than anywhere else in the country
  • The city of San Diego contains more than 7000 farms
  • San Diego boasts more fleas than any other city in the country
  • The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego is the country’s largest wooden structure
  • San Diego International Airport is the busiest one-runway airport in the country and the second busiest in the world, falling just behind London Gatwick
  • If the water San Diego imports each day was placed into gallon bottles they would circle the earth more than one and a quarter times
  • The San Diego International Airport is home to the largest airport USO center in the world
  • San Diego is the largest U.S. city with a council-manager form of government where the mayor and eight councilmen are elected for four-year terms in a non-partisan race, and they in turn appoint a city manager